Week 1 Real Rankings

NOTES

For Jed, and as a reminder to everyone else, the Real Rankings are something I started doing a few years ago as a way for everyone to assess their teams beyond wins and losses.  Instead of matching up your team’s production vs. your opponent, the Real Rankings match them up against the rest of the league. The two tables show your Real Ranking for the week and the average Real Ranking for the season.  The lower your score, the higher your rank.

The Real Rankings have been extremely accurate over the course of the season. Obviously, there is a lot of variation week to week based solely on the variable matchups. But by the end of the year the different in the Real Rankings and the Actual Standings is usually no more than 2 spots. 

This verifies that winning % is a good way to assess team performance, but allows us all to be a little more honest when assessing our team’s production.  Week 1 has provided a perfect example of this with no other but yours truly.  In the Actual Standings I am 12th, but in the Real Ranking I am 2nd due to my matchup with the top Real Ranking team, Anal Hershiser. So it allows me to be a little less pissed and perhaps a little more patient.  Meanwhile, even though Justin is second in the standings, he probably should feel pretty confident that he was actually the best team through week 1.  Conversely, someone like Kyle and his Angry Pirates might not want to feel so comfortable sitting at the top of the Actual Standings because he actually wasn’t all the productive compared to the rest of the league, finishing 10th in the Real Ranking. He just benefited from an easier matchup in Dave. 

For the tables, the Weekly ranking just shows where you ranked in each individual category. Going left to right in columns, the Overall ranking shows the RR (ranking), ACT (actual standings), +/- (difference between Actual and Real – this should get smaller as the year goes on), Team, OV (Overall – average overall ranking of all weeks), H (average ranking for season – just hitting), RK (ranking of H), P (average ranking for season – just pitching), RK (ranking of P), VAR (variance – shows volatility of the weekly results for the season), 1-21 (weeks)

I will also include Notes most weeks based on the week’s activity, results, trends, etc. Not a whole lot to note this week other than both Shohei Ohtanis ended up on Gibby’s roster! This makes me happy. I’m guessing Yahoo will change this next year (they seem to be getting a lot of flack from the industry). It will be interesting to see how big of an asset he becomes, but the early returns are pretty amazing.

Always interesting to see how quickly people give up on players. It’s obviously warranted in some cases, usually because of injury or playing time concerns. So far, Lewis Brinson (13th round) is the highest pick dropped.

The weekly totals are high due to the long week.  For this week, the average totals would be more like 30r, 8hr, 29 rbi, 4 sb, .328 obp, 60 k, 3.53/1.24, 4 qs, 3 sh. Of  course, there were also a lot of weather related issues obscuring the numbers.  QS are always lower earlier in the season as well.

Keep in mind the 60 transaction limit is still in place. It’s always a lot higher earlier in the season, but something everyone should monitor.