While all of you eagerly and impatiently wait for whatever wisdom I will force on you next, I recommend you check out Sports Illustrated’s second annual Ultimate Fantasy Draft, put together by Nate Silver of Baseball Prospectus.
The idea is pretty elementary. Take every player at every level of professional baseball and completely start over. If you took away contracts, past history, and MLB service time, how would teams build through a draft? All you would have left as determining factors would be age, position, and predictions of future performance. There are some interesting additions and omissions if you compare the list to last year….and some of your best players today are simply left off the top 50 altogether because of their age. Also included is an honorable mention list and a list of dropoffs from 2006.
Interesting water cooler or bar stool conversation, if you ask me.
Up next in this space, an analysis of the 3,000 hit club (and one player who is about to join).
Filed under: Fantasy, MLB, Recommended
