ESPN devises new Player Rating System.

[sunnydoo]

True Story. http://sports.espn.go.com/mlb/playerrating

 

1 Magglio Ordonez DET RF 87.3

2 Alex Rodriguez NYY 3B 78.2

3 Vladimir Guerrero LAA RF 76.3

4 Miguel Cabrera FLA 3B 73.7

5 Jake Peavy SD SP 71.4

6 David Ortiz BOS DH 70.9

7 Dan Haren OAK SP 68.8

8 Gary Sheffield DET DH 65.4

9 Chase Utley PHI 2B 63.3

10 Grady Sizemore CLE CF 63.3

11 Matt Holliday COL LF 62.2

12 Kevin Youkilis BOS 1B 61.2

13 Prince Fielder MIL 1B 60.6

14 Ichiro Suzuki SEA CF 60.2

15 Jose Reyes NYM SS 60.0

 

 

Top Cub is DLee #52. Rich Hill is 59. Everyone else is far back. My boy Sergio debuts at 63.

 

 

1 Derrek Lee 41.3

2 Alfonso Soriano 33.1

3 Aramis Ramirez 23.2

4 Ryan Theriot 7.7

5 Michael Barrett 6.5

6 Cesar Izturis 6.0

7 Mark DeRosa 5.5

8 Cliff Floyd 4.0

9 Matt Murton 4.0

10 Jacque Jones 4.0

11 Daryle Ward 3.0

 

1 Rich Hill 36.4

2 Jason Marquis 20.4

3 Ryan Dempster 10.1

4 Carlos Zambrano 5.8

5 Ted Lilly 2.7

6 Michael Wuertz 1.7

[tkenm356]

I find it insulting that David Wright is ranked at #49 with a line of:

 

.279/.374/.511/.885 12HR 34RBI

 

And with SB aside, Aramis can't even crack the Top 100 with a line of:

 

.299/.352/.540/.892 13HR 39RBI

[sunnydoo]

Forgot to put in the grading system in the original post:

 

Batters MLB ranks in:

Batting bases accumulated 20%

Runs produced 15%

OBP 15%

BA 10%

HRs 10%

RBIs 5%

Runs 5%

Hits 5%

Net steals 5%

Team win percentage, defensive position 5% each

 

Starting pitchers MLB ranks in:

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 40%

Wins weighted by win percentage 20%

IP 10%

Defensive independent bases allowed per IP 10%

K 10%

Opponents' BA 10%

 

Relievers MLB ranks in:

Saves and wins with blown save penalty 40%

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 20%

Opponents' BA 20%

K/BB 15%

Inherited runners stranded percentage 5%

[Ding Dong Johnson]

yet another reason to dislike espn

[VVMattVV]

Lets hope this doesn't stick

[ManCrushOnNomar]

What horrible stats to weigh so heavily.

 

Crap.

[fromthestretch]

Forgot to put in the grading system in the original post:

 

Batters MLB ranks in:

Batting bases accumulated 20%

Runs produced 15%

OBP 15%

BA 10%

HRs 10%

RBIs 5%

Runs 5%

Hits 5%

Net steals 5%

Team win percentage, defensive position 5% each

 

Starting pitchers MLB ranks in:

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 40%

Wins weighted by win percentage 20%

IP 10%

Defensive independent bases allowed per IP 10%

K 10%

Opponents' BA 10%

 

Relievers MLB ranks in:

Saves and wins with blown save penalty 40%

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 20%

Opponents' BA 20%

K/BB 15%

Inherited runners stranded percentage 5%

 

I don't think I like the amount of importance they are putting on certain things.

[chuckywang]

If I had it my way, Wins by a pitcher would be 5%....or less.

[fromthestretch]

The more I read this, I less I like it.

 

Why is batting average even included? Wins?!?!

 

How about instead of just runs produced, they factor in how many opportunities the hitter had to drive someone in?

 

Edited to add: 1300 posts! 1301, here I come.

[abuck1220]

wow, that's atrocious.

[Derwood]

like the world needs another metric for baseball (and a horrible one). I like how ESPN just completely pretends that there are 100's of good metrics out there

[Chocolate Milk]

So basically they gave arbitrary values to various stats and complied them in a way that makes sense to nobody. Interesting!

[Careless]

RBI and runs are 25%. heh

[sweetpeteman]

Where's the grit, hustle, and intangible %? And the ability to win factor?

[sunnydoo]

And the ability to win factor?

 

Its in there...

 

Team win percentage, defensive position 5% each for batters

Wins weighted by win percentage 20% for pitchers

Saves and wins with blown save penalty 40%

[USSoccer]

Team winning percentage has nothing to do with the ability of one single player.

 

What a load of garbage.

[E.J.]

ESPN blows.

[imb]

Why are OBP and AVG both counted? That seems sort of redundant.

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

That's a fairly craptacular way to rate players.

[Careless]

Why are OBP and AVG both counted? That seems sort of redundant.

Well, it helps to make up for ignoring slg. a bit.

 

edit: oops, nm

Edited June 11, 2007 by Careless

[USSoccer]

Why are OBP and AVG both counted? That seems sort of redundant.

 

Because ESPN knew if they excluded BA they'd have all the lowest common denominator idiots whining about not including batting average, because it's a traditional stat.

[jersey cubs fan]

Why are OBP and AVG both counted? That seems sort of redundant.

Well, it helps to make up for ignoring slg. a bit.

 

Do they ignore SLG? Isn't that what batted based accumulated is supposed to be?

[jersey cubs fan]

Why are OBP and AVG both counted? That seems sort of redundant.

 

Because ESPN knew if they excluded BA they'd have all the lowest common denominator idiots whining about not including batting average, because it's a traditional stat.

 

I disagree. They included it because they are lowest common deonominator idiots.

[KingKongvs.Godzilla]

Forgot to put in the grading system in the original post:

 

Batters MLB ranks in:

Batting bases accumulated 20%

Runs produced 15%

OBP 15%

BA 10%

HRs 10%

RBIs 5%

Runs 5%

Hits 5%

Net steals 5%

Team win percentage, defensive position 5% each

 

Starting pitchers MLB ranks in:

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 40%

Wins weighted by win percentage 20%

IP 10%

Defensive independent bases allowed per IP 10%

K 10%

Opponents' BA 10%

 

Relievers MLB ranks in:

Saves and wins with blown save penalty 40%

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 20%

Opponents' BA 20%

K/BB 15%

Inherited runners stranded percentage 5%

 

So basically...it's BS?

[vance_the_cubs_fan]

Forgot to put in the grading system in the original post:

 

Batters MLB ranks in:

Batting bases accumulated 20%

Runs produced 15%

OBP 15%

BA 10%

HRs 10%

RBIs 5%

Runs 5%

Hits 5%

Net steals 5%

Team win percentage, defensive position 5% each

 

Starting pitchers MLB ranks in:

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 40%

Wins weighted by win percentage 20%

IP 10%

Defensive independent bases allowed per IP 10%

K 10%

Opponents' BA 10%

 

Relievers MLB ranks in:

Saves and wins with blown save penalty 40%

ERA vs. league average weighted by IP 20%

Opponents' BA 20%

K/BB 15%

Inherited runners stranded percentage 5%

 

So basically...it's BS?

 

Yep. But you can bet we'll have it run down our throats during ESPN broadcasts.