Revisiting Yahoo's fantasy baseball rankings of the Mets

At about 10 o'clock on October 3rd I let out a sigh of relief, fantasy baseball was finally over. In my professional life I work on political campaigns and I can generally say that fantasy baseball stresses me out more than running for office does. I was in four leagues this year, I won two, (including Super Baseball 5000 which has come to mean the most) came in third in another and 15th in the fourth. The team that came in third was in my opinion the finest drafted team I have ever made but sadly they couldn't get it done in the playoffs.

Earlier in the year we examined how Yahoo fantasy baseball, which I use for all my leagues, ranks the Mets. The table below shows the Mets and what their ranks were: O-Rank  represents yahoo's projection for the player factoring in past performance while Rank shows how they finished up 2012. (Note:Rank is separate for hitters and pitchers, so Wright is not the 27th best player but the 27th best position player)

	Pitchers
Name	O-Rank	Rank
Dickey	265	5
Niese	269	105
Santana	230	531
Gee	471	347
Harvey	417	272
Francisco	189	448
Rauch	419	291
Parnell	384	222
	Hitters
Name	O-Rank	Rank
Thole	1124	1144
Davis	115	187
Murphy	282	231
Tejada	318	813
Wright	31	27
Bay	211	1110
Duda	162	718
Torres	961	920

The thing that makes me happiest here is Dickey's final rank of fifth. I have been saying since last year that Dickey is a top 25 pitcher and it bothered me that his pre season rank was in the 200's. But look at him now, sweet, sweet vindication. Overall 9 Mets improved their rankings on the year. Wright didn't move up very far since he was ranked higher than he should have to begin with. The biggest jump was predictably Jason Bay who dropped 899 spots. Frankly Bay should never have been ranked 211 in the first place but he definitely deserves the drop.

I can't quite figure why Tejada had such a drop since he actually had a great year and certainly a better year than he was expected to have. I was also pleased to see Niese almost crack the top 100, the only bad thing about the Dickey dominance is that no one really paid attention to a brilliant year by Niese. The overall theme of this list is that most everyone who had a reasonable ranking in the first place generally ended with one. You see the biggest jumps with guys like Frank Frank and Santana who were ranked too high to begin with. The worst part of all this? Dickey won't be the same awesome value he has been the last two years. I drafted Dickey last two years ago and in the later rounds in every league this year. Next year he will easily be a top 20 guy.