Top Farm Systems (2028)

[mattynokes]

Hey I am just noticing this now, but the scale is very compact, there is nothing wrong with that. But it might be good to force some more variation between the players. It seems like a lot of them are clumped, not sure what the best way of doing that is.

I'm really not sure what you're getting at. Is it the individual player scoring (i.e. the 85.??, 84.??, etc...) or the top teams scoring? or what?

I'll just speculate and see if I can get your concern nailed down. I would guess it's to do with the individual player scoring being so close. This really not a problem and maybe something I shouldn't list so people don't get so caught up in it. Consider that we're only looking at a top 100 of about 850 players that qualify.

My formula compares player vitals to what the MLB league average is per position in our league. Then it looks at the overall/peak rating and assigns a value to that. That gives me two values; one for vitals and one for rating. It averages the two and factors in age. Lastly it factors in whether or not the player has peaked. While peaked players can make the list, it's in my opinion that since this is a prospect list there should be some penalty for peaked players.

So in the end what you get is basically a true rating for each player. Like this year the #1 guy is a 91 while the #100 guy is an 82.6. For trade value that's significantly different. And if we look at KCR's two guys in the top 10. One has an 89.1 rating while the other is 88.3. There's not much variation and I don't see much difference in the players. Both are good and I would expect the younger, slightly higher peak guy to have a little more value.