SP rankings – Points

Doing the SP rankings for points leagues highlighted to me that generally this is the position that varies the least between the different formats. There aren’t many guys who get upgraded or downgraded massively between standard roto and points leagues because generally the categories for roto are good at capturing a players actual value. The only thing that makes points leagues tough to predict is that you get points for wins and losses and these are virtually impossible to predict year to year. For that reason I generally try and rank players both with their projected wins and loss record included and without and then try and find a nice medium to produce my final rankings.

Currently we are going division by division as we preview the season having covered the AL Central, NL West, NL East and AL East.

C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | SP |RP

Rank	Player	Team
1	Clayton Kershaw	LAD
2	Max Scherzer	WSH
3	Madison Bumgarner	SF
4	Chris Sale	BOS
5	Jake Arrieta	CHC
6	Corey Kluber	CLE
7	Noah Syndergaard	NYM
8	Jon Lester	CHC
9	Johnny Cueto	SF
10	Justin Verlander	DET
11	Yu Darvish	TEX
12	Stephen Strasburg	WSH
13	Carlos Carrasco	CLE
14	David Price	BOS
15	Jacob deGrom	NYM
16	Zack Greinke	ARI
17	Chris Archer	TB
18	Masahiro Tanaka	NYY
19	Cole Hamels	TEX
20	Felix Hernandez	SEA
21	Dallas Keuchel	HOU
22	Kyle Hendricks	CHC
23	Gerrit Cole	PIT
24	Rick Porcello	BOS
25	Kenta Maeda	LAD
26	Lance McCullers	HOU
27	Carlos Martinez	STL
28	Jose Quintana	CWS
29	Michael Fulmer	DET
30	Rich Hill	LAD
31	John Lackey	CHC
32	Aaron Sanchez	TOR
33	Danny Duffy	KC
34	Jeff Samardzija	SF
35	Marcus Stroman	TOR
36	Adam Wainwright	STL
37	Julio Teheran	ATL
38	Collin McHugh	HOU
39	Danny Salazar	CLE
40	Jameson Taillon	PIT
41	Marco Estrada	TOR
42	Steven Matz	NYM
43	Michael Pineda	NYY
44	Kevin Gausman	BAL
45	Matt Harvey	NYM
46	Matt Shoemaker	LAA
47	Vincent Velasquez	PHI
48	Aaron Nola	PHI
49	Drew Smyly	SEA
50	Hisashi Iwakuma	SEA
51	Joe Ross	WSH
52	Jake Odorizzi	TB
53	Sonny Gray	OAK
54	James Paxton	SEA
55	Jerad Eickhoff	PHI
56	Sean Manaea	OAK
57	Gio Gonzalez	WSH
58	Ervin Santana	MIN
59	Ian Kennedy	KC
60	J.A. Happ	TOR
61	Lance Lynn	STL
62	Zach Davies	MIL
63	Jon Gray	COL
64	Jordan Zimmermann	DET
65	Tanner Roark	WSH
66	Jason Hammel	KC
67	Francisco Liriano	TOR
68	Taijuan Walker	ARI
69	Robert Gsellman	NYM
70	Garrett Richards	LAA
71	Kendall Graveman	OAK
72	Anthony DeSclafani	CIN
73	Jason Vargas	KC
74	Drew Pomeranz	BOS
75	Hector Santiago	MIN

Strategy

• These injuries to Kershaw and Scherzer have me concerned and it confirms for me that I am not taking Scherzer in the first round and may not even take him if I have pick early in the second. Kershaw on the other hand is so much better than the rest of the field if he is there at the back end of the first round I will have no choice but to consider him because he could outscore his nearest rival by close to 100 points which is a similar gap to what I would expect between the 2nd overall pitcher and someone just outside the top 10 at the position.
• After that I am looking to own at least three of the top 30 if I can because I want guys who average at least 2 points per innings pitched in anchor my rotation.
• After that I am going to look for values who provide solid consistency, names such as Adam Wainwright come to mind here, because in a weekly format I want guys who are going to consistently give me a points base.
• Once I have five starters I will then look to use low end guys as two start streamers in an attempt to maximise my weekly totals.
• In leagues with weekly starts or IP maximums then I am going to prioritise getting 4 of the top 30 because I want to get the most I can out of every single innings.

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