Fantasy Baseball: Early points outfield rankings

In general ranking players for points leagues and roto leagues have their pros and cons because in points there are so many different scoring systems and in roto it is about balancing five categories compared to just a final points total. The one position where I feel confident to say it is easiest is the points outfield rankings. Roto rankings for outfield are really convoluted because you are trying to balance the need for five players and five categories opening up a ton of different strategies you can take in filling all five spots. In points you can literally just select your scoring system and select the best player available for each of the three of five spots your league has. Standardly points leagues have three outfield spots but I have seen some more popping up with five so in order to cover the depth of both I have gone 60 deep with my early rankings and will extend that to 100 by the end of this month.

As always don’t get suckered by name value of known steals and power specialist because many points leagues suppress extreme speed and extreme power compared to on base skills. This format is about looking at the overall of skill set of a player and helps explain why Adam Eaton is suddenly so much more valuable than Billy Hamilton.

Ranking for points leagues is always tough because every league is slightly different. The format I am taking here is what I consider to be fairly standard. A point for each base, run, RBI, walk, HBP and steal and -1 for each strikeout. Of course every league has its own quirk and that means the user has to adjust for those in his or her rankings for that particular league but hopefully this gives you base to go off and then you can adjust if for example your league rewards power or really punishes strikeouts.

As with my roto rankings everything here is calculated off ESPN eligibility.

Tier	Rank	Name	Team	Eligibility
1	1	Mike Trout	LAA	OF
2	2	Charlie Blackmon	COL	OF
2	3	Mookie Betts	BOS	OF
2	4	Bryce Harper	WSH	OF
3	5	Aaron Judge	NYY	OF
3	6	Yoenis Cespedes	NYM	OF
3	7	Cody Bellinger	LAD	1BOF
3	8	Ender Inciarte	ATL	OF
3	9	Christian Yelich	MIL	OF
3	10	Lorenzo Cain	MIL	OF
3	11	Rhys Hoskins	PHI	1BOF
3	12	Andrew McCutchen	SF	OF
3	13	Andrew Benintendi	BOS	OF
3	14	Justin Upton	LAA	OF
3	15	George Springer	HOU	OF
3	16	Giancarlo Stanton	NYY	OF
3	17	Adam Eaton	WSH	OF
4	18	Ryan Braun	MIL	OF
4	19	A.J. Pollock	ARI	OF
4	20	Khris Davis	OAK	OFDH
4	21	Starling Marte	PIT	OF
4	22	Yasiel Puig	LAD	OF
4	23	Adam Jones	BAL	OF
4	24	Brett Gardner	NYY	OF
4	25	Josh Reddick	HOU	OF
4	26	Marcell Ozuna	STL	OF
4	27	Michael Brantley	CLE	OF
4	28	Nick Markakis	ATL	OF
4	29	Tommy Pham	STL	OF
5	30	David Peralta	ARI	OF
5	31	Denard Span	TB	OF
5	32	Kevin Kiermaier	TB	OF
5	33	Eddie Rosario	MIN	OF
5	34	Jay Bruce	NYM	OF
5	35	Corey Dickerson	TB	OFDH
5	36	Odubel Herrera	PHI	OF
5	37	Kole Calhoun	LAA	OF
5	38	Nick Castellanos	DET	3BOF
5	39	Dexter Fowler	STL	OF
5	40	J.D. Martinez	FA	OF
6	41	Billy Hamilton	CIN	OF
6	42	Nomar Mazara	TEX	OF
6	43	Manuel Margot	SD	OF
6	44	Gregory Polanco	PIT	OF
6	45	Chris Taylor	LAD	2BOF
6	46	Shin-Soo Choo	TEX	OFDH
6	47	Stephen Piscotty	OAK	OF
6	48	Steven Souza	TB	OF
7	49	Gerardo Parra	COL	OF
7	50	Albert Almora	CHC	OF
7	51	Avisail Garcia	CWS	OF
7	52	Trey Mancini	BAL	1BOF
7	53	Mitch Haniger	SEA	OF
7	54	Marwin Gonzalez	HOU	1B2BSSOF
7	55	Eduardo Nunez	FA	2B3BOF
7	56	Hunter Pence	SF	OF
7	57	Alex Gordon	KC	OF
7	58	Mark Trumbo	BAL	OFDH
7	59	Yasmany Tomas	ARI	OF
7	60	Kevin Pillar	TOR	OF

 

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