A Fantasy Baseball Leaderboard, Adjusted For Value

Thanks to Zach Sanders, we have a retroactive fantasy leaderboard for value last year. Which is cool. But what if we could take away the resources we had to invest in those players? A first-rounder who returns fifth-round value is, after all, still a loser.

Thanks to FantasyPros, we can actually do this. They have an aggregate ADP from last March. If we just take the ordinal rank from our retroactive value board, and subtract the average ADP value, we get a ‘net’ value. Pretty easy.

So here’s a net value leaderboard, for 5×5 roto. You might be surprised about the number one spot. But not many of you will be surprised by how many pitchers rise to the top. We try to get them in the middle rounds, and when we get lucky, they’re great value propositions.