Ottoneu April Power Rankings

Starting in July of last season I began posting monthly power rankings for ottoneu FanGraphs points leagues, taking up the mantle of work previously done by Nate Emmerson (who was gracious enough to share his process and python scripts with me). With April in the books, it’s time for the first edition of the 2016 power rankings, and this time I am including rankings for all four ottoneu formats.

The first ranking I’m going to present shows the top individual teams in all FanGraphs points leagues based on their Pace, which is a metric I calculated by taking each team’s Pts/G and Pts/IP and multiplying them by their projected games (max of 1,944) and innings (max of 1,500).

Top 10 FGPTS Teams by Pace

LgNum	TeamName	Points	Pts/G	Pts/IP	pGP	pIP	PACE
194	The Murder Boners	3,469.5	5.79	6.95	1,919	1,500	21,538
597	Hoes Say Abreu	3,373.6	5.90	6.50	1,944	1,500	21,220
581	Random Madness	3,251.2	5.80	6.77	1,929	1,469	21,133
195	RESH	3,326.7	6.29	5.84	1,940	1,500	20,966
207	King Kang	3,311.1	5.71	6.44	1,944	1,500	20,760
198	Blue Suede Schus	3,176.9	6.10	6.74	1,891	1,352	20,650
248	Piedmont Boll Weevils	3,306.6	6.05	6.15	1,944	1,443	20,636
81	R.O.U.S.	3,170.2	6.31	5.70	1,926	1,483	20,606
93	The Confused Chaz Bonos	3,274.5	5.91	6.02	1,944	1,500	20,519
324	Definitely Maybe	3,350.1	5.49	6.52	1,944	1,500	20,453

We’re only one month into the season, but right now eight teams are on pace to eclipse the record for most points scored in a FanGraphs points league, set last year by the Durham Tobacconists in league #52 with 20,530. As a whole, teams are averaging 5.04 Pts/G and 5.19 Pts/IP this year, compared to 4.92 Pts/G and 5.14 Pts/IP in 2015.

Next up is a ranking of the top 10 FanGraphs points leagues, and I want to be very clear that this ranking is not intended to be scientific in any way, but is rather my attempt to capture which leagues are performing the best in aggregate and which leagues offer the most competition. I do this by ranking all leagues based on the total Pace of their teams (to measure league-wide efficiency) , and the total Pace of just the top six teams in the league (as a proxy for how competitive a league is). In the future I will be adding a third component that will be based on how close the top few teams are to give credit for leagues with multiple teams still in the race.

FGPTS League Power Rankings

LgNum	Name	Power	PACE	Rnk	Top6	Rnk
530	Ottoneu Champions	108.5	209,941	4	112,539	3
195	Wins Above Figgins	107.0	211,437	3	111,770	7
198	Reddit League	107.0	208,583	9	114,442	1
100	50,000 ottoneu Leagues Under the Sea	105.0	208,583	10	112,347	4
347	MVP Baseball 2005	104.5	209,628	6	111,644	9
637	So… OttoGraphs is a thing?	101.0	209,717	5	111,297	17
440	Mudville 9	100.5	207,630	13	111,550	10
477	Decadent and Depraved Baseball	97.5	206,161	21	111,741	8
168	Bleacher Bums	96.0	205,408	27	112,181	5
430	Full Circuit Auctionhouse	95.0	206,066	22	111,457	12

Up next, the SABR league power rankings. I’m only going to show the top five teams/leagues as there are much fewer SABR leagues than FanGraphs points leagues.

Top 5 SABR Teams by Pace

LgNum	TeamName	Points	Pts/G	Pts/IP	pGP	pIP	PACE
456	The Folies-Bergère Barmaids	3,289.6	6.09	5.52	1,932	1,500	20,047
301	SABRmagician✨	3,098.3	5.95	5.57	1,944	1,482	19,822
176	Semien In Your Face	3,176.7	6.09	5.48	1,905	1,500	19,821
301	Fly Eli’s Evian Showers	3,045.9	6.16	5.70	1,885	1,437	19,798
571	50 Shades of Gabes	3,307.9	5.86	5.58	1,944	1,500	19,762

And the top five SABR leagues, using the same method I did for the FanGraphs points leagues.

SABR League Power Rankings

LgNum	Name	Power	PACE	Rnk	Top6	Rnk
301	Sabermetric League of Statistical Analysis	17.5	203,514	2	109,433	1
571	Effectively Wild (Dynasty)	16.5	203,020	3	108,996	2
159	Cooperstown – The Jack O’Ryan Memorial League	14.5	200,759	5	108,113	4
164	B. Selig Blue Ribbon Glee Club	14.0	203,829	1	107,265	9
510	108 Stitches	13.5	199,401	6	107,543	5

Up next are the two rotisserie ottoneu formats, starting with the traditional 5×5 leagues. To calculate the top teams, I treated the entire population of teams as one big league, and gave every team points for every category based on where they ranked against every other team.

Top 10 5×5 Teams

Lg	TeamName	R	HR	RBI	SB	AVG	IP	WINS	SV	K	ERA	WHIP	POW
83	5TOOLERS	162	56	172	23	0.265	248	22	26	296	2.94	1.08	453.2
326	NY Swallows	165	48	166	27	0.269	284.1	27	21	291	2.63	1.12	452.5
56	Blue Whales	178	53	179	24	0.273	245.1	19	28	219	2.49	1.06	450.7
490	Godzilla vs Rodon	195	52	174	25	0.270	236.1	22	13	251	2.17	0.99	448.1
101	Beam Me Up, Piscotty	177	58	173	23	0.254	222.1	19	26	224	2.59	1.08	423.6
678	Free Tony Bosch	163	49	173	23	0.278	242.1	11	24	260	2.86	1.09	417.7
181	A Memory of Two Rick Mondays	169	52	167	19	0.285	240.1	12	28	265	3.11	1.07	416.9
491	Meekrats	165	35	164	29	0.262	253.2	17	34	265	2.27	0.98	415.6
471	The Wet Wockenfuss	178	58	183	34	0.266	250.1	17	22	251	3.70	1.21	406.3
580	Fire and Ice	183	50	168	26	0.270	221.1	16	20	203	2.48	1.14	406.2

And the 5×5 league rankings based on the total power score (as calculated to find the top teams) of all teams in each league.

5×5 League Power Rankings

LgNum	Name	Power
495	Ultimate Foul Balls	3,396.8
326	$100 5×5 Dynasty League	3,348.5
225	Hard Core Baseball	3,314.0
678	Dynasty League	3,300.6
580	You Gotta Be Bleeping Me!	3,281.6
672	Church of Baseball	3,267.1
450	Hughes Your Daddy	3,264.4
87	Pitching, Defense and 3 Run Homers	3,255.8
56	5×5 Roto Dynasty League	3,253.1
569	Mark Convoys Pepper Palace	3,250.9

Last, but not least, here are the rankings for the top teams in ottoneu 4×4.

Top 5 4×4 Teams

LgNum	TeamName	R	HR	OBP	SLG	IP	K	HR9	ERA	WHIP	POW
118	LatosIntolerant	169	51	0.351	0.479	273.1	284	0.46	2.86	1.17	206.5
28	Roar from 34	166	61	0.347	0.508	234.2	253	0.84	2.84	1.00	202.8
16	Cal Rikken	169	52	0.336	0.458	273.0	313	0.69	2.84	1.05	198.5
72	Gas House Gorillas	178	43	0.351	0.458	262.1	302	0.72	3.26	1.04	195.1
654	American Manmanmanmans	174	58	0.349	0.482	202.0	191	0.76	2.85	1.06	191.5

And the rankings for the top 4×4 leagues.

4×4 League Power Rankings

LgNum	Name	POW
645	Surplus or Scrub	1,580.10
670	90% Mental	1,572.40
123	Wendy Peffercorn Fantasy Baseball League	1,546.10
1	original ottoneu	1,505.90
366	For Centaurs Only…	1,504.90