Ottoneu Power Rankings: July 2017
It’s once again time for a macro level view of the ottoneu landscape, and as of the end of July the teams involved in championship races are well known. Let’s take a look at the top performing teams and leagues:
You can find prior power rankings here: June, May, April, 2016 Final
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 calculate by taking each team’s current Pts/G and Pts/IP and multiplying them by their projected games (max of 1,944) and innings (max of 1,500). Also, please note that any teams/leagues from leagues with less than twelve teams are excluded from these rankings.
| OvRnk | LgNum | TeamName | Points | PG | PIP | pGP | pIP | PACE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 513 | RANDAL HANDSHAKE | 13,727.6 | 6.67 | 5.48 | 1,913 | 1,499 | 20,976 |
| 2 | 477 | Gimme All Yasmani | 13,678.8 | 6.53 | 5.59 | 1,913 | 1,500 | 20,880 |
| 3 | 153 | Winnetka Bears | 13,659.6 | 6.09 | 5.99 | 1,893 | 1,500 | 20,511 |
| 4 | 226 | Rochester Grangers | 13,282.6 | 6.19 | 5.53 | 1,930 | 1,500 | 20,242 |
| 5 | 220 | Don Mattingly’s Mullet | 13,608.5 | 6.36 | 5.20 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 20,163 |
| 6 | 220 | Bryce, Bryce, Baby | 13,581.0 | 5.92 | 5.73 | 1,932 | 1,500 | 20,030 |
| 7 | 168 | peel & eat schimpf | 13,187.5 | 5.89 | 5.74 | 1,938 | 1,500 | 20,024 |
| 8 | 440 | Shuffle the Deck | 13,549.6 | 5.82 | 5.79 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 19,999 |
| 9 | 435 | Saratoga Grays | 13,295.9 | 6.15 | 5.38 | 1,933 | 1,500 | 19,959 |
| 10 | 530 | Harrisburg Mayflies | 13,421.3 | 6.24 | 5.21 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 19,946 |
| 11 | 90 | Evil Knebel ? | 13,110.8 | 5.78 | 5.81 | 1,941 | 1,500 | 19,933 |
| 12 | 481 | Winnetka Twins | 13,001.8 | 6.09 | 5.72 | 1,907 | 1,442 | 19,867 |
| 13 | 347 | Thunder Gun | 13,347.1 | 5.82 | 5.67 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 19,819 |
| 14 | 617 | Vottoman Empire | 14,055.2 | 6.13 | 5.26 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 19,807 |
| 15 | 725 | One Borbon, One Scotch, One Beer | 12,961.6 | 6.07 | 5.54 | 1,931 | 1,459 | 19,805 |
| 16 | 347 | Coastal Empire | 13,081.7 | 5.91 | 5.76 | 1,944 | 1,440 | 19,782 |
| 17 | 81 | #420 – The Stoned Buddha | 13,005.0 | 5.86 | 5.78 | 1,888 | 1,500 | 19,735 |
| 18 | 183 | Laser Showalter ??? | 12,959.9 | 6.12 | 5.45 | 1,889 | 1,500 | 19,733 |
| 19 | 15 | Demon Seed | 12,883.1 | 5.97 | 5.48 | 1,926 | 1,495 | 19,685 |
| 20 | 153 | Graham’s Neubies | 13,091.6 | 5.74 | 5.67 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 19,664 |
Note- there are 1,596 FGpts teams across 133 leagues.
Offensive scoring continues to outpace 2016 levels (driven in large part by the HR boom), as FGPts teams average 5.36 Pts/G (up from 5.23 Pts/G in July ’16), but just 4.71 Pts/IP (down from 4.92 Pts/IP in July ’16). Overall scoring is still down, as three teams project over 20,500 points and only seven are pacing over 20,000 points.
There is a new #1 team in the rankings, as RANDAL HANDSHAKE rises from #4, and the former #1 Gimme All Yasmani drops one spot to #9. Rochester Grangers had the biggest rise, going from unranked last month to #4. Mookie Betts and the TINSTAAP GANG had the biggest fall, going from #9 last month (and #1 two months ago) to unranked. All told nine teams in the top ten are repeats from last month, as well as fifteen teams in the top twenty.
| LgRnk | LgNum | LgName | AvgRnk | Rnk+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 649 | Brinksmanship | 577.2 | 138.3 |
| 2 | 430 | Full Circuit Auctionhouse | 610.4 | 130.8 |
| 3 | 652 | Dozen Eggheads of Fantasy | 610.6 | 130.8 |
| 4 | 671 | MLB 2K16 | 624.2 | 127.9 |
| 5 | 791 | The Champagne Room | 626.4 | 127.5 |
| 6 | 606 | Three Tool Front Office | 629.9 | 126.8 |
| 7 | 347 | MVP Baseball 2005 | 632.1 | 126.3 |
| 8 | 568 | The Show | 632.2 | 126.3 |
| 9 | 93 | ottobros | 642.3 | 124.3 |
| 10 | 800 | The Nick Greenhorn Society | 642.8 | 124.2 |
| 11 | 532 | A Small Sample | 655.3 | 121.9 |
| 12 | 183 | Chicks Dig The Longball! | 655.4 | 121.8 |
| 13 | 380 | Just a Bit Outside | 662.0 | 120.6 |
| 14 | 725 | Ottoneu Champions Division B | 665.5 | 120.0 |
| 15 | 530 | Ottoneu Champions | 667.6 | 119.6 |
| 16 | 617 | RNCs Bastard Mixed Offspring | 671.1 | 119.0 |
| 17 | 637 | So… Ottographs is a thing? | 675.4 | 118.2 |
| 18 | 175 | PseudoHitters | 686.5 | 116.3 |
| 19 | 726 | When It Was A Game | 688.3 | 116.0 |
| 20 | 285 | Big Ten Challenge | 690.6 | 115.6 |
Brinksmanship (last year’s #1 league) moves up to the top spot this month, knocking last month’s #1 league A Small Sample down to #11.
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.
| OvRnk | LgNum | TeamName | Points | P/G | P/IP | pGP | pIP | PACE |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 301 | Fly Eli’s Evian Showers | 13,132.7 | 5.98 | 5.48 | 1,925 | 1,500 | 19,729 |
| 2 | 186 | Fake Girlfriends ??? | 12,617.5 | 5.56 | 5.64 | 1,933 | 1,500 | 19,208 |
| 3 | 186 | Napalm Bombs | 12,424.0 | 5.96 | 5.15 | 1,910 | 1,476 | 18,984 |
| 4 | 547 | Paxton Pollock No. 5 ♔ | 12,501.0 | 5.82 | 5.12 | 1,919 | 1,500 | 18,847 |
| 5 | 548 | Saratoga Thoroughbreds | 12,712.9 | 5.90 | 4.91 | 1,944 | 1,500 | 18,835 |
And the top five SABR leagues, using the same method I did for the FanGraphs points leagues.
| LgRnk | LgNum | LgName | AvgRnk | Rnk+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 159 | Cooperstown – The Jack O’Ryan Memorial League | 80.3 | 127.6 |
| 2 | 176 | Jackalope Inv. | 83.2 | 123.2 |
| 3 | 670 | 90% Mental | 93.2 | 110.0 |
| 4 | 301 | Sabermetric League of Statistical Analysis | 94.3 | 108.7 |
| 5 | 186 | Rock and Fire | 99.0 | 103.5 |
Note- There are 204 teams and 17 leagues in the SABR points format.
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.
| OvRnk | LgNum | TeamName | R | HR | RBI | SB | AVG | WINS | SV | K | ERA | WHIP | POW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 471 | Tux, Tophat, & Monocle – Oh My! | 766 | 230 | 732 | 99 | 0.285 | 65 | 111 | 1128 | 3.40 | 1.13 | 532.9 |
| 2 | 217 | Next Year | 756 | 228 | 739 | 116 | 0.289 | 63 | 102 | 970 | 3.34 | 1.15 | 518.0 |
| 3 | 328 | Daaa yankeesuc! | 730 | 229 | 712 | 104 | 0.281 | 70 | 75 | 1097 | 3.31 | 1.18 | 516.5 |
| 4 | 136 | Wash Park Pelican Armada | 744 | 223 | 701 | 121 | 0.282 | 64 | 101 | 974 | 3.41 | 1.15 | 507.4 |
| 5 | 461 | Boise Boats | 752 | 235 | 763 | 87 | 0.278 | 75 | 70 | 1085 | 3.49 | 1.15 | 505.7 |
| 6 | 775 | Melky Discharge | 751 | 216 | 709 | 93 | 0.279 | 68 | 89 | 1120 | 3.41 | 1.19 | 505.6 |
| 7 | 56 | Natty Boh | 829 | 230 | 701 | 89 | 0.286 | 80 | 64 | 1022 | 3.26 | 1.16 | 505.4 |
| 8 | 83 | Oxford Dragons | 769 | 240 | 728 | 88 | 0.281 | 68 | 93 | 1137 | 3.68 | 1.20 | 504.2 |
| 9 | 406 | Louisville Sluggers | 805 | 207 | 757 | 133 | 0.287 | 62 | 93 | 1039 | 3.53 | 1.21 | 500.2 |
| 10 | 225 | Chin Music | 721 | 217 | 703 | 92 | 0.271 | 77 | 86 | 1086 | 3.04 | 1.10 | 499.4 |
| 10 | 326 | NY Swallows | 792 | 225 | 699 | 102 | 0.276 | 77 | 69 | 1111 | 3.53 | 1.20 | 499.4 |
And the 5×5 league rankings based on the same average team ranking method as previously discussed:
| LgRnk | LgNum | LgName | AvgRnk | Rnk+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 495 | Ultimate Foul Balls | 214.3 | 133.4 |
| 2 | 672 | Church of Baseball | 216.2 | 132.2 |
| 3 | 569 | Mark Convoys Pepper Palace | 228.8 | 125.0 |
| 4 | 450 | Hughes Your Daddy | 231.1 | 123.7 |
| 5 | 781 | Hubie Brooks Roto League | 238.5 | 119.9 |
| 6 | 745 | Can of Corn Baseball League | 244.5 | 116.9 |
| 7 | 326 | $100 5×5 Dynasty League | 246.6 | 115.9 |
| 8 | 148 | Shea Stadium | 247.8 | 115.4 |
| 9 | 406 | A Gentlemen’s League | 248.2 | 115.2 |
| 10 | 328 | Old School Hardball | 248.2 | 115.2 |
Note- there are 540 teams and 45 leagues in the 5×5 format
Last, but not least, here are the rankings for the top teams in ottoneu 4×4:
| OvRnk | LgNum | TeamName | R | HR | OBP | SLG | IP | K | HR9 | ERA | WHIP | POW |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 110 | The Aviary Connection | 763 | 247 | 0.351 | 0.493 | 948.1 | 1114 | 1.02 | 3.16 | 1.11 | 228.0 |
| 2 | 34 | The Dukes of Hackney | 758 | 226 | 0.351 | 0.477 | 971 | 1056 | 1.05 | 3.28 | 1.16 | 216.3 |
| 3 | 356 | RogerDodger | 713 | 219 | 0.355 | 0.493 | 940.2 | 1079 | 0.93 | 3.59 | 1.20 | 214.3 |
| 4 | 821 | Pork-Chop Express | 686 | 217 | 0.354 | 0.482 | 995.2 | 1070 | 1.09 | 3.34 | 1.15 | 210.0 |
| 5 | 645 | Robinson CruzO | 715 | 214 | 0.361 | 0.473 | 880.1 | 1018 | 0.93 | 3.49 | 1.19 | 209.1 |
And the rankings for the top 4×4 leagues:
| LgRnk | LgNum | LgName | AvgRnk | Rnk+ |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 123 | Wendy Peffercorn Fantasy Baseball League | 90.6 | 133.0 |
| 2 | 1 | original ottoneu | 105.6 | 114.1 |
| 3 | 317 | Vandelay Industries | 107.4 | 112.2 |
| 4 | 28 | Imaginary Hammers | 109.7 | 109.8 |
| 5 | 674 | Loggerneu | 112.3 | 107.3 |
Note- there are 240 teams and 20 leagues in the 4×4 format
Feel free to leave any comments or questions about these rankings!
Justin is a life long Cubs fan who has been playing fantasy baseball for 20+ years, and an ottoneu addict since 2012. Follow him on Twitter @justinvibber.
If be curious to see where my 5×5 league (101) ranks in the power rankings. I imagine bottom third.
101 is actually closer to bottom fifth
Not surprised. Thanks.