The Brewster

There have been suggestions that I weight value by position. There have also been thoughts that pitchers have been underrepresented. To address these concerns, I have introduced a table of weights by position. In addition, some care was taken to avoid giving extra weight to players who are assigned a position for which they are not suited. For instance, if your "shortstop" has a projected position rating at shortstop of less than 5, I moved him to another position, probably 2B, for the purposes of this exercise.

POS	Weight +/-
SS	50%
CF	38%
2B	25%
SP	25%
C	20%
3B	15%
RF	0%
CL	-15%
RP	-15%
1B	-25%
LF	-25%
DH	-35%

I welcome feedback regarding the weighting values. Crowdsourcing is good.

Here is the new ranking by total farm system value. It shows how many hitters and pitchers each organization has among the Top 100.

Rank	ORG	VALUE	Hitters	Pitchers
1	NSH	384.8	3	7
2	BIK	336.4	3	4
3	CHI	272.3	4	1
4	MEX	265.5	3	1
5	VAL	261.1	1	2
6	YS9	258.8	5	2
7	CCJ	234.7	3	1
8	NO	211.5	2	1
9	ATC	211.3	2	4
10	AUS	204.4	3	1
11	DM	195.2	0	2
12	POR	194.9	4	0
13	PHX	185.1	1	2
14	LV	183.5	2	2
15	SFB	182.9	3	1
16	CLG	169.8	1	2
17	LOU	168.4	2	4
18	SAC	166.4	1	2
19	ROS	147.1	1	1
20	HAW	137.8	1	0
21	JAX	129.0	0	1
22	CHA	124.0	1	2
23	SA	111.8	1	0
24	MAD	109.8	1	2
25	MTL	108.3	2	0
26	TWC	108.2	0	1
27	CBH	104.9	1	1
28	BPK	99.4	2	0
29	CPF	97.1	0	0
30	BOI	94.7	1	1
31	VAN	90.6	0	1
32	LBC	80.3	0	1

See my earlier posts on this topic for methodology:
http://montybrewster.net/forums/viewtop ... 23&t=51139
http://montybrewster.net/forums/viewtop ... 23&t=51124
http://montybrewster.net/forums/viewtop ... 23&t=54458

Interesting, however there certainly isn’t a 25% gap between LF and RF. Same for me.

I like your rankings more than the game rankings

Dington wrote: ↑

Sat May 31, 2025 1:11 am

Interesting, however there certainly isn’t a 25% gap between LF and RF. Same for me.

If you consider a Venn diagram of corner outfielders, the larger circle is the set of LFers. Almost wholly contained within that circle is a smaller circle that comprises the set of RFers. I suppose that there may be a very small subset of RFers who have low range and strong arms that permit them to be successful in right but not left.

I do not think that they are the same. But I can accept that I may have overrated RF. What would you suggest?

Bob Breum wrote: ↑

Sat May 31, 2025 1:59 am

Dington wrote: ↑

Sat May 31, 2025 1:11 am

Interesting, however there certainly isn’t a 25% gap between LF and RF. Same for me.

If you consider a Venn diagram of corner outfielders, the larger circle is the set of LFers. Almost wholly contained within that circle is a smaller circle that comprises the set of RFers. I suppose that there may be a very small subset of RFers who have low range and strong arms that permit them to be successful in right but not left.

I do not think that they are the same. But I can accept that I may have overrated RF. What would you suggest?

To each their own.

A lot of effort was put into updating yer model based on feedback. That’s always greatly appreciated.

I would change yer position weighting to correspond to something closer to MLB’s positional WAR adjustments. Right now LF and RF are too far apart IMO. The game itself usually doesn’t have these positional defensive ratings more than a point apart. From the link, you could think of RF as -10 runs and LF as -15 runs as a tweak. That’s still closer than 0 and -25.

The compounding factor is that the game is already doing this with their OVR rating. Ideally you would calculate composite batting/fielding/running scores and calculate your own OVR ratings. It would give you a chance to weight Gap Power way higher than I would! But that’s a whole project unto itself

In the past you’ve included a table showing how many players different orgs have at ratings beyond the top 100. Would it be possible to share something like that again?

Bob Breum wrote: ↑

Sat May 31, 2025 1:59 am

Dington wrote: ↑

Sat May 31, 2025 1:11 am

Interesting, however there certainly isn’t a 25% gap between LF and RF. Same for me.

If you consider a Venn diagram of corner outfielders, the larger circle is the set of LFers. Almost wholly contained within that circle is a smaller circle that comprises the set of RFers. I suppose that there may be a very small subset of RFers who have low range and strong arms that permit them to be successful in right but not left.

I do not think that they are the same. But I can accept that I may have overrated RF. What would you suggest?

24%

Again this is a lot of work … bonus ppt coming for this also