BBFL: ESPN Picks Bashers

Friday, January 16 2004 @ 02:11 AM EST

Contributed by: Jonny German

In the latest installment of ESPN's Hot Stove Heater series, Eric Karabell gives a run-down of the top 50 fantasy players. No surprises in the top 5: A-Rod, Soriano, Pujols, Vlad, Helton. I wouldn't personally rank Randy Johnson as high as #10, but the only name on the list that really stands out to me is Jose Reyes at #48. 69 games in the majors batting .307/.334/.434 and he's one of the top 50 fantasy players? Wow. The Toronto big three all make the list: Doc is #22, Delgado #27, and Vernon #40.

But this ain't the real world, so let's see what this list tells us about the upcoming BBFL season...

I went through ESPN's Top 50 list and noted the BBFL team corresponding to each. 5 teams claimed 4 players, so to differentiate them I calculated the average rank of their players. This gave Billie's Bashers a slight edge over the Toronto Walrus as the preseason ESPN favourite for the BBFL title, according to this highly debatable analysis. The other teams with 4 top 50 players to their rosters were the Springfield Isotopes, the Thunderbirds, and Garces_not_on_roids.

Here is the complete summary.


Team Top 50 Av Rank
Billies 4 21.8
Toronto 4 24.8
SpringF 4 27.8
Thunder 4 29.8
Garces 4 32.8
Baird 3 18.0
Sub-Urb 3 20.7
Nation 3 23.0
Gashous 3 24.3
Jicks 3 31.3
Reykjav 3 33.0
Geoff's 2 13.0
AGF 2 20.0
MassSuc 2 41.5
Red Mos 2 49.5
Eastern 1 1.0
Mebion 1 4.0
Moscow 1 8.0
K-Town 1 16.0
ChatsWo 0 -

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