TOP 10 FANTASY PLAYERS THIS YEAR OVERALL??

[NZF]

I would take these guys and there all off the top of my head

Bobby Abreu
Randy Johnson
Vladmir Guerrero
Jason Schmidt
Albert Pujols
Alex Rodriguez
Mark Mulder
Johan Santana
Scott Rolen
Carlos Beltran

Mark Mulder

A 3.71 ERA with ordinary IP /K ratio is not a Top 10 fantasy guy.

[oddmanout7]

Pujols
Bobby Abreu
Vlad
Schmidt
Bonds
RJ
Rolen
Helton
Manny
Tejada

[NZF]

Tejada 76 runs 23 HR's 107 RBI's 4 steals Avg. 317 OBP .366

A-Rod 81 runs 29 Hr's 71 RBi's 20 steals Avg. 279 OBP .366

They are very close, definitely A-Rod if you are using OBP, maybe Tejada by a nose using Avg.

[AKhomebrewer]

Based on the whole season so far, NOT post-ASB or looking the rest of the way (* for guys who weren't in my preseason top 10):

Vlad
Rolen*
Pujols
Abreu*
Ortiz*
Tejada*
Santana*
Sheets*
Schmidt
RJ*

[great gretzky]

beltran is still a four category performer and an elite on at that. he may not have avg, but bonds and manny don't have steals. so you have to go and draft someone else to compensate, thus may be a drag in some other cat, like beltran is in average. i don't get that arguemnt.

[reiser]

Tejada 76 runs 23 HR's 107 RBI's 4 steals Avg. 317 OBP .366

A-Rod 81 runs 29 Hr's 71 RBi's 20 steals Avg. 279 OBP .366

They are very close, definitely A-Rod if you are using OBP, maybe Tejada by a nose using Avg.

NZ fan, I think you're nuts if you have ARod on your list-of course, he is SS elegible this year.

here's a trick question. who are these 3B?
441 81 29 71 20 .2789 0.3665 0.5147
432 77 24 81 4 .3102 0.3804 0.5370

But I'm glad you brought Arod out to be picked on, and I am hoping others join in the discussion. To me, he is a top 5 3B, no more, no less.

Maybe a 1st rounder next year, but probably not mine

[great gretzky]

only problem is that arod has 20 stolen bases, which makes him elite across the board...

[NZF]

Depends if your league uses OBP or Avg.

If it uses Avg. then yeah I agree he isn't worthy of a Top 10 spot overall so far this year.

Next year will be very interesting. It would be wrong to look at just 2004 numbers to assess whether A -Rod is a first rounder or not. You have to use cummulated 3 year numbers at least and if you do, for sure A-Rod is a genuine 1st rounder.

But he won't go No.1 in many leagues if he continues his 2004 production.

[NZF]

only problem is that arod has 20 stolen bases, which makes him elite across the board...

Stolen bases are huge when evaluating a players value in standard roto scoring. Far outweighing HR's, Runs and RBI's. Average is nearly as important though and that is where A-Rod and Beltran fall down. Beltran in particular, he just could not be rated Top 10 with a .262 avg.

If you used OBP then it is a different story.

[reiser]

Stolen bases are huge when evaluating a players value in standard roto scoring. Far outweighing HR's, Runs and RBI's. Average is nearly as important though and that is where A-Rod and Beltran fall down. Beltran in particular, he just could not be rated Top 10 with a .262 avg.

If you used OBP then it is a different story.

you know the Player Rater on ESPN isn't that bad a place to start-here's their top 10 (Based on pts above avg)
1. Randy Johnson, 9.01
2. Jason Schmidt, SF 8.83
3. Bob Abreu, Phi OF 8.11
4. Albert Pujols, StL OF 8.09
5. Johan Santana, Min P 7.28
6. Vladimir Guerrero, Ana OF 7.01
7. Scott Rolen, StL 3B 7.00
8. Ben Sheets, Mil P 6.76
9. Carlos Beltran, Hou OF 6.58
10. San Francisco OF, SF 6.28