Lineup Strength and Position Player Rater

I run my players through a formula that recalculates their overall values to something I feel is a little more in line with production. So I decided to expand it for the entire league. Its not rocket science, just focuses on some of the more important attributes and tries to penalize for low numbers in certain areas. For example a bad player with a 99 health rating is still bad, but a great player with a 30 health rating is taken down a notch or two. I will also admit that it does suppress the value the elite base stealers of the league. I would almost rather devalue the 3-5 true game changing lead-off players (ala Rickey Henderson) than to overvalue the 20-30 guys that are one dimensional (ala Tony Womack)

It obviously fluctuates, but we keep a little over 400 position players at the big league level. Below is rough estimate of how many players in each range there were and how I would categorize the values.

how many players rated 20-49 70 (usually one dimensional or just bad)
how many players rated 50-59 86 (below average ML players)
how many players rated 60-69 100 (Average ML talent)
how many players rated 70-79 87 (Above Average Player)
how many players rated 80-89 40 (all-star)
how many players rated 90-100 23 (HOFers)

This is a list of how the average lineup rated. I just rated the top 10 players so in most cases I dropped the worst two players from each team so as not to penalize a team that kept a lowly rated player as a specialist (defensive specialist, pinch runner, LH power, backup catcher, etc) except in the cases of a couple of team that have 10 or less position players.

Team Avg Rating

HOU	80.02
SCO	77.80
MNT	76.72
ARI	76.57
NY	75.94
HAR	74.66
TOR	74.06
ATL	73.64
CH2	72.02
SAC	71.42
RIC	70.32
BOS	69.64
SFE	69.56
CSP	69.24
IND	68.82
LV	68.23
STL	68.16
CLE	67.98
MEM	67.61
MIN	66.73
OK	65.42
TEX	64.66
CIN	64.40
AUS	63.52
SAL	63.45
SLC	62.38
LA	60.13
WAS	59.53
MIL	58.66
MON	57.01
FLA	55.13

I have also included a list of currently Rated Top 100 players. This doesn't take into account future projections, just how they are rated for this season. I don't mind sending someone the entire list, but its way to long for the blog.

Name	Team	Age	Rating
Tim Smith	HOU	31	104.56
Darrel Perez	SCO	27	102.33
Rusty Jones	SCO	30	100.27
Doug Connelly	ARI	30	99.94
Dick Yeats	ARI	33	98.35
Derrick Flynn	SFE	26	97.25
Glenn Kubenka	MEM	25	96.12
George Spence	CH2	30	96.07
Rafael Cedeno	SAC	24	95.52
Carlos Johnson	HAR	24	95.50
Robert Black	HAR	30	94.99
Al Pena	RIC	31	94.91
Sam Rivera	LOU	29	94.79
Mark Lee	LA	30	93.59
Mark Ross	NY1	28	93.15
Vic Saenz	ATL	33	93.14
Steve Taylor	HOU	22	92.89
Pablo Johnson	MNT	28	92.65
Homer Monroe	MEM	26	91.95
Tony Chang	ARI	28	91.40
Vladimir Goya	CLE	25	91.33
Raul Gonzalez	SLC	24	90.80
Dan West	TOR	32	90.28
Hugh Moore	MNT	32	89.46
Alan O'Malley	MIN	24	89.31
Benito Vazquez	MNT	27	89.16
Enrique Ruiz	RIC	26	89.13
Alex Green	SCO	25	88.82
Tony Rivera	ATL	26	88.11
Albert Guzman	WAS	31	87.83
Kiki Lopez	NY1	25	87.77
Walt Keeler	MIN	27	87.60
Stan Jackson	CH2	27	86.89
Del Castro	SAC	24	86.76
Bey Buckley	ATL	24	86.62
Carlos Javier	TOR	31	86.60
Ken Jefferies	MIL	25	86.39
Ricardo Santana	ARI	25	86.23
Ozzie Dougherty	HOU	32	85.90
Bonk Linton	BOS	25	85.88
Brian Scott	STL	30	85.67
Mendy Messmer	STL	30	85.40
Tim Durbin	SCO	23	85.01
David Pineiro	HOU	33	84.85
Ben Musial	TEX	30	84.30
Willie Sikorski	IND	31	84.21
Chili Olsen	HOU	22	83.08
John Blank	BOS	25	83.05
Carl Cochrane	MIN	24	82.55
Yamid Sierra	TOR	27	82.41
Brady Reese	MNT	31	82.38
Wes Davies	OK	24	82.37
Tim Lincoln	AUS	28	82.20
Jon Zentmeyer	CSP	27	82.09
Cliff Brocail	MNT	27	81.85
Barry Durocher	STL	31	81.27
Heath DeRosa	HAR	27	81.15
Buddy Munoz	LV	28	80.83
Aaron Cooke	SAL	33	80.78
Danys Ramirez	LOU	22	80.77
Jim Stewart	RIC	30	80.47
Victor Maradona	LV	27	80.44
Kirk Jenkins	NY1	30	80.36
Paul Ogawa	MNT	21	80.30
Carlos Martin	IND	29	80.18
Will Ford	ATL	30	80.16
Lawrence Trammell	BOS	23	79.94
Ralph Kydd	CH2	32	79.62
Ernest Strange	FLA	34	79.05
Miguel Cruz	CIN	21	78.87
Don Melhuse	SLC	26	78.78
Alex Cordero	NY1	23	78.64
Julio Guerrero	MEM	29	78.61
Geoff Leonard	NY1	25	78.41
Rudy Griffiths	CLE	28	78.21
Otis Martin	SAC	27	78.21
Thom House	ARI	29	77.99
T.J. Hornsby	LV	29	77.70
Brian Maeda	LOU	32	77.58
Buddy Parrish	CH2	32	77.33
Sammy Vega	LA	31	77.27
Happy McNamara	ARI	27	77.05
Willie Hawkins	HAR	31	76.89
Archie Saunders	CLE	30	76.77
Mark Bradley	TOR	24	76.61
Gus Andrews	AUS	29	76.42
Pedro Mesa	SFE	23	76.30
Yogi Lieberthal	HOU	30	76.17
Joe Hansen	HAR	28	76.08
Eli Oliva	CIN	22	76.05
Timothy Bryne	HOU	23	75.90
Sammy Dillon	CIN	30	75.63
Dennis Burnitz	IND	24	75.48
Hong-Jin Ramirez	LA	34	75.40
Preston Riggs	WAS	29	75.14
Stewart Stieb	CH2	26	75.11
Cristobal Alvarez	SAC	31	75.11
Juan Castillo	FLA	30	74.78
Ben Busby	SAL	27	74.19
Achilles McMurtry	MON	28	74.14
Greg Brinkley	NY1	29	74.06