Fantasy Baseball 2008

Player Rankings: First Base (1B)

March 7th, 2008

Rankings: 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | C | DH | OF | SP | RP

At SportsOverdose, we believe that the more information you have the better. So for our positional rankings we don’t sit a couple of people in a room until they can come to an agreement. Instead we compile all the best sources from around the web into one comprehensive pre-season ranking guide. So we’ve taken 6 expert player rankings from around the web: Yahoo! Sports (Y!), ESPN (ESPN), CBS (CBS), Fox Sports (FOX), MLB.com (MLB), FFToolbox (FF).

We then combined the results and ran them through our sophisticated statistical clustering algorithm (it groups the players based on the distance from their rankings to the other players rankings).

The resulting rankings reflect the opinions of as many fantasy experts we could gather and also gives you a good guideline for how to approach your draft based on the player groupings. For instance, if you are looking for a first baseman and you are already to the Group 4 players in your draft, with all of those Group 4 players are available, you could probably wait a pick and take someone on the lower end of Group 4 without sacrificing much production at the first base spot. And at the same time by waiting you secured someone better at another position.

So below is our positional rankings where you will find each player’s position in the 6 expert rankings and their best, worst and average position, all grouped by players that are typically considered to be in the same category of player.

Group 1 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
1 Albert Pujols STL NL 1 1 1 3 1 3 1 3 1.7
2 Ryan Howard PHI NL 3 2 2 1 3 2 1 3 2.2
3 Prince Fielder MIL NL 2 3 3 2 4 1 1 4 2.5
Group 2 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
4 Mark Teixeira ATL NL 5 4 4 5 5 4 4 5 4.5
5 Lance Berkman HOU NL 5 5 5 4 8 6 4 8 5.5
6 Justin Morneau MIN AL 8 6 8 6 7 5 5 8 6.7
7 Derrek Lee CHC NL 9 10 7 9 6 7 6 10 8.0
Group 3 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
8 Victor Martinez CLE AL 12 7 6 10 12 6 12 9.4
9 Adrian Gonzalez SD NL 11 11 9 8 13 8 8 13 10.0
10 Carlos Pena TB AL 12 9 10 7 14 9 7 14 10.2
11 Carlos Guillen DET AL 14 8 13 14 11 11 8 14 11.8
12 Paul Konerko CHW AL 15 12 11 10 15 13 10 15 12.7
13 Nick Swisher CHW AL 16 17 12 11 16 10 10 17 13.7
Group 4 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
14 Todd Helton COL NL 18 13 15 13 18 16 13 18 15.5
15 Alex Gordon KC AL 19 14 17 17 14 14 19 16.2
16 James Loney LAD NL 17 16 14 17 19 21 14 21 17.3
17 Carlos Delgado NYM NL 21 19 18 12 22 19 12 22 18.5
18 Ryan Garko CLE AL 20 15 20 16 28 18 15 28 19.5
19 Adam LaRoche PIT NL 24 18 21 15 25 15 15 25 19.7
Group 5 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
20 Kevin Youkilis BOS AL 22 20 16 20 32 20 16 32 21.7
21 Conor Jackson ARI NL 26 23 27 24 21 17 17 27 23.0
22 Casey Kotchman LAA AL 27 21 23 23 31 23 21 31 24.7
23 Joey Votto CIN NL 23 22 28 18 33 28 18 33 25.3
24 Lyle Overbay TOR AL 30 24 24 19 37 22 19 37 26.0
25 Mike Jacobs FLA NL 27 26 22 30 25 22 30 26.0
26 Jarrod Saltalamacchia TEX AL 29 30 19 26 29 19 30 26.6
27 Richie Sexson SEA AL 28 26 25 21 34 26 21 34 26.7
28 Daric Barton OAK AL 29 29 28 24 24 29 27.5
29 Aubrey Huff BAL AL 28 22 26 36 27 22 36 27.8
Group 6 Y! ESPN CBS FOX MLB FF High Low Avg
30 Dmitri Young WAS NL 25 31 27 42 32 25 42 31.4
31 Brad Wilkerson SEA AL 39 30 30 39 34.5
32 Nomar Garciaparra LAD NL 33 33 25 48 34 25 48 34.6
33 Daniel Ortmeier SF NL 32 38 32 38 35.0
34 Dan Johnson OAK AL 31 34 37 43 31 43 36.3
35 Kevin Millar BAL AL 32 37 33 47 32 47 37.3
36 Nick Johnson WAS NL 30 36 53 33 30 53 38.0
37 Ben Broussard TEX AL 35 38 30 49 30 49 38.0
38 Matt Stairs TOR AL 36 50 35 35 50 40.3
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