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GMTR Fantasy Basketball Player Rater

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Categorized as: Fantasy Basketball
Posted on: November 7th, 2006

Give Me The Rock now has its own player rating system: the GMTR Fantasy Basketball Player Rater for 2006 and 2007, now available through Google spreadsheets. You may be interested in our ratings if you agree with the following three statements:

1. Yahoo O-Rank sucks major ass
2. I don’t pay for anything on the Internet.
3. Basketball Monster? Never heard of it.

Consider the GMTR player rater a work in progress – throw me a comment if you have an idea on how to make it more useful. Eventually, I’d like to incorporate this into a database in order to make it a dynamic tool (right now the ratings only come in one flavor; basic 8 category roto league). Until then, I’ll be updating the ratings every 1-2 days, use them and dominate your league.

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  • http://nbajunkie.com John

    how can lebron by at 25? are those numbers deviated from league average?

  • http://www.givemetherock.com PMad

    Lebron is at 25 because he’s taking 9.5 free throws a game and only making 58% of them. That’s the definition of category killer. But, it’s only been 4 games, give him 4 more and he’ll be back to the top 5 again more likely than not.

    Yeah, the ratings are based off of league average performance (the league in this case being the top 100 fantasy starters – 10 teams * 10 starters a team = 100, a nice round number that pretty much fits with a lot of leagues out there). So, 0 would be considered an average performance for the league. For counting stats, the ratings are calculated by subtracting the mean from league average and dividing by the standard deviation of the league. Percentage stats are calculated in the same manner, only the percentages are weighted by the number of FT or FG shots taken, to put the correct amount of emphasis on players who take more shots. The total score is calculated by summing the scores up across all the categories. I should have explained all this somewhere in the post, but I was being lazy.

    Almost all the other raters out there using the same basic strategy, only they don’t weight the percentages (big problem) and they don’t tell you how they define their “league”, or the set of players that they use to calculate the scores.

  • dyeyk

    hey man this is great work. appreciate it. but how about eventually adding splits as the season goes on. that way your able to track the progress of a player , which we all know can go up and down depending on a number factors. that way this also becomes a better tool for next year.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com PMad

    Thanks for the suggestion dyeyk. I’ve incorporated the past weeks rank into the spreadsheet, so that should give an indication of whether someone is trending up or down over the past week or so. I’ll try to include more splits as the season moves on.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    PMad, if you keep pulling out these awesome sheets, am I going to have to start paying you?

    Maybe I’ll just provide color commentary and be the Bill Walton of fantasy basketblogging.

  • http://www.givemetherock.com PMad

    Nels, your pithy, self-depreciating posts and innovative posting ideas are payment enough. Well, as long as you throw out a sweet cheerleader pic out every once in a while too.

  • brick on a stick

    Nice work. Splits would be nice. But, how about a cumulative season to date column?

  • http://www.givemetherock.com Nels

    PMad, if you keep pulling out these awesome sheets, am I going to have to start paying you?

    Maybe I'll just provide color commentary and be the Bill Walton of fantasy basketblogging.