The GMTR Fantasy Basketball Player Rater Is Back

Categorized as: Author: Patrick, Fantasy Basketball, Fantasy Basketball Strategy
Posted on: November 2nd, 2007

It’s not just back. It’s also improved… a little. Now, in addition to the 8-category player rater that we had last year, I’ve also taken the time to create a 9-category rater for everyone who plays in leagues that count turnovers. I’m feelin’ ya 9-cat people. I’m also in a 9-cat league this year myself.

Consider the player raters a work in progress. I’m thinking about how to better incorporate trending information in the raters this year. Trends are not in there yet, but I’ll be working on it over the next week or so.

For those of you relatively new to GMTR, when we refer to player ratings (including those game scores I’ve been mentioning the past couple mornings) or player rankings, it’s almost always pulled from these spreadsheets. Cause they’re the best.

If you’re curious, I create my own player rating spreadsheets for a few reasons. First, I deeply distrust every human being who walks the planet. Alright, actually, while I think the fantasy rating tools from most of the major sites, like Yahoo, range from ok to useless, there are some good third party player raters out there. I think Basketball Monster is a great site and I deeply miss the once great Rotopoll.com.

I’m also a stats geek at heart (which once resulted in one of the least cool high school nicknames of all time – MathMadden). This means that I like to tinker around with formulas and equations while normal people are surfing the internet for porn or hanging out with Kendrick Perkins.

Finally, I use the player rater to conduct other analysis which I sometimes write about on GMTR, like the stuff about effective free throw percentage or to answer the question, “how valuable would Dikembe Mutombo be if he just stopped playing offense all together?” I dig hypothetical questions like that.

All in all, it’s an incredibly geekified thing to do, but they didn’t call me MathMadden because I was out banging cheerleaders under the bleachers in high school.

GMTR Fantasy Basketball Player Rater (8-category league)
GMTR Fantasy Basketball Player Rater (9-category league)

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