Grading Birdman's Probably Mediocre S58 Rankings
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LordBirdman
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As I sat down to begin to put together a ranking sheet for S59 fantasy, I realized I should first see how my S58 rankings did (S58 Probably Mediocre Rankings). I figured my rankings would be OK but would definitely have some issues, particularly giving credit to younger up and coming players as I used the last 3 seasons performance as an indicator of consistency and potential future performance.
Here are the players listed by total points with finishing position rank, my pre-season position rank, and some light commentary: Lyle Odelein III D; 500.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 1; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 4 Overall I'm happy with this ranking, if you took Odelein as a top 5 D you were happy. Karl Krashwagen F; 485.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 1; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Well shit, it wasn't long until my first major blunder. Who saw this guy finishing first? Not many people, but shows the potential of a strong power forward. To be fair, who could've predicted the guy would go from 12G 22A to 42G 29A, 80 more shots and 45 more hits. It shows I need to pay more attention to top line younger players for a quick swap or 3rd F. FR Finn-Rhys D; 474.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 2; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 3 Doesn't take a rocket surgeon to have seen that FR was going to be a top D last year, he finished 2nd the prior year. Still, past results don't predict future results so I'll give myself a nice pat on the back for this one. Bobby Sharp F; 446.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 2; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 12 I still feel pretty good about this ranking, suggesting to take him in the top half of 2 F's. I mean c'mon there is a lot of randomness so this isn't horrible. Michael Scarn F; 442.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 3; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 2 Another hit here, so far feeling pretty OK about my rankings last season. Henrik Lekberg Osterman F; 437.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 4; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Welp, another S50 that came out of nowhere to crush it. I didn't think a forward on a team like SFP could do this well, but with two-way players it apparently is very possible. Eko van Otter F; 426.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 5; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 17 I wasn't a huge believer in EVO for no real reason. He finished 13th F in S57 and I projected him to regress, which was dumb. Theo Morgan F; 425.7 Points; Final Position Rank: 6; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 8 I'm going to take some credit here, because I was a believer in the Morgan bounce back story after he finished as the 24th best F in S57. Cassius Darrow D; 423.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 3; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 2 Maybe not the hardest one to predict given Darrow's success in S57, but still going to count this as a good pick. Samuel Michaud D; 422.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 4; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 11 While Michaud finished as a top 5 D man, I predicted him to be fantasy relevant after finishing as the 22nd best D in S57. I'll say this is a pretty good pick of a young player on the rise. Adam Barron D; 417.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 5; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 15 I'm going to take some credit for this one as well, ranking Barron as a good 2D for fantasy after he never finished higher than 28th for D. I'll also give myself credit for this pick. Esa Parmborg F; 416.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 7; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 6 Banking on Esa to perform as a top 10 F was a good call. Martijn Westbroek F; 415 Points; Final Position Rank: 8; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 1 This one is somewhat tough, as I predicted Westbroek to be the most consistent and safest F pick. He still finished as a 1F in S57 so it's not a total loss for Westbroek owners, but perhaps a minor disappointment. Could be worse for sure. Julio Tokolosh F; 411.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 9; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 3 Toko let his owners down it's his fault not mine. Andreas Kvalheim F; 407.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 10; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 18 Kvalheim did have the bounce back season as predicted (finished 40th F in S57) and I feel good about this one. Tony Pepperoni F; 404.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 11; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 7 The ageless wonder future HOFer slid a bit but you take him for the consistency and feel ok about him finishing at 11. Nick Brain F; 402.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 12; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 16 Nick Brain seems to always impress and is also an ageless wonder, pretty good pick here if I do say so myself. Ruslan Zaporozhets F; 402.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 13; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Another young star (Northstar some would say) that I didn't tell you to pick, shame on me. Dominic Montgomery D; 401.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 6; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 12 Dom outperformed my rankings, but what do you want from me? Bobby Lane F; 400.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 14; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 32 Total miss, although I did rank him in the "flyer" portion of hey maybe he will be good. Monkey D. Luffy F; 396 Points; Final Position Rank: 15; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 13 Luffy was right on par with expectations, which is neat. Jakob Hamr D; 393.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 7; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 21 I didn't believe in the Hamr hog because I thought that D men that rely on SBs on improving teams weren't a good choice. Well I was wrong. Barrett Blackwood F; 392.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 16; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Mr. Blackwood came out of nowhere and I shamed my family by not ranking him. Barry Batsbak F; 392.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 17; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 19 Good pick, I'm clearly running out of things to say at this point. Philipp Winter F; 389.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 18; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 21 Good pick, I'm clearly running out of things to say at this point. Simon LeBlanc D; 388.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 8; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Horrific miss. I thought this guy was getting old and wouldn't be able to hang. Phineas Gold F; 386.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 19; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Gold was another youngster that came out of nowhere to nearly finish as a 2D. Jakub Bruchevski F; 384.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 20; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 22 Pretty accurate. Very legal, very cool. Rex Kirkby D; 384.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 9; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 14 Rex refuses to die and refuses to not put up points, I should've recognized that more. Kaspars Claude D; 382 Points; Final Position Rank: 10; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 16 Ehhhh not great rank not horrible. Aaron Wilson F; 379.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 21; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 15 Kind of a miss of a pick. Maxime Bouchard F; 377.7 Points; Final Position Rank: 22; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 10 This one was a miss and the ~25 point difference between finishing 22nd and 10th could be a big difference maker. Shame on me. Brennan Kennedy Jr. D; 377.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 11; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 6 Ok ok ok, Kennedy Jr is a pretty consistent guy so not crazy off. Daniel Smeb F; 377.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 23; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 4 I mean ranking players is hard. Slap McShotty F; 374.7 Points; Final Position Rank: 24; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 30 I think Slap McShotty was upset with his ranking but it appears he was sort of right and I was sort of right. Guy Zheng F; 374.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 25; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 5 Oof ouch owie, sorry gang but the position switch was tough for Guy. Tom Fiddler F; 374.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 26; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Good for TBB and Fiddler on the rise. Elijah Jones F; 373.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 27; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 11 This is another oof ouch owie. Jon Forty-One F; 373.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 28; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 26 On heckin' point. Nat Emerson D; 371 Points; Final Position Rank: 12; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 5 Pretty mediocre ranking. Slip McScruff D; 370.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 13; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Who could've foreseen this? Not I. Oliver Cleary D; 370.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 14; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Go get em Cleary and showin' me wrong and stuff. Edward Williams F; 370 Points; Final Position Rank: 29; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Idk Augustus Wang D; 368.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 15; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 9 Relatively ok ranking here. Karlstrasse Scholz D; 365.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 16; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 13 See above. Mika Kandinsky F; 364.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 30; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 23 I guess I oversold some Toronto hype here but left it out elsewhere. Kaarlo Kekkonen F; 364.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 31; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Texas has some players that's for sure. Jimmy Slothface F; 363.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 32; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 9 The famed Slothface killa was not what fantasy owners had hoped for and I think he should apologize, not me. Corey Kennedy D; 362.6 Points; Final Position Rank: 17; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 1 This has to be my crown jewel of rankings, placing Corey Kennedy as the number 1 overall D. The guy was coming off the 7th and 1st best D finishes in S57 and S56, respectively, had 2k TPE and was on a good team. Sometimes FHM just says go pound sand. Gabriel Johnson D; 362.3 Points; Final Position Rank: 18; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 7 Should've known better than to trust Gabe. Adam Scianna D; 360.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 19; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Texas sure has some players for the coming seasons. Alex Petrenko D; 357.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 20; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked How many pucks can one player really eat? Satoshi Zizagooney D; 356.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 21; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: Unranked Zizagooney is a pretty sweet name. Josef Kubinec F; 352.7 Points; Final Position Rank: 33; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 27 Kubince was worth a 3F flyer but other Texas forwards ate into his productivity. Alexander Selich D; 350.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 22; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 17 Isn't it interesting that the 22nd best D man and the 33rd best F had nearly the same amount of points? I think it is. Lmao if you're still reading this I don't know what to tell you other than thanks for the support and here are my picks I had that completely fell away. Dick Clapper F; 349.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 34; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 14 I thought that Clapper man would be good on the Stampede, I blame WBF. Big time miss here. Michael Fox F; 347.4 Points; Final Position Rank: 35; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 24 Just barely ranked him to be fantasy relevant and at this point the difference in points isn't huge so eh not horrible. Ola Wagstrom F; 345.9 Points; Final Position Rank: 37; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 20 RIP Ola fantasy days. Matt Kholin F; 345 Points; Final Position Rank: 38; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 28 See Fox commentary. Alexander Wachter F; 329.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 41; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 29 Thought this could be the Texas F to do well but I was wrong. Mathias Seger D; 329.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 26; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 10 At first I thought this was surprising as Seger almost always produces with hits and SB. He did again this season, but his points fell far too low for him to be relevant. Hippo Passamus F; 323.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 43; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 25 Passamus is getting up there in age. Parker Smeb D; 288.1 Points; Final Position Rank: 37; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 8 Ok this has to be probably my worst pick of the whole rankings(?). I also picked this guy in my league but quickly switched him for Barron, but that isn't really relevant. Parker Smeb was getting up there in age but had finished as the 8th, 5th, and 4th best fantasy D the three prior seasons. So what happened? Age started to catch up and he basically cut his G+A in half. Disisde Dayudie D; 285 Points; Final Position Rank: 39; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 18 IDK Poopity Scoop D; 278.5 Points; Final Position Rank: 41; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 20 He's IA of course he's going to get worse but hey what can I say. Aron Hernadivic F; 248.2 Points; Final Position Rank: 86; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 33 eek Lallo Selman F; 246.8 Points; Final Position Rank: 87; Birdman Pre-Season Rank: 31 I think it's time to write of Lallo because he simply doesn't get hits or SB. Conclusion: Fantasy is hard but I overall feel decent about my S58 rankings. For S59, I'm going to try to spend more time looking at up and coming players and not just past results. Overall Grade: 6 Dinosaur Nuggets
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