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Grading Birdman's Probably Mediocre S58 Rankings - LordBirdman - 04-04-2021 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 ![]() Overall I'm happy with this ranking, if you took Odelein as a top 5 D you were happy. Karl Krashwagen ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() Another hit here, so far feeling pretty OK about my rankings last season. Henrik Lekberg Osterman ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() 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 ![]() Banking on Esa to perform as a top 10 F was a good call. Martijn Westbroek ![]() 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 ![]() Toko let his owners down it's his fault not mine. Andreas Kvalheim ![]() Kvalheim did have the bounce back season as predicted (finished 40th F in S57) and I feel good about this one. Tony Pepperoni ![]() 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 ![]() Nick Brain seems to always impress and is also an ageless wonder, pretty good pick here if I do say so myself. Ruslan Zaporozhets ![]() Another young star (Northstar some would say) that I didn't tell you to pick, shame on me. Dominic Montgomery ![]() Dom outperformed my rankings, but what do you want from me? Bobby Lane ![]() Total miss, although I did rank him in the "flyer" portion of hey maybe he will be good. Monkey D. Luffy ![]() Luffy was right on par with expectations, which is neat. Jakob Hamr ![]() 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 ![]() Mr. Blackwood came out of nowhere and I shamed my family by not ranking him. Barry Batsbak ![]() Good pick, I'm clearly running out of things to say at this point. Philipp Winter ![]() Good pick, I'm clearly running out of things to say at this point. Simon LeBlanc ![]() Horrific miss. I thought this guy was getting old and wouldn't be able to hang. Phineas Gold ![]() Gold was another youngster that came out of nowhere to nearly finish as a 2D. Jakub Bruchevski ![]() Pretty accurate. Very legal, very cool. Rex Kirkby ![]() Rex refuses to die and refuses to not put up points, I should've recognized that more. Kaspars Claude ![]() Ehhhh not great rank not horrible. Aaron Wilson ![]() Kind of a miss of a pick. Maxime Bouchard ![]() 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. ![]() Ok ok ok, Kennedy Jr is a pretty consistent guy so not crazy off. Daniel Smeb ![]() I mean ranking players is hard. Slap McShotty ![]() 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 ![]() Oof ouch owie, sorry gang but the position switch was tough for Guy. Tom Fiddler ![]() Good for TBB and Fiddler on the rise. Elijah Jones ![]() This is another oof ouch owie. Jon Forty-One ![]() On heckin' point. Nat Emerson ![]() Pretty mediocre ranking. Slip McScruff ![]() Who could've foreseen this? Not I. Oliver Cleary ![]() Go get em Cleary and showin' me wrong and stuff. Edward Williams ![]() Idk Augustus Wang ![]() Relatively ok ranking here. Karlstrasse Scholz ![]() See above. Mika Kandinsky ![]() I guess I oversold some Toronto hype here but left it out elsewhere. Kaarlo Kekkonen ![]() Texas has some players that's for sure. Jimmy Slothface ![]() The famed Slothface killa was not what fantasy owners had hoped for and I think he should apologize, not me. Corey Kennedy ![]() 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 ![]() Should've known better than to trust Gabe. Adam Scianna ![]() Texas sure has some players for the coming seasons. Alex Petrenko ![]() How many pucks can one player really eat? Satoshi Zizagooney ![]() Zizagooney is a pretty sweet name. Josef Kubinec ![]() Kubince was worth a 3F flyer but other Texas forwards ate into his productivity. Alexander Selich ![]() 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 ![]() I thought that Clapper man would be good on the Stampede, I blame WBF. Big time miss here. Michael Fox ![]() 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 ![]() RIP Ola fantasy days. Matt Kholin ![]() See Fox commentary. Alexander Wachter ![]() Thought this could be the Texas F to do well but I was wrong. Mathias Seger ![]() 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 ![]() Passamus is getting up there in age. Parker Smeb ![]() 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 ![]() IDK Poopity Scoop ![]() He's IA of course he's going to get worse but hey what can I say. Aron Hernadivic ![]() eek Lallo Selman ![]() 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 RE: Grading Birdman's Probably Mediocre S58 Rankings - TheFlash - 04-05-2021 Killed it. Glad to have a guy like you around and in my locker rooms as I’m clueless with this stuff. Maybe I’ll have to start following a bit closer. |