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Farm June 5, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

AL West farm system Org Rankings

Like before, any questions on the process, please read my post reviewing the NL West before asking them. The “100 Characters” concept was fun, but I’m going to try a different angle this time around and give reviews that are a bit more robust in the “Break down” section. And of course, questions, comments, concerns…

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History June 3, 2020 Ben Remington

Top Ten CPL Franchises

Here are the results of the ranked voting I asked of all of the CPL owners last week. It’s worth noting every team received a top ten vote, and many of the top ten teams were left off of at least one ballot, so there really was a smattering of votes, and several different criteria used by…

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Projections May 26, 2020 Jefferson Leach

Playoff Odds 2020 Season

Some playoff odds for the 2020 season based on the latest and greatest from my computer projections. Should be pretty self-explanatory. Enjoy! Season win% Division champ Make playoffs Conference champ CPL champ Your Mom 0.592 49.4% 97.6% 28.3% 14.1% Scared Hitless 0.589 44.5% 97.1% 27.9% 13.8% BROB’s Barnacles 0.527 4.3% 65.7% 15.5% 7.0% Baby Seals 0.506…

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Farm May 26, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

NL East Farm System Review

I’m going to save any explanations of how I made these lists this time around. If you’re interested take a look at my NL West review. I’ll try to provide a little flavor text instead to make up for it as I continue to work on improving the format of this series. I’ll call it,…

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Farm May 19, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

Farm System Breakdown Pt 1 – NL West

Starting a farm system deep dive in reverse order to give the NL a little love. I’ll start off with the division summary, followed by each team’s individual farm system. Each farm is organized using the BA ranking system, complete with Grades and Risk Assessments. When prospects tied at a certain org ranking, I used…

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Projections May 17, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

How an Abbreviated Season Could Impact Final Records

I’ve recalculated my season projections to see how different starting points of the season would effect final win/loss records. In my projections, your schedule plays a significant role. The schedule in my projection engine right now is the one that was on the ESPN site at the beginning of April. Any changes would impact the…

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Prospects May 13, 2020 Raymond Stafford

CPL Top 100 Prospect Rankings

In an effort to inundate everyone with CPL content, I’m sharing a list I created from how I ranked the farm systems. As explained on the last CPLodcast, I took 4 major prospect lists, and assigned a score for each player, for each list, with a top 10 player getting 10 points, 11-20 getting 9, etc. Then…

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Farm May 13, 2020 Jefferson Leach

Jefferson’s Farm Rankings

In an effort to not get shown up by Rem and Tom, here is my farm ranking and some logic behind it.  I start by taking the entirety of the CPL rosters and grab any prospect with an FV ranking in any of my major resources. I then adjust this rank up/down a little bit…

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Farm May 12, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

Farm System Rankings

I’m resurrecting a personal favorite of mine, and ranking everyone’s farm systems in accordance with each prospects BA grades and risk assessments. I converted the risk assessment’s into values I approximated based on relative BA org rankings, which let me evaluate each prospect using a single value. For overall farm system quality, I simply add…

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Draft May 11, 2020 Raymond Stafford

Draft Regret (part 3)

Two weeks ago I started this series looking at the biggest 1st round draft regrets for each team (with some caveats). Thus far I’ve gone over the regret of Fajita Eaters, Ball Busters, Baby Seals, Mauling Tigers, Tom Cat’s, Rollin’ Goats, Your Mom, and Pro Bowlers. The aforementioned caveats…. – I am choosing a player…

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History May 10, 2020 Ben Remington

The Best CPL Teams of ALL TIME

I had an idea a few nights ago, to make a ranking of the best CPL teams of all time. It’s always stuck in my craw that I had some very good teams in the early 2010’s, and didn’t win a title, and I’ve always wanted to know just how good those teams really were. I always…

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Projections May 5, 2020 Jefferson Leach

Jefferson’s Projections for the 2020 CPL Season

All of my thoughts have been said on the podcast, so this is just an info/ref dump. Please direct all complaints to the trash bin.  The full standings, based on a complete 2020 season W L % GB Your Mom 199 137 0.592 0 Scared Hitless 198 138 0.589 -1 BROB’s Barnacles 177 159 0.527…

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Projections May 5, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

CPL Fantasy WAR! – Tom Cat’s style

The reason for my math lecture in the last post was to hopefully generate some better understanding for how I got the results for this post, Fantasy CPL Wins Above Replacement (CPLWAR? CWAR? FWAR?). First, this post will just focus on hitters. Pitchers are boring. Replacement Definition: For my replacement line, I started with my 2020 projections,…

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Draft May 4, 2020 Raymond Stafford

Draft Regret (part 2)

Last week I started a series on here looking at draft regrets and it seemed like it generated some interest. Here we are for round 2 and 4 more teams. The same rules apply as before: – I am choosing a player that was passed if that player was taken within 3 picks of when…

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Projections April 21, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

Roto Standings – Bullpen vs Rotation

In an effort to ease into my follow up articles, I thought I’d start with a bit of a layup and look at how each teams pitching staffs breakdown. Because of the way my projection system works, bullpens and rotations are calculated independently, then combined at the end. As a result, the data collection was…

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Projections April 14, 2020 Tommy Tomcats

2020 CPL Season Projections – aka the season that never was

I’ll try to make this short. First, thanks to all of you for your help in generating teams rosters. You guys saved me about a dozen hours of work. I will do several followup articles on specific aspects of this system.But for the moment, in this post I will only highlight the primary improvement for…

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