The Very Early Pre-Card Draft Chat

Some of you are familiar with Somworld. From current season stats they attempt to project Strat cards (with varying degrees of success). One of their spreadsheets is an RC/RA breakdown of the players. Yesterday they adjusted their rankings based on the defense ratings release.

Here are the top 10 players to give you an idea of the RC/RA numbers:

Cano, Robinson - 84
McCutchen, Andrew - 77
Braun, Ryan - 69
Posey, Buster - 68
Trout, Mike - 66
Cabrera, Miguel - 64
Beltre, Adrian - 63
Cabrera, Melky - 68
Hill, Aaron - 50
Molina, Yadier - 50

There can never be enough numbers in baseball so post your roster and I'll give you the rank for your players and the average for your team.
(A word of caution: I've gotten the impression over the years that they discount a players ability greatly based on lack of PA's. This would explain someone like Kozma, who will be a superstar if he gets an Unleashed card, only scoring a 5 on the RC/RA ranking)

Here are geekor's teams:

Keeper 1 Def
Posey, B C-2, 1B-3 68
Gonzalez, C LF-1 49
Jones, A CF-1 44
LaRoche, A 1B-1 40
Reimold, N LF-3 7
Tulowitzki, T SS-2 8
Colvin, T RF-2, CF-3, LF-2 28
Sandoval, P 3B-3, 1B-4 13

Avg. = 32.2

Keeper 2 Def
Braun, R LF-3 69
Encarnacion, E 1B-3, 3B-4 42
Ruiz, C C-1 32
Murphy, D LF-3, RF-3 27
Kozma, P 2B-4, SS-3 5
Rollins, J SS-1 26
Freese, D 3B-4 12
Kipnis, J 2B-3 9

Avg. = 27.8

What is RC/RA?

My teams:

Team 1
Konerko - 32
Cano - 84
Headley - 39
Reyes - 29
Brantley - 26
Hart - 29
Willingham - 9

Avg. = 35.4

Team 2
Laroche - 40
Hill - 50
Frazier - 18
Escobar - 30
Ludwick - 16
Jackson - 42
Bruce - 35

Avg. = 33.0

What is RC/RA?

Runs created vs. runs allowed. How good is the players offense vs. how many do they give up on D.

OK, cool...would love to see what my team looks like



Team 1

A. Jackson cf
Encarnacion 1b
D. Murphy lf
Freese 3b
Dirks rf
Frandsen 3b
Keppinger 2b
Castro ss


Team 2

McCutcheon cf
Mauer c
Me Cabrera lf
Zobrist 2b
Ethier rf
Konerko 1b
Sandoval 3b
Ross RF
Ciriaco ss

Here you go keyzick. Team 2 looks pretty potent so far.

Team 1

A. Jackson cf - 42
Encarnacion 1b - 42
D. Murphy lf - 27
Freese 3b - 12
Dirks rf - 20
Frandsen 3b - 10
Keppinger 2b - 15
Castro ss - 9

Avg. - 22.2


Team 2

McCutcheon cf - 77
Mauer c - 58
Me Cabrera lf - 40
Zobrist 2b - 30
Ethier rf - 40
Konerko 1b - 32 (this is a pre range ratings release number; he wasn't on the most current RC/RA spreadsheet)
Sandoval 3b - 13
Ross RF - 22
Ciriaco ss - 6

Avg. 35.3

Thankyou for this

Team 1

Stanton RF
B. Moss 1b
Mel Cabrera Lf
Zimmerman 3b
Cespedes Cf
Aybar ss
Altuve 2b
LaHair Rf
Forsythe 2b

Team 2

Pujols 1b
A. Cabrera ss
J. Upton Rf
DJ LeMahiel 2b
Victorino Lf
Laird

This team won't hit its way out of a wet paper bag!

Gosh, I wasn't aware this was abuse Palmtana's time to help us determine how good or bad our core hitters/fielders are. If possible, I would like to see how my two teams fare vs. the rest.

TEAM #1
Braun LF
Molina Y C
Ortiz DH
Kinsler 2B
Butler 1B
A Escobar SS
A Rios RF/CF
Middlebrooks 3B
Granderson CF

TEAM #2
Phillips 2B
Ruggiano CF
Aybar SS
Fransden 3B
Lucroy C
Hart 1B-RF
E Young RF
Goldschmidt 1B

To my defense, for Team #2, my first 4 picks was a stud 4-man starting rotation. Not sure if they will get much support by this lineup.

Here are your teams chasenally.

Team 1

Stanton RF - 36
B. Moss 1b - 18
Mel Cabrera Lf - 58
Zimmerman 3b - 30
Cespedes Cf - 32
Aybar ss - 19
Altuve 2b - 20
LaHair Rf - 9
Forsythe 2b - 3

Avg. - 25.0

Team 2

Pujols 1b - 43
A. Cabrera ss - 11
J. Upton Rf - 24
DJ LeMahiel 2b - 5
Victorino Lf - 27
Laird - 13

Avg. - 20.5