Anyone know yahoo's fantasy basketball playing ranking formula?

[vi edit]

I'm trying to figure out how yahoo ranks some of the players they do...it looks like they must really weigh 3 pointers and deduct heavily on TO's.

Anyone have any guesses on what goes into their player rankings?

 

[chimmytime]

Im not completey sure, but i have given it thought in the past. The way i figure it is that the season rank is calculated by all stat categories in a typical yahoo public league settings.

Basically they are ranked like the rotisserie league is calculated. Each player is ranked per stat category, and by how many players there are in the league, and the more points the higher the rank.

For example say there are 200 players in the NBA and Player A leads the league in the points category, they get 200 points, and the next person gets 199 points. So on and so forth.

Thats why it seems that players who shoot a lot of 3's, get a lot of steals, and blocks seem always to be ranked pretty high because its not a very competitive category usually. Unlike points where everyone has some input into it.

Again though, thats just my theory.

 

[PoPPeR]

dont trust yahoo rankings for anything. They are complete utter bullsh!t and are picked completely at random. If you ever, ever let yahoo draft your players using their default prerankings, you are more screwed than someone trying to buy a house in california for 100k

 

[vi edit]

Yeh, I questioned Yahoo's ranking when Q. Richardson and Korver were in the top 15.

 

[maddogchen]

Q I can see, he has rebounding and pts and 3's and a couple of assists here and there. Korver no.

 

[Soccer55]

I don't like the Yahoo rankings at all. IMO, they're only useful to figure out if 2 players are in the same ballpark talent-wise when constructing a trade offer. And even then, players that get injured drop in the rankings fast, so they can be misleading in that sense too.

-Tom

 

[PoPPeR]

best thing about yahoo rankings = trading with idiots that believe in them. Last year I was able to get Santana for Adam Dunn. Of course Dunn went on to do pretty well (40+ homers iirc), but Santana... one of the greatest pitching second halves in history.