WAR - RF

Top RF - WAR

1. Alex Blanco (OTT) - 6.0
2. Jhonny Manzanillo (NB) - 5.1
3. Seth Myers (TOR) - 4.9
4. Ken Melancon (CHR) - 4.9
5. Alex Zhang (MNT) - 4.7

Most Valuable RF

1. Sammy Franco (CSP) - $3,118,867
2. Danny Coy (CLB) - $3,293,216
3. Alex Zhang (MNT) - $2,766,670
4. Eric Beckett (LOU) - $2,716,194
5. Mike Atkins (ARI) - $2,615,244

WAR - CF

Top CF - WAR

1. Willie Rodrigo (FLA) - 7.7
2. Sven Sherman (PIT) - 6.2
3. Kazuhiro Kobayashi (LV) - 6.0
4. Carl Ripken (SEA) - 5.7
5. Daniel Uribe (CH2) - 5.6

Most Valuable CF

1. Willie Rodrigo (FLA) - $6,628,353
2. Tony Sosa (LAA) - $4,651,628
3. Domingo Rosado (PHI) - $4,263,315
4. Kyuji Yoshii (CHY) - $3,783,332
5. R.A. McPherson (ATL) - $3,628,366

WAR - LF

Top LF - WAR

1. Jim Carroll (OTT) - 5.8
2. Steve Boyer (NO) - 5.8
3. Hideki Koh (FLA) - 5.3
4. Jason Tracy (CHR) - 5.2
5. Shawn Brooks (CLE) - 5.1

Most Valuable LF

1. Alex Polanco (TEX) - $3,452,428
2. Jason Tracy (CHR) - $3,140,426
3. Julian Tejada (RIC) - $3,077,785
4. Hideki Koh (FLA) - $2,684,389
5. Carl Reitsma (ELP) $2,398,777

WAR - SS

TOP SS - WAR

1. Rigo Rosado (SYR) - 8.4
2. Phillip Latham (NO) - 6.9
3. Ollie Byrd (ROC) - 6.5
4. Randy Dawkins (LOU) - 6.3
5. Cesar Cruz (NB) - 5.6

MOST VALUABLE SS

1. Chris Chapman (PHI) - $4,379,899
2. Randy Dawkins (LOU) - $3,932,907
3. Royce Fossum (SEA) - $3,919,456
4. Del Kondou (PHI) - $3,585,841
5. Kevin Nakajima (LA) - $3,477,432

WAR - 3B

Top 3B - WAR

1. Ugueth Valentin (ROC) - 7.2
2. Clay  Swisher (OTT) - 6.8
3. Jorge James (ARI) - 6.3
4. Jesus Andrus (FLA) - 6.0
5. Robert Miller (SEA) - 5.6

MOST VALUABLE 3B

1. Ugueth Valentin (ROC) - $6,177,860
2. Rolando Cordero (CH2) - $4,292,282
3. Neifi Azocar (NY2) - $4,017,700
4. Nick Snow (TOR) - $3,451,065
5. Hayes Brown (LA) - $3,188,683

WAR - 2B

Top 2B - WAR

1. Dante Nakajima (CSP) - 11.0
2. Jayson Allen (CIN) - 6.8
3. Ed Hall (CIN) - 6.4
4. Bernie Shermann (NO) - 6.3
5. Bruce Casanova (CHR) - 6.3

MOST VALUABLE 2B

1. Jayson Allen (CIN) - $5,816,671
2. Ed Hall (CIN) - $5,442,347
3. Buck Broome (PIT) - $5,269,447
4. Donaldo Neruda (TEX) - $4,749,981
5. Alexei Nunez (LV) - $4,244,701

WAR - 1B/DH

TOP 1B/DH - WAR

1. Rodney Ford (CHR) - 7.2
2. Logan Coulter (LOU) - 6.3
3. Ted Snow (MNT) - 6.1
4. Lawrence Houston (JAX) - 5.3
5. Houston Reese (ELP) - 5.1

MOST VALUABLE 1B/DH

1. Rodney Ford (CHR) - $6,148,547
2. Logan Coulter (LOU) - $5,331,401
3. Ted Snow (MNT) - $5,139,828
4. Otto Beckham (PHI) - $3,439,673
5. Houston Anderson (NY2) - $3,432,109

WAR - CATCHERS

TOP CATCHERS (WAR)

1. Emmanuel Sanchez (MNT) 5.8
2. Donaldo Rodrigo (NB) 5.6
3. Enrique Canseco (CHR) 5.6
4. Dennis Bohanon (FLA) 4.9
5. Rymer Tejada (TEX) 4.5

MOST VALUABLE CATCHERS

1. Emmanuel Sanchez (MNT) - $7,881,468
2. Rymer Tejada (TEX) - $5,997,291
3. Ajax Torrealba (ROC) - $5,853,445
4. Alex Garrido (CLE) - $5,703,779
5. Richard Kyung (LR) - $5,329,511

WAR Leaders (OVERALL)

I decided to try to adapt Wahoosonfirst's Simple WAR calculator to use to rank players at the end of the season. I know the season's not over yet, but I was curious as to how this worked out and what it said about the league.

A little about my methodology versus Wahoosonfirst's.

They rank baserunners on a 1-5 scale and defenders on a 1-7 scale. That would be easy enough to accomplish with what we have available, etc, but I'm not good enough on excel to write a formula to spit out a ranking based on a comparison between the player in question and the average defensive player. Baserunning is the same thing. If someone wants to help out and figure out a way to automatically rank players from 1-7 using the average defensive ratings for each position, that would be awesome and I'll gladly add that information to my data. Same with baserunning.

The second thing is that their formula using plate appearances instead of ABs, but, unless I'm missing something, the only way to get Plate Appearances is to use either the League Leaders page or the Player Statistics page to grab it. I don't have the time or patience to pull that information for 400+ players manually, and the Player Statistics page doesn't list position, so again, ideas for building a better spreadsheet would be greatly appreciated. I have 402 players ranked, so if you want to know where a player currently ranks, let me know. Please let me know if you have any ideas at all. I am all ears on this.

With all that out of the way, here's the top 5.
Pos-Player (Team&Salary) -WAR-Value- Overperforming/Underperforming

1. 2B Dante Nakajima (CSP/$9,750,000) - 7.4 - $10,528,042 - OVER $728,042
2. SS Rigo Rosado (SYR/$9,400,000) - 6.9 - $9,866,670 - OVER $466,670
3. RF Alex Blanco (OTT/$9,500,000) - 6.4 - $9,104,239 - UNDER $395,761
4. SS Ollie Byrd (ROC/$2,500,000) - 5.9 - $8,353,967 - OVER $5,853,967
5. 3B Ugueth Valentin (ROC/$343,000) - 5.5 - $7,741,961 - OVER $7,398,961

Message from the Commish

Rule Change Amendment

Hello everyone, I have been considering a slight change to the MWR for quite awhile. A lot of you are already aware of this because of the conversation we've had in NCAA..

Action Required - Please trade chat or sitemail me if you'd like to voice your support or opposition to the rule change. If you'd like to make your thoughts public, please feel free to post a reply to this post and it will appear on the blog.

I feel that the world rules need to evolve as the league and HBD evolves. To be clear, I have ZERO interest in weakening the competitive requirements. I want to provide the opportunity for a good owner to have the choice to stay in the world if they don't hit the MWR and accept strong penalties which will still dissuade any tanking.

The other change I have decided to make after discussing with other commissioners is I am going to take the competition committee out of the process initially when someone hit 200 losses over 2 seasons. Now you'll automatically get probation, however the competition committee will retain the right to review all situations on a case by case basis and if there is documented issues with tanking (ie - throwing out fatigued pitchers for the last 2 weeks of the season to generate losses) then they can still be voted out. The process will be the competition committee voting on the situation and if its severe enough to bring to the world, then the world will vote.

Old Rule - 1. 200 losses or more over a two year period and the owner will be asked to state their case as to why they should be allowed to stay. If allowed to stay the owner must reach 70 wins or be replaced.

New Rule

1. 200 losses or more over a two season period and the owner will go on probation and have to hit 70 wins. If the owner does not hit 70 wins, then the owner has a choice of leaving the world or accepting the following penalties:
- Forfeiture of next season's first round pick by selecting a player chosen by the commissioner
- One season IFA ban on signing anyone for more than $1 million. IFA's under $1 million can be signed as minor league filler.
- If either of these rules are violated, the result is immediate expulsion from the world
- The competition committee reserves the right to vote on each MWR situation and if its severe enough, then the world will vote on the offending owner.

The last benefit to this rule change is it will allow me to set up a very clean spreadsheet on tracking MWR offenders for all of my worlds. Although I go out of my way to be unbiased when the competition committee votes, I felt that I wanted to make the process more objective than subjective and these rules reflect those changes while also allowing the world to retain good owners who want to stay in the world.

Thanks for being a part of this world and community,

Chris