Standings (June 1, 2009)
1t) Fantasy Baseball Sherpa 93
1t) Fanball.com
3) Rotowire (Siegrist) 80.5
4) CBS Sportsline (Mack) 71
5) Rotowire (Erickson) 67.5
6) Baseball Prospectus 64.5
7) Open Sports 59.5
8) The Fantasy Man 59
9) Patton 57.5
10) CBS Sportsline (White) 55.5
11) Roto Experts 52
12) CBS Sportsline (Devonport) 27*
*Crucial Sports removed due to non-participation on May 17 and replaced by Devonport.
In my last non-FAAB post about the AL version of the league, I took a look at the teams that cracked $40 on a player and how they're doing. Here's the same chart for the National League:
# of $40 Players, CBS Sportsline N.L. 2009
| Team | $40+ | Player(s) | Salary | RT Value | +/- |
| Sherpa | 0 | ||||
| Fanball | 0 | ||||
| Rotowire Siegrist | 0 | ||||
| CBS Mack | 2 | Ryan Howard Jose Reyes | $43 $46 | $28 $17 | -44 |
| Rotowire Erickson | 0 | ||||
| Baseball Prospectus | 1 | Johan Santana | $40 | $32 | -8 |
| Open Sports | 0 | ||||
| Fantasy Man | 1 | Albert Pujols | $47 | $48 | +1 |
| Patton | 0 | ||||
| CBS White | 1 | Hanley Ramirez | $51 | $35 | -16 |
| Roto Experts | 1 | David Wright | $52 | $34 | -18 |
| Crucial Sports | 2 | Ryan Braun Jimmy Rollins | $52 $40 | $30 $11 | -51 |
There are fewer $40+ players in the National League (eight) than there were in the A.L. (10), but the results here are tilted even more against paying significant dollars for a stud.
The only significant busts here to date are Reyes and Rollins. However, wrapping 20% of your budget in David Wright, Ryan Braun, or Hanley Ramirez still loses you a significant amount of coin...despite the fact that according to the Rototimes Player Rater tool, Ramirez is the 5th best 5x5 hitter in the National League while Wright is 7th.
Mack once again has been fairly successful while spending a good chunk of his dough on some Caddies, but the top three teams spread the risk. Sherpa ($31 for Joey Votto), and Siegrist ($27 for Derrek Lee/Chipper Jones) due a much better job of distributing dollars across their teams. Despite the assertions of more than a few experts, it is possible to sit tight and wait for the bargains in an auction like this.
Like I said in the A.L. version of this article, this doesn't mean that you should always avoid spending big bucks on a player, particularly if you're in a freeze league and need a specific player to win a category or pull off a strategy. For the most part, though, you should always be looking for value. Spending $50+ on a player is almost always going to give you a losing hand, no matter how good that player looked the year before or how great he looks blasting bombs into the swamps of Florida or the cacti of Arizona during meaningless Spring Training games.
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