Mixed League - Top 10 Hitters (Sun 7/27/08)
Today I’ll take a look at the Top 10 Hitters (both year-to-date and for the rest of the season) in a standard mixed league format (i.e. - Hitting categories are HR, RBI, AVG, SB, and Runs Scored). Each player receives a Sherpa Point score ranging from 0 to 1 in each of the 5 categories; thus, the maximum possible score is 5.00.
For the counting statistics the league leader is assigned a score of 1.00; all other Hitters’ scores are calculated by taking the ratio of their score in a particular category to the league leader’s score. For example, if the league leader has 25 Home Runs, a Hitter with 15 Home Runs would receive a score of .60, a Hitter with 10 Home Runs would receive a score of .40, etc. For average-based categories (e.g.- AVG) a proxy statistic is used. Hitters’ Sherpa Points scores in each individual category are added to calculate the Total Sherpa Points.
Top 10 Hitters Year-to-Date
- Lance Berkman - 3.59 (Remainder-of-Season forecast = 3.68 Sherpa Points, which ranks 2nd overall)
- Ian Kinsler - 3.44 (3.22, 5th)
- Josh Hamilton - 3.19 (2.76, 17th)
- Hanley Ramirez - 3.16 (3.40, 4th)
- Matt Holliday - 2.99 (3.64, 3rd)
- Jose Reyes - 2.98 (3.07, 10th)
- Ryan Braun - 2.96 (3.09, 8th)
- Alex Rodriguez - 2.88 (3.84, 1st)
- Chipper Jones - 2.84 (2.89, 15th)
- David Wright - 2.82 (3.08, 9th) and Chase Utley - 2.82 (3.11, 7th).
Top 10 Hitters for Remainder of Season
- Alex Rodriguez - 3.84 (Year-to-Date score = 2.88 Sherpa Points, which ranks 8th)
- Lance Berkman - 3.68 (3.59, 1st)
- Matt Holliday - 3.64 (2.99, 5th)
- Hanley Ramirez - 3.40 (3.16, 4th)
- Albert Pujols - 3.22 (2.80, 12th)
- Ian Kinsler - 3.22 (3.44, 2nd)
- Chase Utley - 3.11 (2.82, Tied for 10th)
- Ryan Braun - 3.09 (2.96, 7th)
- David Wright - 3.08 (2.82, Tied for 10th)
- Jose Reyes - 3.07 (2.98, 6th)
It’s very interesting to see the majority of the Hitters appear in both lists, indicating that over the course of a 162-game season, the top Hitters are generally the ones you would have expected to see at the top of this list before the season began.
I’ll take a look at the Top 10 Mixed League Pitchers in my next post.
Until then,
The Sherpa
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