2018 Fantasy Baseball: Week 5 Positional Rankings

Senior Fantasy Baseball Expert Shawn Childs contributes his weekly Fantasy Baseball rankings to FullTime Fantasy Sports!

April 23, 2018 Shawn Childs Season Long – All Sports, Season Long – MLB

PREMIUM POSITIONAL RANKINGS: 1B | 2B | SS | 3B | C | OF | SP | RP

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Outfielders

RANK
PLAYER
POS.
TEAM
SS
1 Mike Trout OF LAA 0.41
2 Giancarlo Stanton OF NYY 0.30
3 Cody Bellinger 1B/OF LAD 0.28
4 Bryce Harper OF WAS 0.28
5 Charlie Blackmon OF COL 0.27
6 Mookie Betts OF BOS 0.24
7 Aaron Judge OF NYY 0.20
8 Delino Deshields OF TEX 0.19
9 A.J. Pollock OF ARI 0.18
10 Ender Inciarte OF ATL 0.16
11 Starling Marte OF PIT 0.15
12 George Springer OF HOU 0.13
13 Rhys Hoskins 1B/OF PHI 0.13
14 Billy Hamilton OF CIN 0.13
15 Yoenis Cespedes OF NYM 0.12
16 Cameron Maybin OF MIA 0.11
17 Lorenzo Cain OF MIL 0.10
18 Byron Buxton OF MIN 0.10
19 Christian Yelich OF MIL 0.09
20 Andrew Benintendi OF BOS 0.09
21 Chris Taylor 2B/OF LAD 0.08
22 J.D. Martinez OF BOS 0.07
23 Kyle Schwarber OF CHC 0.07
24 Eddie Rosario OF MIN 0.06
25 Khris Davis OF OAK 0.04
26 Gregory Polanco OF PIT 0.04
27 Odubel Herrera OF PHI 0.03
28 Michael Conforto OF NYM 0.03
29 Tommy Pham OF STL 0.03
30 Yasiel Puig OF LAD 0.02

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The development of *FullTimeScores* started with the theory around Average Player Scores. In today’s Fantasy Baseball market, it is extremely difficult to determine a baseball player’s value when drafting when you have multiple positions never mind multiple scoring categories. The average player theory is a way to compare players at similar positions. Once we have a baseline of the average player, we can determine which players have the biggest edge. The next step after establishing these scores at each position is then comparing the best option at other positions.

Each season the player pool changes. Some positions will have more depth and others will only have a couple of strong options. When a Fantasy owner is preparing to do his draft prep, he wants to find the hidden values at each position. By doing this, he can select the strongest options at the other positions early in the draft.

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About Shawn Childs 970 Articles
Shawn Childs has been a high stakes Fantasy baseball and football player since 2004 where he had success in his first season (three titles and $25,000 in winnings). In early years of the high stakes market in Fantasy baseball, he was ahead of the curve in player evaluation, draft value, and free agent bidding setting up four top-five finishes in the National Fantasy Baseball Championship. He has four AL-only Auction titles, one NL-only title, and five Main Event titles plus an overall title in 2012 at RTFBC (netted $10,000). This success led to an induction into the NFBC Baseball Hall of Fame. His success in the high stakes market led to a career in providing Fantasy Baseball and Fantasy Football content. On the football side, he’s competed and won in all different formats – auctions, draft championship, main events, and high-dollar leagues. He won 2nd place overall in the 2014 Most Accurate Salary Cap Expert contest at FantasyPros. As a dual-sport player, it was natural to transition to the daily games where he is a “swing for the fences type of guy.” Childs has appeared in one FanDuel NFL Live Final and one DraftKings NFL Live Final, a season-ending tournament which led to a couple of chances to win over $1,000,000.