Updates thru 2011

[Frayed Knot]

2011 Rankings results

There are now 617 ranked players going from, as has been the case since we started, Tom Seaver to Gus Bell


From the 2011 roster:

Debuts --
Ryota Igarashi at #605
Miguel Batista - #590
Chris Young - #572
Jason Pridie - #549
Ronnie Paulino - #519
Scott Hairston - #498 ... and just barely onto the status level list, so that if we ever actually do get any new members they will be rewarded with the posting level of ‘Scott Hairston’ just three spots after being ‘Jim, the Monsterously Huge Bat Boy’
Nick Evans - #473... he had played prior to this year but earned his first rankings points this season
Willie Harris - #455
Pedro Beato - #438
Tim Byrdak - #404
Justin Turner - #287
Chris Capuano - #201 - highest “rookie”


Returnees:
- Manny Acosta - Up 103 spots from 393rd place to 290th
- Bobby Parnell - Up 65 spots from 316 to 251
- Ruben Tejada - Up 186 spots from 430 to 244
- Dillon Gee - Up 230 spots from 446 to 216
- Josh Thole - Up 68 spots from 275 to 207
- Jason Isringhausen - Up 44 spots from 240 to 196
- Lucas Duda - Up 322 spots from 509 to 187 (and from off our parade of names to on)
- Ike Davis - Up 21 spots from 177 to 156
- Jason Bay - Up 102 spots from 237 to 135
- Jonathon Niese - Up 80 spots from 214 to 134
- Francisco Rodriguez - Up 19 spots from 139 to 120
- R. A. Dickey - Up 78 spots from 168 to 90
- Daniel Murphy - Up 49 spots from 130 to 81
- Angel Pagan - Up 24 spots from 98 to 74
- Mike Pelfrey - Up 11 spots from 78 to 67
- Carlos Beltran - Up 6 spots from 20 to 14 - Passing Darling, Grote, McGraw, Mookie, Leiter, and (just barely*) Keith
- Jose Reyes - Up 5 spots from 17 to 12 - Passing McGraw, Mookie, Leiter, Keith, and Kranepool ... and no one else ever!!
- David Wright - Up 2 spots from 7th to 5th - Passing Franco & Piazza

Johan Santana obviously received no points for this year but was also un-passed and so remains at slot #50

* and we mean ‘just barely’. The final score (assuming Carlos nver plays here again) was 43,278 to 42,276. So not only would one better/worse placement in any vote in any year have switched the two but even one fewer or more team WIN in the right place would have done the same.

New to the Top 100: Dickey & Murphy
Out of the Top 100: Doug Flynn & Ken Boswell

Izzy’s journey -- Special note needs to be made about Izzy who, after earning points in 1995 & 1996, sat out for 14 years (shirley a record in CPF Rankings history) before logging back in this season.
Of course there were no actual CPF rankings during Izzy’s first stint as a Met seeing as how we didn’t concoct this thing until ten years ago when we ranked the ‘01 season and then retroactively did the same for all previous ones. But we can judge via points awarded through his rookie campaign in ‘95, that he would have sat in 167th place at that point and then move up to 161st with his abbreviated season in ‘96. His wandering years in between saw him fall to 240th as the list expanded and he was passed by nearly 100 players.
So now, even with his 44 slot jump this season, he’d still have to hang around another few years to back to his high point of 16 years ago, but he’s also ahead of more players as well.
End of ‘95 -- 167th place
96 -- 161st
10 -- 240th
11 -- 196th


Dropped from the Top-500
Dwight Bernard
Phil Linz
Allen Watson
Wilson Delgado
Andy Tomberlin
Roy Lee Jackson
Jeff Duncan
Greg Harris


#100 - Bob Apodaca
#200 - Ellis Valentine
#250 - (midpoint of our Top 500) Dale Murray
#300 - Dick Schofield
#309 - (midpoint of all players) - Marlon Anderson
#400 - Mike Bruhert
#500 (first player to greet newbies following their JtMHBB status) - Jamie Cerda

[TransMonk]

Great work FK!

[Edgy MD]

Great work.

Amazin' to see Bay knocking on the door of the top 100 while we're still waiting for him to perform.

[Frayed Knot]

Minor mistake alert.

When looking at Nick Evans I checked for points he may have received in 2010 and in 2009 and, when I didn’t find any, I created a new spot for him on the database. But it turns out he did get a few morsels for his work back in 2008!!!

So the bottom line is I initially wound up entering him twice. Now that that’s been corrected, instead of two Nick Evans’s in the upper 400s somewhere there’s one who’s in 431st place (isn’t that exciting?)
It also means that there are only 616 guys overall so everyone behind Nick moves up one space including Dwight Bernard who moves from spot 501 to 500 and is saved from being cut for another year. HE, rather than Jaime Cerda, will serve as the lead-off man for the next season.

[Edgy MD]

Bernard survives!

[Ceetar]

This might be a non-rankings quirk, but it looks like #6 Piazza is ahead of #5 David Wright.

It appears like Wright should be 7, although I could see where writing 5 next to his name is an easy mistake to make. the post above though says he jumped from 7 to 5. that doesn't seem to have taken place in the profiles..or is that not happening at all?

[Frayed Knot]

So are you saying that you just were David Wright prior to becoming Piazza?

[Ceetar]

Frayed Knot wrote: So are you saying that you just were David Wright prior to becoming Piazza?

I believe so, and Gwreck is now if you look at the members list sorted by rank or posts.

[Frayed Knot]

Fixed

[Frayed Knot]

And now, following a limited re-visit to David Wright land, you've crossed the Strawberry threshold.