Players with High Standard Deviation in their Rankings (2021 Fantasy Baseball)

Fantasy leagues aren’t won in the first couple of rounds. When it comes to the Top 25 players available in any given year, all fantasy managers are working from similar lists. Barring injuries or extreme regressions, those first two rounds provide a solid foundation for every team. It’s in the next several rounds where opinions on players begin to differ and where fantasy managers have to start making real decisions based on projections, rankings, strategies, and their gut.

FantasyPros provides Expert Consensus Rankings that aggregate the rankings of dozens of experts in the fantasy baseball industry. These rankings allow fantasy managers to compare player ADPs (Average Draft Position) with their ECR to see where the experts are higher or lower on players than the general public.

But this also allows us to see where experts are regularly disagreeing with each other.

In addition to being able to see a player’s best and worst ranking from the experts, FantasyPros also provides their standard deviation. This standard deviation shows us where the consensus is in agreement and where opinions start to get further apart. A low standard deviation means that most of the…