What is happening. This week's edition of The List is going to be completely different from what you're used to and will be in this format through the end of the 2017 season. I'll be ranking the Top 100 (and a little more) this week per usual, but I will be attaching their estimated ROS schedule as well, to give you better idea of who has easy or hard schedules through the rest of the season.
But before we get started, there is one elephant in the room that made this really really difficult:
How do we rank strength of schedule?
I can't give you a good answer. Last 30 days wOBA means the Nationals and Diamondbacks are bottom tier offensives with the A's in the top. 2nd half dictates the Cardinals being the second strongest offense and the Red Sox third worst. Season wOBA doesn't tell the whole tale either with teams hurt, injured, etc. Shorter samples get weighed heavily by a few blowouts here and there and suddenly I have no way to spit out a tiered list to make this easy.
I need to have some system for this as I'm going to be going over every pitcher's estimated ROS schedule that matters for your fantasy team and I can't just eye it out because that will get carved up in an instant.
So I've elected to go the extra mile for y'all. Here is a quick table of my opponent rankings ROS, with three exceptions being made for @COL/COL, @ARI/ARI, and @TEX/TEX, as they are wildly different teams outside of their massively helpful home ballparks. I've sorted teams into five tiers of Top, Good, Average, Weak, and Bottom.
