Dynasty format is my favorite way to do fantasy baseball. I like taking a prospect after he's drafted and seeing him through the minors and into the majors. I've been in one dynasty league since 2012 and have built through my minors a young core of players, Trea Turner, Alex Bregman, Kyle Schwarber, Carlos Rodon, Jeff Hoffman, Dansby Swanson, among others. It takes a lot of work going through all the scouting prospect grades, minor league stats, and blog postings to find a gem but its rewarding. I am here to save you that time by presenting you my latest project. The project I am unveiling here is the list of the Top 30 prospect by Organization according to MLB Pipeline. No longer do you have to click on all 30 teams to see all 900 players. This will allow you to find players not on a top 100 list. Cant find a prospect to add to your team? Filter the age and find the next crop of players that can be in the mid season top 100 list. There are a number of ways to use this to find guys, so make sure you let me know what you like or what you'd like to see in future updates. You can also publish this to your league page on ESPN. The code is below. Before we get to the visualization, I wanted to go over a few points.
- Age is a decimal. If you type in 20 in the max age filter, it will only give you players younger than that age. This keeps it from rounding up. I suggest filtering ages by .5, etc 20.5 or younger.
- Rankings Filter: You can view all 900 players, Only Top 100 from MLB Pipeline, or filter by players not on the top 100
- Position Filter: Some players play multiple positions, in this case, I grouped the players by the first listed position. Example: Player has 2B/SS, I moved that player into the 2B position. If you sort by SS they will not be listed. There were 28 different position combination, this isn't perfect but it was my quick fix.
- Use the list selection to filter between position players and pitchers.
- Each Column has a sort button. Use this to sort the players by Overall, or their scouting grades. Want to see the LHP with the best Fastball? Select the pitcher list in the List Selector, LHP in the position Filter and then sort by fastball. The best LHP Fastballs are by AJ Puk and Sean Newcomb.
