The rankings you see in that fabulous draft kit of ours were born from a one-day alliance of fantasy editors and writers. Of course, put a dozen people in one room for most of a day, with limited food, and air for that matter, and you're going to get a dozen different opinions. Frankly, even if you feed us caviar, which I've never tried, we'll still have different opinions.
This is good. Trust me. You don't want to go to a fantasy site in which everyone has the same opinion. First of all, it's not at all realistic. Maybe the democrats all vote a certain way and back their party, but I doubt they could all agree on a restaurant to eat lunch. Yes, it matters that much. So it is with fantasy baseball. One man's sleeper is another's bust, and we saw that when we did the rankings. That's the second reason why a wide range of opinions are good. You can always find someone who agrees with you, if that's your goal, but we hope to challenge you to figure out who you like on your own. I know who I like, and while I didn't need to hear the opinions of others to get there, I can say I've been swayed on certain players.
Some of you have seen our rankings and find areas of disagreement. Good, nobody should simply print out our rankings -- or mine or Matthew Berry's or anyone else's -- and draft off that. It's your team, use our lists to cross off names, see where the depth is, inquire to what we think and use it as a basis. Heck, I don't even follow my own rankings most of the time. Things are changing all the time. Just the other day I had ranked Derek Jeter in the 30s and Adam Eaton was unranked. OK, so not everything changes.
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Eric Karabell
