If you play fantasy baseball on ESPN, you have heard of the player rater. It provides fantasy mangers with the ability to view the 898 Major League Baseball players who have made their way onto a field in the first month of the 2016 season. I will take the time here to say that I am not a statistics expert, nor do I have any actual knowledge of how ESPN calculates their player rater formula. ESPN, as a corporation, does a pretty good job at keeping these kinds of things on lock. This article, essentially, is my thoughts on the player rater and its hits and misses.

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