Where we’ve differed from the conventional wisdom — and our readers have benefited
Our draft boards always contain a component we call the “experts’ draft board.” This is a consensus ranking of several leading fantasy magazines and websites. Many times our rankings more or less coincide with this measure of the conventional wisdom — but sometimes they do not. In those instances, we provide for you an assessment of players we think are overvalued and undervalued for that year.
In this space, we will highlight specific instances over the past few seasons in various sports where we have broken with the conventional wisdom. You will see two numbers next to each player in parentheses. The first one represents our ranking for the player that year at his position. The second one represents his spot on the “experts’ draft board.”
2007 Baseball — Values We Helped You Find
^ Nick Markakis (28, 36)
^ Russell Martin (4, 8)
2007 Baseball — We Warned You About Them
^ Bronson Arroyo (44, 24)
^ Luis Castillo (25, 13)
^ J.D. Drew (41, 30)
^ Marcus Giles (18, 9)
^ Tadahito Iguchi (16, 7T)
^ Richie Sexson (18, 11)
^ Chad Tracy (20, 11)
2006 Baseball — Values We Helped You Find
^ Jermaine Dye (22, 30)
^ Scott Kazmir (29, 44)
2006 Baseball — We Warned You About Them
^ Hank Blalock (15, 8)
^ Mark Buehrle (24, 12)
^ A.J. Burnett (28, 14)
^ Sean Casey (26, 15)
^ Coco Crisp (32, 21)
^ Jim Edmonds (38, 31)
^ Freddy Garcia (45, 25T)
^ Brian Giles (47, 22)
^ Shawn Green (49, 37)
^ Jason Kendall (16, 11)
^ Matt Morris (42, 34T)
2007 Football — Values We Helped You Find
^ Brett Favre (12, 16T)
^ Jason Hanson (7, 13)
^ Eli Manning (8, 13)
^ Adrian Peterson (18, 32T)
^ Kellen Winslow (2, 7)
2007 Football — We Warned You About Him
^ Vince Young (14, 9)
2006 Football — Values We Helped You Find
^ Joseph Addai (26, 33)
^ Kellen Winslow (8, Not on the Experts’ Draft Board Top 15)
2006 Football — We Warned You About Them
^ Deion Branch (35, 22T)
^ Lamont Jordan (11, 6)
^ Michael Vick (15, 10T)
2006 Hoops — Values We Helped You Find
^ Josh Howard (21, 30)
^ Andre Iguodala (16, 23)
^ Tony Parker (15, 28)
2006 Hockey — Value We Helped You Find
^ Mathieu Schneider (5, 17T)
2006 Hockey — We Warned You About Them
^ Jose Theodore (16, 11)