Redrafting the NBA – Round Five: Picks #33-40 in BP’s NBA fantasy draft/player rankings.

Where Chipper ranks among all-time 3B: ESPN’s David Schoenfield uses WAR to determine where Chipper Jones ranks in the pantheon of historical 3rd basemen.

Most overrated/underrated players in NFL ($): FO’s Aaron Schatz looks at the Scouts Inc. player rankings, identifying players the scouts improperly valued.

Redrafting the NBA – Round Four: Picks #25-32 in BP’s effort to rank the NBA’s Top 96 players in fantasy-draft form.

Scouts Inc. 2011 player rankings: Scouts Inc. released their ranking of the top 200 NFL players at ESPN this week.

Redrafting the NBA – Round Three: Picks #17-24 in BP’s fantasy draft of current NBA players.

Vote for the NFL’s GOAT’s: Pro-Football-Reference.com has added an Elo Rating-based fan voting system for historical & current NFL players, so make your picks for the all-time greats.

Redrafting the NBA, Round Two: Picks #9-16 in BP’s inaugural NBA player fantasy draft.

Leaderboards of Pleasure – 8/22/11: At Fangraphs, check out Carson Cistulli’s latest rankings of the teams/players that sabermetrically-inclined fans will enjoy.

Redrafting the NBA: Rather than putting together a list of player rankings (like everyone else seems to be doing this offseason), BP’s staff will conduct a hypothetical draft of 96 NBA players… Here’s round one, picks #1-8.

Is Eli Manning a Top-10 QB?: This week, Eli Manning said he was in the same class of QB as Tom Brady. What sayeth ESPN’s new Total QBR?

Some clarification of the Top 100 rankings: SI’s Zach Lowe resolves some of the confusion surrounding his player rankings.

ESPN’s NBA Player Rankings: As everyone seems to be doing nowadays, ESPN.com and the TrueHoop Network are ranking the top players in the NBA… #401-500 are here, and #351-400 is in progress here.

Top 100 NBA Players (Nos. 1-10): At long last, the top ten in Zach Lowe’s Point Forward NBA player rankings.

Leaderboards of Pleasure – 8/15/11: Which players and teams have risen to the top of Carson Cistulli’s latest NERD rankings?

Top 100 NBA Players (Nos. 11-20): We’re almost at the top 10 of Zach Lowe’s Point Forward player rankings.

Top 100 NBA Players (Nos. 21-30): SI’s Zach Lowe continues his ranking of the top 100 all-around NBAers at the moment.

Top 100 NBA Players (Nos. 31-40): The latest NBA player rankings from SI’ Zach Lowe.

Top 100 NBA Players (Nos. 41-50): More NBA player rankings from Zach Lowe and SI.

Player Skill Rankings: At NBA Playbook, Sebastian Pruiti is using scouting, video analysis, and Synergy data to rank the NBA’s best at various skills. So far, he’s tackled pick & roll ballhandlers and post scorers.

Top 100 NBA Players, Pt. V (Nos. 51-60): SI’s Zach Lowe is halfway through his ranking of the NBA’s top players at this very moment.

Top 100 NBA Players, Pt. IV (Nos. 61-70): Zach Lowe of SI’s Point Forward has the latest installment of his NBA player rankings.

Top 100 NBA Players, Pt. III (Nos. 71-80): SI’s Zach Lowe continues his ranking of the league’s top 100 players.

Top 100 NBA Players, Pt. II (Nos. 81-90): Zach Lowe continues his ranking of the NBA’s top 100 players at SI’s Point Forward blog.

Top 100 NBA Players, Pt. I (Nos. 91-100): At The Point Forward, Zach Lowe plans to rank the NBA’s top 100 two-way players at this exact moment. He starts with # 91-100, as well as those who just missed the cut.

Greatest Cornerback Tandems of All-Time: In light of a possible Nnamdi Asomugha-Darrelle Revis pairing in New York, The Big Lead’s Jason Lisk looks at other great CB tandems throughout history.

Top 100 Aftermath: The BP crew discuss Drew Cannon’s list of the 100 best players in D-I college hoops.

Saving Bonds: Joe Posnanski has a question: where would Barry Bonds’ career rank if he had never taken performance-enhancing drugs?

Role Players: HP’s Matthew Coller looks at the teams that got the most and least GVT out of their “role players” in 2011, and ranks the best and worst role players of the year.

Ranking the top 10 prospects in the NFL ($): At ESPN, Aaron Schatz and Bill Barnwell unveil the top 10 of their annual prospect rankings.

Ranking the top 25 prospects in the NFL, Nos. 11-25 ($): At ESPN Insider, Aaron Schatz and Bill Barnwell present the first installment of their annual NFL prospect rankings.

Roethlisberger’s Ranking: The Big Lead’s Jason Lisk gives an overview of why Ben Roethlisberger is such a divisive figure in the world of QB rankings.

Leaderboards of Pleasure – 7/25/11: From Fangraphs, Carson Cistulli’s latest NERD rankings identifies teams and players you (as a stathead) will enjoy.

Top 20, Team-Adjusted Corsi Ratings: The Puck Stops Here posted a list of the top 20 players by Corsi after adjusting for the quality of the player’s team.

D-I’s Top 100 Players (#1-10): At BP, the final installment of Drew Cannon’s NCAA player rankings series.

D-I’s Top 100 Players (#11-20): The latest from BP’s Drew Cannon in his quest to rank the top 100 players in D-I college basketball.

Leaderboards of Pleasure – 7/18/11: Carson Cistulli’s latest rankings at Fangraphs — which teams and players should the modern saber-fan enjoy most?

2011 Trade Value – #10-1: At long last, the top ten of Fangraphs’ trade value rankings.

2011 Trade Value – #20-#11: Dave Cameron posts the latest installment of Fangraphs’ trade value player rankings.

D-I’s Top 100 Players (#21-35): BP’s Drew Cannon continues ranking college players according to his projections for 2012.

2011 Trade Value — #25-21: Fangraphs continues its ranking of the top assets in the game today. (And if you want more Fangraphs news, they’ve also added K% & BB% to pitchers’ pages.)

Keith Law’s Updated 2011 Top 50 prospects ($): ESPN’s Keith Law has updated his 2011 prospect rankings, taking into account the first half of the MiLB season and the Futures Game.

D-I’s Top 100 Players (#36-50): More from BP’s Drew Cannon as he attempts to rank the top 100 players in D-I basketball.

Worst 20 Raw Corsi Ratings: The Puck Stops Here flips around their post from Monday and lists the 20 worst Corsi performers from 2011.

2011 Trade Value – #30-26: More trade value rankings from Fangraphs.

Adjusted Player “dWin%”: From Nathan Walker of The Basketball Distribution, an attempt to calculate adjusted +/- using in-game win probability instead of point differential.

2011 Trade Value — #35-#31: Dave Cameron continues Fangraphs’ series on the players with the most current trade value.

The 100 Worst Baseball Players Of All Time – A Celebration (Part 2): The 2nd half of Eric Nusbaum’s Deadspin series on the 100 worst players in baseball history… Agree or disagree, it’s a fun read.

The 100 Worst Players Of All Time – A Celebration (Part 1): A fun (if unscientific) salute to terrible ballplayers, courtesy of Deadspin.

D-I’s Top 100 Players, #51-70: Drew Cannon of BP continues to rank the top players in D-I hoops.

2011 Trade Value — #40-#36: Fangraphs’ Dave Cameron presents the latest installment in the site’s annual trade value rankings. (See also: #46-#41 and #50-#46)

The 25 Least Valuable Players in the NFL: Just what it sounds like, via Bill Barnwell and Grantland.

D-I’s Top 100 Players (#71-100): With some help from his freshman projection system, BP’s Drew Cannon begins to rank D-I’s top players.

More on the NBA Player Rankings Front: BBR’s Neil Paine followed up on his 2012 APBRmetric player rankings by posting a position-by-position breakdown. Meanwhile, WoW’s Arturo Galletti created his own team-by-team rankings by averaging various win estimators.

Good Stuff From Tangotiger: Read these 3 posts from Tangotiger today: First, a how-to guide on converting wOBA to ERA. Then, a discussion about how we all create single-number “metrics” to rank players. Finally, a link to a course that might teach you a thing or two about data processing.

Most Efficient Quarterbacks, 2010: Keith Goldner of Drive-By Football ranks the 2010 QBs according to Net Expected Points.

The (APBRmetric) Top 593 Players of 2012: BBR’s Neil Paine attempts to create a consensus APBRmetric ranking of players for the 2011-12 season.

Analyzing the 10 most disappointing oversights of the past 25 years ($): Writing for ESPN, FO’s Brian McIntyre lists the worst “oversights” — that is, players who were let go by one team only to become stars elsewhere — since 1986.

The Worst in the Majors: Fangraphs’ Steve Slowinski presents baseball’s least-valuable players (in terms of WAR runs) at the midpoint of the season in a variety of areas.

The Greatest Wins Produced Seasons and The Wins Produced All NBA Teams: At The Wages of Wins, Arturo Galletti puts the best Wins Produced seasons in graphical form and lists the chronology of the top players at each position by that metric.

ATH Prospect Rankings, 1-50: Bradford Doolittle finishes ranking the top 50 prospects in this year’s draft, according to his ATH metric.

NBA Draft 2011: Centers & Top 30: Hoops Analyst’s Ed Weiland concludes his draft preview with a look at the Center prospects and an overall top 30.

NBA Draft – ATH Prospect Rankings, 51-100: BP’s Bradford Doolittle ranks the prospects according to his Applied Athleticism (ATH) rating system.

NBA Draft 2011 – Point Guards: Hoops Analyst’s Ed Weiland continues his statistical NBA draft preview by examining this year’s crop of PG prospects.

NBAdraft.net Top 20, By NCAA Offense: Nathan Walker of The Basketball Distribution looks at predicted offensive plus/minus for NCAA players at the top of the draft rankings.

Updated Hollinger Finals Rankings ($) John Hollinger has updated his lists of the best historical individual Finals performances and Finals teams.

Arguing Baseball’s Best Players: BP’s Larry Granillo unearthed a 1950s-era pseudo-scientific attempt to rank baseball’s best players.

The best third-down running backs: Writing for Yahoo’s Shutdown Corner, FO’s Doug Farrar lists the RBs who had the best DVOA on 3rd down.

New Regularized Plus/Minus: Jeremias Engelmann has tweaked his RAPM methodology for even more predictive accuracy (read more here.)

Who’s the Most Underrated Player in Baseball?: Carson Cistulli of Fangraphs quantifies the difference between a player’s true (WAR) value and his perceived (fantasy) value.

BBR Gets Ready For Game 6: From Basketball-Reference, a ranking of the best playoff players since 2003, as well as graphs showing the Mavs’ and Heat’s championship probabilities throughout the playoffs.

NERD for Position Players, Version Two: An updated edition of Carson Cistulli’s NERD system for ranking which players are potentially interesting to saberites.

Ranking top 10 most disappointing free agents of past 25 years ($): Writing for ESPN, FO’s Brian McIntyre ranks the biggest free-agent flops of the last quarter-century.

The Best NBA Finals Performances Since 1991 (*according to statistical +/-): At BBR, Neil Paine uses SPM to rank the best Finals performances of the last 20 years. That Dwyane Wade guy is pretty good, it turns out.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 1-5: The top of Corey Pronman’s prospect rankings at Hockey Prospectus.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 6-10: Cracking the top 10 of Corey Pronman’s draft prospect ranking at HPro.

The Basketball Distribution Player Ratings, Finals Edition: Nathan Walker of The Basketball Distribution posted his Finals player ratings after Game 2 and Game 3.

The Best Third Baseman of all Time?: Chris Cwik of Fangraphs on A-Rod’s chances of capturing the mythical “Best 3B Ever” crown.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 11-20: Numbers 16-20 and 11-15 in Corey Pronman’s countdown at HPro.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 21-30: Corey Pronman continues the Hockey Prospectus prospect countdown.

Introducing NERD for Position Players: Carson Cistulli of Fangraphs ranks position players by NERD, a metric designed to rate their “watchability” by the sabermetric set.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 31-40: Corey Pronman continues Hockey Prospectus’ top prospects ranking.

Dirk With A Ring: Better Than The Ringless Wonders, Ewing, Malone, and Barkley?: There’s a Stat For That looks at the “consolation points” when it comes to Dirk, Ewing, Malone, & Barkley.

Conn Smythe Watch: Tim Thomas Still Conn Smythe Favorite: Tim Thomas leads Tom Awad’s latest playoff GVT rankings.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: 51-60: The latest installment of Hockey Prospectus’ prospect rankings.

Most (& Least) Valuable Players in the 2011 Playoffs, Pre-Finals Edition: Player rankings from The Basketball Distribution

Lisk on Future Winners, Payton vs. Brown: Good stuff from Jason Lisk at The Big Lead today… First, he predicted which NFL Franchises will win the most over the next 5 years. Then, he made the case that Walter Payton is the GOAT among RBs.

Playoff Player Ratings as of 5/24: Nathan Walker of The Basketball Distribution lists playoff leaders in his version of SPM.

Which Current Major League Baseball Players Are Locks For The Hall Of Fame?: A conversation about current HoFers at Forbes.com.

Conn Smythe Watch: Tim Thomas Leads Conn Smythe Class: Tim Thomas has taken the playoff MVP lead, writes Hockey Prospectus’ Tom Awad.

Top 100 NHL Draft Prospects: Full List, 1-100: At Hockey Prospectus, the full list of Corey Pronman’s Top 100 prospects.

Win Shares per 48 Minutes versus Easy Player Ratings: Nathan Walker of The Basketball Distribution compares his Easy Player Ratings to Win Shares per 48.

Easy Player Rating System!: A quick-n-dirty version of SPM from Nathan Walker at the Basketball Distribution.

Conn Smythe Watch: Ryan Kesler Rockets Up Rankings: Hockey Prospectus’ Tom Awad’s latest Conn Smythe rankings, powered by GVT.

Conn Smythe Watch: Bruins’ Tim Thomas Moves To No. 2: Tom Awad’s latest Conn Smythe rankings at Hockey Prospectus.

The Top Ten Hitting Performances Since 1950 in Tigers History (10-6): Mike Rogers of Bless You Boys ranks the top WPA games by Detroit batters since 1950.

Cooperstown Confidential – The Hands of Stone team: The worst fielders at their position since WWII, via THT’s Bruce Markusen.

Who has the best outfield throwing arm?: Yesterday we saw one attempt to answer the question; now Christina Kahrl tries her hand at ESPN’s SweetSpot blog.

Best OF arms: Anthony Castrovince of MLB.com searches for the best outfield guns in the game.

Mike Tanier’s latest walkthrough lists the top 5 QBs ever for Minnesota and Detroit. Link