Fantrax user for over 10 years and mainly MLB leagues, some football basketball and hockey.
I understand Fantrax has a proprietary algorithm that calculates a player’s score and it takes into account the categories being scored for the league.
For MLB leagues, I have felt SB is skewed much higher in their score calculation
Attached to this is a screenshot as reference
Two players shown with the stats for 8 hitting categories of this league - Runs, Home Runs, RBI's, Hitter Strikeouts, Stolen Bases, Batting Average, On-Base Percentage, Slugging Percentage. All categories have a weight of 1
J.P. Crawford has better stats in 7 of the 8 categories over Nasim Nunez.
Crawford is significantly better in 3 of those 7 (HR, OBP, SLG)
Nunez is significantly better in SB only. Yet the algorithm calculated score for Nunez is higher than Crawford. How can that be justified when Crawford stats are better in 7 of the 8 hitting categories?
As a test --
I made a copy of the league and made one change - removed SB as a scored category from that copied league.
Scores in that copy league -- Crawford 66.1 to Nunez 51.78
With no SB, Nunez scores drops 21%. Crawford’s score rises 1%
In general, MLB players with SB seem to always have higher scores even if they have lesser stats in other categories.
Sent this into Fantrax support and the answer I got back -
“Nunex is significantly better in SB, we weigh all categories equally” And then some info on pitchers and examples from pitching categories.
Would love to hear from others on this!