2015 FAN Projections!
The 2015 FAN Projection ballots are now open!
Before you can project any players, you’ll have to select the team you follow most closely towards the top of the screen. If you really don’t follow a team, just pick one. You’ll only have to do this once.
After you’ve selected a team, there are 9 categories for pitchers and 10 categories for position players. Pick the values in the drop-down boxes closest to what you think the player will do in 2015, hit the submit button and you’re done! If you made a mistake, you can always go back and change your selection at any time.
Please note that everything this year is a rate stat. You’re projecting 2B+3B, HR, SB, and Fielding as a measure of 150 games (basically a full season). The player’s previous stats are shown per 150 games in the projection ballot too. This will make changing playing time projections much easier as you’ll only have to change the games played portion.
That’s really all there is to it. You can filter players by team, or if you go to the player pages, you can project players individually. If you want to see all the players you’ve projected, you can click on the “My Rankings” button which will show you only what you specifically projected a player to do.
Fan Projections will show up on the player pages after there have been 5 ballots submitted.
If you do notice any issues, please let us know.
David Appelman is the creator of FanGraphs.
This is my first time doing this ballot, so I apologize if this had been previously established, but it seems like the teams the players are sorted by is based on where they played in 2014. For example, Jimmy Rollins and Marlon Byrd are both still Phillies, and the Dodgers still have Dee Gordon, Shawn Kemp, etc. Is this usual?
Yeah, and the Sonics still have Gary Payton, so…
Yes, players are listed by the team they played on the previous year, but you can always just go to a player page and click on that player’s FAN Projection link if you’re looking for someone specific and can’t find where he is.
Thank you!