2016 FAN Projections!
The 2016 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 2016, 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.
No David Price under RSox Pitchers? Or did I miss something?
Players are currently listed under the team they played for last season on the projections list. If you’re looking for a specific player you can always go to their player page and just make a single projection for them.
If I project a player’s games played as zero, and leave the rest blank, does that screw anything up? Or is that the proper method for projecting such a player?
You’ll need to fill out a complete projection. If you just fill out playing time it won’t count.
Just project the rest as if he got a full season. If it’s someone who won’t get any play time the stats will probably be really low anyways.
When will the averaged projections be posted? I find it hard to believe that after the projection functionality has been enabled for three days and has been prominently announced for one day, that not a single player has five projections yet.
Is there any vetting of reasonableness at all or if someone puts in a negative 5 WAR season for Trout does that get the same weighting regardless?
Hey Dan, When the season starts will there be a way for me to go back and review the projections I have input?
Sorry I mean David