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Post ID	Date & Time	Game Date	Function

#30131	02/04/2016 4:56:21 am
Slug5373 Joined: 12/23/2014 Posts: 376 Inactive	I was thinking, kind of like we have team rankings, could we have a farm system ranking? It would be interesting to see how your farm rates along side everyone else's. I don't know how feasible this is, but there are numerous data that could be used to make these rankings, including average prospect rating, number of players in the system, count of 15 POT players, 14 POT, 13, etc. Anyway, what do y'all think?

#30148	02/04/2016 1:39:55 pm
Jason2327 Joined: 09/02/2014 Posts: 719 Abilene Patriots III.2	+1

#30206	02/05/2016 7:57:48 am
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Well POT is pretty much a useless number for comparison; I like the idea in general, but I don't see how it would be possible to put together anything meaningful. You could easily have a lot of high POT players in your minors and still have one of the worst farm systems.

#30286	02/06/2016 9:52:01 am
jonny6 Joined: 10/12/2013 Posts: 48 Inactive	I think you could really just calculate it based off of the prospect rankings. I would suggest something like; total rating / 20 using the assumption that an average team would have 30 major league players and 20 minor leaguers (so pretty much an average rating). Then teams with more than 20 players will get a bit of a bonus for having a deeper minor league system and teams with less than 20 minor leaguers would have there minor league rating lower because there system isn't as deep.

#30298	02/06/2016 2:12:11 pm
Rock777 Joined: 09/21/2014 Posts: 9600 Haverhill Halflings III.1	Why divide by 20? Just taking the average would probably make more sense. But either way this would be a VERY irrelevant number.