One of the keys to using the Standings Gain Points method to valuing fantasy baseball players is having historic league standings from which to calculate your SGP factors.
I’ve learned that locating historic standings in Yahoo! can be difficult if you don’t use the option to continue your league and roll it forward from year-to-year.
If you do roll your leagues forward, you can easily access past years from the “Season” drop down menu on the league home page.
If you don’t see this option or want to access the standings from past seasons, check out these instructions below:
How To Access Old Yahoo League Standings
| Step | Procedures |
|---|---|
| 1. | Visit the league page for any current year Yahoo league. |
| 2. | Click on the “My Team” link on the main header of your league page. |
| 3. | Once on your team page, you will see your team name in larger font. Right below this team name you will see a hyperlink, in smaller font, to your Yahoo! fantasy sports profile. Click this link (for example, see the “SFBB” link in the image below). |
| 4. | Your Yahoo! fantasy sports profile lists information about your past performances, has a trophy case, and lists out each fantasy sports league you’ve played at Yahoo. |
| 5. | It appears like Yahoo keeps your fantasy baseball league standings available indefinitely. I can get back to final standings from leagues as far back as the early 2000’s. |
| 6. | To access the standings for a specific league, click on the link for the league name. |
| 7. | You’ll then see the summarized league standings. To see the more detailed category totals and category standings, click on the “Full Standings” link in the header bar. |
| 8. | Wow, I had a good pitching staff that season. The team-by-team point totals are presented at the top of the page. And the accumulated team stat totals are at the bottom.
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| 9. | These are the figures you can enter into the “What It Takes To Win Your League” calculator to get a summarized look at the stats it has taken over time to win your specific league and to calculate SGP factors from. |
I’m Looking For Historic League Data
If you have used the “What It Takes To Win Your League” calculator and would be willing to provide me with the information, I’m looking to accumulate this data. I’m mostly interested in non-standard league sizes and/or leagues that use non-standard statistics like OBP, OPS, K/9, Holds, Quality Starts, etc.
If you have this information available and are interested in helping out, please use the “Contact Me” page of this site to get in touch with me.
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Is this only for Rotisserie leagues? My H2H league rolls over, but all I can seem to find is plain “Standings”, which is just W-L-T, which lacks stat data. You know where accumulated stat totals can be found for past seasons of H2H leagues? Thanks!
Hi Sean. You’re right. They do delete the underlying statistics data. I know they track it during the year and it is available during the season, but it appears that it is destroyed at the end of the season. Unfortunately, I don’t have a resource to provide me with this information either. If your league H2H categories are close to standard 5×5 categories, I think you can still use rotisserie standings as your baseline.
H2H does have the added curveball of teams not necessarily trying to compete in all the categories to win. A number of teams will try to focus on 7 out of 10, for example, and that is a legitimate strategy in the H2H format. I have not been able to figure out a way to account for that and include it in a ranking. For the H2H leagues I play in, I don’t even try to factor this in. I pursue a completely balanced team at the draft and if I determine in-season that punting a couple categories will be advantageous, I’ll adapt as the playoffs approach.
Thanks, I learned of SGP this offseason. My plan now it to record the team stats before they delete them at the end of the year. It won’t help me now, but at least I’ll have data for next season. My league uses 9 hitters, so I’m not sure standard league SGP values are accurate.
I would agree. You might get some misleading results with the smaller roster sizes.
I’ve always historically recorded final team stats (actually, do it monthly to track trending) to keep record of this data.
Another suggestion would be to use http://www.rotocalculator.com (if you use Yahoo as your platform), you can dig into your entire league’s performance back to 2010 (including weekly data). It’s got some nice analysis that you can use to trend league performance.
Thanks, Another Sean. That site looks extremely interesting. Thanks for passing it along. I’m having trouble getting my Yahoo account to authorize the site, it’s just loading a blank page, but I am very intrigued. Looks like it could be a great resource.