Weekly Rankings Update:

by Curtis Brodzina (DillingerFour) Last Updated 2014-02-23 00:48:58

Hello Daily Fantasy Sports fans! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Weekly Rankings Update. I gotta say, now that I’m doing this column, along with the Rise and Grind, it takes a lot of brain power free time to come up with all of the material for these two articles. Today I imported all my information into Ethan’s awesome spreadsheet that creates this template, and I sat here, staring at the screen, mind totally blank. I couldn’t think of a single thing to write about. Just writing about the players would be lame and boring, there has to be an overwhelming theme to tie the article together. So over I went to GrindersLive chat for a suggestion. Someone mentioned women’s hockey, but I’m too angry at the US Women’s Team for blowing that game right now. As my friend Mike always says, “just like every American woman I’ve ever met, they disappoint”. Thankfully Tomac was in chat, and he’s infinitely smarter than the rest of us idiots, because he suggested the greatest NBA trade deadline moves. So simple and smart, since today is said trade deadline! So thanks Tomac for the suggestion. On to the Rankings!

Rankings Breakdown this Week

• Part One: Top-25 Overall
• Part Two: Movement in the Top 100
• Part Three: TPOY Leaderboard
• Part Four: Seasonal Leaderboard
• Part Five: Monthly Leaderboard
• Part Six: Aggregate Leaderboard

Curious about how the rankings are calculated? Check out our Rankings FAQ Page

TOP 25 GRINDERS LEADERBOARD OVERALL

Check out the full RotoGrinders Rankings Leaderboard here

Movement in the Top-25 This Week

• #23 – draftcheat – Moves Up 4 Spots From #27 p.

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Rankings #26-100: New Players and Players Moving Up

New and Returning Players to the Leaderboard

• #98 – mblaylock10 – New to Grinders Leaderboard
• #99 – waiverwire – Returning to Grinders Leaderboard

Movers in the Top-100

• #85 – PatJZ80 – Moves Up 5 Spots From #90
• #33 – naapstermaan – Moves Up 3 Spots From #36
• #41 – Kcannon – Moves Up 3 Spots From #44
• #53 – PapaCub – Moves Up 3 Spots From #56
• #83 – radthad954 – Moves Up 3 Spots From #86
• #88 – TeamSleep – Moves Up 3 Spots From #91
• #94 – bubblegumga – Moves Up 3 Spots From #97
• #65 – Keith3101 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #67
• #68 – bluemonster12 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #70
• #76 – Varncass – Moves Up 2 Spots From #78
• #80 – Ryan138 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #82
• #87 – thedude404 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #89
• #91 – tmhsport – Moves Up 2 Spots From #93
• #39 – crackmonkey83 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #40
• #44 – whits23 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #45
• #50 – ERIII – Moves Up 1 Spots From #51
• #51 – emge – Moves Up 1 Spots From #52
• #61 – absolutbronx – Moves Up 1 Spots From #62
• #63 – shanksalot – Moves Up 1 Spots From #64
• #67 – qtran916 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #68
• #70 – Campbell00021 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #71
• #73 – tthousand66 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #74
• #79 – relater – Moves Up 1 Spots From #80
• #82 – Cal – Moves Up 1 Spots From #83
• #84 – Mike5754 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #85

Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard

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Lots of activity in the TPOY this week. The TPOY is off to such a tremendous start this year with all of the huge GPPs being offered on an almost daily basis. Last year halfway through the year many people in the top 25 had not hit their quota of 30 qualifying entries. This year we are only into February and only 3 people in the Top 50 have not hit their max of 30. How this will affect the TPOY for the whole year we will have to see.

MSidla still sits at the top of the TPOY by the narrow margin of 5 points over Condia. Both of them qualified for a respective final this week, which will add to their totals. There’s so much movement in the TPOY that it’s hard to follow.

In a trade deadline move that sent more people all over than this week’s TPOY shake-up, in 2004 the Pistons acquired Rasheed Wallace from the Atlanta Hawks (did anyone remember he actually played for the Hawks? That’s because he only played one game there.) in a three team deal also involving the Celtics, that had so many guys in the deal it would require it’s own column. The Pistons went on to win the Championship and the deal actually helped the other two teams involved as well. Maybe the most successful for every team deal in the history of the trade deadline.

NBA 2014 Leaderboard

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Not much movement in the NBA leaderboard this week other than crackmonkey83 moving up 3 spots to 21. Condia still leading. There was a move that resembled this week’s NBA standings in 1980, by not looking like much at the time, but leading to big things down the road. The Pacers traded Alex English to the Nuggets for George McGinnis and a first round draft pick. McGinnis went on to a lackluster final two years in the league, while English blossomed into a hall of fame career. He could dunk too.

NHL 2014 Leaderboard

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NHL is off this week. So Alison Brie.

That probably makes some of you never want hockey to come back.

February Leaderboard

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STLCardinals84 makes a leap up four spots to #4. Very little other movement for the month.

The literally “biggest” February deadline trade of all time from a size standpoint could possibly be the 76ers in 2001. The Sixers traded away Theo Ratliff, Matt Geiger, Tyrone Hill and an aging Tony Kukoc for Dikembe Mutombo of the Atlanta Hawks. The Sixers were already rolling that season, and used Deke to head to the finals, where they would lose to a loaded Lakers team. NOT IN MY HOUSE!!!

Aggregate Leaderboard

Shown below are all players who are currently ranked on every leaderboard we have. The following players are in the Top-100 of the Overall, NFL, January and TPOY Leaderboards are listed here, in order of average rank.

Congrats to those Grinders who are in the Top 100 of all our leader boards.
Hockey returns next week! Thank goodness! See you all then!