Weekly Rankings Update: Revamped TPOY

by Curtis Brodzina (DillingerFour) Last Updated 2014-03-03 04:24:23

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Hello Daily Fantasy Sports fans! Welcome to this week’s edition of the Weekly Rankings Update. The biggest news of the week over here in Rankings Land is the revamped RotoGrinders Tournament Player of the Year. Due to the tremendous growth of the industry over the last year, the staff felt there needed to be some changes to the qualifications. Here are the new requirements:

50 Best Scores Count towards the TPOY Total – up from 30 in 2013
Minimum Prize Pool of $25,000 – up from $10,000 in 2013
Minimum of 25 Entrants

These new requirements should make for a much more exciting race coming down the stretch. And considering the massive prize pools we saw last year, and how they effected the final standings, we should see much of the same this year.

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

Rank	Player	Points	Rank Last	Change	Points Last	Change
1	condia	796879.31	1	0	773348.00	23531.31
2	ehafner	332036.88	2	0	319042.81	12994.07
3	BirdWings	282909.16	3	0	273408.22	9500.94
4	dinkpiece	200336.96	5	1	191859.46	8477.50
5	Notorious	197096.55	4	-1	192504.93	4591.62
6	csuram88	185189.40	6	0	178882.24	6307.16
7	PrimeTime420	177803.12	7	0	176887.87	915.25
8	stlcardinals84	173794.87	8	0	171725.16	2069.71
9	killab2482	158477.19	9	0	158271.46	205.73
10	maxdalury	147215.99	10	0	148082.86	-866.87
11	metsfan828	145107.70	11	0	144697.57	410.13
12	MrTuttle05	141267.08	12	0	139770.72	1496.36
13	Troll4MVP	133802.44	14	1	122268.86	11533.58
14	mbomb44	123458.47	13	-1	127477.37	-4018.90
15	alsmizzle	113149.97	15	0	112638.88	511.09
16	kaetorade	90010.32	16	0	88779.77	1230.55
17	bripc23	86291.47	17	0	86658.29	-366.82
18	headChopper	81321.60	19	1	78106.86	3214.74
19	tfbelongia	80482.45	18	-1	79033.93	1448.52
20	msidla	77975.05	21	1	76948.29	1026.76
21	dips56	76991.07	20	-1	77482.53	-491.46
22	draftcheat	76505.72	23	1	72380.21	4125.51
23	Socrdave	75818.35	22	-1	73416.62	2401.73
24	dean78904	72374.75	24	0	71156.98	1217.77
25	jlowery73	69844.09	25	0	69964.15	-120.06

Check out the full RotoGrinders Rankings Leaderboard here

Movement in the Top-25 This Week

#4 – dinkpiece – Moves Up 1 Spots From #5
#13 – Troll4MVP – Moves Up 1 Spots From #14
#18 – headChopper – Moves Up 1 Spots From #19
#20 – msidla – Moves Up 1 Spots From #21
#22 – draftcheat – Moves Up 1 Spots From #23

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

New Players to the Leaderboard

#100 – GoodMR – New to Grinders Leaderboard

Movers in the Top-100

#78 – TeamSleep – Moves Up 10 Spots From #88
#89 – waiverwire – Moves Up 10 Spots From #99
#57 – Tslats – Moves Up 9 Spots From #66
#84 – tmhsport – Moves Up 7 Spots From #91
#34 – kcchiefsfan73 – Moves Up 4 Spots From #38
#52 – Rotomania – Moves Up 4 Spots From #56
#79 – radthad954 – Moves Up 4 Spots From #83
#26 – McJester – Moves Up 3 Spots From #29
#50 – PapaCub – Moves Up 3 Spots From #53
#73 – Varncass – Moves Up 3 Spots From #76
#30 – TwoGun – Moves Up 2 Spots From #32
#53 – frogman – Moves Up 2 Spots From #55
#67 – maximumprofit – Moves Up 2 Spots From #69
#76 – flight63 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #78
#94 – badtouch – Moves Up 2 Spots From #96
#96 – mblaylock10 – Moves Up 2 Spots From #98
#38 – crackmonkey83 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #39
#42 – leonem – Moves Up 1 Spots From #43
#45 – monds6 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #46
#51 – tshirt – Moves Up 1 Spots From #52
#86 – thedude404 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #87
#91 – joshjacks8 – Moves Up 1 Spots From #92

Tournament Player of the Year Leaderboard

Rank	Player	Points	TPOY Cashes
1	McJester	9092.46	50
2	PrimeTime420	6172.72	50
3	drolson22	6117.08	44
4	stlcardinals84	6113.47	50
5	naapstermaan	5446.1	50
6	RussARMNY	4960.7	29
7	Troll4MVP	4907.95	45
8	headChopper	4881.29	33
9	draftcheat	4737.66	50
10	ffganzinator	4691.93	25
11	ronnymor2	4479.43	48
12	CPF501	4394.1	31
13	msidla	3958.65	36
14	joeyengland98	3892.26	33
15	alsmizzle	3630.75	37
16	CaptainKirk12	3584.89	37
17	AceKing719	3445.35	30
18	kypark01	3318.39	45
19	Bobby99	3317.21	40
20	vengven	3226.61	47
21	kcchiefsfan73	2935.94	30
22	williamsz93	2873	30
23	hondizzle	2714.08	25
24	bluemonster12	2705.47	34
25	maxdalury	2683.93	16

Check out the full RotoGrinders TPOY Leaderboard here

The biggest change we see in the new TPOY standings is that the Slam Dominator™ McJester moves to the top of our initial leader board. Behind him we have PrimeTime420 (Woooooooooooo), drolson22 and STLCardinals84 in a tight race for second place. All of these players except drolson22 have maxed their 50 qualifying scores, and our looking to improve upon their current standings. Probably the player most affected by the new changes rankings-wise is our good friend MSidla. The changes have dropped him down to 13th place, but he has only used 36 of his qualifying entries. I’m still predicting that Sidla will be near the top by the end of the year. As we saw last year, the massive NFL prize pools can change anything. Look for people to keep movin’ on up as the year progresses.

NBA 2014 Leaderboard

Rank	Player	Points
1	condia	435956.82
2	Troll4MVP	131383.82
3	dinkpiece	103112.22
4	ehafner	98241.46
5	BirdWings	85290.05
6	csuram88	66918.67
7	Notorious	61328.59
8	PrimeTime420	57715.21
9	alsmizzle	52778.43
10	kaetorade	50248.79
11	metsfan828	47621.16
12	draftcheat	44815.31
13	stlcardinals84	44164.98
14	Socrdave	41459.04
15	msidla	38414.18
16	a25smith	29801.65
17	1ucror	29784.64
18	leonem	28290.52
19	emge	27063.52
20	PapaCub	27003.68
21	bringemvaught	25807.52
22	crackmonkey83	25796.01
23	MrTuttle05	25370.91
24	hoop2410	24453.12
25	dean78904	23662.05

Check out the full RotoGrinders NBA Rankings Leaderboard here

Very little movement this week in the overall NBA leader board. The Top 25 is settling in for the stretch run to bring home this title.

NHL 2014 Leaderboard

Rank	Player	Points
1	Lowkey	22396.16
2	ehafner	19984.07
3	boggslite	9075.47
4	Kcannon	8776.89
5	kcchiefsfan73	8464.7
6	Mtom347	7888.94
7	Andrew11432	7479.71
8	Tslats	7292.76
9	primepeat	7041.22
10	Yannick8	6525.3
11	billsfan777	6482.54
12	TeamSleep	5794.14
13	whits23	5752.67
14	Hester8157	5705.9
15	tmhsport	4024.07
16	alsmizzle	3843.07
17	JaWalrusRuffles	3826.89
18	fishkillers	3806.08
19	GoodMR	3673.49
20	holmfries	3629.96
21	AllSport312	3013.8
22	First	2933.62
23	GoBlue04	2926.52
24	nhlwld	2858.23
25	boomstickk	2823.89

Check out the full RotoGrinders NHL Rankings Leaderboard here

No movement in the NHL last week as the players were on the Olympic break. Will be interesting to see how the Rankings shift next week after the biggest NHL night of the year in DFS last night. Until next week, Alison Brie:

February Leaderboard

Rank	Player	Points
1	condia	84882.74
2	Troll4MVP	36074.3
3	ehafner	29483.58
4	BirdWings	24919.94
5	csuram88	21221.27
6	dinkpiece	21137.13
7	stlcardinals84	18076.56
8	PrimeTime420	14683.69
9	TwoGun	11619.99
10	draftcheat	11439.39
11	kcchiefsfan73	11385.88
12	Notorious	10439.85
13	Kcannon	10051.19
14	alsmizzle	9844.51
15	msidla	8818.58
16	headChopper	7623.47
17	Tslats	7378.88
18	Socrdave	6686.92
19	hoop2410	6553.49
20	crackmonkey83	6480.01
21	ffganzinator	6295.62
22	a25smith	6133.45
23	McJester	5977.32
24	bringemvaught	5920.81
25	Varncass	5829.77

Check out the full RotoGrinders Monthly Leaderboard here

It’s the end of February, and soon we will be hitting Springtime and baseball. But until then, Condia has wrapped up our February Leaderboard with TrollForMVP in 2nd place. I can hear the smacking of rawhide on leather, the crack of the wooden bats. It’s almost March folks! SPRRRRRRRRRRING TRAINING!!!

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, NBA, February and TPOY Leaderboards are listed here, in order of average rank.

Player	Overall	Monthly	Seasonal	TPOY	Average
Troll4MVP	13	2	2	7	6
PrimeTime420	7	8	8	2	6.25
stlcardinals84	8	7	13	4	8
condia	1	1	1	30	8.25
ehafner	2	3	4	37	11.5
alsmizzle	15	14	9	15	13.25
draftcheat	22	10	12	9	13.25
dinkpiece	4	6	3	47	15
msidla	20	15	15	13	15.75
csuram88	6	5	6	48	16.25
McJester	26	23	27	1	19.25
headChopper	18	16	45	8	21.75
maxdalury	10	30	26	25	22.75
kcchiefsfan73	34	11	28	21	23.5
TwoGun	30	9	31	33	25.75
MrTuttle05	12	32	23	61	32
a25smith	31	22	16	59	32
naapstermaan	33	37	59	5	33.5
emge	56	41	19	42	39.5
Tslats	57	17	54	34	40.5
crackmonkey83	38	20	22	86	41.5
jlowery73	25	56	35	80	49
Campbell00021	70	71	34	69	61

Congratulations to the players that have excelled in all facets of our leader boards. They’re almost as badass as Jean-Claude Van Damme killing a snake with one punch.