Welcome, once again, to The Dynasty Guru’s pièce de resistance: our Top 500 Dynasty Ranks for OBP leagues! Per our usual style, the T500 OBP List is the work of multiple rankers. I teamed up again this year with my usual partner in crime, Drew Klein, and then we dragged a new accomplice down into our ranking muck, Joe Juliette. Our collaborative approach to ranking is one of the hallmarks of the TDG process. It only makes sense that we apply that method to produce our largest ranking list of the season.

Our list was assembled with 15 team OBP roto leagues with weekly rosters and single catcher set-ups. We may be ranking degenerates, but we’re far from 2-Catcher fantasy psychopaths. On the pitching side, Save+Holds (SVH) is our relief pitching category of choice, with Quality Starts our category for the starters. There are many category-based league set ups, so the list should still be broadly applicable to many variations, even if your league is not an exact match to our setups.

After our league definitions were set, all three of us ranked players based on our individual estimates of fantasy impact over the next 3 years. This is where our consensus ranking really shines. By averaging out our individual ranks, it allows for the elimination of one rankers personal biases. We’re not run solely by algorithms like your favorite social media threads. The three of us then reviewed the entire list and discussed the merits of shoving or fading specific players as necessary.

After a few rounds of this in early February, we shared the resulting 636 names with our donors and Discord members. Of course, they get first dibs! Now that the season is upon us, we’re sharing the work with you.

We hope you enjoy the list and please let us know your thoughts! You can reach me, Chris, on X or BlueSky @notnotcknock. Both Drew (@drewgotigers) and Joe (@joejuliette) can be found on BlueSky. Thanks for reading!