It’s easy to look at the Top-300 Prospect list and get discombobulated with which organizations have how many prospects on the list, and where those prospects are on the list. Sure, it seems just visually like some systems have a lot more guys listed than others and some systems all have top prospects compared to others that may not have prospects show up for a while in the rankings. However, there’s an easier way to see exactly what’s going on than just looking and scrolling. Ta-Da! The Fantasy Alarm Organizational Rankings are here. Just like that it’s easy to see how each system compares based on just the Top-100 rankings, or Top-300 rankings as well as the difference between those ranks.
Why is it important to look at the organizations in each of those lights? Well, a lot of sites and publications focus on the Top-100 lists to show you who the best of the best prospects are in the game and so ranking systems based off that criteria gives you an idea as to who has the highest upside talent in their systems. However, there are downsides to simply focusing on the Top-100 aspect. With nearly 5,000 players in the minor leagues altogether, just focusing on the Top-100 negates the other 4,900 guys so looking deeper and ranking systems based off the Top-300 lists also gives you a better look at which organizations have the deeper systems. Finally, we compare them based on the difference between where they rank in the Top-100 ranks and Top-300 ranks with the biggest positive jump atop and the biggest faller at the bottom.
The rankings were factored based on the teams with the highest total points in each of the Top-100 and Top-300 lists. The points came from giving each prospect a point value starting with either 100 or 300 for the top prospect in each list and then going down by one point for each successive spot.
UPDATED: 3-9-20