Machines Become Self Aware And Spit Out A Top Prospect List

Absolutely no thought has been put into this list, other than telling the machine to spit out a number for me. Considering that I've been tuning this for a while, I'm quite happy to spit out the TOP 50 Prospects as seen by the machine.

The machine measures how much other people love prospects, so it's been favouring 2009 Draft Picks, it seems.

PLAYER_NAME ORDERING_NUMBER
Jason Heyward 41
Jesus Montero 38
Neftali Feliz 38
Carlos Santana 36
Logan Morrison 35
Kyle Drabek 35
Stephen Strasburg 33
Desmond Jennings 33
Buster Posey 32
Dustin Ackley 32
Jeremy Hellickson 31
Starlin Castro 29
Michael Taylor 28
Chris Carter 27
Brett Jackson 27
Jarrod Parker 26
Austin Jackson 25
Josh Vitters 25
Ryan Kalish 25
Wilmer Flores 25
Jenrry Mejia 25
Tyler Flowers 24
Lars Anderson 23
Lonnie Chisenhall 23
Todd Frazier 23
Drew Storen 23
Mike Minor 23
Matt Dominguez 22
Slade Heathcott 22
Zach Britton 22
Madison Bumgarner 22
Julio Teheran 21
Mike Trout 21
Juan Francisco 21
Josh Reddick 21
Jared Mitchell 21
Derek Norris 20
Michael Main 20
Michael Stanton 20
GUH! Didn't Expect That One! Maybe it was a Mike/Micheal/Michael Thing
Dan Hudson 20
Grant Green 20
Tyler Matzek 20
Freddie Freeman 20
Alex White 19
Michael Brantley 19
Andrew Brackman 19
Aroldis Chapman 18
Tony Sanchez 18
Ike Davis 18
Kyle Gibson 18
Mike Montgomery 18
Wilson Ramos 18
Mike Leake 18

Other notables, Chad James, Grant Desme (hehe), Jose Tabata, Zack Wheeler all had 16 or 17.
Jacob Turner and Shelby Miller came out as 14s.

Good work!

Taking a quick glimpse, I can see it did a decent job!

Not all that absurd when you consider the machine never saw the players play in person....

19braves77 said:

Not all that absurd when you consider the machine never saw the players play in person....

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I had to tell the machine to completely ignore Chris Johnson and Brandon Jacobs because it refuses to listen when you tell it to ignore anything with "football" anywhere important on the page. It definitely has some of it's flaws which I'm sure have more to do with the formatting of webpages than itself.

As long as you don't tell it to try and differentiate between a football and baseball player with the same name, it's very happy.

what data did you use to compile this?

I have tried to do a similar project that ended up getting tabled for lack of man power.

cgilmo said:

what data did you use to compile this?

I have tried to do a similar project that ended up getting tabled for lack of man power.

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I ended up building a few databases and a robot and going from there.

pigskincardboard said:

telling the machine to spit out a number for me.
...as seen by the machine.
The machine measures how much other people love prospects...

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Albert Pujols made a top prospects list?

[youtube:j6m3mdsp]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wY_N2ewiCsQ[/youtube:j6m3mdsp]

pigskincardboard said:

cgilmo said:

what data did you use to compile this?

I have tried to do a similar project that ended up getting tabled for lack of man power.

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I ended up building a few databases and a robot and going from there.

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my project was to combine lists from respected evaluators and writers into a consensus opinion


hence... Prospectus Consensus

cgilmo said:

pigskincardboard said:

cgilmo said:

what data did you use to compile this?

I have tried to do a similar project that ended up getting tabled for lack of man power.

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I ended up building a few databases and a robot and going from there.

Click to expand...

my project was to combine lists from respected evaluators and writers into a consensus opinion


hence... Prospectus Consensus

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Yah, definitely a good call. I've got Sickels' information into a database, but that's about it right now. Baseball Prospectus is lagging behind and I was going to wait on Baseball America. There are a few others that're really intriguing.

I was going to use them as a constant, as previous versions appear to have a rather large statistical significance.

Once the big boys finish up with their top-200/300's, I'll definitely shoot you an SQL dump of the file.

If you have any recommendations for sites other than the ones that I listed, hit me up and I'll throw it in.

"My name is C3PO, human-cyborg relations.
I can create prospect lists in nearly 6 million forms of communication."

Austin said:

"My name is C3PO, human-cyborg relations.
I can create prospect lists in nearly 6 million forms of communication."

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thats one of those pictures that will crack me up any time i see it

Austin said:

"My name is C3PO, human-cyborg relations.
I can create prospect lists in nearly 6 million forms of communication."

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Is it sad that I know that Anthony Daniels played C3PO without even looking at that card?

3PO's very happy and excited to be on FCB.