Breaking Down the Mid-Season Top 50 Lists

Thanks to "birob" making the suggestion on the July 15 Gameday Thread, I decided to take on this mini-project of putting all these mini-lists together from the four major sources (Law, BA, Sickels, Fangraphs) and create a combined list, averaging each rank and compiling them into one large "2012 Mid-Season Top 50 List" from all sources. Of course, there are a few difficulties along the way in creating such a list. John Sickels ranked guys like Rizzo, Simmons, Bauer, Grandal and Pomeranz, who were excluded from the other lists due to them being in the majors. Instead of just eliminating these players, I also bumped up the likes of 5 players from 51-55 on John's list to make up for it (because he had a full 120). Keith Law included 2012 Draftees (Correa, Buxton, Fried, Zunino, Almora), in which no other source did. At this point I had no other names to add to the list (he had a straight top 50) so I instead bumped up his players to #1-45. Due to these restrictions, all 10 of those players were excluded from the "official" list because only one of the four sources had them eligible. Otherwise, the fun part ensues. There were 60 "eligible" player ranked, and they are below with the average of the four sources. On the bottom you can find the link to the public sheet with Best/Worst, Std Dev, and the raw data.

For any unranked prospect, I had a "rank" of 60 for the lists they did not make.

Rank	Player	Position	Team	Average
1	Jurickson Profar	SS	TEX	1.25
2	Dylan Bundy	SP	BAL	2
3	Wil Myers	OF	KC	3
4	Taijuan Walker	SP	SEA	5
5	Manny Machado	SS	BAL	7
6	Gerrit Cole	SP	PIT	7
7	Jameson Taillon	SP	PIT	9.75
8	Zack Wheeler	SP	NYM	10
9	Danny Hultzen	SP	SEA	10
10	Tyler Skaggs	SP	ARI	11
11	Travis d'Arnaud	C	TOR	11.75
12	Oscar Taveras	OF	STL	13
13	Nick Castellanos	3B/OF	DET	14
14	Francisco Lindor	SS	CLE	16.5
15	Archie Bradley	SP	ARI	18.75
16	Christian Yelich	OF	MIA	19.25
17	Julio Teheran	SP	ATL	19.25
18	Miguel Sano	3B	MIN	21
19	Carlos Martinez	SP	STL	21
20	Xander Bogaerts	SS	BOS	21.25
21	Shelby Miller	SP	STL	21.75
22	Jose Fernandez	SP	MIA	23.5
23	Billy Hamilton	2B/SS	CIN	25.5
24	Jonathan Singleton	1B	HOU	27.5
25	Mason Williams	OF	NYY	27.75
26	Matt Harvey	SP	NYM	27.75
27	Gary Sanchez	C	NYY	27.75
28	Jake Odorizzi	SP	KC	28.25
29	Mike Olt	3B	TEX	29.25
30	Nolan Arenado	3B	COL	29.5
31	Bubba Starling	OF	KC	32.75
32	Javier Baez	SS	CHC	33
33	Jacob Turner	SP	DET	34.5
34	Matt Barnes	SP	BOS	35.75
35	Nick Franklin	SS	SEA	36.5
36	Jackie Bradley	OF	BOS	36.5
37	Zach Lee	SP	LAD	39
38	Aaron Sanchez	SP	TOR	41.25
39	Matt Davidson	3B	ARI	41.25
40	Jake Marisnick	OF	TOR	41.5
41	Hak-Ju Lee	SS	TB	42
42	Anthony Rendon	3B	WAS	43
43	Rymer Liriano	OF	SD	44.5
44	Anthony Gose	OF	TOR	44.75
45	Alen Hanson	2B/SS	PIT	46
46	Eddie Rosario	2B	MIN	46.25
47	Tyler Austin	OF	NYY	46.25
48	Kolten Wong	2B	STL	47
49	Jedd Gyorko	2B/3B	SD	51.25
50	James Paxton	SP	SEA	52
51	George Springer	OF	HOU	53.25
52	Noah Syndergaard	SP	TOR	53.75
53	Starling Marte	OF	PIT	54
54	Jesse Biddle	SP	PHI	54
55	Tyler Thornburg	SP	MIL	54.25
56	Justin Nicolino	SP	TOR	55
57	Cody Buckel	SP	TEX	55.25
58	Jean Segura	2B/SS	LAA	55.75
59	Taylor Guerrieri	SP	TB	55.75
60	Jorge Soler	OF	CHC	56.25
60	Brett Jackson	OF	CHC	57.5