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The Metropolis Avengers are your 2001 BRASSball Minor League Organization of the Year! Congratulations to Andy Wiesner on amassing a stunning assortment of promising young talent and also for becoming the first repeat winner of the award!

I started by compiling the raw number of Total Prospects Points for all of the prospects each BRASSball team had in it's organization. That chart is listed below, as well as a column of interest that depicts the team's total as a percentage of the total number of prospect points available on all rosters. In other words, this shows that portion of the entire BRASSball League worth of promising minor league talent that was in this team's organization.

This column is the meat and potatoes of my final rankings. I use it because I think it is a better measure than just overall BRASSball rank in this category. As an example, look at the difference between the Minnesota and Wauwatosa franchises at #8 and #9. It's extremely small at a .02% margin. But the difference between the Metropolis and Fleetwood franchises at #1 and #2 is much more pronounced and therefore much more significant when making comparisons. The margin here is 4.76%. Anyway, here are the rankings in this category, which probably best depicts the overall "quality" of the organization's minor league prospects. Metropolis was on top of the heap with over 7,000 prospect points, or nearly 14 percent of the total all by themselves. They eclipsed the rest of the field by a very wide margin.

		TotalProspect Points	Percentage Of Total
1	Metropolis	7163	13.72%
2	Bloomington	4676.99	8.96%
3	Fleetwood	3638.01	6.97%
4	Santa Barbara	3401.33	6.52%
5	Plaza	2633.32	5.04%
6	Ocala	2327.99	4.46%
7	Toledo	2323.67	4.45%
8	Minnesota	2235.34	4.28%
9	Wauwatosa	2222.66	4.26%
10	Cook County	2135.67	4.09%
11	North Georgia	2063.66	3.95%
12	St. Croix	2059	3.94%
13	Box City	2001.66	3.83%
14	Iowa	1949.66	3.73%
15	Brooklyn	1576.67	3.02%
16	Glen Allen	1442.67	2.76%
17	Columbus	1389.67	2.66%
18	Racine	1327.33	2.54%
19	Morris	1206.67	2.31%
20	Gem City	1127.34	2.16%
21	Georgia	1097.66	2.10%
22	Hessville	947.33	1.81%
23	Long Island	793	1.52%
24	Stanley	466.67	0.89%

I also compiled rankings for the overall "quanity" of prospects that made the Top 185 list, regardless of position on the lists. That Chart is listed below, as well as the Pct. of the Total prospects on the lists for each franchise as well. Metropolis topped this list as well, again by a wide margin with an incredible 18 prospects.

			Pct. Of
		Prospects	Total
1	Metropolis	18	9.73%
2	Santa Barbara	12	6.49%
3	Toledo	10	5.41%
4	Bloomington	9	4.86%
	Cook County	9	4.86%
	Georgia	9	4.86%
7	Brooklyn	8	4.32%
	Fleetwood	8	4.32%
	Long Island	8	4.32%
	Plaza	8	4.32%
	St. Croix	8	4.32%
	Wauwatosa	8	4.32%
13	Box City	7	3.78%
	Columbus	7	3.78%
	Iowa	7	3.78%
	Ocala	7	3.78%
	Racine	7	3.78%
18	North Georgia	6	3.24%
19	Gem City	5	2.70%
	Glen Allen	5	2.70%
	Hessville	5	2.70%
	Minnesota	5	2.70%
	Morris	5	2.70%
24	Stanley	4	2.16%

Next, I melded these two measures together to assess the "average quality" of each prospect that made the Top 185 list, irrespective of how many players a franchise had on the list. I did this as a way of acknowledging the success of those teams who don't have a high number of prospects, but have high quality prospects. Bloomington paced the group in this category, on the strength of the very high overall quality of the 9 prospects they own.

		Avg.
		Prospect	Pct. Of
		Points	Total
1	Bloomington	519.67	7.94%
2	Fleetwood	454.75	6.95%
3	Minnesota	447.07	6.83%
4	Metropolis	397.94	6.08%
5	North Georgia	343.94	5.25%
6	Ocala	332.57	5.08%
7	Plaza	329.17	5.03%
8	Glen Allen	288.53	4.41%
9	Box City	285.95	4.37%
10	Santa Barbara	283.44	4.33%
11	Iowa	278.52	4.26%
12	Wauwatosa	277.83	4.24%
13	St. Croix	257.38	3.93%
14	Morris	241.33	3.69%
15	Cook County	237.30	3.63%
16	Toledo	232.37	3.55%
17	Gem City	225.47	3.44%
18	Columbus	198.52	3.03%
19	Brooklyn	197.08	3.01%
20	Racine	189.62	2.90%
21	Hessville	189.47	2.89%
22	Georgia	121.96	1.86%
23	Stanley	116.67	1.78%
24	Long Island	99.13	1.51%

And finally, we have the Overall Ranking Chart that adds up the combined total of all the Pct. of the Total numbers from each of three evaluative charts for all of the BRASSball franchises. We see the shining star of all the BRASSball Minor League organizations at the top of the heap, with a bunch of other fine organizations appearing up there towards the top, but none in the rarified Metropolos air. Congratulations to the Avengers and heaven help the rest of us when these youngsters mature!

		Pct.	Pct.	Pct.	Overall
		Chart 1	Chart 2	Chart 3	Ranking
1	Metropolis	13.72%	9.73%	6.08%	29.53%
2	Bloomington	8.96%	4.86%	7.94%	21.76%
3	Fleetwood	6.97%	4.32%	6.95%	18.24%
4	Santa Barbara	6.52%	6.49%	4.33%	17.33%
5	Plaza	5.04%	4.32%	5.03%	14.40%
6	Minnesota	4.28%	2.70%	6.83%	13.81%
7	Toledo	4.45%	5.41%	3.55%	13.41%
8	Ocala	4.46%	3.78%	5.08%	13.32%
9	Wauwatosa	4.26%	4.32%	4.24%	12.83%
10	Cook County	4.09%	4.86%	3.63%	12.58%
11	North Georgia	3.95%	3.24%	5.25%	12.45%
12	St. Croix	3.94%	4.32%	3.93%	12.20%
13	Box City	3.83%	3.78%	4.37%	11.99%
14	Iowa	3.73%	3.78%	4.26%	11.77%
15	Brooklyn	3.02%	4.32%	3.01%	10.36%
16	Glen Allen	2.76%	2.70%	4.41%	9.87%
17	Columbus	2.66%	3.78%	3.03%	9.48%
18	Racine	2.54%	3.78%	2.90%	9.22%
19	Georgia	2.10%	4.86%	1.86%	8.83%
20	Morris	2.31%	2.70%	3.69%	8.70%
21	Gem City	2.16%	2.70%	3.44%	8.31%
22	Hessville	1.81%	2.70%	2.89%	7.41%
23	Long Island	1.52%	4.32%	1.51%	7.36%
24	Stanley	0.89%	2.16%	1.78%	4.84%

BRASSball’s 2001 Minor League Organization of the Year