BASE KEEP
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A Deep Dynasty baseball board aggregates hundreds of players - major leaguers, top prospects, and minor leaguers - the same way the football boards aggregate expert rankings. We audited every candidate source for this board in November 2026. Result: only 3 independently sourced deep dynasty boards are publicly and legally accessible. The minimum to publish is 5. The board is not yet live.
The 3 confirmed boards power the existing The Keep aggregate. They are genuinely deep (500-591 players each, including top prospects). What's missing is additional distinct expert boards that rank the full universe of dynasty players - veterans plus the minor-league pipeline - in a machine-readable format.
These three boards were fetched, verified, and are already powering The Keep's underlying data.
| Source | Player Count | Last Updated | Prospects Included | Terms / Robots | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RotoGraphs Dynasty Model | 500 players | August 14, 2026 | Yes - includes major leaguers and top minor league prospects | FanGraphs robots.txt: Allow all. Freely accessible. | INCLUDED |
| The Dynasty Guru (TDG) - Points | 500 players | August 10, 2026 | Yes - includes major leaguers and top prospects | robots.txt behind Cloudflare captcha; article is publicly linked and cited on the site. | INCLUDED |
| FantasyPros Dynasty ECR | 591 players | August 26, 2026 | Yes - includes top prospects (Jesus Made #46, Leo De Vries #51) | robots.txt: Allow all scrapers. | INCLUDED |
These sources were checked and excluded. The "How to Request" column lists the contact path for each site.
| Source | Est. Player Count | Last Updated | Prospects | Terms | Why Excluded | How to Request |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| KeepTradeCut Baseball | ~1,000+ dynasty values | Unknown | Yes | robots.txt: Allow all | EXCLUDED - baseball-rankings URL returns HTTP 404. KTC does not currently publish a baseball dynasty page at the known URL. | Email [email protected] to request permission and URL. |
| FanGraphs The Board | Full dynasty board | Ongoing | Yes - includes FV grades for prospects | robots.txt: Allow all | EXCLUDED - URL returns HTTP 404; Cloudflare blocks all automated fetches to fangraphs.com API endpoints. | Could use the FanGraphs live board if FG provides a data API or CSV export. |
| Baseball America Top 100 | ~100 prospects | August 5, 2026 | Prospects only - no MLB veterans | Paywalled; HTTP 403 for automated fetch | EXCLUDED - Paywalled. Not a full dynasty board (prospects only, not hundreds including veterans). | Purchase a Baseball America subscription and request API access. |
| RotoWire Dynasty Top 500 | ~500 players | 2026 season | Likely - title says 'Top 500 Prospects' | robots.txt: Allow general crawlers, LLMs policy present | EXCLUDED - Rankings are rendered client-side (JavaScript framework). Static HTML fetch returns 391 KB with no player names in the markup. Structured ranking data is not accessible without a headless browser. | Contact RotoWire at [email protected] to request a data feed. |
| MLB Pipeline Top 100 | ~100 prospects | Midseason 2026 | Prospects only - no MLB veterans | robots.txt: Disallows /api/; page is 1.5 MB of React bundle | EXCLUDED - Only top ~100 prospects (no veterans), player names in HTML but no structured ranking table accessible without JS rendering. | Official MLB data - contact mlb.com/official-information/contact to request API access. |
| Dynasty League Baseball (DLB) | Unknown - deep (platform for deep leagues) | Ongoing | Yes | robots.txt returns 404 (no file) | EXCLUDED - Site returns 149 bytes with no player data. Likely a login-gated platform. | Contact DLB directly to ask about public rankings or data export. |
| Razzball Dynasty Baseball | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | robots.txt returns empty | EXCLUDED - Automated fetch returns 0 bytes. Content appears to require JavaScript rendering or login. | Contact razzball.com for a data partnership. |
| Pitcher List Dynasty | Unknown | Unknown | Pitching-focused | Unknown - URL returns 0 bytes | EXCLUDED - Site returns 0 bytes for dynasty rankings URL. Not accessible. | Contact [email protected] to ask about data sharing. |
| Dynasty Nerds Baseball | Unknown | Unknown | Yes | Unknown | EXCLUDED - MLB dynasty rankings URL returns HTTP 404. | Contact dynastynerds.com to verify their MLB rankings URL. |
| RotoBaller Dynasty Baseball | Unknown | Unknown | Unknown | robots.txt: some paths allowed | EXCLUDED - Dynasty baseball URL returns HTTP 404. | Contact RotoBaller via their website. |
| Four-Seam Fantasy (Martin Sekulski) | 600+ (dynasty 600 list) | August 10, 2026 | Yes - includes prospects | Substack: no robots.txt restrictions | EXCLUDED - Content is accessible (121 KB) but structured ranking data is locked behind Substack's paywall/rendering. Numbers are not parsed from the article HTML. | Purchase a Four-Seam Fantasy subscription or request the author's permission to re-aggregate. |
| Baseball Prospectus PECOTA | Full MLB + prospects | Ongoing | Yes | HTTP 404 for prospect boards URL | EXCLUDED - Paywalled. URL returns 404. PECOTA projections require a BP subscription. | Purchase a Baseball Prospectus subscription or contact them for data licensing. |
The highest-value additions would be:
Once 5 or more of the above are confirmed accessible and attributed, this page will be replaced by the live board with player search and filters (position, MLB team, minors vs. majors, age). The board will display the true source count - not 40.