What makes certain players 'good' in fantasy?

The only example I can really think of right now is Shane Battier. He is always ranked in the top 100 in players basically every year, but he is not that great of a statistical player? What makes him a good fantasy player? Also, anyone else that falls in this category you can mention.

Efficiency I guess. Plus he seems to do a lot of the little things.

i agree w/null. or players that contribute in the hard to get categories. or even players that are suckas/cancers in real life but produce decent #'s. or players that give odd production for their position

Chris Andersen
J.R Smith
Stephen Jackson
Ronnie Brewer
Corey Brewer
Okur
Frye
Zach Randolph

as far as football goes: there are guys who end up with like...30 total yards but tons of fantasy points for being goalline options...

Willis McGahee used to be like that, a goal line option. Not anymore. Fuck you McGahee!

Ben Wallace is Ben Wallace again. Giving out cats for blocks, steals, and rebounds. Plus he's getting less offensive touches as compared to his 'old' Pistons days so his less than stellar FG% and FT% isn't a problem on most games.

Willis McGahee used to be like that, a goal line option. Not anymore. Fuck you McGahee!

Ray Rice is deservedly stealing all his touches. There's really not guys in the league anymore though that used to just power it in from the 1 and that was the only time they ran (stephen davis, jerome bettis, Mike Alstott while good runners anyway were unstoppable in a goalline stance). Sorta disappointing the game is all speed and not alot of power nowadays.

RB's that steal goal line carries..Vulturing. Alstott indeed took a lot of the glory for the work Warrick Dunn did up until the goal line