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Thursday, March 11, 2010

Some notes from my home draft


A couple of days ago I completed the snake draft for my shallow, small stakes home league. Its more of a friendly league than a super-competitive one but nevertheless I have a few friends who are not only good at fantasy sports but also highly motivated to take down their expert friend so its not easy by any measure.

Instead of boring you with analyzing my roster I thought I'd share a few quick thoughts that I had during or after the draft;

  • By the end of the draft I realized my team was overloaded with steals. This was the byproduct of drafting a somewhat balanced power/speed team early on and taking hitters in the later round that were primarily speedy players. With most of the players I'm targeting later in drafts steals guys (e.g. Alcides Escobar, Dexter Fowler, Brett Gardner) I'll have to make more of a conscious effort to draft power early on.

  • A lot of the relievers that had SP eligibility last year like Dan Meyer and Phil Hughes no longer have it (Yahoo league). Edward Mujica is the only reliever I found in the draft that had it and if anyone knows of any others feel free to share them.

  • A few players you never suspected of thinking you would have to consider drafting (because other people in the league will value them more and draft them sooner) will inevitably fall far in the draft. In this draft my friends refused to draft Wandy Rodriguez for one reason or another and even though I never pulled the trigger as he fell...and fell, being content with Brett Anderson and Jorge de la Rosa atop my rotation, when this situation happens you have to ask yourself when the price is too ridiculously low not to draft him. Either way, whether you draft the player of not, it is easy to get distracted by the player that is unnaturally sitting out there for the taking so try not to get distracted and let the aberration affect your picks.

That's all for now. Next week is the draft for the Yahoo Friends & Family league (finished 4th last year) after which I'll share my roster and thoughts on the draft.

Posted by Paul Singman at 9:56pm


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