How's My Draft Look? (MLB.com's 2008 Fantasy Game)

by stillredsoxfan on Mar 10, 2008 8:09 PM EDT

MLB.com is running a fantasy baseball game with a grand prize of $10,000 for the winner. It's a H2H points league with pitching staffs instead of single pitchers. You can enter up to 5 teams. Here's a link to the Official rules and scoring. The game also has options for private leagues and with or without trades. If you enable trades though you are not eligible for prizes.

I've never played in a H2H points league before or played in one that used pitching staffs. So I'm looking for any advice to keep in mind when drafting or any adjustments I might need to make to this particular team. I did my first draft today and here's the team I ended up with.

Round      Player
1     Prince Fielder (1B, MIL)
2     Troy Tulowitzki (SS, COL)
3     Carlos Lee (OF, HOU)
4     Brian McCann (C, ATL)
5     Chris Young (OF, ARI)
6     Boston Red Sox (P, BOS)
7     Jeff Francoeur (OF, ATL)
8     Delmon Young (OF, MIN) (Bench)
9     Aaron Hill (2B, TOR)
10     Milwaukee Brewers (P, MIL) (Bench)
11     Edwin Encarnacion (3B, CIN)
12     Placido Polanco (2B, DET) (Bench)
13     Evan Longoria (3B, TB) (Bench)
14     Tadahito Iguchi (2B, SD) (Bench)
15     Ryan Theriot (2B, SS, CHC) (Bench)

I picked the Red Sox pitching staff because they had the highest rated staff by a decent amount and I'm a fan of them. I ended up ignoring 2B and 3B a little bit when I was drafting. Not really by design, just as the draft went I didn't feel like I was getting good value at the spots. I ended up grabbing back ups at both spots. Not sure why I grabbed Mil pitching staff. Wanted a back up pitching staff and they were the only decent one left.

I feel like I really only busted one pick. The 14th round when I drafted Iguchi. (In my defense I wasn't paying close enough attention and didn't realize it had come back around to my turn and I just grabbed whomever). I'm going to drop him today and probably try and pick up another outfielder. Maybe Adam Jones or someone else for depth.

So please, any advice or comments are welcome.

There was only 1 other person drafting live. So the draft ended up only taking about 45 minutes. Maybe less.

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Hill

I was going to say the 9th round is early for Hill, but the auto-picks likely filled position first before moving to bench slots.

I like the selections of the Red Sox and Brewers staffs.

No idea how such a format will play out, though. I sense pitching staffs will be amongst the most valuable in the points format, but not quite sure given this is the first time I have seen this format.

by faketeams on Mar 11, 2008 11:32 AM EDT reply actions

Pitching Staffs

According to the pre-draft rankings they have the Red Sox 67th over all and the Padres are the 2nd team listed at 76th overall. So maybe somewhere in the 5th or 6th round should they start to come off? Or maybe even higher. I haven't figured out just how valuable they are using this format either.

I'm thinking maybe I should have drafted the SD Padres instead of the Sox. Peavy and Young look like the better bet right now. Not sure if they have adjusted their rankings though. Seems like the Mets and Mariners pitching staffs might be a little undervalued. Not accounting for the trades of Santana and Bedard yet maybe?

One other question I had is position scarcity something to worry about more or less in a H2H league?

by stillredsoxfan on Mar 11, 2008 2:20 PM EDT up reply actions

In this format

By starting just one player at each position, having the best one makes more sense. OF you can wait on, but getting a top 2B, SS, C etc matters more.

Why take a 2nd OF early when you can grab Robinson Cano or Russ Martin etc.

by faketeams on Mar 11, 2008 2:47 PM EDT up reply actions

As a matter of fact

I might consider drafting my infield first and grabbing OF in the 7th 8th and 9th round.

by faketeams on Mar 11, 2008 2:49 PM EDT reply actions

Set-up a league

http://www.mlb.com/mlb/fantasy/wsfb/index.jsp

password: baseball

by faketeams on Mar 11, 2008 7:40 PM EDT reply actions

League ID

Do you have it?

by Goats69 on Mar 12, 2008 12:09 AM EDT up reply actions

ID

Fake teams

by faketeams on Mar 12, 2008 6:48 AM EDT up reply actions

Correct Info?

I've tried that id a few times and it keeps telling me that "no league with those credentials could be found."

Unless maybe it's filled up already. But then wouldn't it say league full instead? Weird.

by stillredsoxfan on Mar 13, 2008 12:17 AM EDT up reply actions

ID

Here is the league ID 46824. I admit the set-up is hard to navigate. In order to evaluate your team, I wanted to see the rules and couldn't find a way to do so without registering.

by faketeams on Mar 13, 2008 8:39 AM EDT up reply actions

please none of these posts!

personally i think all "rate my team" post should be deleted from the site or we should just say "yea,great team,you should win,your a genius"

by francis on Mar 11, 2008 8:01 PM EDT reply actions

Tanks Fer Nuttin!

If you took the time to read my entire post, you would have read that I've never drafted or played in a H2H points league before. Nor used team pitching staffs. I'm looking for advice and constructive criticism here. Not complements.

As a matter of fact the whole point of this site is fantasy sports. So where the hell else would I be posting this on the SB network? I'm sorry my post pushed your oh so fantasy relevant you-tube video down a spot.

by stillredsoxfan on Mar 11, 2008 8:40 PM EDT up reply actions