Rate my NL only Sportsline team
Here is the results of my final draft. The scoring format is NL only, H2H with points as below-
| Scoring for Batting Categories | |
| 1B - Singles | 1 point |
| 2B - Doubles | 2 points |
| 3B - Triples | 3 points |
| BB - Walks (Batters) | 1 point |
| CS - Caught Stealing | -1 point |
| HP - Hit by Pitch | 1 point |
| HR - Home Runs | 4 points |
| KO - Strikeouts (Batter) | -0.5 points |
| R - Runs | 1 point |
| RBI - Runs Batted In | 1 point |
| SB - Stolen Bases | 2 points |
| Scoring for Pitching Categories | |
| BBI - Walks Issued (Pitchers) | -1 point |
| BS - Blown Saves | -2 points |
| ER - Earned Runs | -2 points |
| HA - Hits Allowed | -1 point |
| INN - Innings | 3 points |
| K - Strikeouts (Pitcher) | 1 point |
| L - Losses | -5 points |
| S - Saves | 5 points |
| SO - Shutouts | 5 points |
| W - Wins | 7 points |
The scoring has been tweaked since last year. Previous scoring by Sportsline has 10 points for wins with fewer negative pitching categories. Hitting has been tweaked a bit too by giving negatives for k's and CS. There have been a few other minor changes as well. But I noticed that previously closers were a premium with the high end closers scoring about the same points during a season as a top starting pitcher. That's not the case anymore. So I decided to not spend an early pick on a closer, actually I did not get one at all- just decided to go with the temp assignment of Carlos Villanueva and taking fliers on Corpas and Kuo. You have to start two relief pitchers now as well.
But here is how my team turned out-
C- Chris Snyder
1b- Joey Votto
2b- Olando Hudson
3b- David Wright
SS- Stephen Drew
OF- Alfonso Soriano
OF- Milton Bradley
OF- Rick Ankiel
DH- Aramis Ramirez
SP- Adam Wainwright
SP- Matt Cain
SP- Aaron Harang
SP- John Maine
SP- Chris Volstad
RP- Hong-Chih Kuo
RP- Carlos Villanueva
Bench Hitters-
Chad Tracy
Kosuke Fukudome
Bench Pitchers-
Kenshin Kawakami
Joel Pineiro
Manny Corpas
FWIW- I had the #4 pick and took David Wright. The first three picks went Hanley Ramirez, Albert Pujols and Johan Santana. I could have taken Jose Reyes, and maybe should have done so. I just thought that position scarcity came into play and I ended up with Stephen Drew at SS. I guess we'll just see how the new park comes into play with Wright's HR totals. Then again maybe Wright will go back to stealing 20-30 bases a year again.
Any thoughts?
I usually come away from most drafts feeling a little iffy. I won my NL only Sportsline league last year but drafted guys late like McLouth, JJ Hardy, Bengie Molina, Ricky Nolasco, Vazquez, Andre Ethier and had two guys playing dualing banjos on first- LaRoche and Mike Jacobs. I did not get in on the Manny, CC or Rich Harden sweepstakes.
But I used the same drafting strategy, except for the premium value of closers of course- I drafted Wright with my first pick and took Aramis Ramirez a little later. This gave me a decent DH and helped dry up the 3b pool. I guess we will see how things go this year.
I targeted players who Sportsline had ranked really low- Harang, Tracy, Fukudome, Kawakami and Pineiro. Some guys I wanted late were taken by others. But I can't really complain too much. If Kuo and Corpas get some closing shots I may have a decent chance.
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Given the possibility of Citifield sapping some HRs, why not take Reyes whose extra base ability looks perfectly sutied for this set-up?
good question
I am not sure if I did the right thing or not by taking Wright over Reyes. I could have grabbed Reyes then drafted Aramis on the way back through. Looking at this scoring format and their stats from last year Wright out scored Reyes 637-631. Among position players, they placed 2nd and 3rd in the NL in scoring behind Albert Pujols who scored 651. Both players seemed to have so-so years for them and either or both could really break out across the board this season. But just using last year’s stats Reyes scored 97 points from his sb’s. Of course his sb total was lowest season total since 2004 so I may have screwed myself by not recognizing this before the draft.
Wright really benefitted from hitting at Shea, he had 21 homers there while only 12 on the road. His HR total at home alone accounted for 126 points. So if his homer totals at home drop significantly he will need to increase in sb’s or rbi’s (both possible) to maintain an edge over Reyes. Of course, Reyes could steal more this year- actually his road stats in ’08 were significantly better than his home stats.
Maybe I should make a trade offer straight across- Wright for Reyes?

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