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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?

by faketeams on Apr 12, 2009 11:46 AM EDT reply actions  

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?

by acr on Apr 12, 2009 2:40 PM EDT reply actions  

scratch that...

…maybe Aramis and a quality player for Reyes?

by acr on Apr 12, 2009 2:44 PM EDT reply actions  

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