2010 Fantasy Baseball Draft: Inside the “40/40 Club” War Room
Today is one of the best days of my year. I know, I have no life and it sounds pathetic. Or I am some kind of diehard fantasy nut who loves draft day and blogging about nothing. The answer is D, All of the Above. Whatever. All I know is at 9 AM today, our 40-man roster, dynasty league draft begins. It’s Draft Day baby! Or for this league, Draft Month due to the “email your pick in before the 6 hr time limit runs out” method of drafting. This is my 3rd fantasy baseball league all together. It’s my first 40-man league and first dynasty league. It’s also my first draft of 2010 so I am pretty excited; wow, got lots of firsts – popping cherries like the Twilight kid on Spring Break. Snap. Over the course of the draft, I plan on blogging about my picks, my reasoning behind the picks, others’ picks and my thoughts on how I think the draft is playing out. So here’s the league breakdown…
12 TEAMS. 40 Man Rosters. Dynasty (one time draft at beginning of league- starting TODAY). H2H. Points Scoring System (1 pt for single, 2 pt for double, 4 pt for HR. 1 pt BB…). We need a starter at each position, 1 C, 1 1B, 1 2B, 1 3B, 1 SS, 3 OF, 1 DH, 5 SP, 3 RP.
To start, the 40/40 CLUB (me) has the number 7 pick overall. Knowing draft order is a bonus and can aid in your draft preparations. In this case, I know the exact picks I will be drafting. By starting at #7 and extrapolating from there, I get a list of my picks. 7, 18, 31… EXAMPLE. I own pick number 295. I can then look over a TOP 300 list and get a feel of the players that will be available in that area. I see names like Nick Johnson, Matt LaPorta, Delmon Young and Bronson Arroyo.
Moving on, I have a couple ideas of which way I want to go and what positions I will target in each round. If you have read some of the previous entries, you would see that I like to “tier” my players. I put players into “tiers” or groups ranging from Elite to backups and will select players based on these tiers. EXAMPLE. I have Markakis, Choo, Lee and Ethier in the same OF grouping. If I lose out on Markakis and Lee, I am not worried because I know I can grab Choo or Ethier and be completely satisfied. I can guesstimate that all these guys will have about $20 in production when the year is all said and done.
I mean come on, do you know who is going to be the best out of these four OF this year? I don’t. ESPN doesn’t. Neither does Bill James.
I always say projections are past historical stats sleeping with Lady luck and birthing estimations. No one is right. You aren’t wrong.
I digress for a moment, but stay true and if you like a guy, take him even though “CBS” or your magazine says he’s a 16th RD pick or $16, not a 13th RD pick or $21. And that’s how I plan on drafting. Taking who I want – it’s a dynasty draft, I am fielding a team from scratch and it allows me to draft basically anyone I want. A real chance to be G.M., well a fake- real G.M. You know what I mean. I’ll keep you posted. I am psyched! ”Do you want to go do karate in the garage? YUP!”
Utley-Tulo… nice start by covering the premium MI’s….