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

stillredsoxfan — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 00:09:00 -0000

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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