EWB Fantasy Baseball Draft Discussion

[sahyder1]

Creating this to avoid clutter in the other thread. Analyze picks here. I guess people outside of the league can use this thread for draft strategy or questions for their own leagues too.

[Guest mr. potato head]

Handy tip: Our Yahoo league has a section for Pre-Draft Rankings. Seems useless because we're doing an off-Yahoo draft, but I'm using it to filter out players who have already been taken so I have an easy way of seeing who's left.

[gunnar hendershow]

And we're having LF, CF, RF as opposed to 3 OF spots. Huge thing to pay attention to, I think Sahyder for pointing it out after I selected Kemp.

[Hickey]

How long do we have in between picks? And what happens if you're not around to make a choice? Sorry if this was discussed. I don't remember hearing either of these two things.

[Damian WayLNKe]

As always you have 24 hours to make a pick. As soon the 24 hours are up next team can slide up and make a pick but you're free to jump back in when you show up (like it works with the actual NFL draft). So if MPH doesn't make a pick in 24 hours, Berober can jump in and make his and MPH is free to slide in and make his pick 2nd overall as long as the next team in line hasn't done so. Stay on top of it. If you'll be away send me or anyone else here a list. If you're sending a list to someone else please let me know first.

[Hickey]

OK, great. Thanks a lot.

[Your Mom]

Come on people! I want to pick!

[gunnar hendershow]

So you're perfectly fine with us PMing you our picks in advance to avoid the problem Midget just ran into right?

[Meacon Keaton]

How big are the rosters you guys are going to be playing with? I don't see how you all will have enough time.

[Your Mom]

So frustrating! This is going so slow

[sahyder1]

So you're perfectly fine with us PMing you our picks in advance to avoid the problem Midget just ran into right?

Absolutely.

[Your Mom]

Cant people just get the next highest ranked player if they miss their pick? Seems unfair they would get skipped.

[gunnar hendershow]

That's how Maxx does it in the fantasy football league, and how I planned to do it in the fantasy basketball league next year. From personal experience life has a way of taking me away from the internet for some long gaps of time. I can try to get PMs in all I want, but at the end of the day what if the draft is flying by at African Swallow speed while I'm occupied with something more important?

But either way, we need to be probably be done round 3 by the end of the weekend and I don't know how that's at all feasible. We're probably going to have a small draft with a ton of guys to claim on waivers right before opening day.

[Your Mom]

I may finally get my first pick tomorrow!

[sahyder1]

Cant people just get the next highest ranked player if they miss their pick? Seems unfair they would get skipped.

I don't think skipping is unfair. He can jump back in and make a pick. 24 hours is plenty of time to make a pick. People have different draft strategies. What if I pick a position player for someone and they wanted a pitcher that round or vice versa.

Especially with the weekend coming up. If you think you'll be away when you turn comes please send a list in so we can keep moving along.

Edited March 2, 2012 by sahyder1

[gunnar hendershow]

I'm talking about emergencies. I know if I find out I have to rush to the hospital or get called into work at the last minute sending off a PM of my preferred draft picks isn't high on my priority list. Obviously if we sat around by our computers all day 24 hours is more than doable, but things do come up.

[Lowerdeck]

Ellsbury is a CF, not a 1B

[thatshortguy]

Ellsbury is a CF, not a 1B

Yeah, was toying between Fielder & Ellsbury, hence the positional confusion.

Also, I hate life. Sorry for the delay.

[sahyder1]

I like the Reyes pick. If Hanley keeps his head on straight that will be a fun team to watch.

[9 to 5]

Nice to know someone thinks I am doing it right.