Dynasty Startup Draft (1 Viewer)

[PatsWillWin]

Just joined a new dynasty league with some friends. It's a H2H points league. 12 teams. I really don't know what I'm doing. I follow baseball closely enough to do fine in redraft leagues, but I don't know about all of the phenoms coming up, and I'm pretty much heading towards having a decent 30+ team with little or no long-term upside whatsoever. Halp.

Anyway, just going to post the system here and update the draft, if people feel like helping me out with some thoughts/ideas, that'd be great. If not, I'll let the thread slip into obscurity in a few days.

Godspeed.

Scoring –

Offensive Positions

• 1 pt for singles, walks, runs, runs batted in, hit-by-pitch, and stolen bases

• 2 pts for doubles

• 3 points for triples

• 4 points for home runs

• -1 pt for strikeouts and caught stealing

Starting Pitchers

• 1 pt for innings pitched and strikeouts

• 5 pts for wins and quality starts

• -.5 pt for hits allowed, balks, hit batsmen and walks issued

• -1 pt for earned run

• -5 pt for loss

Relief Pitchers

• 1 pt for innings pitched and strikeouts

• 3 points for hold or win

• 5 pts for save

• -.5 pt for hits allowed, balks, hit batsmen and walks issued

• -1 pt for earned run

• -3 for loss

• -5 for blown save

1. A valid lineup consists of 1 catcher, 1 first baseman, 1, second baseman, 1 shortstop, 1 third baseman, 2 “flex” middle infielders (may be either 2B or SS), 2 “flex” corner infielders (may be either 1B or 3B), 1 right fielder, 1 center fielder, 1 left fielder, 3 “flex” outfielders (may be any OF position), 1 DH (may be any hitting position), 5 starting pitchers and four relief pitchers.

Team so far:C

1B

2B

3B Aramiz Ramirez, CHC (3.03)

SS Hanley Ramirez, FLA (1.03)

DH

CI

CI

MI

MI

LF

CF

RF

OF

OF

OF

SP Johan Santana, NYM (2.10)

SP

SP

SP

SP

RP

RP

RP

RP

 

[PatsWillWin]

C 5.03 McCann, Brian ATL1B 12.10 Konerko, Paul CHW2B 18.10 Fontenot, Mike CHC3B 3.03 Aramis Ramirez, CHCSS 1.03 Hanley Ramirez, FLACI 11.03 Butler, Billy KCCI 13.03 LaRoche, Adam PITMI 9.03 Young, Michael TEXMI 28.10 Ellis, Mark OAKLF 6.10 Dunn, Adam WASCF 4.10 Kemp, Matt LADRF 7.03 Pence, Hunter HOUOF 10.01 Hawpe, Brad COLOF 17.03 Choo, Shin-Soo CLEOF 21.03 Kubel, Jason MINDH 20.1 Hafner, Travis CLESP 2.10 Johan Santana, NYMSP 8.10 Santana, Ervin ANASP 14.10 Cain, Matt SFSP 15.03 Lackey, John ANASP 26.10 Parra, Manny MILRP 16.10 Fuentes, Brian ANARP 19.03 Capps, Matt PITRP RP BN 25.03 Reynolds, Mark ARIBN BN 27.03 Fields, Josh SEABN 32.10 Schierholtz, Nate SFBN 30.10 Gomes, Jonny LF CIN BN BN BN BN BN BN 24.10 Buchholz, Clay BOSBN 31.03 Gallagher, Sean OAKBN BN BN ML 22.10 Alonso, Yonder CINML 23.03 Stanton, Mike FLAML 33.03 Holland, Derek TEXML 27.03 Fields, Josh SEAML

 

[Eephus]

It's not a bad team although it's impossible to tell for sure without comparing with other teams. Hanley at 1.03 is pretty surprising. You may need some MI depth for next year if Young doesn't maintain eligibility. In a deep league like this, you'll need to anticipate changes in closer roles.

Jonny Gomes probably has no value this year or any other, but Dusty Baker does some surprising things.

Josh Fields is listed twice. Do you have both the CWS and SEA players?

 

[PatsWillWin]

It's not a bad team although it's impossible to tell for sure without comparing with other teams. Hanley at 1.03 is pretty surprising. You may need some MI depth for next year if Young doesn't maintain eligibility. In a deep league like this, you'll need to anticipate changes in closer roles.

MI is definitely a weak spot for me, mainly because people started grabbing them very early and very often. Barely startable scrubs were flying off the board, and I basically decided to just keep waiting and trying to get better quality players at other positions.

Jonny Gomes probably has no value this year or any other, but Dusty Baker does some surprising things.

Couple reasons Gomes went.1) There's a salary cap in this league, I chose not to include that info here since it's not terribly interesting, but basically I was drafting high salary guys too fast and needed to look at some cheap risky players.

2) I'm not into "deep" drafts like this usually, so I'm basically drafting anyone who is under a certain salary and whose name I recognize or read somewhere on a random message board. I had Gomes on my redraft team like 2 years ago, lol.

Josh Fields is listed twice. Do you have both the CWS and SEA players?

Yes. The 3B Fields, probably read his name somewhere as a sleeper, the second Fields, the reliever on SEA, happened to catch a blurb about him when he signed, and he seemed like a decent pick up. I can stash him on my ML roster until he gets a bigger role (hopefully) in the SEA 'pen.And again, both very cheap.

Coming around on my next pick now, these are the two names at the top of my list:

McPherson, Dallas 3B FLA - again, just taking a flier on a post-hype guy, his power potential is intriguing if he can win a starting spot.

Anderson, Josh CF ATL - looks like he's in line to lead-off in ATL, I don't think I have anyone who could play CF behind Kemp (other than Stanton, who is a couple years away of course)

I know it's stupid to try and ask for suggestions without people knowing who is left in the pool, but I doubt the interest in this thread warrants me posting the 370 or so players drafted, lol. If anyone has any deep sleepers or an opinion on McPherson or Anderson, I'd be happy to hear it.