How to Rock Yahoo autodraft? (1 Viewer)

[jediknt4444]

I once saw an old post on how to rock the autodraft in football on yahoo. I was wondering if anyone has tips for yahoo baseball's autodraft? Tricks?

 

[Eephus]

Hope it's not a money league

I've had to autodraft in football but never in baseball. I've seen Yahoo autodraft some crazy baseball rosters but I don't know whether the owners did anything to prepare custom lists.

 

[Bobcat10]

I've been thinking about the same thing as I have a live draft (money) Sunday and a yahoo live draft league that I want to be in (no money). The league is not full auto, but I'm sure a few owners won't be there, so certain things should still apply since I'm pre-ranking.

I thought about the position block approach. For a 10 team league, just block your players in groups of ten in the order you want to draft the particular position. But there are so many positions and variables, and I think you'd screw up too much with value. In addition, a UTIL spot could mess up this approach up.

I'll probably rank almost every league starter first (for a 10 team league, get my top 8 at each position, 24of, xSP, etc then rank from #1 to the end of that group). I could hold back the positions I think are deep or could be drafted when the last starters are getting picked (2B besides Utley, SP for sure, 1B besides the top few). Throw all those guys at the end, those position I'd be happy with the 8th best guy. Then rank out only the rest of the players you'd want on your bench. If the top 8 from the first group you ranked are gone at a certain position before you have drafted one, Yahoo will go deeper down your list to find 9 or 10 or 11 at that position. Yahoo auto drafts should fill in all starting positions first. In my case, the live owners could stray from that, making whatever I do imperfect no matter what.

Still thinking about this...sorry if this is confusing, I'm confused...

 

[jediknt4444]

Hope it's not a money leagueI've had to autodraft in football but never in baseball. I've seen Yahoo autodraft some crazy baseball rosters but I don't know whether the owners did anything to prepare custom lists.

No not a money league. Just a 14-15 team (9 keepers each) 25 man rosters

 

[jediknt4444]

I've been thinking about the same thing as I have a live draft (money) Sunday and a yahoo live draft league that I want to be in (no money). The league is not full auto, but I'm sure a few owners won't be there, so certain things should still apply since I'm pre-ranking.I thought about the position block approach. For a 10 team league, just block your players in groups of ten in the order you want to draft the particular position. But there are so many positions and variables, and I think you'd screw up too much with value. In addition, a UTIL spot could mess up this approach up. I'll probably rank almost every league starter first (for a 10 team league, get my top 8 at each position, 24of, xSP, etc then rank from #1 to the end of that group). I could hold back the positions I think are deep or could be drafted when the last starters are getting picked (2B besides Utley, SP for sure, 1B besides the top few). Throw all those guys at the end, those position I'd be happy with the 8th best guy. Then rank out only the rest of the players you'd want on your bench. If the top 8 from the first group you ranked are gone at a certain position before you have drafted one, Yahoo will go deeper down your list to find 9 or 10 or 11 at that position. Yahoo auto drafts should fill in all starting positions first. In my case, the live owners could stray from that, making whatever I do imperfect no matter what.Still thinking about this...sorry if this is confusing, I'm confused...

Thanks. I was thinking the same way but wanted to know if anyone had a proven method already. I doesnt help that the draft order is random as well.

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

I've been thinking about the same thing as I have a live draft (money) Sunday and a yahoo live draft league that I want to be in (no money). The league is not full auto, but I'm sure a few owners won't be there, so certain things should still apply since I'm pre-ranking.I thought about the position block approach. For a 10 team league, just block your players in groups of ten in the order you want to draft the particular position. But there are so many positions and variables, and I think you'd screw up too much with value. In addition, a UTIL spot could mess up this approach up. I'll probably rank almost every league starter first (for a 10 team league, get my top 8 at each position, 24of, xSP, etc then rank from #1 to the end of that group). I could hold back the positions I think are deep or could be drafted when the last starters are getting picked (2B besides Utley, SP for sure, 1B besides the top few). Throw all those guys at the end, those position I'd be happy with the 8th best guy. Then rank out only the rest of the players you'd want on your bench. If the top 8 from the first group you ranked are gone at a certain position before you have drafted one, Yahoo will go deeper down your list to find 9 or 10 or 11 at that position. Yahoo auto drafts should fill in all starting positions first. In my case, the live owners could stray from that, making whatever I do imperfect no matter what.Still thinking about this...sorry if this is confusing, I'm confused...

Thanks. I was thinking the same way but wanted to know if anyone had a proven method already. I doesnt help that the draft order is random as well.

What has worked for me go after position scarcity. Any deviation from the preset round picking structure will put you on a different wavelength than the rest of the drafters (at least those that haven't also deviated from the preset round rankings).Last year I did a complete autodraft in a 14 teamer, and had the league one by late july. maybe that was just luck, but my lineup somehow got stacked just by tinkering with the round by round positional rankings.

 

[Bobcat10]

I think I ended up with a good team (10 team league, 7x7 H2H), but NO closers. I thought I had them ranked high enough, but hitters were falling from my pre-rank that didn't allow me to get to my closers. For example, I could have had Putz in the 4th, but Morneau was ranked higher. FRod and Nathan went on the corner 6th/7th, I had them pre-ranked right next to Putz and Papelbon around 40th.

I've already been offered CJ Wilson for my Shields (declined) and Burrell/Percival/BWilson/Weaver for my Gallardo/Billingsly (declined).

1. (3) David Wright 3B

2. (18) Grady Sizemore OF

3. (23) Carlos Beltrán OF

4. (38) Justin Morneau 1B

5. (43) Magglio Ordóñez OF

6. (58) Hunter Pence OF

7. (63) Carlos Guillén 1B,SS

8. (78) Brian McCann C

9. (83) Ian Kinsler 2B

10. (98) James Shields SP

11. (103) Yovani Gallardo SP

12. (118) A.J. Burnett SP

13. (123) Matt Cain SP

14. (138) Chad Billingsley SP,RP

15. (143) Phil Hughes SP

16. (158) Ian Snell SP

17. (163) Jeremy Bonderman SP

18. (178) Zack Greinke SP,RP

19. (183) Rafael Betancourt RP

20. (198) Brian Fuentes RP

21. (203) James Loney 1B

22. (218) Evan Longoria 3B

23. (223) Kelly Johnson 2B

24. (238) Ryan Theriot 2B,SS

25. (243) Jeremy Hermida OF

26. (258) Ian Kennedy SP

 

[jediknt4444]

I've been thinking about the same thing as I have a live draft (money) Sunday and a yahoo live draft league that I want to be in (no money). The league is not full auto, but I'm sure a few owners won't be there, so certain things should still apply since I'm pre-ranking.I thought about the position block approach. For a 10 team league, just block your players in groups of ten in the order you want to draft the particular position. But there are so many positions and variables, and I think you'd screw up too much with value. In addition, a UTIL spot could mess up this approach up. I'll probably rank almost every league starter first (for a 10 team league, get my top 8 at each position, 24of, xSP, etc then rank from #1 to the end of that group). I could hold back the positions I think are deep or could be drafted when the last starters are getting picked (2B besides Utley, SP for sure, 1B besides the top few). Throw all those guys at the end, those position I'd be happy with the 8th best guy. Then rank out only the rest of the players you'd want on your bench. If the top 8 from the first group you ranked are gone at a certain position before you have drafted one, Yahoo will go deeper down your list to find 9 or 10 or 11 at that position. Yahoo auto drafts should fill in all starting positions first. In my case, the live owners could stray from that, making whatever I do imperfect no matter what.Still thinking about this...sorry if this is confusing, I'm confused...

Thanks. I was thinking the same way but wanted to know if anyone had a proven method already. I doesnt help that the draft order is random as well.

What has worked for me go after position scarcity. Any deviation from the preset round picking structure will put you on a different wavelength than the rest of the drafters (at least those that haven't also deviated from the preset round rankings).Last year I did a complete autodraft in a 14 teamer, and had the league one by late july. maybe that was just luck, but my lineup somehow got stacked just by tinkering with the round by round positional rankings.

Did you take the Yahoo rankings or ADP? In my case, did you look at 14 players at a time and rank those 14, next round rank the next 14? Hope i am making sense.

 

[Mr. Know-It-All]

I've been thinking about the same thing as I have a live draft (money) Sunday and a yahoo live draft league that I want to be in (no money). The league is not full auto, but I'm sure a few owners won't be there, so certain things should still apply since I'm pre-ranking.I thought about the position block approach. For a 10 team league, just block your players in groups of ten in the order you want to draft the particular position. But there are so many positions and variables, and I think you'd screw up too much with value. In addition, a UTIL spot could mess up this approach up. I'll probably rank almost every league starter first (for a 10 team league, get my top 8 at each position, 24of, xSP, etc then rank from #1 to the end of that group). I could hold back the positions I think are deep or could be drafted when the last starters are getting picked (2B besides Utley, SP for sure, 1B besides the top few). Throw all those guys at the end, those position I'd be happy with the 8th best guy. Then rank out only the rest of the players you'd want on your bench. If the top 8 from the first group you ranked are gone at a certain position before you have drafted one, Yahoo will go deeper down your list to find 9 or 10 or 11 at that position. Yahoo auto drafts should fill in all starting positions first. In my case, the live owners could stray from that, making whatever I do imperfect no matter what.Still thinking about this...sorry if this is confusing, I'm confused...

Thanks. I was thinking the same way but wanted to know if anyone had a proven method already. I doesnt help that the draft order is random as well.

What has worked for me go after position scarcity. Any deviation from the preset round picking structure will put you on a different wavelength than the rest of the drafters (at least those that haven't also deviated from the preset round rankings).Last year I did a complete autodraft in a 14 teamer, and had the league one by late july. maybe that was just luck, but my lineup somehow got stacked just by tinkering with the round by round positional rankings.

Did you take the Yahoo rankings or ADP? In my case, did you look at 14 players at a time and rank those 14, next round rank the next 14? Hope i am making sense.

Need to clarify.There was a preset status in the league (i.e., Round 1 = 1B, Round 2 = OF, Rd 3 = SP, etc.).Whta I did was changed the round in which I picked players and if my round matched up to what the preset was, then I rank ordered my players for that position in that round by ADP (or a variation of VBD - i changed the rankings by position based on a VBD variant).So, I was in the #2 draft slot and I wanted ARod so I made Round 1 = 3B because the preset was Round 1 = 1B. Sure enough I got ARod, the guy with the #1 pick must have left Round 1 = 1B because he got Pujols.I then went through each round and tried to figure out what position to set that round 2 to get the most value out of my entire lineup. Worked like a charm.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

Yahoo tends to rank closers too high. If you don't change the prerankings and everyone else does, you could end up with a lot of them. If you do change the prerankings and everyone else doesn't, you could end up with none of them. So you have to be careful about that.