New Keeper League Advice (1 Viewer)

[ianfitzy]

I am in a new 12 team keeper league on ESPN. I have the #2 pick so my decision will be pretty easy depending on who team #1 takes. I am thinking I am going to end up with Hanley which is a great start to a keeper league. My question is in regards to my 2nd and 3rd round picks. The scoring system is a H2H points league with basic scoring such as 1=1b, 2=2b, 3=3b, 4=HR we have negative .5 for Ks and +1 for BB, SB=2 pts and everything else is pretty standard for hitting. For pitching it is 3pt for 1 IP, Wins and Saves = 7, -1 for hits, -1 for ER, -5=L, -1=BB and +1=Ks with the other standard scoring options.

I was thinking that based on this scoring system I might be able to get some valued players for the system that are undervalued in the ESPN ranks which tend to be for 5x5.

My hopes are a first three pick combo of Hanley and then 2 out of (Ellsbury, Sizemore, AGonzalez and Pedroia). My question is, are there any other players I should be looking for? Pitchers? Thanks. I am new to keepers so anything helps.

 

[Eephus]

The big questions with Ramirez in keeper leagues are how long he'll retain the positional bump at SS and whether he'll keep stealing bases. He's still the obvious pick at #2 but those are upcoming potential hits to his value.

 

[PIK95]

I just did an ESPN draft that had some crazy scoring. Look under 2010 projections under your scoring system and you will see what I mean. I took Braun #3 in mine (redraft) but in a keeper I would probably grab Justin Upton at #2 myself. But I always plan on playing 5 years at least, lol. This time next year I think Upton will be a top 5 pick. I still love longoria here also. I would look at Gordon Beckham with that 2-3 swing and ignore pitchers for a while. Good luck and grab young bombers as long as possible.

 

[ianfitzy]

I just did an ESPN draft that had some crazy scoring. Look under 2010 projections under your scoring system and you will see what I mean. I took Braun #3 in mine (redraft) but in a keeper I would probably grab Justin Upton at #2 myself. But I always plan on playing 5 years at least, lol. This time next year I think Upton will be a top 5 pick. I still love longoria here also. I would look at Gordon Beckham with that 2-3 swing and ignore pitchers for a while. Good luck and grab young bombers as long as possible.

This isn't that deep of a keeper league. I think it is keep 4 players for at most a period of 3 consecutive years. So I am not going to be looking at prospects in the 2nd round and more importantly I want to be looking at a team that can compete immediately while also having a strong base of 4 players to keep. So I think the most important part is getting a young player who you can count of being a productive player for the next 3 years.

 

[pollardsvision]

My first piece of advice about starting up a new keeper league has nothing to do with who to draft at #2.

It's don't do a draft. Do an auction.

My main league is a keeper-draft league. I'd kill to reboot the entire league using an auction, but it's more complicated years later.