My take on fantasy baseball teams and drafting

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Wow, you need good playes to win. Who would have thunk it... >><BR><BR>

Its not just that you need good players, you need "name" players. And by the
way about a million magazines and so called experts make it out to seem like
you can win your league with Brandon Looper and Tim Wakefield type players
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blackjet76.RemoveThis@aol.com (BlackJet76) wrote in message news:<20040926233518.09558.00000881.RemoveThis@mb-m26.aol.com>...
> <<
> Wow, you need good playes to win. Who would have thunk it... >><BR><BR>
>
> Its not just that you need good players, you need "name" players. And by the
> way about a million magazines and so called experts make it out to seem like
> you can win your league with Brandon Looper and Tim Wakefield type players

You need some of the name players you are talking about, but assuming
that everyone gets a couple of those, you then need to make good calls
on guys like Looper and Wakefield. Assuming you get your Bonds,
Pujols, or ARods, you do indeed win and lose based on your Loopers and
Wakefields.

Who are you drafting in the first three rounds if you aren't drafting
name players? If you are passing over Bonds and Pujols to grab
Wakefields and Loopers, you need to adjust your draft strategy. If
you think Wakefield is going to have a great year, you do not bump him
up your draft list. You draft him in the 9th (or whatever) round
where he normally might go. If he does have a great year, you have
then got more out him that other people got out of their 9th round
pick. If you manage to get more of your 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th
round picks than other people got out of theirs, you are now on your
way to a winning

Oh yeah, and don't read the magazines. Learn to do your own
projections and player valuations. The things you learn doing those
things, is extraordinarily more important than the fortunetelling they
put in the magazines. It's like the difference between astronomy and
astrology.
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There's quite a bit of psychology involved with Fantasy baseball. I agree
with that. There's a guessing game and for some reason a "star" with
similar statistics to a player on the Royals or Pirates will be drafted
earlier( or spent more $). So I kind of agree with what the OP is saying.
If you use your early picks to draft "stars", there's a better chance that a
sleeper pick awaits when you aren't competing against yourself by selecting
that sleeper yourself.

Good Post.
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> blackjet76.DeleteThis@aol.com (BlackJet76) wrote in message
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> > <<
> > Wow, you need good playes to win. Who would have thunk it... >><BR><BR>
> >
> > Its not just that you need good players, you need "name" players. And by
the
> > way about a million magazines and so called experts make it out to seem
like
> > you can win your league with Brandon Looper and Tim Wakefield type
players
>
> You need some of the name players you are talking about, but assuming
> that everyone gets a couple of those, you then need to make good calls
> on guys like Looper and Wakefield. Assuming you get your Bonds,
> Pujols, or ARods, you do indeed win and lose based on your Loopers and
> Wakefields.
>
> Who are you drafting in the first three rounds if you aren't drafting
> name players? If you are passing over Bonds and Pujols to grab
> Wakefields and Loopers, you need to adjust your draft strategy. If
> you think Wakefield is going to have a great year, you do not bump him
> up your draft list. You draft him in the 9th (or whatever) round
> where he normally might go. If he does have a great year, you have
> then got more out him that other people got out of their 9th round
> pick. If you manage to get more of your 5th, 7th, 9th, 10th, and 11th
> round picks than other people got out of theirs, you are now on your
> way to a winning
>
> Oh yeah, and don't read the magazines. Learn to do your own
> projections and player valuations. The things you learn doing those
> things, is extraordinarily more important than the fortunetelling they
> put in the magazines. It's like the difference between astronomy and
> astrology.
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