FANTASY DRAFT

[fuuuma]

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I drafted a team just for fun and because I love drafting in general ^^ I went for a young team and my rotation will probably struggle for a season or two before taking off. In general my team is very young and should be very solid for the next 10 years. I picked nr 13 and went with Posey as my first pick.

Starting Rotation:

SP Drew Smyly
SP Zack Wheeler
SP Taijuan Walker
SP Willy Peralta
SP Dylan Bundy

Bullpen:

RP Jacob Turner
RP Tyler Skaggs
RP Tim Collins
RP Wei Chung Wang
SU Paco Rodriguez
SU Louis Coleman
CP Rafael Betancourt

Batting:

C Buster Posey
1B Anthony Rizzo
2B Jose Altuve
3B Manny Machado
SS Andrelton Simmons
LF Christian Yelich
CF Bryce Harper
RF Junior Lake

Bench:

C Travis d'Arnaud
2B Kolten Wong
3B Nick Castellanos
SS Jonathan Villar
CF Justin Ruggiano

[HuskerPower3]

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You should sim a few years and see how that club develops. Could be unstoppable in a few seasons.


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[fuuuma]

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You should sim a few years and see how that club develops. Could be unstoppable in a few seasons.


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That was my plan, I have no intention of playing with it since im waiting for the rosters before starting my actual franchise. Fantasy franchies get boring real fast for me unless im simming the games. It's impossible for me to pick a player that is 30 years or older in fantasy franchise if I can get a player with 5-10 points lower but also is 5-10 years younger with A or B potential. So my teams usually get really overpowered after a few seasons and the fun is gone.

[sdf4977]

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I drafted a team just for fun and because I love drafting in general ^^ I went for a young team and my rotation will probably struggle for a season or two before taking off. In general my team is very young and should be very solid for the next 10 years. I picked nr 13 and went with Posey as my first pick.

Starting Rotation:

SP Drew Smyly
SP Zack Wheeler
SP Taijuan Walker
SP Willy Peralta
SP Dylan Bundy

Bullpen:

RP Jacob Turner
RP Tyler Skaggs
RP Tim Collins
RP Wei Chung Wang
SU Paco Rodriguez
SU Louis Coleman
CP Rafael Betancourt

Batting:

C Buster Posey
1B Anthony Rizzo
2B Jose Altuve
3B Manny Machado
SS Andrelton Simmons
LF Christian Yelich
CF Bryce Harper
RF Junior Lake

Bench:

C Travis d'Arnaud
2B Kolten Wong
3B Nick Castellanos
SS Jonathan Villar
CF Justin Ruggiano

Absolutely love the team. The defense alone would keep your pitchers in games.

What team did you use to play with

[HuskerPower3]

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That was my plan, I have no intention of playing with it since im waiting for the rosters before starting my actual franchise. Fantasy franchies get boring real fast for me unless im simming the games. It's impossible for me to pick a player that is 30 years or older in fantasy franchise if I can get a player with 5-10 points lower but also is 5-10 years younger with A or B potential. So my teams usually get really overpowered after a few seasons and the fun is gone.

I have always just messed around with drafts. I consistently found myself drafting all of the same young players that it got boring. I try to tell myself I am going to stick with it but I just can't. Hopefully I can get a decent season one going along with my serious franchise, once OSFM drops.


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[fuuuma]

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Absolutely love the team. The defense alone would keep your pitchers in games.

What team did you use to play with

I picked the Royals since I kinda like their stadium, not that it matters since im only simming. Finally got a winning record in the third season even with Harper out for 2-3 months, hopefully i'll make the playoffs in the fourth season. Shouldn't be a problem if my pitching staff steps it up a notch, they havn't really been performing up to par and Peralta has been replaced with some prospect named Kim who's an 83 overall at age 21 with A potential.

[BeatArmy]

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Love your team, I debated between Trout and Votto as my first pick

Thanks!

I didn't know who was going to be BPA at 12th but Votto'll do. I don't think you could reach that far for Votto at 1st overall. I think it had to be either Trout or Kershaw but there's way more depth to be found at SP than CF. When I draft, I'm trying to find best value and that's how I ended up with Blackmon roughly about 15th: there just wasn't as much separation between the CFs once you hit the 10th round or so.

Encarnacion can spot Votto in the field so they're always in the lineup. I've found that it's a great value to have your DH and a prime position player play the same spot: you can always give them rotating days off. Might be worth picking up Mauer, putting back behind the plate and having a good second catcher like M. Montero, McCann or whoever to DH. He worth much more behind the plate than at 1B: not enough power for the position.

[sdf4977]

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Thanks!

I didn't know who was going to be BPA at 12th but Votto'll do. I don't think you could reach that far for Votto at 1st overall. I think it had to be either Trout or Kershaw but there's way more depth to be found at SP than CF. When I draft, I'm trying to find best value and that's how I ended up with Blackmon roughly about 15th: there just wasn't as much separation between the CFs once you hit the 10th round or so.

Encarnacion can spot Votto in the field so they're always in the lineup. I've found that it's a great value to have your DH and a prime position player play the same spot: you can always give them rotating days off. Might be worth picking up Mauer, putting back behind the plate and having a good second catcher like M. Montero, McCann or whoever to DH. He worth much more behind the plate than at 1B: not enough power for the position.

I agree with you there. On last years game I was using the Orioles and picked up Adam Lind in a trade to play DH and worked out great so I could move Lind and Davis and others around at DH so I could keep them in the lineup for as long as possible

[BeatArmy]

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I agree with you there. On last years game I was using the Orioles and picked up Adam Lind in a trade to play DH and worked out great so I could move Lind and Davis and others around at DH so I could keep them in the lineup for as long as possible

Yup, Lind's valuable that way because of his LF/RF ability (albeit poorly). It's also why I do what I can to get Martin Prado or Omar Infante somehow: it's nice having a guy who plays everything but hitting coach just to rotate through. I'll reach for either one just to have.

[ilstu24]

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Well after looking at some of the results of these fantasy drafts I see that the computer draft logic is still broken.

[sdf4977]

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Well after looking at some of the results of these fantasy drafts I see that the computer draft logic is still broken.

What do you mean

[BeatArmy]

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Well after looking at some of the results of these fantasy drafts I see that the computer draft logic is still broken.

I think there will always be issues with it since it's not sentient. How does one program salary considerations, long term growth prospects, pick value, bench setup and other things into the AI and have it reliably come up with the perfect roster? A lot of those things are subjective, too: just because I want young pitching, a versatile bench and lineup and not spend more than $70 mil on it doesn't mean everyone else does, too.

Plus we all have picks that we make in the FD that we would like back. I had to go trade for a backup SS since I didn't have a guy on my team that was MLB calibre with SS as a position: the highest guy I had was about 50 overall. I'd rather not have picked Betancourt since I didn't pay attention to his monster 5 year deal. Even we're slightly broken...

[BigBlue72]

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After a few previous fantasy drafts, I finally settled after this last one with the Pirates (love their stadium and uniforms). I picked fourth overall.

Lineup:

1) Xander Bogaerts (SS)
2) Mike Trout (CF) -- hate having him here, but it's what works. 1st pick
3) Bryce Harper (LF) -- may switch him and Trout. 2nd pick.
4) Giancarlo Stanton (RF). 3rd pick
5) Pedro Alvarez (3B). Traded an A 3B prospect for him.
6) Jose Abreu (1B).
7) Evan Gattis (C).
8) Jurickson Profar (2B)
9) Pitcher

Pitching Rotation:

1) Tim Lincecum.
2) Zack Wheeler.
3) Taijuan Walker.
4) Tyler Skaggs.
5) Dylan Bundy.

Notable RPs:
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Erik Bedard
Jose Valverde
Jim Johnson
Francisco Rodriguez
Paco Rodriguez
Joakim Soria (CP).

Bench:
Ike Davis
Travis d'Arnaud
Dan Uggla

I only made two trades. An A potential 3B for Alvarez and an A potential shortstop for Profar.

I'm considering trading Gattis and a young pitcher for a top of the rotation guy. Not sure if I want to stick with Lincecum as my 1. I'm also not sure if I want to keep Gattis. I like him, but I hate having d'Arnaud on the bench for the majority of the season.

What do you guys think?

[Troopershorty51]

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After a few previous fantasy drafts, I finally settled after this last one with the Pirates (love their stadium and uniforms). I picked fourth overall.

Lineup:

1) Xander Bogaerts (SS)
2) Mike Trout (CF) -- hate having him here, but it's what works. 1st pick
3) Bryce Harper (LF) -- may switch him and Trout. 2nd pick.
4) Giancarlo Stanton (RF). 3rd pick
5) Pedro Alvarez (3B). Traded an A 3B prospect for him.
6) Jose Abreu (1B).
7) Evan Gattis (C).
8) Jurickson Profar (2B)
9) Pitcher

Pitching Rotation:

1) Tim Lincecum.
2) Zack Wheeler.
3) Taijuan Walker.
4) Tyler Skaggs.
5) Dylan Bundy.

Notable RPs:
Daisuke Matsuzaka
Erik Bedard
Jose Valverde
Jim Johnson
Francisco Rodriguez
Paco Rodriguez
Joakim Soria (CP).

Bench:
Ike Davis
Travis d'Arnaud
Dan Uggla

I only made two trades. An A potential 3B for Alvarez and an A potential shortstop for Profar.

I'm considering trading Gattis and a young pitcher for a top of the rotation guy. Not sure if I want to stick with Lincecum as my 1. I'm also not sure if I want to keep Gattis. I like him, but I hate having d'Arnaud on the bench for the majority of the season.

What do you guys think?

Not to be a dick, but I could never play with a team like that, it's almost completely unrealistic. No team would be able to obtain Stanton, Trout, Harper, Bogaerts, Profar, Wheeler, Walker, and Bundy, much less afford to keep them. If you're just using it for a season or two, then it's fine, but a long term dynasty with this team would result in by far the best team in league, especially with budgets messed up where you can keep all of those guys.

Again, you're free to play however you like, and it does look like a fun team to use, I just couldn't use a team like that.

[pittsburgher86]

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So I started working on this team while I was waiting for OSFM to drop and here's how it looks. I used the Colorado Rockies.

Rotation
Hyun-Jin Ryu 88
Sonny Gray 84
Mike Minor 82
Masahiro Tanaka 82
Tony Cingrani 78

Bullpen
Josh Collmenter 74
Jonny Venters 78
AJ Ramos 76
Joe Ortiz 69
Kelvin Herrera 79
Ryan Cook 80
Addison Reed 80

Lineup
1. 2B Jean Segura 86
2. LF Bryce Haper 87
3. CF Andrew McCutchen 94
4. 3B Pablo Sandoval 84
5. RF George Springer 79
6. 1B Jose Abreu 74
7. C Yasmani Grandal 78
8. SS Brandon Crawford 77

Bench
C Travis d'Arnaud 67
2B DJ LeMahieu 71
2B Steve Lombardozzi 70
3B Mike Olt 71
LF Junior Lake 70

I did make three trades-

• I got Hyun-Jin Ryu for Dylan Bundy and a made up prospect
• I got Kelvin Herrera and Pablo Sandoval for a top 50 made up pitching prospect and Nick Castellanos
• I got Sonny Gray for Kevin Gausman and made up pitching prospect

This is by far my favorite team I have made and made the least amount of trades I have ever done to do it. My best draft I've ever done. Normally my teams are more trades than draft picks.