Friday, March 28, 2008

Never Do a Facebook Draft

The first 14 rounds of this draft were done on Facebook so that we didn't have rosters with 30 autopicked players. 14 rounds took about 14 days. NEVER DO A FACEBOOK DRAFT IF YOU HAVE OVER 6 LEAGUE MEMBERS!!!

I have two major fantasy baseball teams, the rest are just fillers. One is AL-Only on ESPN, the other, which I shall mention here, is a mixed-league Roto league with 12 members and 6x6 scoring (Runs,RBI,HR,OBP,SLG,NetSB and Wins,Saves,ERA,WHIP,Ks,Holds) and a 30 acquisition limit.

And this is what I drafted: (People who I have already replaced will have replacements in ()

Round 1: Miguel Cabrera
Round 2: David Ortiz
Round 3: Carlos Beltran
Round 4: Troy Tulowitzki
Round 5: Cole Hamels
Round 6: Brian Roberts
Round 7: Gary Sheffield
Round 8: Paul Konerko
Round 9: Takashi Saito
Round 10: Matt Cain
Round 11: Hideki Matsui
Round 12: Rafael Soriano
Round 13: Jeremy Hermida (put on D.L. replaced by Ian Kennedy)
Round 14: Dustin McGowan
Round 15: Jeremy Bonderman
Round 16: Kelly Johnson
Round 17: Josh Willingham
Round 18: Jack Cust
Round 19: Jeremy Accardo
Round 20: Brian Wilson
Round 21: Rafael Betancourt
Round 22: J.D. Drew
Round 23: Carlos Ruiz
Round 24: Jon Lester (traded for Travis Buck)
Round 25: Nomar Garciaparra (replaced by Jose Bautista)
Round 26: David Riske
Round 27: Matt Diaz
Round 28: Brian Bannister
Round 29: Adam Jones
Round 30: Shawn Hill (put on D.L. replaced by Peter Moylan)

Analysis: Most of the picks I'm very happy with with the possible exception of about 3. I regret having taken Matt Cain over Rich Hill, but I was feeling sick that night and didn't want to hold up the draft. Lester over Harden now looks like a complete bust and Garciaparra is a useless pick, especially when I went against my draft strategy of hogging DHs, where I could've taken Millar. Everything else I am happy with, even Konerko over Smoltz, at least for now...
And Adam Jones in round 29 is the steal of the draft bar NONE.