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| Posted by: Toral
- [575542418] Thu, Jan 31, 2008, 22:01
I just was drafted to pick up a position in a first year dynasty league where a guy dropped out one-third of the way through the draft. It's not all that deep in minor leaguers -- draft of 10, but you can keep everybody -- forever.
It's a big league -- 20 managers, mixed, 5x5, with BA. First year. 28 major leaguers plus 10 minor leaguers, all of whom can be kept every year.
(Yahoo! Positions C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, LF, CF, RF, UT, SP x 4 RP x 3, and 12 bench.)
Now this'll be hard. I won't bother to show you all the rosters. But the team I picked up drafted the following 8 players before disappearing:
1B Adrian Gonzalez
2B Brian Roberts
3B David Wright
LF Josh Willingham
CF Willy Taveras
RF Nick Swisher
SP Scott Kazmir
SP Chad Billingsley
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Now, strategy:
My initial feeling is that this is not the nucleus of a contending team. My inclination is to draft the rest of the way with a heavy emphasis on youth and potential. Perhaps even do a Full Twarpy where you strip the team (later, by trades) of everyone decent over 25 and load up with youth and potential entirely. My thought is to tend to bypass old good players through the rest of the draft. I can't know how tradable win-now players will be here because I don't know the guys.
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OK, for $64,000: what strategy would you adopt for the rest of theis Dynasty draft?
Toral
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| | | 1 | holt
ID: 360131020
Fri, Feb 01, 2008, 00:15
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if it were me, I'd go ahead and try to win this year. still a lot of drafting, trading, and FA signing to be done. that's not such a horrible list of players considering that it's a 20 team league. full steam ahead.
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| | | 2 | holt
ID: 360131020
Fri, Feb 01, 2008, 00:18
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that being said, since you keep all players each year, it's worth de-valuing guys like Bonds or Sheffield, but I think that strategy would apply regardless of what your first 8 players looked like.
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| | | 3 | mjd
Leader
ID: 501381415
Fri, Feb 01, 2008, 16:44
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Full Twarpy
LMAO.
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| | | 4 | Mattinglyinthehall
ID: 454491514
Fri, Feb 01, 2008, 16:56
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I'd go along with your assessment, Toral. Heavy focus on young talent. However, even without knowing the other managers it's still a safe bet that a productive veteran will be a nice trading chip come summer. And I think I'd move that age threshold for stripping players through treade up to 27 or 28.
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| | | 5 | StLCards
Dude
ID: 31010716
Mon, Feb 04, 2008, 15:00
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Heavy focus on young talent.
I think that's the right play at this point. Maybe target some big young power at 1B. I would target youth of the 5 tool variety, but certainly wouldn't let a proven older veteran that was a value pick slip by if he fills a need or could be a tradeable commodity later to a contender.
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