1 | comeback kid
ID: 249311711 Mon, Dec 10, 2001, 13:44
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I'll reply to this since I abandoned SW/TSN this year for rottisserie leagues . . . wouldn't mind seeing more rotisserie banter here if it's appropriate, since I still use the site as a general resource
Those are very basic categories and pretty easy to manage (some of my leagues have wildcard categories like O-rbds and TOs) . . . the idea is not to generally focus on certain types of players but rather to conceptualize how you're doing in each category as the draft progresses. It's good to try to be as well rounded as possible, in which case it may be wise to pass up guys like Shaq all together in favor of someone who you mentioned like Ray Allen who aren't liabilities in any category (Ray is actually really nice to have because shooting %s and 3ptmd are real commodities), but if you made Ray Ray your first round pick you'd immediately want to start thinking about getting assists, rebounds, and blocked shots. Then again, if Shaq were to slip to a late first round pick you might want to draft him and then develop a strategy, maybe sacrificing FT% alltogether so you can draft guys like Ben Wallace without fear of hurting your ft%. Anyway, that's the idea. Plus, as a general matter I recomend not waiting to long to get a PG, to be good you HAVE to have one of the top 1/2 dozen PGs, and personally I think it's good to use 2 of your top 5-6 picks on PGs, you have to use the draft to lock down assists and steals. Ditto for centers, especially if your league requires 2 of them, but you have more leeway to hold off if you're unenthused about the available centers with your early picks, a lot of good teams get away with taking serviceable, workmanlike centers later in the draft.
Finally, in one of my roto league that uses those exact categories I'm in first place so I'll give you my draft picks in order (fun fact: other than me this league is all people who work for rotowire.com and I'm crushing them by quite a big margin!), I had the 11/12 pick: 1- Gary Payton, 2- Brand, 3- Peja, 4- Lafrentz, 5- B-Barry, 6- Wally S, 7- Anthony Mason, 8- Wesley, 9- Willis (*groan*), 10- Tinsley, 11- Barros (since dropped for Chucky Atkins), 12- Scott Williams (dropped for Brendan Haywood), 13- Kirilenko, 14- Kwame (dropped for Shawn Bradley)
good luck
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