Analyzing my Team

[TheKing]

My buddy and I did two DC slow drafts at $400 this year. We did the DC last year and really liked it. We are going to try the Main Event next year some more DCs. Would love to get your feedback on what we feel is our better team. We did ok last year, hoping to improve this year. We tried to stay balanced throughout draft. Went for a couple of guys we like. We know our Catchers are a bit weak. Good Luck everyone and have fun.

C: Ruiz, Jaso, Lobaton, Nieves, Corporan
1B: Craig, Morrison, Blanks, Satin
2B: Hill, Roberts, Odor
SS: Reyes, Cabrera, Marwin Gonzalez
3B: Lawrie, Castellanos, Kelly Johnson, Franco
OF: McCutchen, Gordon, Venable, De Aza, Rasmus, Joyce, Stubbs, Choice, Maybin, J. Schafer
SP: Strasburg, Price, Gio Gonzalez, Cueto, Ventura, H. Alvarez, T. Wood, Chacin, Santiago, McAllister, Pomeranz, Hand, Rusin, Nuno, Crick
CL/RP: Frieri, Cishek, Axford, Ramos, McGee,Parker

[Deadheadz]

Asdrubal or Everth?

[TheKing]

Asdrubal

[Bronx Yankees]

Solid pitching. Not sure I'm crazy about your hitting. Your middle infielders and outfielders can be very good if healthy. If I had to identify concerns, they would be as follows. First, I think you may be short HRs. You have a bunch of guys that could/should hit 20 HRs, but they all need to come through as you don't have a 30 HR (or more) guy. I also think that unless Reyes stays healthy all year and runs a lot, you may be very short in SBs. Finally, you need to pray Craig stays healthy - and he is an injury risk playing in the OF - because I'm not sure how much you'll get out of Lo Mo at 1B if Craig gets hurt. Good luck with your team.

Mike

[Roger Dorn]

My buddy and I did two DC slow drafts at $400 this year. We did the DC last year and really liked it. We are going to try the Main Event next year some more DCs. Would love to get your feedback on what we feel is our better team. We did ok last year, hoping to improve this year. We tried to stay balanced throughout draft. Went for a couple of guys we like. We know our Catchers are a bit weak. Good Luck everyone and have fun.

C: Ruiz, Jaso, Lobaton, Nieves, Corporan
1B: Craig, Morrison, Blanks, Satin
2B: Hill, Roberts, Odor
SS: Reyes, Cabrera, Marwin Gonzalez
3B: Lawrie, Castellanos, Kelly Johnson, Franco
OF: McCutchen, Gordon, Venable, De Aza, Rasmus, Joyce, Stubbs, Choice, Maybin, J. Schafer
SP: Strasburg, Price, Gio Gonzalez, Cueto, Ventura, H. Alvarez, T. Wood, Chacin, Santiago, McAllister, Pomeranz, Hand, Rusin, Nuno, Crick
CL/RP: Frieri, Cishek, Axford, Ramos, McGee,Parker

I'll bite. Obviously you have a nice staff (that's what she said). Solid 6SPs and 3 decent RPs. Batting on the other hand is weak and I don't see many upside guys that might help. You don't need to lead in hitting given the pitching strength but can this team yield >40 batting points. I think it will be close. Good luck.

[Roger Dorn]

I guess with DC drafting over we can share. Here's one of my DC teams - a little unbalanced with weekly SP6/SP7 challenges. Thoughts?

C McCann/Navarro/Vogt
1B Rizzo/Morrison/Duda/Singleton
2B Dozier/Rendon/La Stella
SS Tulo/Villar
3B Seager/Frazier/Asche
OF Harper/Choo/Hunter/Rajai/Cain/Ozuna
SP Jose Fern/Liriano/Latos/Kazmir/Haren/Niese/J Garcia/Erik J/R Delgado
RP Uehara/Cishek

[TheKing]

My buddy and I did two DC slow drafts at $400 this year. We did the DC last year and really liked it. We are going to try the Main Event next year some more DCs. Would love to get your feedback on what we feel is our better team. We did ok last year, hoping to improve this year. We tried to stay balanced throughout draft. Went for a couple of guys we like. We know our Catchers are a bit weak. Good Luck everyone and have fun.

C: Ruiz, Jaso, Lobaton, Nieves, Corporan
1B: Craig, Morrison, Blanks, Satin
2B: Hill, Roberts, Odor
SS: Reyes, Cabrera, Marwin Gonzalez
3B: Lawrie, Castellanos, Kelly Johnson, Franco
OF: McCutchen, Gordon, Venable, De Aza, Rasmus, Joyce, Stubbs, Choice, Maybin, J. Schafer
SP: Strasburg, Price, Gio Gonzalez, Cueto, Ventura, H. Alvarez, T. Wood, Chacin, Santiago, McAllister, Pomeranz, Hand, Rusin, Nuno, Crick
CL/RP: Frieri, Cishek, Axford, Ramos, McGee,Parker

I'll bite. Obviously you have a nice staff (that's what she said). Solid 6SPs and 3 decent RPs. Batting on the other hand is weak and I don't see many upside guys that might help. You don't need to lead in hitting given the pitching strength but can this team yield >40 batting points. I think it will be close. Good luck.

I really appreciate the feedback. When taking a quick look at any team, I think it's our natural instinct to look for power/speed. And nobody on this squad stands out as a 30+ hr or 40+ swipe guy. That said, it's hard to look at a roster and say wow this team looks like it could hit .273! It's easy to draft a guy like Chris Carter to add power late, but it comes with a sacrifice. We tried to steer clear of those polarizing types and instead focused on balance. I realize guys like Gordon/Venable/De Aza/Lawrie/Asdrubal aren't the sexiest bunch, but they contribute across the board. As for upside hitters, we don't have many but I would consider Castellanos and Choice as traditional upside guys. And Kelly Johnson (new park, power upside), Stubbs (Colorado miracle?) and Maybin (possible 2nd half speed help) as less traditional upside guys that we paid very little for relative to where we drafted them. HQ projects us for .273, 1025 runs, 244 hr, 930 rbi and 181 sb. That's using Joyce at UT instead of Castellanos. If we get near those numbers, we should finish top 3 in avg, runs, sb and upper half in hr/rbi. I apologize if this response seems defensive, but we felt this was the best team we've put together so we were hoping that everyone on the boards would fall all over us, calling us the most prolific NFBC master minds to ever walk the Earth. Ha. Thanks again to all for taking the time to give our humble squad a look... Best of luck to all!

[CASS]

For what it's worth i ran ur offense against my projections and have you really short in power and semi short in speed....didn't run counting or avg but i'd assume counting down also. Nice INF but shakey back end of the OF and MI/CI/UT is messy. 40 points would be a good target imo.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Screw what everybody else says!
It's a solid team. Projections are worthless the day the season begins.
Good luck with your team.

[CASS]

Just giving my feedback dough...and if my projections were worthless I doubt my success would be where it is.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Just giving my feedback dough...and if my projections were worthless I doubt my success would be where it is.

Not to be taken personally. ALL projections are worthless with the first day of baseball season.
No projections project half of a roster being lost to FAAB.
When that happens, I'll take them with more seriousness.

[rockitsauce]

Every yr w/ these analyse my team posts, then the projection experts come on & say your short x, blah blippity blah blah....I agree (big surprise) w/ the big man w/ common sense your projections don't mean jackshit. Freakin' Nate Silver wouldn't be able to project this crap, esp. when you talkin' bout teams that were drafted in Dec/Jan. FAAB teams are even more volatile b/c like Dan said, half the guys you draft won't even be on your team by the All Star Break !

A couple yrs ago I lost out by a pt to Doughy in the infamous "Marcel" lge...if you had looked at that team at the start of the season you would've "projected" me to be shitty (and probably rightfully so ) but what no one, and I mean NO ONE could've known was that my 43rd pk, Fernando Rodney would have an Eck-like season for the ages as TB's closer.

Did I see that shit coming ? Hell no. I just knew he once was on the Angels as the same time as his new Manager Joe Madden so I said WTF. Point is, as Dan says so much better than I, projections are WORTHLESS.

We'll find out soon enough who was right.

[Bobby D]

If projections were worthless, no-one would bother making them or analyzing players and teams to get them. People who post their teams should expect that others are going to comment based on "Player Projections", whether it be their own or the general consensus by others.

[DOUGHBOYS]

If projections were worthless, no-one would bother making them or analyzing players and teams to get them. People who post their teams should expect that others are going to comment based on "Player Projections", whether it be their own or the general consensus by others.

Any projection can be made. Most are statistics driven, along with self-premonitions. They make us feel better about selections, help with drafting, or sell publications.
On Opening Day, they are worthless, no matter how they are arrived at.
It is where real replaces imagination.
Where light replaces dark.
They are not 'worthless' to folks making them, they just become that way once real statistics replace imaginary statistics.
Say what you want about projections. Any projections. No matter where they come from, no matter how they are arrived at, no matter how much or who puts the work into them, they are still, imaginary.
On Opening Day and beyond, everything is real.

[rockitsauce]

You know what projections are truly for - selling magazines !

I'm w/ my boy B-Dub...just stop at the gas station & get a Hustler and you're ahead of the game Now if I can just talk him out of drafting Jeter 5 rd's sooner than he should