Number 1 Pick?

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 12:47 pm

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Nutty Scrat:

[QB] From the Fantasy Sports Magazine projections:

---Pujols--- Reyes--- Soriano

Ave - .329 - .289 - .283

HR --- 45 ---- 16 --- 32

RBI --- 129 --- 79 -- 88

Steals -- 10 -- 62 --- 38

From the Rotowire Magazine (interesting take on projections somewhat close however)

---Pujols--- Reyes--- Soriano

Ave - .330 - .286 - .283

HR --- 52 ---- 18 --- 41

RBI --- 128 --- 75 -- 97

Steals -- 10 -- 66 --- 35

What does it mean? Got me? I just thought I would throw it out there. LOL

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 5:25 am

I will go through all of the live draft results and have some fun with the numbers in a separate thread, but I just wanted to let you folks know that Pujols went No. 1 in 27 of our 28 live drafts (25 main event leagues, 3 Ultimate Draft Leagues). The only league that he didn't go No. 1 was in New York League 1, where he went third. Soriano went first in that league, Reyes second and Pujols third. Interesting.

Again, look for more fun numbers tomorrow. Good luck.

Oh, I bid $43 for Pujols in LABR NL. I sure hope the 20 pounds he lost doesn't hurt his power numbers!!

Spartacus · Post by **Spartacus** » Sun Mar 25, 2007 6:03 am

I just saw Pujols featured on the cover of some fitness/muscle magazine yesterday. The guy looked like he could crack coconuts open with his biceps! I drafted him 1 in LV7. Perhaps I'm just a sucker for coconut milk.................

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:04 am

Ok! I started this topic a couple of days ago because I had the 1st pick in a satellite draft last night. I thought it would be interesting to see what others thought and maybe help me make a decision on my 1st pick. It has been definitely a fun thread. That being said I made my decision and can and obviously live with it. LOL

I felt that I would rather chase HR's then steals so here is what I ended up with to maybe give us further banter on this topic.

One obvious observsation is I have NO SAVES. So I will be chasing steals along the way. So fire away! No problems with the critique of my draft as I am always learning. Thanks in advance.

Pick #

1 - SS Jose Reyes

2 - 3B Aramis Ramirez

3 - 1B Derreck Lee

4 - CM Ryan Zimmerman

5 - OF Nick Swisher

6 - P Aaaron Harang

7 - P Dontrell Willis

8 - OF Raul Ibanez

9 - 2B Josh Brfield

10 - MI Tadahito Iguchi

11 - UT Adrian Beltre

12 - OF Pat Burrell

13 - P Tom Glavine (I think I took him too soon.)

14 - C Paul LoDuca

15 - P Jason Jennings

16 - C Bengie Molina

17 - OF Garret Anderson

18 - OF Xavier Nady

19 - P Doug Davis

20 - P Matt Lindstrom

21 - P Kei Igawa

22 - P Matt Capps

23 - P George Sherrill

Bench

24 - Kevin Gregg

25 - Chad Billingsley

26 - Kendry Morales

27 - Melky Cabrera

28 - Ron Belliard

29 - Paul Byrd

30 - Jamie Moyer

DOUGHBOYS · Post by **DOUGHBOYS** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:36 am

I don't usually respond to Managers request for analysis on a team but it seems that you could REALLY use some help. Your first four picks are good, hitting wise, but you've handcuffed yourself from taking any value from the most plentiful resources on the infield in 1b and 3b.

Your pitchers rankings should be given a second look and revised. Ask yourself why Harang and Willis should be sixth and seventh rounders and look at the pitchers that were taken immediately before and after them, would they have been better choices?

Did you have a plan going into the draft or were you focused on that first pick? It seems as if there was no motive in place other than getting power after the Reyes pick. Check out NFBC adp's from the main draft and compare the player to where you took your player in your satelite, I'm betting that you took most players "too soon." The most aggregious error comes after your 18th pick. You could have turned off the computer and gone to bed. Besides Igawa, who is an unknown, there is no upside, turnaround, prospective, or value picks. A silver lining is that you will have a lot of players to throw back to the heap of free agency. I would start stockpiling any starting pitcher that breathes and tank saves.

Hopefully you'll take these comments constructively, when I saw your draft I didn't know whether to laugh or cry. Let me know how things turn out.

[ March 26, 2007, 11:12 AM: Message edited by: DOUGHBOYS ]

King of Queens · Post by **King of Queens** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:07 am

Wow, that was HARSH!!!

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:08 am

Thanks Doughboys. No problem at all. I guess it's worse than I thought. LOL You can laugh or cry thats ok as maybe the learning curve is larger than I thought. I actually thought things may have been going a tad astray as I approached the middle of the draft. Hopefully it won't be as bad as it looks. One never knows. Thanks again.

DOUGHBOYS · Post by **DOUGHBOYS** » Mon Mar 26, 2007 5:27 am

Originally posted by King of Queens:

Wow, that was HARSH!!! Hopefully, he'll deem it more helpful than harsh which was the intent.