How Is Your End Game?
Posted: Tue Jun 12, 2012 1:28 pm
Do you remember how much time you spent pouring over stats, projections, etc. in trying to figure out how to fill your team up at the draft in the last five rounds? The proverbial “end game” is where leagues are won, right?
As my team sucks and resembles a MASH unit (note to self, never draft Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee together, again), I no longer have to worry about the tough decisions as to whom to play, as my bench is, and has been, filled with DL’d players. Given the additional time, I tracked the players cut in my league (Online #5) and learned that, at least in our league, that finding value in the last five rounds is beyond difficult.
Here’s a look at those rounds, and the surviving players:
Round 30. Two of the original 15 are still rostered by the drafting team. One, Nolan Arenado, hasn’t played an inning. The other, Jake Westbrook, hasn’t been much of a contributor.
Round 29. Three players have survived. Seth Smith isn’t much. Jordan Schafer has 14 SB, but nothing else. Anthony Rizzo hasn’t played an inning in the MLB.
Round 28. One player, Kyle Drabek is still on his original team.
Round 27. A huge round for Online #5 with six drafted players still on their original teams. Wei-Yin Chen, Josh Reddick and James McDonald have contributed. It looked/looks like David Robertson might contribute. Tyler Green is still rostered, and Trevor Bauer could be called up in the near future.
Round 26. Remarkably, Pedro Alvarez is still on his team. Aaron Harang has been serviceable, and Mike Trout has been fantastic.
All told, a total of just 16 of the 75 players drafted remain on their drafted teams. Of those 16, four have yet to appear in a major league game, six others haven’t done anything to write home about. This leaves just six contributing players (Schafer, Chen, Reddick, McDondald, Harang, and Trout) drafted in the last five rounds. Not surprisingly, my last five picks have all been cut.
The team that drafted two of the contributing six (Mike Trout and James McDonald) has hovered between 250th and 300th overall.
As my team sucks and resembles a MASH unit (note to self, never draft Roy Halladay and Cliff Lee together, again), I no longer have to worry about the tough decisions as to whom to play, as my bench is, and has been, filled with DL’d players. Given the additional time, I tracked the players cut in my league (Online #5) and learned that, at least in our league, that finding value in the last five rounds is beyond difficult.
Here’s a look at those rounds, and the surviving players:
Round 30. Two of the original 15 are still rostered by the drafting team. One, Nolan Arenado, hasn’t played an inning. The other, Jake Westbrook, hasn’t been much of a contributor.
Round 29. Three players have survived. Seth Smith isn’t much. Jordan Schafer has 14 SB, but nothing else. Anthony Rizzo hasn’t played an inning in the MLB.
Round 28. One player, Kyle Drabek is still on his original team.
Round 27. A huge round for Online #5 with six drafted players still on their original teams. Wei-Yin Chen, Josh Reddick and James McDonald have contributed. It looked/looks like David Robertson might contribute. Tyler Green is still rostered, and Trevor Bauer could be called up in the near future.
Round 26. Remarkably, Pedro Alvarez is still on his team. Aaron Harang has been serviceable, and Mike Trout has been fantastic.
All told, a total of just 16 of the 75 players drafted remain on their drafted teams. Of those 16, four have yet to appear in a major league game, six others haven’t done anything to write home about. This leaves just six contributing players (Schafer, Chen, Reddick, McDondald, Harang, and Trout) drafted in the last five rounds. Not surprisingly, my last five picks have all been cut.
The team that drafted two of the contributing six (Mike Trout and James McDonald) has hovered between 250th and 300th overall.