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[DOUGHBOYS]

There are some damned good fantasy baseball players in the NFBC.
Damned good.
And I don't have to go into names.
If you're reading this, you know who they are.
And if you're reading this, in your heart of hearts, you know you are just as good.
We all feel that way.

There is not one NFBC drafter that I would fear to draft against. Not even one that would make me pull on a collar to help myself breathe during a draft.
To me, we all play among the best players and some of those players have tasted more success. It just hasn't been our turn to have as much success....yet.
Oh wait, let me retract a statement.
There HAVE been a few drafters I avoid. BUT, it is not because they are good. It's because they were/are slow.
I avoided Frankie Newton for awhile.
And Eric Heberlig for awhile. He got better this year.
I avoid KC Cha now because he is so damned slow.
These drafters that have success one year, then enter millions of times the next year expecting the same success, usually just slow us down.
If these guys beat me in a draft...zero frustration.
But waiting on their picks?
It's like trying to eat a sandwich with Jello as the bread.
Frustration overload.

Any way, I don't believe there are any true 'experts', either in the media or among us as players.
Some talk a great game or have a great past, but in no way does that mean future success.
Todd Zola says that Paul Goldschmidt should be dropped to near the bottom of the first round on draft lists.
Eric Karabell says he should be taken sixth.
Bryan Vogel thinks Ronald Acuna is great and that I overdraft Gary Sanchez.
I believe that Acuna is over drafted and can't get enough Sanchez.
Who is right and who is wrong?
We don't know.

We all get millions of opinions and bits of information every day leading up to drafts.
We categorize and prioritize every bit of those bits.
BUT, each one of us, no matter how good of a fantasy player we think we are, will do so differently.
This is why some players will have great years followed by bad years.
What we do with all information is the key.
Sometimes we store it correctly, sometimes not.

I know that if Todd suggests that Goldy be taken later that there is a scientific means in which he came to that conclusion. And if interested enough, I can find out why he thinks that way.
Karabell is a typical, typical media guy.
He still uses, basically, the same rules and points of view that was being used many years ago.
'Don't draft pitchers early.'
'Don't draft Closers early.'
'Scrutinize players that had down years the previous seasons'.
The last one is probably tried and true.
The first two shows that our game has evolved but some of the media, have not.
In the end, I would lean towards trusting Todd's opinion a little more, but then give it back in my own mind because I believe that Goldy is still better than most at the bottom of the first round.
So, in the end, the Karabell-Zola points are both null and void, since I like my own opinion more.
Still, we have to store both Todd's and Karabell's opinions in our brain somewhere.
It's easier for me to store any info that comes from a media type.
Not that they do not prepare before saying what they say. It is just don't they prepare for an NFBC draft before saying what they say.
Before this off season is through, all 750 players drafted in leagues will be 'valued' by a media person.
It's what they do.
And we do what we do.
And that's the way it should be.