Boys Will ALWAYS Be Boys

[DOUGHBOYS]

We look so forward to drafts. For some of us, we look more forward to them than baseball season beginning.
We're like a kid getting a new Lego set. Just staring at the box and picture on it, is almost as cool as building it, as we do a team each season.

Most girls or women don't get it. They don't understand that boys grow into men, but retain our boyishness. It's why it is mostly men that have fast cars, or motorcycles, or boats, or any other kind of adult toy. We have a hard time growing up.
And, we're ok with that.

These slow drafts (sorry Greg, a slow draft is a slow draft) we are doing, are different than normal drafts. In a normal draft, we are so focused on who we want, or the many directions to go, or change of strategy due to draft flow, that we hardly have time to stop and look what is going on around us.
In a slow draft, we may have too much time to think. We'll make a choice between Brandon Phillips and Pablo Sandoval in the fourth round, decide on Phillips, and watch the next few picks slowly come in. If this were a normal draft, we'd be praying that Sandoval comes back to us.
In a slow draft, I get indignant in front of the computer, wondering why the following drafters haven't taken Sandoval.
What's the matter with these other drafters? Are they stupid? Go ahead, let him come back to me! Don't they get it?
Oh crap! Maybe it's me! Maybe I think too much of Sandoval!
And the self-doubt begins.
This is all stuff we never endure during a normal draft. For me, the only anxiety I have during a normal draft is after I see my full team and think of all the possible holes that may need to be filled.

During a slow draft, we have time to examine each pick. There are too many holes.....And those holes never go away for the whole of the draft. Sometimes I wish I could have the bravado of that drafter who brags about his team. You know, Mr. Brash and Cocky. The guy who says he has filled every 'projection'.
I know projections are, to put it as nicely as possible, cow manure, but it makes that drafter sound smart and as if he has the perfect team.

There have been 21 perfect games in baseball.
There has not been one perfect draft in fantasy baseball. It's what we all strive for. To have a perfect draft is to have all 30 players, or 50 players in a slow draft, each return more value than the round they were drafted in. And to only use faab for category assistance.
You wouldn't think a perfect draft in fantasy baseball would be tough to accomplish, but there have been lotto winners, hole in one shots, even moon shots, and still nobody has had that perfect draft.

It's why men mostly play this game. We know it can be done. And we each have the boyishness to know that it'll be us that does it. Each of these drafts that the women in our lives roll their eyes at, is a chance for us to obtain what has become the unobtainable. It doesn't even need to be THE perfect draft.
Even if it's a draft that's good enough to beat the snot out of other teams, we'll take it. We'll try for the perfect game later. We don't have to own the Lamborghini, sometimes the ride is good enough.
These drafts are our toys.
And we love our toys.
There's a reason why (most) girls don't get it.
And, there's a reason why toys rhyme with boys.
And, the best thing about failing to nail down that perfect draft....
Is that it gives us the opportunity to try again.

[MadCow Sez]

Actually Dan, I think the perfect draft is the draft where your players stay healthy and perform so consistently that you never need FAAB. How's that for a statistical absurdity?

[DOUGHBOYS]

Actually Dan, I think the perfect draft is the draft where your players stay healthy and perform so consistently that you never need FAAB. How's that for a statistical absurdity?

Yep Dan, there is no definition of a drafters perfect game, is there?
To draft 30 players and not have to worry about a one of them would be perfect....
Still, I'd find something to worry about...

I've seen drafters have the same 30 guys from draft to finish, but only because they got busy or cared little about their teams.
Not exactly perfect and not what we're looking for...

I'm a grinder and don't know what I'd do with myself without dropping and adding each week....
But if I can get that perfect draft, I'd be willing to give it a try.