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On with some more Mocksturbation! How was that, Todd?

First, lets get the six rounds of the last draft that Greg posted

NFBC Draft Champions League
Round 1:
1 1 Ryan Braun LF
1 2 Mike Trout CF
1 3 Miguel Cabrera 3B
1 4 Robinson Cano 2B
1 5 Andrew McCutchen CF
1 6 Joey Votto 1B
1 7 Albert Pujols 1B
1 8 Matt Kemp CF
1 9 Prince Fielder 1B
1 10 Carlos Gonzalez LF
1 11 Adrian Beltre 3B
1 12 Clayton Kershaw SP
1 13 Josh Hamilton CF
1 14 Giancarlo Stanton RF
1 15 Stephen Strasburg SP

Round 2:
2 1 Justin Verlander SP
2 2 Justin Upton RF
2 3 Hanley Ramirez SS
2 4 Buster Posey C
2 5 Edwin Encarnacion 1B
2 6 Jose Reyes SS
2 7 Troy Tulowitzki SS
2 8 Evan Longoria 3B
2 9 Jose Bautista RF
2 10 David Price SP
2 11 David Wright 3B
2 12 Adrian Gonzalez 1B
2 13 Starlin Castro SS
2 14 Chase Headley 3B
2 15 Dustin Pedroia 2B

Round 3:
3 1 Jason Heyward RF
3 2 Bryce Harper CF
3 3 Adam Jones CF
3 4 Jay Bruce RF
3 5 Ian Kinsler 2B
3 6 Ryan Zimmerman 3B
3 7 Felix Hernandez SP
3 8 Cole Hamels SP
3 9 Cliff Lee SP
3 10 Ian Desmond SS
3 11 B.J. Upton CF
3 12 Jacoby Ellsbury CF
3 13 Billy Butler DH
3 14 Yoenis Cespedes CF
3 15 Paul Goldschmidt 1B

Round 4:
4 1 Allen Craig 1B
4 2 Yu Darvish SP
4 3 Jason Kipnis 2B
4 4 Matt Cain SP
4 5 Aaron Hill 2B
4 6 Zack Greinke SP
4 7 Matt Holliday LF
4 8 Ben Zobrist RF
4 9 Jered Weaver SP
4 10 Curtis Granderson CF
4 11 Shin-Soo Choo RF
4 12 Craig Kimbrel MR
4 13 Madison Bumgarner SP
4 14 Aramis Ramirez 3B
4 15 Yadier Molina C

Round 5:
5 1 Joe Mauer C
5 2 Brandon Phillips 2B
5 3 Jimmy Rollins SS
5 4 Roy Halladay SP
5 5 Desmond Jennings LF
5 6 Carlos Santana C
5 7 Victor Martinez C
5 8 Chris Sale SP
5 9 Kris Medlen SP
5 10 R.A. Dickey SP
5 11 Mat Latos SP
5 12 Brett Lawrie 3B
5 13 Wilin Rosario C
5 14 Max Scherzer SP
5 15 Matt Wieters C

Round 6:
6 1 Austin Jackson CF
6 2 James Shields SP
6 3 Adam Wainwright SP
6 4 Jose Altuve 2B
6 5 Jordan Zimmermann SP
6 6 Mark Teixeira 1B
6 7 Michael Bourn CF
6 8 Mike Napoli 1B
6 9 CC Sabathia SP
6 10 Gio Gonzalez SP
6 11 Matt Moore SP
6 12 Elvis Andrus SS
6 13 Freddie Freeman 1B
6 14 Mark Trumbo LF
6 15 Alex Gordon LF


In this exercise, we can be one of three picks.
1-5
5-10
11-15

If one through five, build your best 'starting six' within the perameters of your draft position.

1ST Round is anybody, so I'll select Braun.
2nd Round, I have a choice of Wright, Headley, Gonzalez, Pedroia, and Castro
So, I'll select Wright.
Third round, Heyward, Harper, Jones, Bruce, and Kinsler
I'll take Kinsler and go the 75/75 route for this team
Fourth round, Choo, Kimbrel, Bumgarner, Ramirez, and Molina
Wanting to get pitching in and since Closers are not yet fully known yet, I'll take Kimbrel
Fifth round, Mauer, Phillips, Rollins, Halladay, and Jennings
I'll stay with the balanced offense and take Phillips
Sixth Round, Moore, Andrus, Freeman, Gordon, Trumbo
And I better grab a Starter and take Moore.

Braun, Wright, Kinsler, Kimbrel, Phillips, and Moore.
Like said, you can do this for every part of the round. It gauges who to expect to be there at a certain pick and what we could do before the draft.
I like comparing 'My' team with other teams drafted to see how I measured up as well.
Again, don't take these pllayers as players I liked, or the one's passed as disliked, mostly just a show and tell.

As I recall Dan you've been an early closer guy the last couple of years. I grabbed Kimbrall in the 7th round in one league last year and was very glad I did. Where he's going this year is just to high for me. I'd love to have him but he's going to have to drop to me.

Nice exercise, thanks for sharing.

Thanks Joe.
You're sort of right. Early in the drafting season, early, I like well established Closers more than than say, when the Main Draft comes.
Kimbrel will go in the 3rd and 4th rounds during early drafts. He has a job and is the best at it right now.
Papelbon and Motte have been trailing him by a round or two.
Like last year, the closer to the season we get, the more Kimbrel falls. In this last draft shown, he's fallen to the bottom of the 4th.
By Main Event time, he'll most likely be going in the bottom of the 5th or top of the 6th. Nothing has changed with Kimbrel during that time, but it becomes clearer to drafters who his 29 counterparts are.

The beginning of the off season is a horrible time to draft Closers. Almost half the Closers have not been 'named' Closers by their managers and their is a carousel of movement.
Early Drew Storen drafters took a kick to the nuts with the Rafael Soriano signing. Andrew Bailey owners now have little to look at. Some didn't believe the Reds would make Chapman a Starter. It all conspires to make Kimbrel a good, early pick.
But as each situation gets clearer, it drops Kimbrel down a bit more along with Papelbon and Motte this year.
It's become a natural progression.

Back when I did straight drafts and not doing auctions exclusively, I did a variation of what you are doing. I would take an ADP list or actual league drafting list. I would normally do three different self drafts against those list. One from the 4th spot, one from the 8th spot and one from the 12th. Once I got my position

I was allowed to draft any remaining player. If drafting from the middle, I would cross off the 1st 7 ADP picks and then select. I would then cross off my pick and the next several picks until it was my turn. I would account for when my pick was actually selected assuming he was before I selected again. This way I could get drafts from the front, middle and back of a single ADP list. As the draft progressed, I could find instances when I got the same player in all three "leagues". One of these drafts take less than 30 minutes and does give you a good example of where players fall.

Once I got my actual draft position, I would do several drafts against several lists using that position.