Fanball.com 10-Team Mock Draft

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 8:52 am

Fanball runs a lot of different draft formats for their four baseball magazines each year and in the Fanball.com Baseball Annual they will list a 10-team, 5x5 Rotisserie format. We just completed that 10-team draft, which was a breeze compared to anything I've done before!!

I know that most of our NFBC guys probably don't compete in 10-team formats, but it's still good to see where the top players went in the early rounds.

I'll post the first 10 rounds here -- the Top 100 players -- and you can see the rest of the draft when you pick up the Fanball.com Annual. Enjoy:

R1 P1 Ted Carlson Pujols, Albert 1B STL 2s

R1 P2 Charlie Wiegert Ramirez, Hanley SS FLA 16s

R1 P3 Kyle Elfrink Utley, Chase 2B PHI 14s

R1 P4 Ray Flowers Rodriguez, Alex 3B NYY 5s

R1 P5 Greg Ambrosius Braun, Ryan OF MIL 6s

R1 P6 Ryan Boyer Cabrera, Miguel 1B DET 2m 8s

R1 P7 Ryan Houston Crawford, Carl OF TB 15s

R1 P8 Tom Kessenich Kemp, Matt OF LA 3s

R1 P9 Seth Trachtman Howard, Ryan 1B PHI 24s

R1 P10 Mike Sheets Teixeira, Mark 1B NYY 23s

R2 P1 Mike Sheets Wright, David 3B NYM 18s

R2 P2 Seth Trachtman Holliday, Matt OF STL 59s

R2 P3 Tom Kessenich Reyes, Jose SS NYM 4s

R2 P4 Ryan Houston Longoria, Evan 3B TB 22s

R2 P5 Ryan Boyer Fielder, Prince 1B MIL 23s

R2 P6 Greg Ambrosius Mauer, Joe C MIN 20s

R2 P7 Ray Flowers Kinsler, Ian 2B TEX 8s

R2 P8 Kyle Elfrink Rollins, Jimmy SS PHI 19s

R2 P9 Charlie Wiegert Lincecum, Tim SP SF 28s

R2 P10 Ted Carlson Ellsbury, Jacoby OF BOS 17s

R3 P1 Ted Carlson Tulowitzki, Troy SS COL 5s

R3 P2 Charlie Wiegert Upton, Justin OF ARI 50s

R3 P3 Kyle Elfrink Sizemore, Grady OF CLE 5s

R3 P4 Ray Flowers Suzuki, Ichiro OF SEA 10s

R3 P5 Greg Ambrosius Votto, Joey 1B CIN 48s

R3 P6 Ryan Boyer Reynolds, Mark 3B, 1B ARI 25s

R3 P7 Ryan Houston Gonzalez, Adrian 1B SD 1m 5s

R3 P8 Tom Kessenich Berkman, Lance 1B HOU 2s

R3 P9 Seth Trachtman Pedroia, Dustin 2B BOS 6s

R3 P10 Mike Sheets Roberts, Brian 2B BAL 12s

R4 P1 Mike Sheets Bay, Jason OF BOS 29s

R4 P2 Seth Trachtman Greinke, Zack SP KC 15s

R4 P3 Tom Kessenich Sandoval, Pablo 3B, 1B SF 2s

R4 P4 Ryan Houston Zobrist, Ben 2B, OF TB 35s

R4 P5 Ryan Boyer Hernandez, Felix SP SEA 17s

R4 P6 Greg Ambrosius Phillips, Brandon 2B CIN 10s

R4 P7 Ray Flowers Jeter, Derek SS NYY 14s

R4 P8 Kyle Elfrink Sabathia, CC SP NYY 11s

R4 P9 Charlie Wiegert Morales, Kendry 1B ANA 12s

R4 P10 Ted Carlson Granderson, Curtis OF DET 35s

R5 P1 Ted Carlson Martinez, Victor C, 1B BOS 20s

R5 P2 Charlie Wiegert Halladay, Roy SP TOR 44s

R5 P3 Kyle Elfrink Markakis, Nick OF BAL 6s

R5 P4 Ray Flowers Upton, B.J. OF TB 18s

R5 P5 Greg Ambrosius Santana, Johan SP NYM 28s

R5 P6 Ryan Boyer Werth, Jayson OF PHI 23s

R5 P7 Ryan Houston Choo, Shin-Soo OF CLE 22s

R5 P8 Tom Kessenich Lee, Carlos OF HOU 12s

R5 P9 Seth Trachtman Youkilis, Kevin 1B, 3B BOS 17s

R5 P10 Mike Sheets Lind, Adam OF TOR 47s

R6 P1 Mike Sheets Abreu, Bobby OF ANA 14s

R6 P2 Seth Trachtman Morneau, Justin 1B MIN 19s

R6 P3 Tom Kessenich Haren, Dan SP ARI 2s

R6 P4 Ryan Houston Verlander, Justin SP DET 57s

R6 P5 Ryan Boyer Broxton, Jonathan RP LA 20s

R6 P6 Greg Ambrosius Zimmerman, Ryan 3B WAS 48s

R6 P7 Ray Flowers Ramirez, Aramis 3B CHC 8s

R6 P8 Kyle Elfrink Beltran, Carlos OF NYM 9s

R6 P9 Charlie Wiegert Dunn, Adam OF, 1B WAS 18s

R6 P10 Ted Carlson Cano, Robinson 2B NYY 12s

R7 P1 Ted Carlson Vazquez, Javier SP ATL 18s

R7 P2 Charlie Wiegert Nathan, Joe RP MIN 26s

R7 P3 Kyle Elfrink Lee, Cliff SP PHI 5s

R7 P4 Ray Flowers Victorino, Shane OF PHI 7s

R7 P5 Greg Ambrosius Wainwright, Adam SP STL 50s

R7 P6 Ryan Boyer Cruz, Nelson OF TEX 4s

R7 P7 Ryan Houston Ethier, Andre OF LA 56s

R7 P8 Tom Kessenich Ibanez, Raul OF PHI 11s

R7 P9 Seth Trachtman Lester, Jon SP BOS 15s

R7 P10 Mike Sheets Beckett, Josh SP BOS 14s

R8 P1 Mike Sheets Johnson, Josh SP FLA 3s

R8 P2 Seth Trachtman Ramirez, Manny OF LA 21s

R8 P3 Tom Kessenich Hill, Aaron 2B TOR 11s

R8 P4 Ryan Houston McCutchen, Andrew OF PIT 32s

R8 P5 Ryan Boyer McCann, Brian C ATL 4s

R8 P6 Greg Ambrosius Hamilton, Josh OF TEX 10s

R8 P7 Ray Flowers Rios, Alex OF CHW 9s

R8 P8 Kyle Elfrink Rivera, Mariano RP NYY 5s

R8 P9 Charlie Wiegert Lee, Derrek 1B CHC 17s

R8 P10 Ted Carlson Young, Michael 3B TEX 53s

R9 P1 Ted Carlson Soriano, Alfonso OF CHC 24s

R9 P2 Charlie Wiegert Lopez, Jose 2B SEA 17s

R9 P3 Kyle Elfrink Suzuki, Kurt C OAK 5s

R9 P4 Ray Flowers Gallardo, Yovani SP MIL 4s

R9 P5 Greg Ambrosius Figgins, Chone 3B ANA 15s

R9 P6 Ryan Boyer Jones, Adam OF BAL 3s

R9 P7 Ryan Houston Ramirez, Alexei SS CHW 1m 11s

R9 P8 Tom Kessenich Pence, Hunter OF HOU 39s

R9 P9 Seth Trachtman Bourn, Michael OF HOU 4s

R9 P10 Mike Sheets Hunter, Torii OF ANA 16s

R10 P1 Mike Sheets Papelbon, Jonathan RP BOS 23s

R10 P2 Seth Trachtman Butler, Billy 1B KC 22s

R10 P3 Tom Kessenich Kershaw, Clayton SP LA 40s

R10 P4 Ryan Houston Anderson, Brett SP OAK 2s

R10 P5 Ryan Boyer Carpenter, Chris SP STL 8s

R10 P6 Greg Ambrosius Hanson, Tommy SP ATL 54s

R10 P7 Ray Flowers Hamels, Cole SP PHI 36s

R10 P8 Kyle Elfrink Beckham, Gordon 3B CHW 10s

R10 P9 Charlie Wiegert Peavy, Jake SP CHW 26s

R10 P10 Ted Carlson Cain, Matt SP SF 28s

Thoughts?

[ December 09, 2009, 06:12 PM: Message edited by: Greg Ambrosius ]

Less than Dave · Post by **Less than Dave** » Wed Dec 09, 2009 6:10 pm

I've been playing CDM/Fanball games for about 8-9 years, so I am quite familiar with the 10-team leagues (Draft and Play)... NFBC is a TOTALLY different game, however. Personally, I like both. Obviously it's much more challenging to draft in a 15-team league.. you could easily miss out on an entire position, especially closer and catcher, and have no substitutes for them in NFBC, whereas in Fanball, you can always pick up solid players through Free Agency pretty easily... You can take more risks on injury-prone or high upside players in Fanball because their replacement player values are MUCH higher than in NFBC.. plus, you only gotta beat 9 other teams to make money, and getting 2nd or 3rd gets you at least your money back in the higher priced games.. what's not to like about that?

Ryan E. Houston · Post by **Ryan E. Houston** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 5:46 am

I agree -- which is why in this format I never pick closers. I feel I need to find some young cheap pitching and there will always be closers who emerge.

Additionally, I'd rather focus on a few young guys who have legit upside. If they don't work out, you can always pick up a veteran who will be sitting on the wire.

Big difference between 10 and 15 but both offer a little bit of everything.

Walla Walla · Post by **Walla Walla** » Thu Dec 10, 2009 9:20 am

Ryan E. Houston, Ah great your pumping the 10 team fanball draft. So this would rank right up there with the Free ESPN draft. Which has nothing to do with high stakes drafts. Leave the driving to Greg and Tom. Past mag's were Rotowire, Rotoworld etc. Now it's just Fanball. Extra charges for some events that caused many of the former players to leave that other high stakes game have surfaced. I have no doubt that many will come to post how great you are and how I should be kicked off the site. Which I'm sure will happen sooner than later.

Tom Kessenich · Post by **Tom Kessenich** » Fri Dec 11, 2009 2:07 am

I was pretty happy with the team I drafted in this league. There's a lot of strong talent available in a 10-team format so every team has a shot to load up but I was happy with how this draft went.

On the other hand ... we had a 15-team NFBC style draft yesterday. I pretty much sank to the bottom in that one. I had the first pick and took Pujols and it pretty much went all downhill after that.