I really like the $100 team. Arenado/Miggy/Sale is like the nut first 3 picks drafting from the 10 hole. Might end up lacking in HR a bit, but otherwise seems very well balanced and your pitching should carry you most weeks.

I dont like the $50 team as much. Like you said, the Seager pick really kills Machados value. Also, I dont think you will win steals nearly as often as you think you will. I see Pollock, and a bunch of guys that are likely to see their speed regress hard (Upton, Braun, Kinsler and I feel like Machado wont reach last SB year's total either. Offense is obv really strong overall though.

You can't really punt anything in Roto without seriously putting yourself begind the 8 ball. A lot of the closers are good whip/era/ks but you're paying for them 6-10 rounds earlier for 1 category alone. Why take a middling closer in the 8th when you can take betances in the 15th and such

I agree with a likely SB regression but I should still get double digits from enough players to be well up there

Didn't realize Lindor was going that high in NFBC. Guess you gotta do what you gotta do.

It was 20 picks til my next pick and lindor would have been gone by then. I believe the next best SS was andrus/crawford (literally the 2 picks before me were Seager and boogie)

Picking at the corner sucks a lot

Hate that $50 draft, the $100 i only mildly dislike. Not a fan of either though really.

I don't like reaching for someone like Lindor ever, especially in a league that doesn't even have a MI slot. You could have waited until the end and gotten much better value at SS so that you wouldn't have had to punt some of your OF and UTIL slots

edit- actually now that i look at it in more detail, i like the $50 some more. I saw Belt at 1B but didn't notice that you got really good value on him, and your OF/UTIL is stacked.

I have 2 more drafts today (50 and 100) and am going to not draft a pitcher til the 11th round in either and see what comes up. Will report back

I'd amend that to draft one pitcher in the 4th/5th, then hold off on the rest.

i'm just operate experimentally on the first 6-8 drafts, just gonna stick with a strict no pitcher policy for 10 rounds today

ESPN is up

I've put together a summary for a "weekly roto" league. All comments and/or feedback are welcome.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B28...ew?usp=sharing

Some crazy stuff going on with their rankings. Rizzo and Bryant 19 and 20, for starters.

edit to add: Man, RPs are rated highly. Cody Allen at 77th overall. Kenley at 50th.

crazy for Rizzo, not as crazy for Bryant

i was really hoping ESPN wouldnt notice that gattis never played C last year and would give him eligibility again for my dynasty league.

now he has barely any value as a pure DH, or at least, much much less

I have Bryant in the top 15 at the very least.

He gets a ton of value when you switch from AVG to OBP. I think their Bryant rank is at least defensible. I haven't seen Rizzo anywhere close to that low though.

I'm not taking him in the first either but understand I'm in the minority. I just won't have him this year and I'm cool with that (EDIT - and I agree Rizzo outside the top 15 seems terrible. Comparable upside without near the batting average risk)

Speaking of leagues starting up .. I am starting one if anyone on here is interested. $80, 14 team 5x5 roto 'slow' auction keeper, $500 to spend at auction and can keep anyone on your roster for +$10 the following year (up to three times). Nothing too unique except weekly lineups and FAAB, since I know a lot of people prefer daily.

This isn't a 2+2 league or anything but I'm about halfway to filling it and if anyone on here wants in that'd be great. Just PM me with your email address I can send you a link to the Google Doc rules and an invite if you're interested.

decided to go 8 rounds of pitchers and not waste picks on relievers this time. in both instances once i hit the 11th round i didn't really care about getting value out of the pitchers i chose compared to my ADP since all the "value" picks by that point were all low floor low ceiling kind of guys and i figured i'd just load up on low floor high ceiling. i don't need all of them to hit, nor do i expect all of them to, but if even half do i'm in great shape

100 ypro h2h #2:

1. (2) bro
2. (23) marte
3. (26) springer
4. (47) gomez
5. (50) frazier
6. (71) seager
7. (74) dozier
8. (95) pence
9. (98) ross
10. (119) stroman
11. (122) matz
12. (143) shark
13. (146) park
14. (167) severino
15. (170) nola
16. (191) hill
17. (194) eickhoff
18. (215) j. ross
19. (218) jaime garcia
20. (239) karns
21. (242) pomeranz
22. (263) ozuna
23. (266) swihart

c: swihart
1b: park
2b: dozier
3b: frazier
ss: seager
of: bro, marte, springer
util: gomez, pence
bench: ozuna

sp: ross, ross, stroman, pomeranz, matz, shark, severino, nola, hill, eickhoff, garcia, karns

50 ypro h2h #2:

1. (9) arenado
2. (16) bryant
3. (33) upton
4. (40) cespedes
5. (57) jones
6. (64) seager
7. (81) hosmer
8. (88) dozier
9. (105) stroman
10. (112) richards
11. (129) carlos martinez
12. (136) matz
13. (153) grichuk
14. (160) severino
15. (177) nola
16. (184) turner
17. (201) j. ross
18. (208) hill
19. (225) eickhoff
20. (232) karns
21. (249) erasmo
22. (256) swihart
23. (273) pomeranz

c: swihart
1b: hosmer
2b: dozier
3b: arenado
ss: seager
of: bryant, upton, cespedes
util: jones, grichuk
bench: turner

sp: stroman, richards, erasmo, pomeranz, martinez, matz, severino, nola, ross, hill, eikhoff, karns

What do you like about Swihart so much?

Besides the price tag, obv

I'm not high on him necessesarily. The catcher options were **** and he has the most upside of them

yeah,catcher seems especially brutal this year...don't think it matters much who you get, really. Feels more likely than not that I'll be waiver surfing my catching options this year.

I'm not as high on Gomez as you seem to be, but point taken about high ceiling strategy.

How is everyone's top 10 looking? I'm still having trouble with #2, let alone all the way down.

1. Trout
2. Bro
3. Goldschmidt
4. Donaldson
5. Stanton
6. Arenado
7. Machado
8. Miggy
9. Rizzo
10. Bryant

Also im not especially high on gomez but when hes there at 50 it's unlikely he's going to be THAT much worse than top 50 and his upside is too high to pass on

1. Trout
2. Harper
3. Goldschmidt
4. Altuve
5. Betts
6. Rizzo
7. Stanton
8. Machado
9. Abreu
10. McCutchen

Say what now