Did my first 2 real drafts. The first one was a mistake
I did it Monday and signed up for a cheapo Yahoo $20 league as a warmup but I accidentally signed up for head to head rather than rotisserie. I hate H2H. The strategies for the 2 formats are totally different and H2H involves more luck than skill (my opinion!). Anyway the H2H draft went okay but I have no real interest in that format.
The rotisserie draft today was an eye opener. Nothing like the H2H or any of the mocks I had done to this point. Mocks on Yahoo suck because I think it is mostly H2H players and it makes it easy for a roto player to draft exactly what they want.
I put way more weight on pitching than most of you on this board because nothing sinks a roto team faster than bad pitching while in H2H you can just stream pitchers and probably do okayish. Anyway in the roto draft all of the big 4 SPs were gone by the 8th pick (so much for hoping for a late pick! I was in the 4th spot) and every closer of note was gone by the end of the 9th round. This surprised me as pitching isn't typically at this much of a premium. I still got my 2 aces (Kershaw and Syndergaard) and 3 reasonable closers and 2 of the most valuable roto back enders (Devinski and Green). On the other hand I have a very speculative offense. But last season I had 2 seconds and a first with basically waiver wire offenses. Good hitters pop up all year long but a genuine ace or closer is hard to find. As always my strategy is to dominate the pitching categories and get enough offense to be at least average on that side of the ledger.
2 more drafts this weekend and after seeing how things played out today I may rethink a few things. Would have definitely taken my first closer one round earlier if I figure they would go so fast and early.