No rate my team thread yet?

[Transmogrified Tiger]

Fine, I'll start. 10 teams, 5x5

 

C Matt Wieters

1B Mark Teixeira

2B Brandon Phillips

3B Aramis Ramirez

SS Stephen Drew

2B/SS Brian Roberts

1B/3B Kevin Youkilis

OF Matt Kemp

OF Shin-Soo Choo

OF Franklin Gutierrez

OF Mike Stanton

OF Nick Markakis

UTIL Mark Reynolds

P Justin Verlander

P Dan Haren

P Zack Greinke

P Ryan Dempster

P Javier Vazquez

P Craig Kimbrel

P Leo Nunez

P Ervin Santana

P Gio Gonzalez

BE Matt LaPorta

BE John Lackey

BE Jed Lowrie

[ctcf]

I guess I'll do this as well. 10 team league

 

C - Mike Napoli

1B - Albert Pujols

2B - Dan Uggla

3B - Ryan Zimmerman

SS - Stephen Drew

OF - Shin-Soo Choo

OF - Jay Bruce

OF - Colby Rasmus

Util - Kelly Johnson

Util - Ben Zorbist

BN - Angel Pagan

BN - Ike Davis

BN - Jason Kubel

BN - Ian Desmond

BN - Ian Stewart

 

SP - CC Sabathia

SP - Matt Latos

SP - Chad Billingsley

RP - Carlos Marmol

RP - Huston Street

P - Ryan Dempster

P - John Danks

[rawaction]

Fine, I'll start. 10 teams, 5x5

 

C Matt Wieters

1B Mark Teixeira

2B Brandon Phillips

3B Aramis Ramirez

SS Stephen Drew

2B/SS Brian Roberts

1B/3B Kevin Youkilis

OF Matt Kemp

OF Shin-Soo Choo

OF Franklin Gutierrez

OF Mike Stanton

OF Nick Markakis

UTIL Mark Reynolds

P Justin Verlander

P Dan Haren

P Zack Greinke

P Ryan Dempster

P Javier Vazquez

P Craig Kimbrel

P Leo Nunez

P Ervin Santana

P Gio Gonzalez

BE Matt LaPorta

BE John Lackey

BE Jed Lowrie

 

This team is really good. Good starting pitching. A lot of low WHIP, high K guys (Verlander, Greinke, Haren), which is always good. Won't do much in SVs though. OF is actually pretty weak, IMO, and in a 5 OF league (which is insane FWIW) you got 3 really good ones and Markakis who should be back to being pretty good with the lineup surrounding him now.

[rawaction]

I guess I'll do this as well. 10 team league

 

C - Mike Napoli

1B - Albert Pujols

2B - Dan Uggla

3B - Ryan Zimmerman

SS - Stephen Drew

OF - Shin-Soo Choo

OF - Jay Bruce

OF - Colby Rasmus

Util - Kelly Johnson

Util - Ben Zorbist

BN - Angel Pagan

BN - Ike Davis

BN - Jason Kubel

BN - Ian Desmond

BN - Ian Stewart

 

SP - CC Sabathia

SP - Matt Latos

SP - Chad Billingsley

RP - Carlos Marmol

RP - Huston Street

P - Ryan Dempster

P - John Danks

 

A lot of power on that team. Any team w/ Pujols is legit. Bench is weak though you don't have any huge injury concerns to worry about. I don't think Latos repeats his 2010, but he should still be pretty decent. Pitching should be good enough.

[CarolinaCubFan]

Gonna play a 6 team 5x5 this year.

 

C - Matt Weiters

1B - Albert Pujols

2B - Ian Kinsler

3B - Jose Batista

SS - Alexei Ramirez

OF - Carl Crawford

OF - Matt Kemp

OF - Shin Soo Choo

OF - Andre Ethier

UT - Hunter Pence

UT - Starlin Castro

BN - Chase Utley

BN - Stephen Drew

BN - Brian Roberts

 

SP - Felix Hernandez

SP - Clayton Kershaw

SP - Yovanni Gallardo

SP - Matt Cain

RP - Jokim Soria

RP - Jonathan Broxtan

P - Tommy Hanson

P - Max Sherzer

P - Brett Anderson

P - Houston Street

 

Stacked lineup, but the other teams are as well. Need to fix my bench.

[NeifiIsMyHomeBoy]

14 Team; 6x5; Average is replaced with total hits.

 

C: Joe Mauer

1B: Kendry Morales

2B: Aaron Hill

3B: Mark Reynolds

SS: Alexi Ramirez

OF: Ryan Braun

OF: Matt Kemp

OF: Carlos Lee

OF: Sean Rodriguez

Bench: Ike Davis

Bench: Theriot

 

P: Kershaw

P: Josh Johnson

P: Garza

P: Nolasco

P: Jurjens

P: Gavin Floyd

P: Drew Storen

P: Evan Meek

Bench: Javier Vazquez

[erik316wttn]

Standard Yahoo public league, 12 teams 5x5. I'm kinda "meh" on it.

 

C: Geovany Soto

1B: Billy Butler

2B: Ben Zobrist

3B: David Wright

SS: Starlin Castro

OF: Carlos Gonzales

OF: Shin Shoo Choo

OF: Nick Swisher

UTL: Jose Tabata

UTL: Austin Jackson

BN: James Loney

BN: Michael Cuddyer

 

SP: CC Sabathia

SP: Jeremy Hellickson

RP: Huston Street

RP: John Axford

P: Ryan Dempster

P: Matt Garza

P: Carlos Zambrano

P: Aroldis Chapman

BN: Drew Storen

BN: Brett Myers

 

Five Cubs. Me? A homer? Nah.

[Guest]

I don't understand why you'd do a 6 team mixed league set up. Why not just do AL or NL only?

 

Erik, I think your team is pretty decent, but you were even worse than I am about drafting to potential instead of results. My not-even-close-to-expert opinion says you're at the back end of the playoffs with a little good fortune from the young guys.

[erik316wttn]

I don't understand why you'd do a 6 team mixed league set up. Why not just do AL or NL only?

 

Erik, I think your team is pretty decent, but you were even worse than I am about drafting to potential instead of results. My not-even-close-to-expert opinion says you're at the back end of the playoffs with a little good fortune from the young guys.

 

My auction strategy was all messed up though. I bid heavy early and was an active early bidder, then was pretty much inactive for a good hour or so (except for artificially driving up the price of some guys I knew would be in demand), then jumped on guys like Hudson, Z, Cuddyer etc at the end. I got each of those guys for a buck because everyone else was tapped out. But, i finished with money left over so that tells me I could have picked up another solid player or paid a little more for a superstar. But, live and learn.

 

Let this be a lesson: Do some mock drafts.

[Guest]

Yeah, it can be hard sticking to an auction strategy. Especially when you're going against guys who haven't done it before. In my case, I really wanted Longoria since I wasn't a big fan of the other 3B options. Well, turns out one of our guys didn't make the draft and somehow had player ranked his way into super inflated values, and bought each of the first 4-5 guys at insanely high prices, including Longoria. It's hard to be disciplined when you're watching the best players go off the board and you don't have anyone yet. I finished with about 10% of my draft budget still available, but I was okay with it because I could pretty much dictate who I wanted for the last 10 "rounds" or so, since everyone else was down to $1-$3 a spot.

[Keener98]

10 team, head to head, points league. Scoring categories are Offensive: R, Hits, singles,doubles, triples, home runs, rbi,stolen bases, walks. Negative value for K's, GIDP's, and caught stealing. Pitching:IP,Wins, CG, Shutouts, Saves, K's, holds, QS. Negative value for: Losses, ER's, Walks, Blown Saves.

 

 

McCann

Tex

Philips

Tulo

Zimmerman

Rasmus

Delmon Young

Victorino

2 utility spots

Beckham

Furcal

Abreu

Adam Laroche

Rolen

Austin Jackson

Carlos Ruiz

Dominic Brown

 

Pitchers

Verlander

Latos

Valverde

Broxton

Liriano

Dempster

Hellickson

Matusz

Edwin Jackson

Jurrjens

[erik316wttn]

Yeah, it can be hard sticking to an auction strategy. Especially when you're going against guys who haven't done it before. In my case, I really wanted Longoria since I wasn't a big fan of the other 3B options. Well, turns out one of our guys didn't make the draft and somehow had player ranked his way into super inflated values, and bought each of the first 4-5 guys at insanely high prices, including Longoria. It's hard to be disciplined when you're watching the best players go off the board and you don't have anyone yet. I finished with about 10% of my draft budget still available, but I was okay with it because I could pretty much dictate who I wanted for the last 10 "rounds" or so, since everyone else was down to $1-$3 a spot.

 

Yeah that was pretty much my last rounds, too. I was like the Yankees and bought anyone I wanted.

[Rob]

12 team h2h league, standard 5x5 categories... positions and limits a bit different though. LF-CF-RF instead of 3F OF, only one Util and one C. 4 SP, 1 RP, and 1 P, with a max of 7 starts per week.

 

C - Matt Wieters

1B - Prince Fielder

2B - Neil Walker

3B - Evan Longoria

SS - Jimmy Rollins

LF - Jose Tabata

CF - Alex Rios

RF - Jay Bruce

Util - BJ Upton

 

BN - Angel Pagan (LF, CF, RF eligible)

BN - Manny Ramirez (LF eligible)

BN - Alex Gordon (LF, 3B eligible)

 

SP - Felix Hernandez

SP - Shaun Marcum

SP - Hiroki Kuroda

SP - Ricky Nolasco

RP - Neftali Feliz

P - Jonathan Papelbon

 

BN - John Danks

BN - Michael Pineda

 

I like my offense quite a bit, including the bench. Between those guys I should be able to adjust my lineup to get whatever I need a bit more of that week. The way my league set up pitching seems weird. I opted to try to go for a middle of the road pitching staff with some solid but uninspiring guys to balance a couple upside guys. I don't think I'll do much better than split pitching categories most weeks, so I'm relying on my offense to make me a playoff team. Hopefully they come through... this is the first year my friends and I are doing a money league.

[Tracer Bullet]

Yeah, it can be hard sticking to an auction strategy. Especially when you're going against guys who haven't done it before. In my case, I really wanted Longoria since I wasn't a big fan of the other 3B options. Well, turns out one of our guys didn't make the draft and somehow had player ranked his way into super inflated values, and bought each of the first 4-5 guys at insanely high prices, including Longoria. It's hard to be disciplined when you're watching the best players go off the board and you don't have anyone yet. I finished with about 10% of my draft budget still available, but I was okay with it because I could pretty much dictate who I wanted for the last 10 "rounds" or so, since everyone else was down to $1-$3 a spot.

 

The first couple years of auction drafts, I tended to target just 1 or 2 more high priced guys early, but ignore the real top picks like Pujols and HRam. In 10-12 team leagues, if you had the patience for it, you'd start seeing amazing value in the $12-15 range when other teams have blown most of their budget or started freaking out that they had $100 left and only 4 spots filled. It's a little more difficult now that more people have experience with it.

 

But I don't think walking away with a few bucks is an indication that you should have spent more. Hopefully it means that since you didn't wildly overpay for a bunch of guys, you were able to get several guys at very good prices. That said, if you walk away with $50 and don't have any top talent, you probably have the wrong strategy.

[erik316wttn]

I got some pretty good value late in this draft last night:

 

C: Soto

1B: Adam LaRoche

2B: Gordon Beckham

SS: Hanley Ramirez

3B: Ryan Zimmerman

OF: Jay Bruce

OF: Brett Gardner

OF: Chris Young

UTL: Aramis Ramirez

UTL: Mike Stanton

BN: Carlos Quentin

BN: Carlos Lee

 

SP: Tommy Hanson

SP: Roy Oswalt

RP: Jonathan Broxton

RP: John Axford

P: Chris Carpenter

P: Clay Bucholtz

P: Ryan Dempster

P: Tim Hudson

BN: Fransisco Cordero

BN: Ted Lilly

BN: Aroldis Chapman

[ctcf]

10 Team League

 

C - Geovany Soto

1B - Adam Dunn

2B - Ian Kinsler

3B - Alex Rodriguez

SS - Troy Tulowitzki

OF - Matt Kemp

OF - Alex Rios

OF - Colby Rasmus

Util - Curtis Granderson

Util - Brett Gardner

BN - Carlos Pena

BN - Neil Walker

BN - Jason Kubel

BN - Adam Laroche

BN - Magglio Ordonez

 

SP - CC Sabathia

SP - Chris Carpenter

RP - Jonathan Papelbon

RP - Craig Kimbrel

P - Ryan Dempster

P - Ted Lilly

P - John Danks

P - Fernando Rodney

[Cubbie Swagger]

10 team, H2H

 

C - Russell Martin

1B - Joey Votto

2B - Juan Uribe

3B - Evan Longoria

SS - Hanley Ramirez

2B/SS - Starlin Castro

1B/3B - Adam Dunn

OF - BJ Upton

OF - Ichiro Suzuki

OF - Carlos Beltran

OF - Jason Kubel

OF - Sam Fuld

UTIL - Buster Posey

BENCH - Freddy Sanchez

BENCH - Johnny Damon

BENCH - Chipper Jones/Casey McGehee (I have to get rid of one of them right now to make room for Longoria coming off the DL)

 

SP - CC Sabathia

SP - Josh Beckett

SP - Carlos Zambrano

SP - Matt Cain

SP - John Danks

SP - Matt Garza

RP - Carlos Marmol

RP - Jonathan Papelbon

RP - Brandon Lyon

 

My outfield doesn't hit for much power, but overall I think it's a solid team. I have a few guys who I haven't gotten any production out of yet who are generally safe bets like Longoria, Hanley Ramirez and Dunn. I think once those guys get back to their normal production, I'll be pretty gravy.

[Emroy]

1 Broxton

2 Liriano

3 Dempster

4 Hellickson

5 Matusz

6 Edwin Jackson

7 Jurrjens

8 Zimmerman

9 Rasmus

10 Delmon Young

11 Victorino

12 utility spots

13 Beckham

14 Furcal

15 Abreu

16 Adam Laroche

17 Rolen

18 Austin Jackson

19 Carlos Ruiz

20 Dominic Brown

21 Pitchers

22 Verlander

23 Latos

24 Valverde