Fantasy Draft tips.

[BraveTiger]

Any tips? I'm going to try my first fantasy draft. I've played fantasy baseball before but always let it autopick couldn't sick through it...

I have two players I absolutely want... Jason Heyward and Craig Kimbrel.... so should i go for them first.

[statdude]

Usually, I look young in my guys. If there is a player who's good but old and a player underneath him that is not as good but younger, I'll take the younger one. In my Franchise, I have 2 players over 30 and thats it

[BraveTiger]

Quote: Originally Posted by statdude

Usually, I look young in my guys. If there is a player who's good but old and a player underneath him that is not as good but younger, I'll take the younger one. In my Franchise, I have 2 players over 30 and thats it

What order of posistion do you take? do you pre plan it kinda?

Also does it get old? I mean I've never done it because I'm all about realism in the game, so i've been thrown away from it...

But I really want to finish a 162 game season or two in this years game, always get close but quit. so i'm trying to make a dynasty in the forums for people to follow so i'll be inclined to finish it haha... seems like a fantasy is unique so people may get drawn in.

[Rs31632]

Heres a tip..... FIGURE OUT HOW BUDGETS WORK AGTER DOING A FANTASY DRAFT!!!!!!!! How can you run a franchise not knowing how you stand financially which is the whole point of freakin franchise mode

[statdude]

Batters:
CF Andrew McCuthchen 24 years old A POT
SS Andrubal Cabera 25 A
1B Mitch Moreland 25 A
LF CarGo 25 A
RF John Jay 25 B
3B Mike Moustakas 22 A
2B Tsuyoshi Nishioka 26 B
RF Dominic Brown 23 A
C Nick Hundley 27 B
C Hector Gimenez 28 D
2B Adam Kennedy 35 B
SS Eduardo Escobar 22 B
RF Kosuke Fokudome 33 C

Pitchers:
L Kershaw 22 A
R Strasburg 22 A
R Cueto 25 B
R Wade Davis 25 A
R Kris Melden 25 B
R Sean White 29 C
R Zach Putnam 23 C
L Renyel Pinto 28 C
R Ryan Webb 25 B
R Darren O'Day 28 B
L Will Ohman 33 B
R Drew Storen 23 A

Top Prospects
5 starting pitchers all under 26, 2 A, 3 B
CP 23 B
2 Infielders under 26 2 B
6 Outfielders all under 28 3 A's, 3 B's


Here's one of my teams. My first pick, I pick either a Great Young Pitcher or Great Young position and wing it from there

Also, Rs, Great Attitude bro. Don;t spam other threads about your situation that you already have in a single thread.

[PlottyDawg]

I too go young when playing a Franchise with a fantasy draft. I chose to do (and hopefully stick with) a Franchise w/my Royals. Now financially I know I'm pretty limited, so I was able to focus young but get a couple good veterans (especially pitching-wise w/an not-injured, Wainwright, David Price, Ubaldo Jimenez). I too wanted some of our top prospects (like Moustakas, Hosmer, Montgomery, Lamb) and was able to get them. My pitchers will get to develop in the minors, while Moustakas already is w/the major league club and doing okay. I'm excited to see how this pans out since I'm handicapped offensively but have awesome starting pitching.

[Sacrafice]

What I do is open up Excel and I put down about 100+ guys that I would want and where they went in the draft Early, Mid or Low in the round. As I went along I mapped out who I needed to take before hand and what I needed to what I have already taken.

For the most part players end up going within a few picks each time depending on what the team took and there has been a couple that went a few rounds early or late, but not often. The randomness is pretty good, but not so good at the same time. There is certain rounds where the CPU picks all pitchers then all position players then all A rated prospects. That will switch up giving it the bit of randomness and why some guys go a few rounds different each time.


I draft super young. Some guys I got.

Carlos Santana
Lonnie Chiesenhall
Justin Smoak
Freddie Freeman
Bryce Harper
Jacoby Ellsbury
Troy Tulowitzki
Yovani Gallardo
Jeremy Hellickson
Brett Andrerson
Kyle Drabek
Madison Bumgarner
Chris Sale
Aroldis Chapman
Jeremy Jeffress

and so on. Not great, but pretty young and talented.

[BraveTiger]

I'm about to do it... i just want heyward and kimbrel.... hopefully heyward will still be there round 2, i want strasburg.