Source: www.rotowire.com --- Wednesday, February 28, 2018
My Baseball draft season began in earnest Tuesday night with the “Beat Jeff Erickson” contest in the NFBC’s RotoWire Online Championship. As a quick reminder, there are two components to this contest – your 12-team league, and an overall contest that over 1,700 entries last year, at $350 per person. There’s no trading in the league, and the pressure to do well in the overall contest in addition to the individual league creates the incentive to contend in all categories. That said, there’s a difference between competing in all categories, and exiting the draft with a perfectly balanced team. For starters, the latter concept is mostly an illusion – we think we have balance, but injuries and managerial whims often conspire from attaining that balance, let alone the volatile nature of the game. You may very well think you have 90 saves in the bag after a draft, but you might have 30, or you might have 120. The latter is fine, except that you probably invested more resources than you needed to hit your target number, preventing you from contending in other categories overall. Tuesday night’s draft was exceedingly challenging. Of course, that’s a near-evergreen sentiment when discussing the NFBC. It’s not often that you run into a league where there are inexperienced players, ill-prepared players or those that are experimenting with strategy, given their investment in the league. As Chris Liss always preaches, having skin in the game ...
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