Fantasy Baseball: AL Mock Draft
I think price lists for auctions are important, even though everybody is going to immediately focus on the prices they disagree with. Paul Lo Duca for $10, readers of my magazine are saying, “You idiot!”
Well, it’s entirely possible.
But I think it is in draft leagues that you really need to study what happens in mock drafts. After all, draft-style fantasy is a game of irrational runs and stomach-churning suspense, capped by intense misery when one’s favorite sleeper gets taken in the 11th rounds.
Here is a first shot at it, from ESPN. Giambi shouldn’t be anyone’s third pick, but all in all the results here are fairly standard and defensible. If you play draft-style, this is a good place to begin studying, at least until ESPN introduces it’s composite draft results, derived from the actual results of actual leagues.
In a game driven by psychology and guts and context, that’s useful.