If you can grab one of the top tier pitchers in round 4 or 5, do it. But personally, I didn't draft a single pitcher until round 7 last season and won 4 of my 5 redraft leagues. As for closers, I would actually draft one before round 10 because the late round closers are way too volatile.
Philly_05 wrote:I enjoy playing against the people who don't draft pitchers till the 6-7-8th rounds it's not the way to win.
Well it's not the way to lose either.
Both taking a pitcher early and waiting until rounds 6-8 can be equally effective. Also depends on your settings. There are some formats where you'd be crazy to take a pitcher in the first 6 rounds, and others where it's a good idea. Totally depends. But to say as a rule people who don't draft a pitchers until the 6-7-8th rounds are doing it wrong, is incorrect.
I never plan to draft a pitcher by a certain round...I just see how the draft goes and plan my picks accordingly.
That said, I tend to take my first SP in the 6th or 7th round. Then I might take another in the 9th or 10th. I usually don't touch RPs in the first 10 rounds.
Philly_05 wrote:I enjoy playing against the people who don't draft pitchers till the 6-7-8th rounds it's not the way to win.
Well it's not the way to lose either.
Both taking a pitcher early and waiting until rounds 6-8 can be equally effective. Also depends on your settings. There are some formats where you'd be crazy to take a pitcher in the first 6 rounds, and others where it's a good idea. Totally depends. But to say as a rule people who don't draft a pitchers until the 6-7-8th rounds are doing it wrong, is incorrect.
Agreed. This is why fantasy baseball is so much fun. You can employ many different strategies and still win. I tend to grab pitchers as they fall rather going after a specific pitcher. I find that generally paying less for an arm works out better in the end.
"Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that." ~George Carlin
I'm currently employing a draft one solid ace and then fill out the rest of my staff with cheap options that have more upside over reliability in a H2H Cafe league. The ace I drafted was Cole Hamels so that could certainly backfire horribly.
I usually go with the standard approach to roto by usually getting 2 starters in the first ten rounds.
I like to draft starters when I do not like any of the bats available. Round 5-6 are like this in my opinion this year. When my best bat options are Pena, Young, Mauer, Kinsler, Sheffield, Chipper, etc, I like to take a ace like Lackey. I'm not saying these bats are bad, but I just think the team will benefit more from the ace at that point than taking, for instance, Peavy over Sizemore in the second.
I draft for value, seems I usually grab a pitcher come round 6 or 7 this season.
You can not draft a single pitcher in the first 9 rounds and still do fine in pitching so there is no need for taking one, but there isn't a good reason to pass them up if you find a good deal either. Roughly 40% of the pitchers taken in the first 6 rounds will be relative busts anyway so it isn't like you are falling way behind. A couple will have majors injuries, a couple will have minor injuries, a couple will have unlucky Ws or ERA etc. Happens every single year.
I tend to go into drafts with a tiered ranking sheet by position, along with an overall 10-12 rounds deep, and grab pitchers where they look like the best deal. League setup/categories are key, too. In my 12-team 5x5 roto it's likely to be somewhat different than in my 16-team H2H.
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