Draft Strategy with 20 cats

[Emerald8h]

Hey, I'm doing a yahoo H2H 10 team league with a lot of stats:

R 1B 2B 3B HR RBI SB BB AVG OBP

IP W L SHO SV HR K ERA WHIP K/BB

Would anybody deviate any from their usual draft strategy for this league?

[Dodgerbluesc]

Yes absolutely. I play in a similiar league. Walks are much more important. Not to tank other categories to pick up a guy like Dunn, but guys like Abreu to Hawpe need to be upgraded. Also you need to look at overall power, not just HR, but doubles and triples too. So judge by SLG instead of sheer HR. Lastly, in my league I try to fill my roster with guys who get a lot of hits, because someone who has 180 hits a year will eneviatbly have a lot of 2B, 3B and 1B, even if not HR. And 180 H will help you get guys with decent to good AVG, R and OBP will be at least average so they won't hurt you.

Your hitting categories are VERY similiar to the ones in my leauge. Your pitching categories are much different. It looks like you need innings eaters who don't give up many HR and have WHIPs below 1.30. If you find that the rest of the stats (K/BB, B, ERA, W, L etc) should be decent. Some of the big names in SP can still give up a lot of gopher balls so even though they look good in ERA/W/K they may hurt you in other categories... Also, avoid pitchers that walk a lot of guys as that can not only hurt their ERA in a given year but also will hurt you in WHIP and K/BB...

Not sure if my random collection of thoughts are helpful at all. Good luck!

[Emerald8h]

Thanks, would anyone consider just punting saves in this format. I hate punting anything, but with 20 cats, saves is pretty trivial. Also there are 4 SP slots, 2 RP slots, and one P slot, so you can really only draft 3 closers. It looks like offense and SP win this league.

[converge241]

I ran a 15 x 15 before just as a lark. I won the league really just by having BPA. When you have mpre categroies generally you can almost NOT worry about one or two stats and just field best overall players. I think you could easily ignore saves.