Can you punt BA and still win your league?

[Izenhart]

Round two begins...

My first Yahoo draft of the year concluded earlier this evening, and of course I wanted to see what kind of team I could put together for this again because it was so much fun last year, and I think I had a very good draft. All 12 teams showed up and players were routinely falling for less than they usually go, 4 teams left money on the table, a total of $111 unspent league-wide, which was more than I'd ever seen. I capitalized on the bargains and stuck to my plan, spending slightly less on pitching this time around I think my only concern is going to be there. Here's what I came up with:

$260 spent
$172/$88 split

hitters
C Napoli (1B) $7
1B Encarnacion $27
2B Uggla $4
3B H Ramirez (SS) $27
SS Rollins $10
OF Heyward $29
OF Granderson $27
OF BJ Upton $18
DH Dunn (1B/OF) $7
DH Willingham (OF) $7

bench
1B Konerko $5 (totally unexpected)
2B/SS E Cabrera $3
2B/OF Bonifacio $1

pitchers
SP Hamels $24
SP C Lee $23
RP Rivera $7
RP Romo $7
P Chapman $18
P Estrada $3
P H Bailey $2
P C Janssen $2

bench:
SP Lohse $1
SP Miley $1

Bidding $5 on Konerko made me miss out on Fister and/or Harvey who went for $5 too, so as good as the deal was I think I would have been better off letting him go for $4. At least I'll have some trade value if I do need a pitcher.

In my next draft I'm going to trade a bat for an arm, paying for someone like Price instead of Encarnacion. Other than that I think this team will do well. Thoughts?

[Quackman]

looks like you executed your plan perfectly. good luck.

hey i got a cheap (20.00) snake draft on sunday 8pm, need two more lemme know if interested.

[Izenhart]

I'm going to be doing a few serious leagues this year so I won't have time to do 6 more low BA teams. I've decided to stick to two, especially since the teams will be very very similar, but I wanted my second team to use a different format with different suggested auction values. I hopped on over to ESPN and picked a team there that I am happy with. I'll post 2-3 updates during the year on each team like I did last season.

10 team league, ESPN roto.

$260 spent
$167/$93 split

Hitters:
C Napoli $6
1B Dunn $2
2B Kinsler $20
3B H Ramirez $27
SS Rollins $10
MI Uggla $6
CI LaRoche $1
OF Heyward $21
OF BJ Upton $20
OF Granderson $18
OF Jennings $12
OF Rios $9
DH Ortiz $8

Bench:
2B/SS Rutledge $2
OF C Gomez $5

Pitchers:
P Weaver $20
P Sabathia $18
P Chapman $16
P Latos $12
P Haren $11
P Morrow $7
P Rivera $6
P K Jansen $1
P Frieri $1

Bench:
P Perkins $1

I know it doesn't matter but the projected standings said I win the league by 8 points. So long as I don't run this into the ground I'm off to a good start.

[Quackman]

so it sounds like your scared?

[Izenhart]

so it sounds like your scared?

Sorry I couldnt do the draft at the time last Sunday I had people over, still willing to do this one more time for fun if you want to - shoot me a PM and we'll talk