What round do you start drafting SP's?

[tianyi86]

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.

[chipper]

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.

[BronXBombers51]

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.

[Yoda]

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.

[Grounded Polo]

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.

[fortune cookies]

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.

[Ender]

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.

[pokerplaya]

It's been said quite a few times in this thread:

Value Based Drafting.

[AKhomebrewer]

Ayuh, the value thing.

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.

[bigh0rt]

There isn't a single round I wouldn't take a SP in this year, provided the right pitcher is there.