@kc: I prefer the end of the round. I like to be able to take back to back picks at the end of the 1st round. So you can potentially have Longoria and Howard… Or Fielder and Holliday… Etc.

@grey – i dig your rankings and i was in no way trying to say that you specifically focus too much on ADP. I prefer your rankings to most as they are a bit outside the box and going against conventional thinking. That is all I was trying to do with my ADP comment (bring some attention to the situation). On the 1B comment – this is truth, but MDC updates their ADP constantly, and the most recent ADP listing was run from 450 drafts from 2/3-2/10. It would be fair to assume that computer auto selections are the ones drafting Delgado so early.

Its good to ask questions ya diggg…

@matthole: Dotel and Capps are closers as of right now, they should be owned before any bench hitter.

@The Dude: A) In the 150s. B) In the early 200s.

a)has a starting job
b)starts the season in the minors

http://www.mockdraftcentral.com/report_adp_calc.jsp

This is a key snippit from the above link:

Rather than filtering out individual computer selections, which is statistically invalid, we exclude entire drafts where computer selections exceed the threshold. The threshold varies by number of drafts run during a reporting period. During peak drafting periods the threshold is ratched upward, while during less intense periods, the threshold is relaxed a bit.

Even a post-hype sleeper like alex gordon may even be worth a bench spot for the first month or so since 3B is so thin. If he develops into the 4/5 cat stud hes supposed to be; that can be a very valuable asset as opposed to a potential closer since they turnover frequently ie SAGNOF

1. Lincecum
2. Greinke
3. Felix
4. Johan
5. Cliff Lee
6. Vazquez
7. Broxton

That’s all you posted, except for the 23rd, were he finally got Freddy Sanchez at 2B…

I have done numerous mock drafts and at best only half the room is on autodraft (you can tell b-c that team picks instantly for each pick after the 1st round). With that being said don’t you think that ADP is shortsighted when half the time it is the computer automatically drafting whatever player that MockDraftCentral has ranked in their specified order?

It seems to me that ADP is mainly a mirror image of MockDraftCentral’s player rankings.

For example: Carlos Delgado (163), Paul Konerko (217). First off, Carlos Delgado isn’t on a team and may retire while konerko is what he is. Regardless, this is a clear example of how the autopick during a draft effects the ADP rankings and is something that should be taken in account when looking at ADP.

Thoughts?

The mock was for a 12 team 5×5. I picked 5th.

C: Mike Napoli R14
1B: Justin Moreanu R4
2B: Chase Utley R1
SS: Alexei Ramirez R12
3B: Ian Steward R9
OF: Matt Holiday R2
OF: Grady Sizemore R3
OF: Jayson Werth R5
Util: Carlos Quentin R11
Util: Jay Bruce R13
Bench: Cameron Maybin R22

SP: Clayton Kershaw R6
SP: Ubaldo Jimenez R7
SP: Cole Hamels R8
SP: Chad Billingsley R10
SP: Jonathan Sanchez R16
SP: Johnny Cueto R18
SP: Phil Hughes R20
SP: Chris Tillman R21
SP: Shaun Marcum R23
RP: Leo Nunez R15
RP: Mike Gonzales R17
RP: Jason Frasor R19

Thoughts? I think Marcum is a bit of a homer pick, but he could have a great bounceback year. Hughes could flop but it was a round 20 pick. Kershaw and Stewart might of been reaches but I thought they had good value and filled the holes I needed to fill.

Ok, thanks for the reply, but just so I am clear in a 2 catcher league are you saying you’d use a pick in the first 5 rounds on guys like McCann, Mauer, or VMart? Or are you saying that due to scarcity at the position in 2-catcher formats a guy like Weiters is worth a pick in the 5th round?

I actually went thru all 1401 players today and started moving them over to my “prerankings draft list”. It was ridiculous the guys I found after a normal draft would end. Some guys I’d take a flier on were ranked in the 500-800 range…. crazy.

I saw pitchers are rated pretty early, and how all the big first base bats get slid down is beyond me, but hey, what are ya gonna do…. KNOW UR SHIZZ and take a deal when you can get it.

Round 23
(1) moehair929 – Brian Matusz (Bal – SP)
(2) Team 2 – David Murphy (Tex – OF)
(3) chris – Daisuke Matsuzaka (Bos – SP)
(4) Lollygaggers – Dexter Fowler (Col – OF)
(5) Team 5 – Kyle Lohse (StL – SP)
(6) michael – Freddy Sánchez (SF – 2B)
(7) Team 7 – Peter Moylan (Atl – RP)
(8) Team 8 – Mike González (Bal – RP)
(9) jeebusjohnson – Everth Cabrera (SD – SS)

looking at round 7 – I should have teken a starting pitcher instead of a short stop – but I did not have any cheat sheets set up – could have drafted my short stop in round 11 instead

Round 7
(1) moehair929 – Elvis Andrus (Tex – SS)
(2) Team 2 – Dan Uggla (Fla – 2B)
(3) chris – Billy Butler (KC – 1B)
(4) Lollygaggers – Adam Jones (Bal – OF)
(5) Team 5 – Adam Dunn (Was – 1B,OF)
(6) michael – Jonathan Broxton (LAD – RP)
(7) Team 7 – Wandy Rodríguez (Hou – SP)
(8) Team 8 – Torii Hunter (LAA – OF)
(9) jeebusjohnson – Lance Berkman (Hou – 1B)
(10) Team 10 – Shane Victorino (Phi – OF)
(11) Team 11 – Mariano Rivera (NYY – RP)
(12) Team 12 – Clayton Kershaw (LAD – SP)