The League Of Street Cred Twelve Team ESPN Auction Draft Results

It started with a twitter murmur.  Hey Sky, you up to do a draft?  Well, I say, I’m already in five leagues.  What day?  What is the set up?  Are pants mandatory or optional?  But of course with only 140 characters available, I had to abbreviate to ‘In 5. Day? Set Up? Pants? Lulz’.  I don’t know why I said ‘Lulz’.  I think it’s required to put in one text word into every tweet you send out or you get your account suspended.  Ef you @Seaworld!  Sorry, inside joke.  Let’s move along.  Suffice to say, over a long course of contact and back and forth I eventually joined into the fray that is The League Of Street Cred thrown together by Ryan Hodge of Fantasy Insiders.  The title tells you exactly what you get by winning this league.  Street Cred.  That’s right, no money involved, unless Street Cred has an exchange rate.  I’m assuming mine is worth one Bitcoin at this point…all this to say, the evite was accepted and I hopped in and drafted with this cadre of the fantasy expert macabre below…

Alright, now that we know who the players were, we can talk about how we drafted…uh…players.  This was a 12 team roto style league, with two catchers and two DL slots.  It was also an Auction league which – when everyone has time for it – is da bestest.  Of course, the ‘when everyone has time’ part is the rub usually but somehow Ryan accomplished the feat.  Everyone had a $260 budget to spend and I swear everyone spent it in like two rounds.  No really, I couldn’t find a deal anywhere until around the 4th or 5th round and even then I was just getting market price.  There was some heavy spending going around and as we all know, that’s pretty anti-Razzball.  So I sat back and relaxed, languidly sipping my brew of choice while the chum got thrown in the water for the sharks to gorge on.  Needless to say, you’re not going to see any Miguel Cabrera or Andrew McCutchen on this team:

First off, ESPN hated this draft.  I think it placed it in the 11th, maybe 10th if Snafu Larry was having a good hair day.  So if you’re of the like mind it looks like you’re not alone and kudos to you.  Personally, I was fairly pleased with how my draft went minus a few things here and there.  But before I get to that, here.  That’s a link to look at the mess that is my team in an actual format you can understand better.  Yes, that means it’s a publicly viewable league so if you’d like to peruse the draft fallout or how other teams look, you now have been given the key to castle.  We good?  Good, moving along.  I went closer heavy because I had way too much money at the end of the draft…but it wasn’t my fault!  So many players early on that I wanted went above and beyond most of the action prices I saw for them on our Razzball 12 Team ESPN Auction page.  Sure, I spent a little over here and there on guys I wanted but that was my auction bible and I stuck by it to the end where I had too much scratch to not splurge on guys I wanted.  Looking back, Anibal Sanchez going for $17 was my chance to have an SP1-like pitcher but I settled for upside and guys that I just liked overall.  When Iwakuma comes back I’ll still be happy with Gio, Masterson, and Liriano flanking him and Gray bringing up the caboose.  Why Archie Bradley you ask?  Ehhhh, I don’t have a good answer other than $2.  He doesn’t have to be Jose Fernandez to come up good for me at that price and if he does nothing well he gets to go back into the FA pool where tons of arms are still swimming around…that’s a grossly used analogy now that I see it in type.  But besides, this league has a 200 start cap.  Yes, that’s 20 more than the usual RCL setup.  That simply means there’s gonna be plenty of streaming to keep the numbers high and who knows, maybe I package a closer plus an SP for an upgrade there down the road.  Either way, not something I’m worried about.  Oh and Dee Gordon is now on every team I’ve drafted so far this year.  That would be four teams.  I still have two more drafts to go.  God save me…from both this amount of leagues and not being able to quit Flash Jr.  Anyways, there you have it.  Feel free to like this on Facebook or whatever it is you kids do nowadays.  I’m out!