Posted by rbow923 on 11/11/2011 4:21:00 PM (view original):
Posted by mildnhazy on 11/11/2011 3:56:00 PM (view original):
while I was a little preturbed by the rosters submitted by brianjw and profcake I have to say I think their thought process actually helped this draft become more strategic and thus more enjoyable.......I certainly don't hold the same degree of annoyance for those picks as I do some of the league-ruining picks in the 120mil league
those players added nothing to this league except some urgency to avoid them. Yes there is some strategy inmvolved but I wouldn't call it more strategy it pushes other strategies aside. the bad pitchers won't get used except for mopup duty and we can draft mopups for <300k. the bad hitters may have to split time with subs so they will contribute something but probably not as much as brian intended.
for my 2 cts., the more strategically interesting "bad" players are the ones who have at least some usable skill set. Clete Boyer and Chone Figgins, for instance: you wouldn't necessarily want to get stuck with either of them, but they do have something that makes them draftable (i.e., Boyer's defense and Figgins's speed). similarly, some of the bottom-of-the-barrel SPs, like Carlos Silva, have some intriguing characteristics that actually makes them somewhat valuable in the league instead of strictly mop-up duty.