Today I am going to give you my 3 easy steps that I take before I start my fantasy baseball mock draft. These are my very personal secret steps that I have been doing for years and years to help me be successful in what really counts, draft day.
To find out what the strategy is that I use to prepare for a fantasy baseball Mock Draft then you need to keep reading. Be very careful when reading and take notes on what I am about to tell you because this could change your fortune in fantasy baseball. Using this strategy I can almost guarantee that you will stop being that guy that everybody laughs at around the water cooler!
Are you ready? Here we go.
Step #1 – Rankings
Setup all your fantasy baseball rankings before entering your fantasy baseball mock draft however don’t be like those enormous websites that pump out over hundreds and hundreds of rankings for each position. You need narrow your rankings for you Mock Draft to just the top 15 players at each infield position and then the top 50 pitchers and outfielders. THAT IS IT!!! There is no need to go beyond this because for goodness sakes there are usually only around 10 to 12 teams in any given fantasy baseball league. Therefore if you only rank the number of players I have suggested for each position then you will automatically be ahead of the curve.
Step #2 – Research
This may be the most important part to success not only in your fantasy baseball mock draft but to victory on the real draft day as well.
After you come to grips with only ranking the amount I have suggested in step #1. You will now need to compile all the information that you have TIME to analyze. This may be hard for some of you to handle because I do understand that Fantasy Baseball can become very addictive. Nonetheless, fight this urge and only gather as much information has you candle because too much information is not necessarily helpful. You can have all information in the world but if you can’t view it all and pull what things are important then it is all worthless to you.
What I do to help me out with this BEAST of a problem is that I break it down into segments. First, I look at the infield minus pitchers, then I move to outfielders and finally I look pitchers including starters and relievers. This brings me to another major problem people generally mess up on, statistics. What are you supposed to look for when examining each player’s statistics? Well, I could talk about this for another 3 or 4 articles, so lets stay away from this for purpose of this article and move on to step three.
Step #3 – Organization
This is key to having a good draft. First let me tell you what you don’t want to do. Please do not show up to your fantasy baseball mock draft with 20 different magazines and a notebook full of handwritten mumbo jumbo. This will only make you confused and discombobulated. Fumbling around for players to draft when it comes to your turn is not a good thing and in all the confusion you could screw up and pick someone that you may not even have in your personal rankings.
My solution to this is dilemma is to TYPE UP and print out your rankings. YES, I said TYPE, you will be surprised when draft day comes most people can’t even read their own handwriting! When you type up your rankings be sure to have bold headings for each position and make it simple keep one position on a page. This will keep you organized and calm. Also pay close attention to who is being drafted and cross them off of your rankings because, duh, they are no longer available to you.
So to sum up this step, type up and print out your rankings, this is all you need on the day of your fantasy baseball mock draft day. Stay away from all those tantalizing fantasy baseball magazines and stick to your plain old typed pages. My motto is KISS… KEEP IT SIMPLE STUPID.
I hope that you took notes and really took to heart some of the thing I have talked about here. If you follow these three steps you will definitely have success in your Fantasy Baseball Mock Draft and ultimately on in your real Fantasy Baseball Draft, which will carry over to success in your Fantasy League.
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