I am going to be providing you with a great strategy to ensure you are taking the right players during your fantasy baseball draft. I will give you some suggestions on what I think the best way is to go about drafting your first 5 picks. Your first few rounds you should only be looking to draft proven players who have had a great 3 year statistical trend. This should be the best available player available from your own player rankings. Definitely stay away from even tempting on drafting one of your sleepers or prospects. Once you get to your 4th or 5th round you want to start looking at position scarcity. These rounds you could pass over a guy who is more proven and has a high player ranking. An example would be if Derek Jeter is available and all your ranked shorts stops that are ranked higher then him are gone you might want to take Derek Jeter because of the drop off at the Short Stop position. Meaning the next available player after Derek Jeter has an extremely lower output. Therefore, if you don’t take Jeter now your fantasy baseball team will be crippled at the Short Stop position. This is the whole concept of being aware of position scarcity.
A key strategy that I use with my first 5 round picks is that I look to build up a great infield. The reason why that is, is because there is an abundance of Outfielders to choose from. I look at it like this, the numbers are so close between lets say my 14th ranked outfielder and my 5th ranked outfielder it really pays off if you can sustain from drafting a outfielder to later on in the draft. So don’t worry about if you are passing up on great outfielders in the first few rounds of your fantasy draft you can easily make that up in later rounds.
Based on my projections I am able to come with a list of players that will allow me to make these decisions much easier than if I was drafting of the top of my head. Basically, if you can set up your player rankings by position you will be able to see what your player scarcity is and what round you should start taking certain players. I have come up with a special system which helps me to produce a list very quickly and is also simple to follow during my fantasy draft day.
I hope this advice has helped you with your fantasy baseball draft strategy. I thought I would give you some of my ideas which have helped me have a number of great fantasy drafts in the past.
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