I just reviewed my team. I did great in batting, I didn't finish worse than 3rd overall in any batting categories. My fielding and stolen bases were bad, but those categories are largely fringe categories in fantasy baseball, having little impact overall (and I would argue that stolen bases have very little impact in the MLB).
My problem was starting pitching, where I finished dead last or second to last in every category. This can be traced directly to two moves:
1. Drafting Daisuke Matsuzaka in the fourth round. When Daisuke wasn't failing on the field, he was recovering from fake injuries off the field. He finished the season with 3 wins and 1 QS total.
2. Drafting Mike Mussina in the 9th round. Obviously this was a hall of fame screw-up. I honestly believe that I would have drafted Ted Lily if I knew he was retired. Ted Lily finished the season with a 12-8 record, 140+ Ks, 3.01 ERA, and a WHIP of 1.06. Theodore Lilly was drafted in the 12th round.
I think my best move in the draft was picking up Joe Mauer, who I got in the 5th round, and finished 2nd overall according to player rater. If you recall Mauer was injured at the start of the season.
The biggest problem that I couldn't control was losing my #1 pick Manny Ramirez because the MLB decided to care about steroids out of left field.
Other POI: I gave one of you Ben Zobrist and the other Justin Upton, who both finished the season respectably. I am not upset with these moves because (1) our fantasy league sucked so hard that I didn't care, (2) our fantasy league sucked so hard that noone would make any deals, and (3) I desperately needed pitching stats.
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Capital_Prototype. You have inspired me to post my findings about the correlation of stats and success in fantasy baseball that I was thinking about today at work.
ReplyDeleteAlso, outside of your drafting of Mike Mussina, I blame myself for the league being so shitty this year.
We should have a board meeting for future fantasy baseballing.
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