Re: Draft Strategy (long post, will rep)
So, Trout, Harper, Arrieta, Rizzo available to be drafted. You pick Trout, Team 2 picks Harper (or Rizzo), “Previous Trade” picks Rizzo (or Harper), then it’s Team 2 drafting Arrieta (likely), then you.
You have the choice to choose 2 of Bautista, EE, Gordon, Sale, deGrom, Stras, and so on.
Trout, JB, Sale is my order. Sale will get the K’s and K/9 easily.
With the flop pick (30/31) you can actually start arms races if you so desire. I’ve done it before in hockey. You pick 2 of the same position and the other GMs start reaching on players of the same position, leaving you others later on. This is a bold move and doesn’t always work, but it’s helped me. So you could draft 2 RPs with one of your flop picks and hopefully other GMs start overreacting on picks.
Last yr, I had only RPs in my P slot, with no batter on my bench. And my bench was just RPs. I racked up saves, my K/9 was high, and my ERA was low. With Sale being elite in a lot of categories but Wins, you may want to turn to throwing away W’s and QS (Sale will get them tho), and just aim for the other cats. Again this is volatile approach because 1 bad game by a closer explodes your stats. A very good SP gets a k/9 of over 8.5, a typical closer is around that.
12 Team, H2H, Keep 6 (in Bold)
G, A, Pts, PPP, FW, SOG, Hits, Blocks
W, Saves, S%, GAA, Game Started
2C, 2LW, 2RW, 4D, 1Util, 2G, 5BN, 2IR, 1IR+, 1NA
C: Horvat, Trocheck
LW: J. Robertson, Byfield (C), Guenther
RW: Pavelski (C), Giroux (C), Svechnikov (LW)
D: Fox, Makar, Bouchard, Morrissey, Gudas
Util: Meier (LW, RW)
G: Oettinger, Georgiev, Samsonov, Woll