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Fair point, Mickey. I am going to need Albert and Bautista, just trying to find some hitting to go along with them when they remember who they are. If only one or two of my other hitters were picking up some slack!

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Thanks Perry. I could try being even more patient (at least you've talked me back down off the ledge!) and go with Carp if he's likely to be the best long-term solution. The way my season has started, power is the missing ingredient.

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Possibles from: Moreland, Carp, Brantley, C Gomez (could platoon him with Morgan), Kotchman, Viciedo and Seth Smith.

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... were my insurance for slow starts by my risky outfield purchases (Heisey, Mayberry etc). Now suffering hitting meltdown. I know, patience, patience. But if Albert and Jose (who are obviously untradeable at the moment. Never get fair value) don't start turning into themselves soon, I will surely ...

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11-team mixed redraft, standard ESPN league. As we drafted a couple of weeks ago, the wait for the season is making me want to tinker with my team. Already made a couple of trades and it looks like this: C Y Molina, 1b: M Texeira, 2b: I Kinsler, 3b: M Young, SS: A Ramirez, CI: Napoli, MI: B Phillips...

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Thanks for the views. The MIs do lack star quality, but as you say, I had to get four of them. Wanted to get Infante and his plus average to balance a power guy like Mark Reynolds, who then went for WAY more than I wanted to pay. Very much hopong Presley and Heisey get a chance to play. Will run STA...

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As I posted in the strategy section, top 400-rated players were randomly put up for auction rather than nominate your own players. Changed the dynamic of the drat quite a bit. Tried to get value early on, but probably ended up getting lower-rated players even cheaper than they should have been. Mayb...

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Interesting stuff. Thanks, guys. Top 400-rated players were randomly put up. Tried to get value early on, but probably ended up getting lower-rated players even cheaper than they should have been. Maybe should have waited to snap up better players at bargain prices. Still it meant I had enough money...

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This year's alteration to our auction is a long story, but it boils down to this: In a dollar auction, what effect will it have with the computer randomly selecting the player to be nominated. In other words, Pujols may come out first, or 420th. Impossible, it would seem, to try to get players spend...

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Yup, thanks Perry.

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Definitely not (sadly, as I'm an Angels fan), just wondering who is more likely to be productive for the rest of the season. Belt will soon have positional flexibility, too. At the moment, either player would be on the bench until I can work out a trade.

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14-team mixed redraft league. Team in sig. Been offered Vernon Wells for Brandon Belt. Would anyone here do that trade? Giants seem a little reluctant to commit to Belt full-time, and Wells will be an everyday player when he returns in 10 days. Have enough hitting not to have to use either for a cou...

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Thanks Trav. Guerrero is usually in there. Just not last night. I'm an Angels fan but slightly surprised you went for Walden as the top choice ahead of Cordero, Nunez and Street. Risk of injuries with the others?

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14-team mixed redraft league. Team in signature. Take deep breath here, because this one rambles on a bit. My auction plan (closers were WAY too expensive I thought) has not worked. Grabbed Thornton though, and look how that turned out. So, my pitching is good, lead the league ERA and WHIP, as well ...

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Thanks, Perry. Here's hoping the kid keeps hitting .400!

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Thanks Todd, just checked and Lawrie is 2b eligible in my league, and the Toronto press seem to be begging the Jays to call him up. As I've been lucky with injuries so far (that should jinx it) I grabbed Belt as I have the bench room. Moustakas has been taken. Which of my three catchers would you dr...

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Two questions: 1. Is Kipnis likely to make the major league club on/after June 1? 2. Would anyone here drop Clint Barmes for him anytime soon? 14-team mixed redraft league, team in sig. Have to play 4 middle-infielders, hence my interest. Thanks for any and all opinions. PS If you can think of any o...

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I haven't let Myers off my bench for three weeks. The Braves are up next (bench) and then it's the Blue Jays (obvious bench). I'm wondering when I'll have the courage to start him. Does hope remain for him, or should I be looking to drop him for someone with upside like Derek Holland or Brandon McCa...

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D'oh! Should have made it clear it's Homer.
Thanks Perry, I'll likely grab him and hope he's healthy.

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14-team Mixed, team in sig below. I like my starters, but due to what I thought were overpriced closers during the draft, ended up with only Thornton as a closer. And we all know what happened to that. Leading ultra-competitive league in WHIP and ERA despite my relief pitching (just dropped Benoit),...

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Try as I might, I cannot get the CVRC to work with a $500 budget and my league parameters (in sig). This is slightly worrying as I my auction is at the weekend and I would like the Mastersball valuations as a rough guide. If it helps to work out what is going wrong (apart from pilot error), the pool...

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Well, macros enabled, but still no joy. Whenever I enter CUSTOM and change the number of hitters, I get 998 players in the pool, and a pool size factor of -0.6 and am told to change the pool size factor so I end up with 16(!) players in the pool. SO frustrating. Probably doesn't help that I'm not a ...

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Todd, I think it might help if I could find a way to enable macros in openoffice.org (whatever the hell that means) on my mac at work. Will get back to you. Still trying!

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This year will be my first true auction. Have previously snake-drafted and then last year was a hybrid auction/snakedraft. 14-team regular 5x5 rules, Usual batting line-up with two catchers and an extra middle infielder and Utility (2C, 1b, 2b, 3b, SS, CI, 2MI, 5OF, 2UT). 5 Starting Pitchers, 4 Reli...

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Fascinating article by Todd - as usual - on auction tiers strategy. But in limiting the discussion to AL and NL only I'm still searching for an outline plan for my 14-team auction at the end of this month - if such a thing exists. Usual 5x5 rules, but with an extra middle infielder, 3 bench, 2 UT an...

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(Also posted in Platinum section) Great to be back on the site. I've already said goodbye to my family for the next six or seven months! Interesting topic on which games we all play already on the board. I play in a 14-team mixed 5x5 league with standard categories. The League has four divisions of ...

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Thanks Todd. I'm aware that there is a gap and that the other teams will still be stealing, but Aybar, Izturis and even Tulowitzki have started to steal more and I've got Crisp hopefully to come off the DL soon. Ramping up my SBs seems to me to be the easiest way to gain a few points fairly quickly....

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14-team 5x5 team in sig below. Also posted in Platinum. It's very tight in SBs in our league, and I could make up 7 points with an extra 10 SBs. My team is starting to steal more, but I have an offer of Michael Bourn for my Adam Dunn. As I've just traded Brandon Phillips for Swisher and Hart, Posada...

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Thanks Todd. Spot-on about Bedard. He was a last-name pick-up at the draft because I knew I could stash him on the DL.
Patience, in this case with SBs, is the toughest virtue to display in this game. But I'll give it a try, for another few weeks at least.

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Player in my league is a Marlins fan desperate for SP help. I have had a good start (4th place out of 14) and my only disappointments so far are Ave and SB. Reynolds, A Escobar, B Phillips and Tulowitzki just 3 SB between them. He wants Nolasco, and will trade Pierre or Bourn plus a sweetener to get...

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Team in sig below. Given Ike Davis’ and Justin Smoak's early promotions, any chance that Stanton is called up by the Marlins soon? And I'm wondering what his impact is likely to be. Wondering whether to pick him up and stash him in case he comes up next month/early June. I'd obviously have to drop s...

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“who would've predicted that KC would torch him for 7 runs?”

Not me, that's for sure. Closed down the Angels and Red Sox, got lit up by the Royals. Baseball certainly makes this crystal ball stuff difficult!

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Thanks for the comments, guys. Fenway, Arlington and the Bronx apart, I'll be mostly letting my pitchers pitch. I guess it's picking up pitchers like Pavano off the wire that proves you should draft early/spend big on hitting. Most of my pitching staff are injury risks, so I'm hoping for the best. A...

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Is he to be trusted at home to the Red Sox tomorrow?
I benched him at Anaheim and he proved me wrong there.

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Grand slam. Guess Luis must have seen the question

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14-team mixed, daily transactions, team in sig. Would you rather have Valbuena or Izturis, who has just been dropped by another team? I also have Ryan Raburn and David Murphy on the bench. We play SS, 2b and two other MI's. Just wondering if Izturis is a better bet. Would any of you out there drop a...

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Thanks guys. My misguided theory was that he could be slotted in when Napoli was out of the line-up (see sig below for my team), which will be quite often. Looks like I'll drop him for now.

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Best guess for if/when he gets to Cleveland this season?
Asking because he is No.1 on the MB depth charts for the Indians catching position...and I've got him on reserve on my team.

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Thanks Allston, I think I'm pleased, I just don't know yet. All they have to do now is play the games! You certainly helped, along with daweasle especially and other board frequenters. The words of Mastersballers about concentrating on the 3b and middle infield slots, and waiting on 1b and outfield,...

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Be interested to get the board's views on this team. My first auction. I loved it, despite the errors I made. 14-team mixed 5x5 redraft league $250 budget for 15 rounds, then snake draft. No limit on number of players you can buy if you have the cash in the first 15 rounds. One guy ended up with onl...

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Looks like you got yourself a nice team!
Just wondering why you were intending not to do stars and scrubs in the first place, and of course why you couldn't help yourself!
Interested in auction psychology as I'm doing my first on Monday.

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If only I knew! As nearly all of us are buying players for the first time (most of us do that in soccer fantasy leagues, but the rules are simpler and it's pretty much ALWAYS stars and scrubs there). I am absolutely sure there will be no closers left come snake draft time, as there is a premium on c...

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Very interesting thread started by cubswin on his $270 12-team mixed auction. I'm thinking I should follow suit somewhat in my own draft, which is slightly different. It's 14-team 5x5 Mixed. Auction for the first 15 rounds ($5 minimum for the first five rounds, $1 for the next 10), budget $250, then...

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It's probably too late now, but I would have voted PDF. Much easier to print – and read, come to that.
Isn’t it possible just to create a PDF of the Excel sheet though? Just asking as I am Excel illiterate.

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Have I missed the shortstop and outfield consensus rankings?

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Just wanted to ask about the punting categories aspect of daweasel's draft. Would it not be better to try to draft/buy a couple of low-rank closers than just abandon the category altogether? I can see the logic of punting a category if things don't work out during the season, especially if you end u...

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Fascinating how unflappable and unruffled Lawr was no matter what was going on. Must a be a great asset in drafting, as in life. Poor old Ron Shandler clearly couldn't stand Jed, who - let's face it - is not the most likeable man in the world. Quite a few of the scenes made me laugh out loud, though...

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Dreading the Excel juggling (pitchers and hitters together?), but thanks daweasel, really appreciate all the thought. You, Allston and deansdaddy have given me me a much clearer idea of where I should be going. Glad that none of you are in my league though!

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That's an intriguing idea, daweasel! The draft is not until March 29, so I have got a bit more time yet to construct a clever gameplan/tie myself in knots thinking about it. I hadn't considered your $5 theory. I think early on that players will be reluctant to let players go at the first bid. Mind y...

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Thanks. Sounds good. This may be a dumb question, but how do I do that on the CVRC when it asks for positions? In this auction/snake draft, it has to be a case to taking the best players available in the auction bit doesn't it, rather than specifying positions. Or do I just put a 1 in the numbers fo...

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Thanks guys, interesting stuff. I've never done an auction before, so I'm wondering about what values the players will have, or what approximates most closely to their value. It's 15 rounds of a 16-team mixed 5x5, so I guess a 10-team mixed value would be close?

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Dean, It's not the prep I lack, it's the serious brain power! To be honest, I've only just started to think about strategy, and it's making my brain hurt. My initial thoughts are go for stars for the first seven or eight players, then, as Viper implied, just keep 20 bucks back to pick up your last s...

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Great to be back with Mastersball, by the way. Our long-time league (four divisions, I'm the the top, or Premier, League) is changing the draft rules for this season. We've never had an auction style before, always snake draft, but this year we're doing half and half :shock: Crazy, if you ask me, bu...

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