Mastersball Fantasy Forum

Todd, I just read your article concerning tiers in a snake draft and have been enlightened. I have used tiers in the past, I just always broke them down by individual position without lining them up relative to each other. Since my league uses some interesting settings and statistics, the tiers provided here don't quite match the values I need so I've had to tweak them a tad. Most notably, a player like Martin Prado has greater value in my league than in a standard league due to the inclusion of "hits" and "XBH" as categories in addition to batting average. On the other side, a guy with solid counting stats like Mark Reynolds gets knocked down a few spots because he's not only a strain on AVG, but also on H, and OBP, also included in our categories.

The question I have is regarding keepers and whether or not you would personally make a list with just the remaining player pool or keep the entire pool and cross off the keepers before the draft. I think I can see the benefits to both, but maybe there's an insight I'm missing.

Thanks in advance!

This is going to sound "funny", or maybe it will sound "normal", but it really has to do with if I have the time to "clean it up" before the draft/auction and delete the names. I'm not sure I see an advantage to knowing who was kept. So I guess my preference would be to have keepers deleted, but if I didn't have the time, I just cross them off before the drat/auction and I'm good to go.