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When you draft a team, how do you go about it? I don't mean what players do you go for or how you rank them, but how long you take to draft? I sat last night and drafted my team, checking all figures etc and spent a couple of hours picking 25 players, many of which I probably won't get.

What I am asking is should I worry so much about the draft bearing in mind many of them will end up somewhere else?

at 1st, it took me a long time to draft,
but now im to the point where i know the players i want and basically the order i will put them in

I kind of know who I want but I want to use different players. I tried some players a couple of times in a row, then want someone else. Also I am in the process of trying other parks so want different players than I may have wanted before. I just wondered whether I was spending more time than anyone else or if my way is normal.

There's no one answer to that. The ultimate goal is to field the best team possible. Getting all 25 players you picked is not exactly the same as fielding the best team, so you shouldn't measure success just by how many of your draft picks you received.

There is also the fun element here, too. The process of building a team for the draft is a lot of fun (to me anyway) and so I spend a lot of time at it even when I already have a good idea what I'm aiming for. So how long it takes is also not a measure of whether you are doing it "right" or not.

So, the best answer I can give is that it takes as long as it takes for you to feel comfortable with the team you are drafting, and I just wouldn't worry about how short or how long you take to get there.

yes it s all what your comfort level is

some people draft in 10 mins some take 5 hours

Yeah, sounds good to me. I just wondered to myself this morning when I had spent ages yesterday drafting. I usually do Ok in the draft and get the type of players I want.

I actually set up an excel sheet, and laid my team out before I bought it, using the free agent section for a current team still playing, plus the ratings book for research. Then I went in and knocked it out in about 5-10 minutes, but I knew who I was going to pick, and in what order.

You could say I spent more than a few hours on this. It was a total blast. I just hope I don't get canned after the 1st of the year for being at this site during work hours.

I know people who post on baseball sites about which players their teams should acquire via free agency, trades etc... Hey, I've got my own team okay? I can't be bothered with "real" baseball.