So we just had the auto draft in our league...an 80mil, no-DH league in which I'm playing in [b:f0894da0d4]Yankee Std[/b:f0894da0d4] (this is an important note for later). I list W Stargell #1 and J Rice #2 on my draft list...I lose both players. Now lets for the sake of discussion say I drafted 12th in the league and also say the team before is who had Stargell #1 and no other team had Stargell listed #1 or for that matter Rice #2...
So with the 12th and 24th (at worst) picks in the draft of the entire player pool for a team playing in Yankee Std...I get B Watson as my 1st pick and L Hisle as my 2nd...yep that's my compensation for losing those 2 guys!!!
Now I understand how the draft is run...no explanation is needed, please. Oh and in my top 10 I also lost out on Simmons, B Williams, Rose, North, and Guidry...I did manage to land Metzger (who I listed 3rd), Hunter, and Knowles.
The net result is how ridiculous the compensation procedure is on the auto draft. I would love for anyone here to post me a link of an 80mil team that had Watson and Hisle as its 2 main offensive cogs. Basically I just made a 24.95 donation to TSN/SOM because unless I'm lucky enough for every other team to land the worst card of every top player, not much can be done to overcome a scenario like this. How about before we concentrate resources on a 90's mystery card game we fix the auto-draft among other things...
If you lose Bonds, Walker, or Sosa in the 90's game who's going to be your replacement pick...Michael Tucker? Brian McRae?[/b]