You guys must stink at drafting

[Valen]

I have created several 86 teams and missed out on a lot of what I went for. Even got stuck with Jose Uribe at SS. So obviously I have been terrible at filling out a draft card. Yet I am not in the upper third of waivers on any team. So if I am terrible but there are still a half dozen or more worse than me in every league that means.... :lol: the rest of you must really stink at this.

Just kidding. Seriously though it has been a while since I played the 200x games. ATG has got me spoiled to assuming there will still be players I like post autodraft. And my tendency to ignore one position completely assuming there will be someone decent left over will have to be changed. There is no "oh well, I guess I have to settle for Wills and his stolen bases or Burleson and his 1 range" post draft attitude allowed in these season leagues. I am dead on one team having to scrounge for second and short from a very weak FA pool.

[tomwistar]

I hear ya ... I have Templeton starting on one team, Shawon on another. The dropoff is pretty drastic. It seems like there are tons of unbalanced 1bs and OFs in the 2-4 million range, but all the other positions are thin after the big guys. There's going to be a lot of weird platoons, +2 catchers, and "3" range middle infielders in the starting lineup in '86. Oh well ... at least we're all in the same boat.

[Valen]

Excellent point about the catcher arms. I am going with a + arm behind for the first time in well ... ever. And I am not sure I believe how many OFers I am going with who have + arms and 4 fielders. But their other characteristics are just so tempting and with so few 1s and 2s it feels like one should be able to get by with weaker defense. But I do not remember defense being that bad in the 80s.

This brings up a question in my mind. In the 200x games has strat-o-matic been too liberal with handing out the top defensive ratings?

[MEAT]

wonder how much the catcher arms is chicken and egg syndrome. bad combination, lots of gaudy basestealers, and lots of bad catcher arms (probably a result of the preponderance of sb) also some horrid hold ratings....like the magnificent jose deleon card with a +7!

[labratory]

How about Juan Agosto, the 0.50 pitcher who is a starter with 1 inning of endurance?