Cubit Honorary Pre-Card Draft

[JAYDINGESS1]

OK with me Ineluki.

Sorry I held up the draft for a couple hours. Didn't think we'd make it this far.

[PossibleJohn]

So here's my take so far. My team is completely schizophrenic. I began with two power righties with BP homers--Lee and Guerrero--then, looking at the other power righties available, I couldn't really tolerate their defense, got scared about the lack of viable options at certain positions, and gobbled up Hudson, Vernon Wells, Molina and Jack Wilson. Somewhere in between all that, I tried to find guys with good hits, OBP and TB, especially situations where hits were >30, OBP>40 and TB>50--hence Jeter, Crisp and Polanco. Now I'm just confused, have more DPs than I'd prefer, strong enough 1-5 maybe but weak after that, thinking I'll put a lot of guys on but perhaps not score them. And then checking out the other teams, I saw that they could stand and outslug me from a BP homer perspective, so where I originally thought I'd settle myself into a Lee/Guerrero/et al-friendly environment, like Houston or Boston, instead I dove into Cleveland as my stadium. Which gets me back to a comment someone (qk? hawk? cubit?) made about the Schilling league 100 posts ago: I, too, have been playing this game for years now, YEARS, and I still don't have the wherewithal to get good at this game, commit to a central strategy, much less a central strategy that makes sense in my home ballpark, etc., etc. ... :evil: :evil: :evil: :evil: :roll:

[Cubit]

Aray, I have been unable to get the Ratings Book this year-- how'd you get yours? I never could get anyone at SOM to give me an answer. I have bought it each of the past few years, but it never helped me actually win during the season, but gave me a lot of nice numbers to play with.

I was hoping to get to pick for myself tonight... been sitting here waiting for Ineluki's second pick forever. That is something that should never happen-- running out of proxies on the corners! But Albert's not here either, so it looks like we'll be here in the morning.

I suppose we are about to go off the clock for the weekend and we were doing so well.

PJ, I would like to analyze my club so far, too, but now that I have penngray's Stadium ratings postings, I'm more confused than ever. We will see in a round or two.

[qksilver69]

Ineluki's time is up, Albert is on the clock....

[albert2b]

Guys,

As I have said, I'm away on business this weekend and will have very limited access to the net. But with the little time I do have to surf, I've made sure I've got sufficient proxies set up so this draft will flow smoothly. However, if someone before me doesn't pick and their time expires, obviously my proxies won't fire....and I'm afraid there's nothing I could do about that.

Regardless, I was under the impression there was no clock on weekends. Isn't that what it says in the original rules? I actually wouldn't mind having a clock on the weekends....but I just thought it was odd that qk said that ineluki's time had expired earlier today. Either way is ok with me. My proxies are locked and loaded :)

BTW, I'm loving my team so far. I just hope they all fit under the cap :cry: :wink: :)

AL

[Cubit]

When Ineluki's time expired it was still Friday and you were up then. That was all.

I have only one question albert, "Cap, what Cap?"
:P

[PossibleJohn]

This is the first time in a while I'll have two lefties in a starting rotation of 4.

Capuano and Davis. They complement each other in terms of strength and weakness, but, here's a question: does anyone agree that this card set seems to include more guys than normal that flat-out smoke lefty pitchers? More so than guys who flat-out smoke righties?

What I mean to say, this is my prediction: this card set is going to be tough on lefty pitchers.

Here's hoping that some of those lefty-killers you've got are pricey enough to require some adjustment. :P :P

[qksilver69]

I definitely find it hard to find righty-killers with useable defensive cards, and even more so if you throw clutch into the mix. There are a good number of lefty-killer hitters, but also many more good LHPs than in last year's set I think. Will be interesting the see the number of LH SPs over $2M in this year's set compared to 2005....

What is also interesting is that it seems to me there are fewer good reverse lefty hitters with N power, meaning an SP like Santana should do well. I just don't see a J Giambi in this year's set - a cheap LH hitter who kills LHP. Granderson ok, McCann who I just picked up ok, but really, other than Ortiz & Hafner and maybe Jenkins, who will all be pricey, no goood lefty hitter cards vs. LHP....