A couple of other leagues you might be interested in looking at. Both are for 2016 but they were done recently so overall I would say the managers were much more familiar with the cards. I will freely admit for the league linked above that started this thread I was flying by the seat of my pants for a good portion of the draft and have no idea whether my team will work or crash and burn.
Here is a live draft league:
http://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/435079Here is an auto draft league that just finished the regular season:
http://365.strat-o-matic.com/league/435582Interestingly with regard to recovering from a bad draft, rickburr's Motown Throwdown with 109 wins was 4th on the waiver list. Further there does not seem to be much correlation between level of success on the initial autodraft and playoff appearance:
Division Winners:
Motown Throwdown (109 wins) 4th
Winning Inc. (100 wins) 19th
Five Points Forty Thieves (97 wins) 5th
Pelos Shard (89 wins) 12th
Wild Cards:
Chicago Furballs (87 wins) 6th
Phantom Sandcrabs (85 wins) 20th
Arizona Anomalies (83 wins) 9th
Deacon Blues (83 wins) 11th
I have been staring at the Motown Throwdown team to see how he won 109 games. Initial glance it is superior pitching and defense in AT&T.