Rankings vs Actual Drafts

Having looked at all the positions for the projected top performers, let’s now take a look at round one of real money drafts to see where players actually put them on their rosters.

The two drafts are from fifteen team, 5X5, mixed leagues. One drafted in December and one this month.

Here is the earlier one

A few observations

• Heavy on the STUD first basemen as you would expect
• Pujols was a free agent at the time drafted, obviously signing with the Angels since
• Sorry, I know this is popular with my brethren in the FB writing community, but Tulowitzki is not a top five pick – barely a top ten player for me
• Correctly, there are NO pitchers in this first round
• Hanley Ramirez does not belong in the first round, but…..

Now let’s see the differences a month later with almost the same group:

Thoughts here and comparisons:

• Bottom three spots are the only changes and the three from first one were first three off the board in this later second round
• Upton certainly has the upside but you are paying for all of it in the first round
• Personally, I don’t really think Reyes is a first rounder (but yes, it does take care of SB at a weak position)

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