What is YOUR objective?
We all do a lot of drafts, some of us too many perhaps. And two recent drafts and a message board question encouraged me to try and put a question in front of you.
What is your objective?
In this draft?
With this pick?
Now the reality is that once you are actually in a draft it would be hard to sit back and ask yourself these questions every time it was your pick. So the time to think about them is now.
I see a lot of “industry drafts” – sorry I just can’t call them expert drafts when some of the drafters wouldn’t qualify in local leagues. At times I just wonder what the heck they are thinking about when they make a pick. Well some of them are trying to prove they are smarter than the rest of the league; that they picked a guy before anyone else; that their insight (as in site?) was better.
But we ALL need to look at why we make certain picks.
Yes YOU may really like that player. Does that make him the right pick for your team in that specific league? Are you really trying to win the league if you are making picks for any reason other than that was the player you thought would give your specific team the most value at that pick or was a player you had to have even if you knew you might be jumping the draft to get him?
Hey if it is a yahoo league (note lower case) or a free league (someone explain why regular roto players play in leagues with no entry fee and nothing to win? Bad enough that some of us have to do them for information and analysis) or a mock draft and you want to try a different way to draft something that is a different case.
I am talking about leagues where you pay money to win money or maybe are freerolled to have a chance at winning something of value. Once you have analyzed the rules of the league and formulated a draft plan, make the best pick you can. Put together the best roster you can. If you really love a certain player but you don’t need him why are you going to pick him there? Don’t pick with your heart when your head says there is a better pick for your roster.
Be true to your objectives in league drafts. Use your mock drafts to satisfy your whims.
Your teams and your leagues deserve your best effort…….unless of course you don’t care about winning or whining.{jcomments on}