{"id":591,"date":"2013-02-21T21:21:10","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:21:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=591"},"modified":"2013-02-21T21:21:10","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T02:21:10","slug":"mock-drafting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2013\/02\/21\/mock-drafting\/","title":{"rendered":"Mock Drafting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This Saturday I’ll be participating in a mock draft sponsored by Going 9 Baseball<\/a>, which has a program on Sirius\/XM<\/a> satellite radio.
\nI’m looking forward to the chance to jump into the season with a mock draft, and indeed they’ll be covering it live on the air (or at least the start of it). I’ve updated the settings of my 5×5 Mixed League<\/a>\u00a0to reflect the parameters of this mock league: 12 teams, and 23 roster spots. They use 2 starters, 2 relievers, 4 other pitchers (either SP or RP), 1 each at the infield positions and catcher, 3 OF, 2 utility offense players, and a 5 player reserve. So there’s no explicit DH slot to fill, nor does this league use the flexible corner\/middle infield slots. And just one catcher.
\nSo this will be quite a shallow fantasy league compared to what I’m used to: my long-time AL <\/a>and NL<\/a>\u00a0leagues draft 280 or 270 players out of just one major league; this one drafts 276 players out of both.\u00a0Also, this is a 5×5 format, so strikeouts and runs scored matter.
\nI actually like the 5×5 format better than 4×4, because it puts more of an emphasis on getting good starting pitching by using strikeouts as a counting category. In 4×4, it’s easier to skimp on starters and use relievers to protect ERA\/WHIP, but a 5×5 format penalizes that strategy more.
\nThe draft itself is being hosted at\u00a0http:\/\/www.mockdraftcentral.com<\/a>, and after I’ll certainly give a retrospective about what I thought about the experience!
\nUpdate 2\/23:<\/strong><\/em> You can follow the draft here<\/a> if you have an xhtml-capable browser. Older versions of IE won’t update live, but you should be able to refresh the (rather large) page to update.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This Saturday I’ll be participating in a mock draft sponsored by Going 9 Baseball, which has a program on Sirius\/XM satellite radio. I’m looking forward to the chance to jump into the season with a mock draft, and indeed they’ll be covering it live on the air (or at least the start of it). I’ve… Continue reading Mock Drafting<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6,11],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/591\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}