2009 Straight Draft Guide
Mar 6 2009
There's an old saying that rotisserie baseball isn't a game about baseball as much as a game about economics. And in matters of economics, agreement on a unit of measure is critical. In the rotisserie economy, that unit is the dollar.
Well, that's true for auction leagues, at least. For the stepchild of rotisserie baseball, the straight draft league, it's less true. Sure, you can pound dollar valuations into a straight draft environment, as you might hammer a square peg into a slightly-less-square hole. But there is a better solution, and that's what we seek to present each March in this annual effort.
By taking a phased approach to the straight draft, and incorporated a variety of implements from the HQ toolbox along the way, we...
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