ROTISSERIE: Why Total Control Drafting makes sense

If we can sum up Total Control Drafting in one phrase, it is: “Draft who you want.” There are a number of reasons why this makes total sense. But the most important reason is that many fantasy baseball sites and writers just do not understand some of the core concepts of the economics and processes of fantasy baseball. And these misconceptions, like viruses, replicate and multiply rapidly.

Of course, Ron Shandler has written about this before, so we are not going to reiterate the ideas of Total Control Drafting. But there are three additions that are worth discussing.

1. The concept of “value” is false—so draft who you want

The idea that “value” exists a priori is a myth, and yet it is one of the bedrock foundations of fantasy baseball...

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