GM's OFFICE: Defending our FSTA league title

Earlier this week, Brent and I traveled to Nashville to attend the Fantasy Sports Trade Association Winter Conference in Nashville, TN. Our primary purpose for attending was to participate in the traditional first experts' league draft of the season. More specifically, we were there to defend our title from last year.

Last year's draft (recapped here, and doesn't that Iowa Caucus reference in the headline feel dated a year later? I digress...) was a winner from start to finish: we opened that draft with Arenado-Betts at the top, snagged Villar and Porcello late, and rolled to a pretty easy title. We can't reasonably expect things to go quite that well again, but we certainly have hopes of a repeat.

Here is the draft grid from this...

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