PONY 2012 Draft Thread

[joncarlos]

Wayne did get his pink donut this year.

Can't attach the keeper list because .xls files aren't allowed any more. We had a last minute drop-out so we have 15 teams instead of 16. Adjusting on the fly will be key.

[joncarlos]

Here's the first 2 rounds:


1 Tulo 44
2 Kemp 55
3 Cuddyer 25
4 Cespedes 21
5 Verlander 39
6 Pujols 51
7 Hamilton 46
8 Teix 33
9 Hanley 39
10 J Johnson 14
11 Kinsler 37
12 Kimbrel 25
13 M Rivera 24
14 Cliff Lee 35
15 Darvish 25
16 Reyes 40
17 Sabathia 28
18 Grandy 45
19 C Santana 22
20 Pence 34
21 Halladay 37
22 Felix 31
23 Bourn 32
24 Lester 24
25 K Suzuki 7
26 Pedroia 37
27 mccann 19
28 Valverde 17
29 Zobrist 30
30 N Cruz 30

[heyelander]

wow, there's a button that turns my wireless off and on on my keyboard. that's screwed up.

[heyelander]

frae brought his barbie computer and a barbie backpack to the draft. he says there's beer in the backpack, but I think it's probably zima

[joncarlos]

31 D Wright 28
32 Gallardo 24
33 IPK 21
34 M Montero 17
35 Arod 28
36 Lincecum 28
37 Grienke 27
38 Beckett 17
39 M Cain 27
40 Wandy 12
41 M Young 24
42 T Hudson 9
43 H Bell 16
44 M Reynolds 18
45 Victorino 26
46 Uggla 25
47 Ichiro 20
48 Youk 21
49 Trout 12
50 R Zimm 25
51 Phillips 28
52 Holliday 32
53 Ajax 18
54 Ubaldo 9
55 Ramon Hernandez 4
56 Choo 20
57 Gio 18
58 Street 11
59 Francouer 15
60 B Butler 20

[joncarlos]

Closers are going insanely cheap

[DMT]

Do you always draft after the season starts? And are stats retroactive?

[frae]

Do you always draft after the season starts? And are stats retroactive?

No we usually do it in mid march. Yes the stats are retroactive, but we are being allowed to choose our lineups including rsv guys. It is an interesting dynamic.

[griswold]

Another great PONY draft!

I can't tell you how much I enjoy this day each year.

It's so great to hang out and draft with some of the best Junkie minds.

I can compete with the best in football.....baseball...not so much....but with a new "wingman" this year, this league better watch out!

Let the games begin!

[joncarlos]

I want to write up my thoughts on my team later, but first some thoughts on the auction.

I'm not sure if it was the 15-team dynamic, or the fact that so many closers have already lost their jobs, but 2nd tier closers went extremely cheap. This happened despite the fact that there weren't many closers available.

Kimbrel (25) and Rivera (24) came out early and were probably about right. After that Valverde went for 17 which was fair, Heath Bell for 16 which might be a little high, and then we had a long wait for the next closer. Street went for 11, Santiago Casilla went for 10, Capps for 6, Balfour 9, Marmol 8 and Henry Rodriguez 7.

Then another long wait, and then Aceves 11, Andrew Bailey 3, Greg Holland for 5, Hector Santiago for 7, Mike Adams for 4, Broxton for 1.

Closers by team:

Drew - 0
JC - 3.5 (H-Rod as half)
Wayne - 3
Erik - 3.5 (Brox as half)
Dennis - 2
Gris - 1
Randy - 2
Lildogs - 1.5 (Storen as half)
Dalaine - 0
Conn - 2
Ray - 3
Keith - 2
Del - 3 (Counting Aceves as whole)
Dan - 1
Jeff - 2.5 (Counting Holland as half)

The other thing that stood out was the disparity in hitting and pitching budgets. We ended up at 67/33 which is a little pitching heavy, but not too crazy. But there were some wild swings for individual teams.

Drew 79% offense
Ray 78% offense
Dan 77% offense
JC 73% offense
Del 73% offense

Gris 58% offense
Conn 58% offense
Lildogs 57% offense
Wayne 50% offense

[heyelander]

Yeah, I'm sorta doomed there. I like most of my pitching buys, but I spent too much money. I think there were a couple of guys I just thought were going too cheap and I ended up with them.

[griswold]

Currently I'm ok with my team and it's 58% offense split.

We'll see how it plays out.

[Sharky]

Did you guys do this live? And is it redraft?

Thanks for posting. Sounds like a good time.

[joncarlos]

Did you guys do this live? And is it redraft?

Thanks for posting. Sounds like a good time.

We did do it live. And it was a good time. It's a keeper league, with the added challenge that the number of teams seems to change every year.