I did something I never thought I'd do.

[Stephen]

I considered taking Tulo as well, but his health concerns me. He's only had 500 ABs twice in his career.

I figure with Strasburg at least he has already had TJ surgery.

That being said - if Tulo somehow drops me in the 2nd I'll take him without hesitation.

The one that really surprised me was Posey at #2. I figured he'd go fairly earlier than Roto, but not 1st round.

[Stephen]

2nd Round
11 Andrew McCutchen
12 Troy Tulowitzki
13 Madison Bumgarner
14 Matt Cain
15 Zack Greinke
16 Jayson Heyward (Me)
17 Justin Upton
18 Cliff Lee
19 Kris Medlen
20 Adrian Gonzalez

[Todd Zola]

You'll understand how important aces are come playoff time.

Honestly, scoresheet is pretty easy. You want hitters that get on base and pitchers that don't allow runners and you use great set up men to close.

[Stephen]

I'm torn between Goldschmidt and taking another pitcher with my pick in the 3rd tomorrow morning.

The highest rated arms still available are Zimmerman, Halladay, Wainwright, Lincecum, Haren, Cueto.

Any advice?

[Stephen]

Wright, Zimmerman, Holliday, Choo, Hanley, Sandoval, Utley, Fowler, Headley and Phillips.

I have yet figured out how important defense is, so that should be interesting.

So far I have Strasburg (24) and Heyward (23) so apparently I'm building young.

[Fresno Bob]

I'm torn between Goldschmidt and taking another pitcher with my pick in the 3rd tomorrow morning.

The highest rated arms still available are Zimmerman, Halladay, Wainwright, Lincecum, Haren, Cueto.

Any advice?

how do Park Effects work in Scoresheet? I've owned Cueto in Sim leagues (Diamond Mind) in a more pitcher friendly park and his numbers are outstanding

[Stephen]

My understanding is that since it takes his actual performance from week to week into the simulations it wouldn't be factored in, but one of the Scoresheet vets could answer that better than I.

[Todd Zola]

how do Park Effects work in Scoresheet? I've owned Cueto in Sim leagues (Diamond Mind) in a more pitcher friendly park and his numbers are outstanding

It sims more to results versus skills than other games. The park influences the results - that's really the only connection.

[Stephen]

I was all set to select Cueto, but he was taken right in front of me.

My pick is in 30 minutes and I think I've decided to trust BP and take the best ranked pitcher on the board other than Halladay who is 36 and this is a long term keeper league.

I'm selecting Tim Lincecum. High risk, high reward - I hope.

[joncarlos]

I was all set to select Cueto, but he was taken right in front of me.

My pick is in 30 minutes and I think I've decided to trust BP and take the best ranked pitcher on the board other than Halladay who is 36 and this is a long term keeper league.

I'm selecting Tim Lincecum. High risk, high reward - I hope.

I hope not over J-Zim!!

[Stephen]

Yep, over J-Zim.

BP had Zimmerman ranked 224 SSSIM points lower than Lincecum.

I'm trusting their metrics since I'm flying a little blind and scoresheet is such a different concept than the Roto I'm used to.

Here is their Draft Aid: http://www.baseballprospectus.com/fa...heet/draftaid/. I'm League wP_NL819 if you want to populate it for my league.

[Stephen]

It's done. We'll see how it pans out.

[Stephen]

I'm going to keep posting these round by round because I find the concept of Scoresheet fascinating now.

3rd Round:
21. Mat Latos
22. Gio Gonzalez
23. Adam Wainwright
24. Johnny Cueto
25. Tim Lincecum
26. David Wright
27. Ryan Zimmerman
28. Matt Harvey
29 Jordan Zimmermann
30. Pablo Sandoval

[Silentmist]

In a keeper league I think I would have had to have gone David Wright in that spot.

[Stephen]

Apparently, I'm addicted to pitching now. Everyone says that deep SP is the way to go and I'm pretty ahppy with my group of arms.

My score sheet team after 12 picks:

1 Eaton (L) (24) (CF)
2 Headley (R) (28) (3B)
3 Heyward (L) (23) (RF)
4 Freeman (R) (23) (1B)
5
6 Utley (L) (34) (2B)
7
8


SP Stephen Strasburg (23)
SP Tim Lincecum (29)
SP Lance Lynn (26)
SP Shawn Marcum (31)
SP Michael Fiers (27)
SP Julio Teheran (21)
P
RP Brandon Beachy (26) (DL)
RP
RP
RP
RP

In the 13th round I'm looking at a group of Pence, Soriano, Kubel, Hart, Werth, Span, Bourn (he was still considered NL when Scoresheet Players were finalized) so I took Beachy in the 12th.

Shortstop is a ghostland so I'll end up with someone like Scutaro, Segura or Everth Cabrera in that spot likely with the 14th and look to trade an arm to someone in season.