Drafting in the Ultimate League

Ok let me first off state that this league is not your ordinary run of the mill fantasy league. Basically it is a salary cap, keeper league where every 5 year span is judged and rewarded. There is also a 5 player Triple A farm system. Now this can be used as extra roster spots to help you during year or you can stock youth here. You are only allowed 10 moves per season from your triple A system so you have to use them wisely. You are allowed 30$ as a salary cap.

Here are the league scoring settings:
Roster Positions:
C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, IF, LF, CF, RF, OF, Util, SP, SP, SP, SP, SP, SP, RP, RP, RP, BN, BN, BN, BN, BN, DL, DL
Stat Categories:
R, 1B, 2B, 3B, HR, RBI, SH, SF, SB, CS, BB, K, GIDP, IP, W, L, CG, SV, H, ER, BB, HBP, K, SVOP, HLD
Stat Modifiers:
R (.75), 1B (.33), 2B (.6), 3B (.9), HR (1.2), RBI (.75), SH (.25), SF (.25), SB (.33), CS (-.3), BB (.3), K (-.03), GIDP (-.3), IP (2.1), W (1.2), L (-.6), CG (3), SV (4.2), H (-.5), ER (-1.2), BB (-.3), HBP (-.3), K (.12), SVOP (-1.2), HLD (1.5)

In short this is a league that values quality innings pitched as well as quality at-bats and all around 5-tool players.

The draft has another interesting twist to your normal draft. This draft is neither a snake nor an auction draft, but rather a combination of both. The first part of the draft is an auction draft and continues until each team has bought at least 1 player at which point we continue to a standard snake. In theory this could have gone on until all rosters were filled if 1 player still had no one, but in his interest it would be unwise to do that. Also, your snake posisiton is determined by the amount of players you pick and when you pick them (ie the manager who has the most players is the last pick and if everyone else has the same amount of players whoever took their first player first would be second to last pick).

Ok theres the background. Now this whole drafting process takes a long time so we decided to only do the auction part first last night and we will do the snake portion next week.

Here's how the players and prices broke down and I let RJ make all the comments he wants:

Team: The Asskickin Friars- Joe Mauer $4.25, Grady Sizemore $7, Vernon Wells $2.95 for a total of $14.20

Team: Gathering The Eggs- Albert Pujols for a whopping $9.60, Dice-k $3.15, A-rod $7.09 for a total of $19.84

Team: Killa Beez- Vlad Guerrero $4.50, Chase Utley $6.30, Ryan Howard $5.75 for a total of $16.55

Team: The Lawn Wranglers: David Ortiz $3.75, Lance Berkman $3.20, Jason Bay $2.05 for a total of $9. (Of note: All 3 of these picks were made late in the auction which proved to be very smart as most owners were gunshy about getting stuck with another salary.)

Team: The Pain Train- Johan Santana $8, Carlos Beltran $5 for a total of $13

Team: Stunna Squad- Francisco Liriano $1.30 for a total of $1.30. (Of note, he will have 3 of the first 4 picks in the snake)

Team: Team A.A.R.P- Travis Hafner $5.50, Justin Morneau $3.80, David Wright $4.80, Derek Jeter $1.50 for a total of 16$

Team: Uconn- Alfonso Soriano $6.15, Mark Texiera $4.30, Manny Ramirez $4.30 for a total of $14.75

And Last but Not Least:

Team: Team Death (Me)- Jose Reyes $5, Miguel Cabrera $6.35, Carl Crawford $3.90 for a total of $15.25.

Enjoy my wall of text.

-LS