One of the most useful tools in determining player dollar values going into a draft is to heed the advice of the professionals. There are three renouned fantasy baseball leagues that I pay attention to:
LABR stands for the League of Alternative Baseball Reality and has been playing since 1994. Tout Wars has been playing since 1998. Both leagues feature prominent "fantasy baseball professionals" that work for publications including ESPN, CNNSI, USAToday, CBS Sportsline, Roto Times, RotoWorld and so on and so forth. These are the guys that know what they're doing.
The reason I like monitoring these leagues is because they use an auction-style draft. Auctions are lightyears better than the standard internet snake-drafts. I love 'em, love 'em, love 'em. I pay close attention to what these guys bid for players and use their bids as guidelines for my own draft. Granted, it's not quite perfect since they use a 5x5 scoring method and my longtime league is a 4x4. And I participate in a keeper league so the number of quality players in the pool is different than starting-from-scratch drafts. But it's a good guideline.
I've been scouring the internet to find the results of these drafts without much luck. LABR's draft date and/or results are nowhere to be found. So I wrote to Steve Gardner at USAToday and found out some information:
"We just had the LABR draft this past weekend," says Gardner. The results will be published in the March 19 Fantasy Extra edition of Sports Weekly. Hopefully it will also be posted on USAToday's fantasy baseball page. Thanks to Steve for the quick reply to my question.
It looks like Tout Wars will be drafting March 21-22 according to this page. If you're in NYC, you're welcome to attend.
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