NFBC Roster

[KC Royals GM (Kevin)]

15 Teams, 50 Rounds, No in-season transactions, Weekly lineups for pitching and Mon/Fri for hitting, 5x5

Starting Lineup:

C - Wilson Contreras 6.14
C - Christian Vazquez 38.14
1B - Jose Abreu 4.14
2B - Neil Walker 15.2
SS - Francisco Lindor 2.14
3B - Justin Turner 8.14
CI - Jung-ho Kang 17.2
MI - Brandon Phillips 21.2
OF - Mookie Betts 1.2
OF - Ryan Braun 3.2
OF - Yoenis Cespedes 5.2
OF - Rajai Davis 14.14
OF - Carlos Beltran 16.14
UT - Victor Martinez 19.2

P - Cody Allen 7.2
P - Francisco Rodriguez 9.2
P - Jim Johnson 13.2
P - Jameson Taillon 10.14
P - Steven Matz 11.2
P - John Lackey 12.14
P - Lance Lynn 18.14
P - Luke Weaver 20.14
P - Jaime Garcia 23.2

Bench:

C - Francisco Mejia 36.14
C - Blake Swihart 33.2 (Must play 10 games at catcher in MLB before being eligible there)
1B - Rowdy Tellez 40.14
SS - JJ Hardy 30.14
SS - Gleyber Torres 43.2
3B - Jose Reyes 22.14
OF - Denard Span 25.2
OF - Charlie Tilson 26.14
OF - Austin Meadows 31.2
OF - Bradley Zimmer 37.2
OF - Greg Allen 39.2
OF - Lourdes Gurriel 47.2
OF - Derek Fisher 49.2

P - Scott Kazmir 27.2
P - Big Fat Bartolo Colon 28.14
P - Jesse Chavez 34.14
P - Wily Peralta 32.14
P - Tyson Ross 24.14

P - Chance Adams 46.14
P - Erick Fedde 42.14
P - Josh Hader 29.2
P - Yohander Mendez 41.2
P - Sean Reid-Foley 48.14
P - Brandon Woodruff 44.14
P - Anthony Banda 50.14

P - Koda Glover 35.2
P - Joe Jimenez 45.2

My pitching staff isn't nearly as strong as I would have liked but I normally draft for value and after the first 9 rounds I knew my strategy would have to be to have a really strong lineup and take a bunch of pitching prospects who could debut mid-season later on. If/when Ross comes back healthy that will be huge. I don't think this can be the winner across all of these leagues for the $28k but I definitely feel like with health and some timely call-ups I can win my league.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

Here's my Fantrax roster. Same rules as yours, BK. I don't think I did great. It was my first draft like this in 10+ years. Really mad at the Schebler pick. I had someone queued up that I didn't think had a chance of being taken with like 5 picks in front of me so I set my auto draft for 1 player. He went right before me and Schebler was on my list that I had made of players to remember but not really in order. UGh.

Field of Breams
Pos Player Rnd Pk Ov
SS Correa, Carlos - HOU 1 14 14
OF Marte, Starling - PIT 2 2 17
C Posey, Buster - SF 3 14 44
P Chapman, Aroldis - NYY 4 2 47
C Contreras, Willson CHC 5 14 74
OF Dahl, David - COL 6 2 77
3B Sano, Miguel - MIN 7 14 104
CI Ramírez, José - CLE 8 2 107
2B Pedroia, Dustin - BOS 9 14 134
P Gausman, Kevin - BAL 10 2 137
OF Tomás, Yasmany - ARI 11 14 164
P Gray, Jon - COL 12 2 167
P Moore, Matt - SF 13 14 194
1B Napoli, Mike - TEX 14 2 197
P Johnson, Jim - ATL 15 14 224
P Pineda, Michael - NYY 16 2 227
MI Walker, Neil - NYM 17 14 254
OF Santana, Domingo - MIL 18 2 257
P Pomeranz, Drew - BOS 19 14 284
OF Conforto, Michael - NYM 20 2 287
P Barraclough, Kyle - MIA 21 14 314
P Liriano, Francisco TOR 22 2 317
UT Schebler, Scott - CIN 23 14 344
P Gómez, Jeanmar - PHI 24 2 347
P Glover, Koda (R) - WAS 25 14 374
1B Vogelbach, Daniel SEA 26 2 377
UT Dickerson, Alex - SD 27 14 404
P Garrett, Amir (R) - CIN 28 2 407
P Kuhl, Chad - PIT 29 14 434
OF García, Avisail - CHW 30 2 437
P López, Reynaldo CHW 31 14 464
SS Beckham, Tim - TB 32 2 467
P Kingham, Nick - PIT 33 14 494
C Suzuki, Kurt - ATL 34 2 497
P Beede, Tyler - SF 35 14 524
OF Parker, Jarrett - SF 36 2 527
P Vargas, Jason - KC 37 14 554
SS Gurriel, Lourdes - TOR 38 2 557
1B Hoskins, Rhys (R) - PHI 39 14 584
P Mejía, Adalberto MIN 40 2 587
UT Mancini, Trey (R) - BAL 41 14 614
3B Anderson, Brian - MIA 42 2 617
OF Grossman, Robbie - MIN 43 14 644
P Koehler, Tom - MIA 44 2 647
C Severino, Pedro (R) WAS 45 14 674
OF Allen, Greg (R) - CLE 46 2 677
2B Asuaje, Carlos (R) - SD 47 14 704
1B Bauers, Jake (R) - TB 48 2 707
P Banda, Anthony (R) ARI 49 14 734
2B Rivera, T.J. (R) - NYM 50 2 737

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

Well, Marte was going to be my main source of steals. That's going to kill me in this money league.

[Deleted]

Yep...I hear ya there. I have him in a couple of my money leagues. This is gonna hurt a lot of guys for sure

[Cubs GM (Scott B)]

How did you guys end up doing last year?

Im interested in this but not sure if im understanding correctly.
playnfbc.sportshubtech.com/style/30
I can play in any of the leagues on that link - from $50 league to $1000 - the top team out of all of those leagues gets $30k? But nothing for 2nd? I obviously know that you cash if you come in 1st or 2nd in your 12-15 team league but cant tell if you get anything for being 2nd out of all those leagues.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

I finished 7th. 10.5 points out of the money. My pitching was gawd-awful in there. Finished 2nd I’m hitting and 2nd to last in pitching.

[KC Royals GM (Kevin)]

My team was awful.

I don't know if I will do NFBC again if they don't change to daily lineups at some point. It drives me nuts. Let me manage my team dammit! For example you can have Duda and Thames each playing 2 RHP and 2 LHP Mon-Thur and so you would normally want to mix and match for the most production. Nope, you have to pick one of them for all four days even though you know they'll only be playing 2 of the 4 days. I guess I have to re-adjust my values to prioritize non-platoon split guys if I decide to do it again.

The online rotowire championship thing is appealing. $350 entry fee and you have a shot at $100k! Can't beat that. 12-team league and 1st gets 1400, 2nd gets 700 and then you get ranked among all the leagues for a shot at like 25-30 more prizes including the $100k grand prize. To win those things you have to own a guy who unexpectedly goes nuts like Judge last year or something like that.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

I got in a Fantrax $50 slow draft again. 2 catcher, no transactions, change lineups on Monday and Friday. I got the 13th pick out of 15 teams, bummer. Don't know if I should take a stud SP and someone like Machado coming back or just get the two best hitters available. Catcher is so freaking weak could just take Gary Sanchez in 2nd. Hate being that far down. Last year I had the 14th pick.

[KC Royals GM (Kevin)]

I don't think Machado will be there at 13, nevermind 17 unless your league-mates are really bad. He's going to be playing shortstop this year.

I think you take Correa with 13 if he is there and then if one of the big 4 SP are there at 17 you do that and if not then you got yourself Votto or Rizzo or Stanton or Judge.

Ideal scenario: Correa then Sale.

Dream scenario: Machado then Kluber.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

I’m down on Judge this year. I don’t think I’ll own him in any leagues. Machado’s ADP in there is 18, I’m hoping the guys in front of my go off that.

[Cubs GM (Scott B)]

I just joined this league if anyone is interested, 6 spots left:

www.fantrax.com/fantasy/league/ggahfifhje7zcdo3/rules

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I'm doing an NFBC slow draft right now. I had pick 15 and all big 4 SP were gone. Ended up with Bryant and Lindor. I wouldn't reach on that high on Sanchez.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

Man, got Machado at 13, now deciding between Votto and Jose Ramirez next. Passing on Judge. None of top 4 pitchers left.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

Took Jose. I like the flexibility he gives and 2B seems weaker than 1B.

[Nationals GM (corkzilla)]

Just finished up that draft. Not a bad team. A little too young I think and pitching will be a problem again.

3B Machado, Manny - BAL 1 13
2B Ramírez, José - CLE 2 18
P Darvish, Yu - CHC 3 43
OF Benintendi, Andrew - BOS 4 48
P Knebel, Corey - MIL 5 73
P Castillo, Luis - CIN 6 78
P Iglesias, Raisel - CIN 7 103
OF Acuña Jr., Ronald - ATL 8 108
CI Lamb, Jake - ARI 9 133
OF Mazara, Nomar - TEX 10 138
1B Santana, Carlos - PHI 11 163
OF Schwarber, Kyle - CHC 12 168
SS Cozart, Zack - LAA 13 193
P Lamet, Dinelson - SD 14 198
C Alfaro, Jorge (R) - PHI 15 223
P Snell, Blake - TB 16 228
OF Brantley, Michael - CLE 17 253
P Chatwood, Tyler - CHC 18 258
MI Harrison, Josh - PIT 19 283
P Soria, Joakim - CHW 20 288
P Ziegler, Brad - MIA 21 313
C McCann, James - DET 22 318
P Nova, Ivan - PIT 23 343
UT Andújar, Miguel (R) - NYY 24 348
OF Chisenhall, Lonnie - CLE 25 373
P Barraclough, Kyle - MIA 26 378
OF Soler, Jorge - KC 27 403
C Piña, Manny - MIL 28 408
P Woodruff, Brandon- MIL 29 433
P Minaya, Juan - CHW 30 438
UT Bauers, Jake (R) - TB 31 463
2B Frazier, Adam - PIT 32 468
CI Sánchez, Yolmer - CHW 33 493
P Eovaldi, Nathan - TB 34 498
P Boyd, Matthew - DET 35 523
3B Arroyo, Christian - TB 36 528
P Fried, Max (R) - ATL 37 553
1B Vogelbach, Daniel - SEA 38 558
C Díaz, Elias - PIT 39 583
P Adams, Chance - NYY 40 588
P Hendriks, Liam - OAK 41 613
OF García, Leury - CHW 42 618
SS Valaika, Pat - COL 43 643
UT Hicks, John - DET 44 648
OF Allen, Greg (R) - CLE 45 673
P Johnson, Jim - LAA 46 678
P Bettis, Chad - COL 47 703
2B Goodrum, Niko (R) - DET 48 708
P Romero, Fernando - MIN 49 733
P Wilkerson, Aaron - MIL 50 738