Draft Strategy & Thinking Ahead
Rates & Barrels: A show about Baseball
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4.7 • 875 Ratings
🗓️ 28 February 2020
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Rundown
2:02 How To Determine Draft Order Preferences (KDS)
9:39 Taking Risks for Overall Titles
17:01 Game Theory w/Early-Round Selections
22:35 Discipline w/In-Season Drops
28:13 Balancing Risk & Reward with In-Season Pickups
34:07 Building the Right Pitching Staff
40:12 Monitoring the Schedule on a Weekly Basis
46:42 Beer of the Month
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Rates and Burrell's episode number 73. It's February 28th. Derek Van Riper |
| 0:20.1 | here with Enoseres. It is a Friday. It is the |
| 0:22.4 | Friday of Labor Weekend. We are recording from a Marriott in Clearwater, I think. I hope. I don't |
| 0:30.6 | really know where I am, to be completely honest. It's sort of this little island, and it's not |
| 0:35.5 | actually an island, so that makes it America's |
| 0:37.8 | butthole no I'm sorry I'm sorry that's rude people are from here and they like it |
| 0:42.4 | I don't know it's the beaches are nice and Dunedin downtown Dunedin was great the |
| 0:47.4 | brewery there and St. Pete last night I went out on the town and you'll hear a little |
| 0:52.1 | bit more about it in beer of the month at the end of the |
| 0:55.1 | end of the program but right where we are not my favorite place no same here I think we're |
| 1:03.9 | just kind of in between a few yeah exactly we'll make our way around in the next few days |
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| 1:18.8 | to the athletic at the athletic.com slash rates and barrels. |
| 1:22.8 | So we're going to talk about draft strategy on this episode. |
| 1:25.8 | It seems prudent to do that since the Great Fantasy Baseball Invitational started up this week. |
| 1:31.4 | Eno, you just knocked out an online championship league with the NFBC while you were down here in Florida. |
| 1:37.0 | So we're going to talk about some different things like KDS and how to build your team and how to plan for the amount of streaming that you're probably going to have to do in a smaller mixed league like that. |
| 1:47.0 | Obviously, the streaming concepts apply to 15 team leagues as well, |
| 1:50.0 | but I think one of the key differences between a 12 and a 15 is being willing to turn over maybe even the bottom half of your roster, |
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