Step Seven: Assessing Your Mock Draft and Team
Now that you’ve performed your own mock draft, you should check what sort of team you’ve assembled. Does it have enough power? Speed? Does your pitching staff stand a chance? Do you have enough closers?
You can answer those questions according to your own standards. The most important thing to check now is: Did you pick any of your players too high? Could you have waited to draft the player you chose, or a player of similar caliber, for a later round?
You want to make sure your team is as powerful as possible by making sure you utilize your comparative advantage. (See the article, “One Question You Must Ask Yourself Before Every Pick” for more info.)
The main benefit of the mock draft is to see where certain positions are landing in the draft. Are there a lot of great pitchers falling down to the sixth through eighth rounds?
Or vice versa, if you’re noticing a run on starting pitching in the third and fourth rounds, you might need to snag your ace then so you don’t get left out.
No doubt these mock drafts can consume as many hours of your life as you want them to. It’s like playing solitaire on your computer. The game never gets old, even though the challenge is always the same.
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