How Are Fantasy Baseball Teams Formed?
How Are Fantasy Baseball Teams Formed? All About The DraftsAnswer: Leagues hold a draft before the season. The most common types of drafts are auction drafts and serpentine drafts. In auction drafts, teams all receive a fictional (or maybe not fictional) amount of money in which to bid on players that are “auctioned.” In a serpentine draft, a draft order is assigned, and the last manager to choose his first player becomes the first manager to choose his second player and the draft proceeds back up the order. There are advantages to both. An auction draft is more time-consuming, but owners tend to be able to acquire more of the players they really want and there’s more strategy involved on how to spend your money. A serpentine draft doesn’t take nearly as long to compete, and it’s a little easier to prepare since a player has an idea of which players might be drafted when, especially in the first couple of rounds of the draft. In almost all leagues, each owner picks a team based in the
