2025 Straight Draft Guide

How we got here

Just like Jackson Chourio (pictured), our Straight Draft Guide reaches legal drinking age this month! To the long-time readers, thanks for sticking with us for two decades-plus. For the newcomers… welcome! We have tinkered with our approach quite a bit over the years. Some of that work is best left to the archives, but in the spirit of "showing our work", we present the (nearly) full archive of prior SDGs anyway:

History:  2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005

(The 2022 edition was somehow lost in the migration from the old web site.)
 

Straight Draft Rankings (updated 3/21)

Mixed  |  AL-only  | NL-only 
 

The 2025 plan

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