GM's OFFICE: Observations from Memorial Day ADPs
May 31 2019
Our friends at the National Fantasy Baseball Championship put together a "second chance" contest, with a series of drafts held over Memorial Day weekend and playing out over the rest of the season. These are 12-team mixed 5x5 (BA, not OBP) with both league and overall prize pools.
The NFBC folks were kind enough to post the ADPs from the event (here, choose 'in-season' from the second dropdown list). I didn't enter this contest, but I spent some time this week looking through these ADPs, and found them fascinating.
The double edges of ADP
As we talk about a lot during the offseason, ADPs are both a blessing and a curse. But in this specific implementation, I find that the plusses greatly outweigh the minuses, for two reasons:
1. One of...
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