2025 Draft is in the Books!
We forgot to take a photo of the draft video chat, so this photo of the Smyth crew at Ruth's 4th birthday will have to do for now. We bowled, we ate cupcakes, there were meltdowns when the arcade cards ran out of credits. It was the whole experience. That's a wrap on preseason 2025. A full two hours later (one and a half hours if you were Dean or Paul) and the draft was complete. So who won? Well, let's frame things first. Coming into the draft we knew some people had an advantage from selling players last year or having good keepers, but just how big of an advantage was it? I put together dollar values with a hypothetical $300 budget (for 30 players drafted) per team and, based on the player's statistical projection, I could rank them for when they should/could be drafted. For example projected #1 pick, Shohei Ohtani was worth $43, while 100th projected pick, Justin Steele, was worth $10.19, and the 300th player ranked, Ryan Jeffers, was worth $0.22. You get the ide...
