Salary cap leagues for any single day league are often tough to draft. You need to make some sort of sacrifice, and that’s never easy to do with accuracy. You either are going to pay a lot for a player and no longer be able to spend that money on other players, or you will need to select players of a lesser quality. Right now, MLB is the biggest and most popular sport, thanks to the fact that it’s not currently in the postseason, so if you decide to play fantasy baseball, you will have the largest selection of players to choose from on any given day. This gives you more choices, but it also gives you more difficulties to overcome.
When drafting a team, first realize that nothing is final until you are locked in. You can save your team in the morning with most one day fantasy sites, and return to it before the first pitch and make further edits if you need to. This gives you a lot of extra flexibility and takes some pressure off, too.
When beginning, one of the most popular ways is to start with stars. Yasiel Puig, for example, is one of the hottest players in the league right now, and as such, he is highly priced. That doesn’t mean you can’t use him, though. You can even use him and several other star players, if you wish. Let’s say you can draft a total of 12 players, and you have $100,000 in roster money to do so. This leaves you slightly over $8,300 per player. But you shouldn’t start out with your most expensive players first. Instead, find great players that are undervalued. Most leagues make you choose by position, so these players will typically be found at catcher, shortstop, and relief pitcher. If you draft these players first, you will find that your salary per player number goes up, maybe even over $9,000 per player. This gives you a lot of wiggle room, and makes someone like Yasiel Puig a reality since he is currently valued at $9,024 on some of the more popular sites of this structure. A strategy like this doesn’t focus on giving you one key player and filling things in around him, it focuses on eight or nine stars, and gives you a big advantage over your opponents.
