RADIO
RotoBaller Premium Subscribers can click here to access the ADP Draft Sleepers Tool.
RotoBaller’s ADP Draft Sleepers Tool is a powerful yet simple tool that can help you unearth fantasy baseball gems on draft day. It's a sleek tool that's easy to use, and will have a huge effect on your draft selections and help you make great picks.
Just select a player from the drop-downs, and boom! We’ll quickly show you a bunch of other MLB players at that position who are projected to produce similar fantasy values in 2016, but will be much easier and cheaper to scoop up in your fantasy drafts. Use this along with our Draft Kit, and you'll be crushing your competition on draft day. But pictures are easier than words, so let's take a look at how this all works. You can also try the free trial version of the ADP Draft Sleepers Tool for middle infielders, to find some ADP draft values for shortstops and second basemen.
Show Me the Draft Day Money
For example, only one person in your draft got Josh Donaldson last year, and they probably paid a lot to get him with an early round draft pick or big auction dollars. But you could have drafted similar players for much cheaper, and later in your drafts, while getting similar fantasy production. This is what we call ADP arbitrage - paying less to get a similar amount, and making a draft day profit on your picks. And this is one great critical factor to winning your fantasy baseball leagues.
So who are these secret value players and draft day sleepers? Take a look at the Donaldson example below from last year and see for yourself. After missing out on Donaldson in the draft, you may still have wanted a corner infielder. But you didn't sweat it. You simply selected Donaldson from the drop-down list, and the tool displayed seven other options for you to consider:
Your secret weapon on draft day
As you can see, Prince Fielder, Albert Pujols, Adrian Gonzalez, Nolan Arenado, Justin Morneau, Pablo Sandoval and Eric Hosmer all had lower ADPs than Donaldson, so they were generally available later in your drafts. And while they may not fully have matched Donaldson's MVP production, some provided a decent amount of it. Arenado was drafted 4-5 rounds later on average, and provided 80-90% of Donaldson's production.
Our premium ADP Draft Sleepers tool makes this decision making process fast and easy for you.
Importance of Draft Day Sleepers
Many fantasy baseball drafts are won in the middle and later rounds, and this applies to standard, head-to-head, auction and other league formats. These middle and late rounds are where we can draft MLB players that others aren't as high on, but can return a great fantasy values for the amount we spend on them. We're talking about rookies/prospects, 2nd year players, players on new teams, veterans returning from injuries, and guys who have generally been making progress in their careers and may be on the verge of a breakout season.
Remember Michael Brantley, Jose Abreu and Jake Arrieta from last year? Those guys produced much more value for fantasy owners than the investments made on draft day, and helped people win leagues. Just ask people who drafted Brantley for $1 in their auction draft, or in the 19th round of their snake draft, and ended up with a top-5 outfielder for the year.
Find those players with our premium tool, draft them, and thank us later.
Start Preparing to Crush Your Draft
Our ADP Draft Sleepers tool is a Premium Tool, and is only available for RotoBaller's Premium Subscribers. Don't forget that the tool is built and available for all positions, so you can use it for any draft day situation for hitters or starting pitchers.
It also comes bundled with our Premium Draft Kit (including premium tiered rankings), and our Premium Live Expert Q&A Chats so you can ask all of your questions to RotoBaller's best and brightest staff. As always, if you aren't satisfied, just let us know and we'll give you a refund.
Crushing your competition on draft day will increase your chances significantly of making a run at the league title. So let's win some leagues!
