(*) FANALYTICS: Burning my one replacement

Last week, I participated in a draft for a 4-week league. This is one of those newfangled short-term competitions, though mine is a private one run by a group of friends. Most of these new games are for a single day or a week. I thought that was a little too much like blind dart-throwing for me. Four weeks seemed like a reasonable length of time to show off how random performance is.

Twelve teams. Just 16-man rosters. Nine hitters, one at each position, and seven pitchers. That's just over 25% penetration into the player population. Certainly, it should be pretty easy to skim off the best players in a format like this, right?

However, the one wrinkle in this league was that you could make only one roster move during the four...

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