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Originally Posted by Libid21
How do you guys usually like to do your drafts? Do you auto-draft (sim) it or do you actually make the pick one by one? If you do choose every pick, do you mostly listen to what your scouting director suggests or do you go about your own standards and rulebooks? And if that's the case also, what is the stat / rating that you look for in batters, pitchers, etc. that you noticed is a pretty good indicator down the road for them in their careers?
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Speaking for me only, since it might be an indication of my laziness, but I usually make it only half-way through a draft before turning it over to auto-pilot. After the gold nuggets are all gone, it gets boring and becomes a crap-shoot anyway; some of those late-round guys may pan out but I don't believe there is any way to tell after a while.
While I am engaged, however, I first ask the scouting director for his recommendation. By no means am I convinced by that, however. I next go looking at who is still available for myself, looking at particular potentials (stuff, contact, etc.), not overall ratings so much.
IMPORTANT: Look for guys with high intelligence, and particularly, high work ethic! These are the guys who have the best chance of fulfilling their potentials. High leadership ratings will also help you down the line, and low greediness will spare you some headaches.
You don't say whether you have feeder leagues and therefore stats to look at in the draft. Treat them as advisories and with a grain of salt. I would think they tend to predict ML sucess, but are far from definite foretellers of fame and fortune. I have read some people here who say feeder league stats mean virtually nothing in that regard. I think there is some correlation, just not a strong one.