As to drafting, in the late rounds I take the fastest/best base stealers and the highest-rated fielders on the off chance they might turn into decent hitters. They don't
but I love the old-fashioned banjo-hitting CF/SS!
I always, always change the nationalities in the draft and always always set the "random origin" to zero. Even though it would likely produce the same results. But I get very OCD about setting different countries at .5% chance, giving random countries I've visited (Slovenia, Indonesia, etc) some representation, boosting random countries' numbers (Panama, Italy, Netherlands), and putting more guys from American Samoa and Guam into the US draft pool.