2021 Fantasy Baseball Draft Day Cheat Sheet: Rankings, sleepers, tiers and everything else you need
Everything you need to dominate your draft in one place.
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CBS Interactive staff
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You can almost smell opening day now.
It's the last Fantasy baseball draft weekend before the start of the 2021 MLB season, and you might be cramming to get ready. Thankfully, we've been able to enjoy a closer to normal spring training and head into a more normal last week of drafting frenzy.
This Draft Day Cheat Sheet is packed with content to help you prepare for your draft(s) and then dominate. Here is the lion's share of the draft prep work of Scott White, Chris Towers and Frank Stampfl, and it's all available for your draft research. It's the perfect one-stop shop as you plan for victory.
Draft Day Essentials
- Fantasy Baseball Today Draft Kit (free, downloadable and printable)
- Fantasy Baseball Today Podcast (new episodes five days a week)
- Scott White's 25 Spring Training Winners & Losers
- Scott White's Draft Manifesto: Why SPs should be your top priority
- Fantasy Baseball Today crew's bold predictions
- Chris Towers' Bold AL Predictions
- Chris Towers' Bold NL Predictions
- Scott White's 25 burning questions for 2021
Rankings and Salary Cap values
- Head-to-Head points
- Rotisserie (and H2H categories)
- Top 100 Prospects
- Dynasty Top 150
- SportsLine's Optimal Rankings Cheat Sheets
Tiers (v. 4.0)
- C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | SP | RP
- Scott White's Tiers on one printable page
- Tiers by category, not position
Sleepers, Breakouts and Busts
- White: Sleepers 3.0 | Breakouts 3.0 | Busts 3.0 | Deep Sleepers | Post-Hype Sleepers | Players Scott Keeps Drafting
- Towers: Sleepers 3.0 | Breakouts 3.0 | Busts 3.0 | Players Chris keeps drafting
- Stampfl: Sleepers 2.0 | Breakouts 2.0 | Busts 2.0
Mock Drafts
- 12-Team: H2H points | H2H categories | Rotisserie
- 10-Team: AL H2H | NL H2H
- 15-team: Rotisserie
- Dynasty: Prospects-only Roto | Prospects-only H2H | Roto startup
- Salary Cap: Mixed Roto | H2H points | AL-only Roto | NL-only Roto
Strategy Guides
Strategy
- White: Players with the biggest gap in H2H and Roto value
- White: Every team's most pivotal player
- White: Rating every player's chances of being dropped the first month
- Stampfl: Ranking closers by job security
- Towers: How to build your team in Roto and H2H
- Towers: Late-round starting pitchers to target
- Towers; How to build a roster with a contrarian spin
- Towers: Players to target instead of higher-priced stars
- White: Rating ever player's downside
- Towers: Non-closer RPs can have more value than ever
- Stampfl: Late-round Roto specialists
Position Previews
C | 1B | 2B | 3B | SS | OF | SP | RP
ADP Review
- Towers: Biggest ADP fallers
- Towers: Biggest ADP risers
- White: 16 underrated players
- White: 12 overrated players
Prospect Hunting
- Top 100 Prospects
- Prospects-Only Draft: 180 deep
- Top 10 Prospects to Stash
- The All-Rookie Team
- Top Dynasty targets by position (audience survey)
Advanced Scouting
- White: 25 biggest questions for 2021 season
- White: All-Rookie Team for re-draft leagues
- Towers: What matters in spring ball
