In this preseason series, I will be identifying and reviewing the top 450 picks (per ADP) for late-round values in Draft Champions leagues on NFBC. This week: Relief pitchers.

 

In rounding out the list of later-round targets by position, I’m left to analyze how we can best use our late rounds to try and grab a few more saves. As for reflecting on the 2021 top-10 finishers as I’ve done in all these pieces, the correlation I saw for relief pitching is that there was no correlation. 

Sure, top-10 rosters predictably got 72% of their saves from their first two selected relievers. Interestingly, the second-overall finisher had 44 saves total. Hell, that’s a 44th percentile finish. They went up for Liam Hendriks (ADP: 57), but their...

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