Readers Respond: Fantasy Baseball Draft Horror Stories

Do you have a story about a draft nightmare, or at least one involving an owner glancing over your shoulder to take a look at your rankings before he was about to pick?

About.com Contributing Writer Kevin Kleps has had his share of bad experiences on, let's just say, inferior websites that offer drafts.

The doctor is in - it's OK to vent. Share your horror stories of fantasy drafts gone awry.

Waited too long

I could discuss numerous travesties and debacles, but my most recent experience involved an 8-team, snaked, H2H league in March. I drafted 6th. First, there was a run on catchers early and often. I got suckered in and ended up with Kurt Suzuki in round 10. Should have waited until the end, at that point, and picked up Posada. Dumb. This error got compounded in round 11. Had already drafted Justin Upton and Adam Lind, plus Ben Zobrist was eligible for the OF. So, I picked up my first reliever, Jose Valverde, figuring there was no way one of the three other OFs I was looking at wouldn't fall to me on the way back with only two guys ahead of me before it snaked back to me. So, who goes right after Valverde? Carlos Gonzalez. That's ok, I've still got two more. Then down goes Nelson Cruz. Now I'll have to settle for Andrew McCutchen. Oops, he just went, too! What the heck were the odds?! Got stuck with Bobby Abreu. Not a big fan, but oh well. Threw off the rest of my draft completely. Idiot

—dehrlich7

Everybody or nobody

My worst experience was with a friend and co-worker whose expertise with computers began and ended with the on-off switch. He was trying to draft online with a dial-up connection that must have been 14.4K (this is in the late 1990s). And every round, we'd slide right through his pick as he says his computer wouldn't tell him when to draft. So the commissioner (me) would have to pause the draft, and people would start over again. Online drafts are definitely the way to go these days, but make sure everybody in your league has the technical abilities to make it work, or you'll have 11 other angry owners ready to kill one guy.

—Guest Scott Kendrick