2026 Straight Draft Guide
Mar 3 2026
How we got here
We have been at this for… a while now. We've approached the Straight Draft through a number of different lenses over the years, but with a consistent overall philosophy. In the spirit of "showing our work", we present the (nearly) full archive of prior SDGs:
History: 2025 | 2024 | 2023 | 2022 | 2021 | 2020 | 2019 | 2018 | 2017 | 2016 | 2015 | 2014 | 2013 | 2012 | 2011 | 2010 | 2009 | 2008 | 2007 | 2006 | 2005
(The 2022 edition was inadvertently lost in the migration from the old web site.)
Straight Draft Rankings (updated 3/3)
Mixed | AL-only | NL-only
The 2026 plan
In the 20+ years we have been writing about straight drafts, the basic struggle hasn't changed. In fact, it's baked into the format: you only get...
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