1) I scheduled the draft for fairly close to the start of the season, figuring the closer it is to the start, the more knowledge we'll have, but keeping in mind that it may be harder to plan your personal calender so far in advance, maybe we want to go for an earlier date.
2) Depending on how much pre-draft planning you're gonna do, bear in mind that the Yahoo player rankings are based on Rotisserie scoring (i.e, all other things being equal, a guy with 40 stolen bases rates equally with a guy with 40 homers) and may not have all that much bearing on our scoring system.
Albert Pujols and A Rod are still Pujols and A Rod, but once you get past the top guys, be careful.
