Thursday (The Draft) Edition: Wha’ Happened?
Posted on August 21st, 2008 – 9:07 AMBy Michael Rand
We weren’t going to bore you with details of our Interweb blog-based in-person fantasy football draft last night (Varsity edition; tonight is the B Squad), but enough people have asked to make it worthwhile. Complete rosters can be seen most easily right here; according to some commenters and some power ranking numbers Roughkat ran right after the draft, we actually have a pretty good team. That said, we are loaded up with question marks: Brandon Marshall, Larry Johnson and Ocho Cinco being chief among them. With no other discernible strategy to go with, we decided on the “let’s hope they get healthy and un-suspended” theory in drafting Ocho Cinco, Marshall and Bobby Engram along with three other lesser WRs to hold down the fort in the mean time. We’ll see. Other highlights:
*Biggest slacker: Us, for showing up at 6:57, three minutes before draft time.
*Biggest reach: Dave MN taking Darren McFadden at No. 19 overall. Could be this year’s Purple Jesus. More likely this year’s Curtis Enis.
*Best call: Jon nailing our manwich picks at 20 and 21: Larry Johnson and Tony Romo.
*Best joke that was carried through the night: SuperRookie bicycling to the draft with Jon riding on his pegs. (Note: did not happen).
*Biggest distraction: The U.S. World Cup qualifier that started around 9:10 as the draft was winding down rendered Jon and the Rook almost useless. Jon took Landon Donovan in round 13, while Super Rookie kept scanning his cheat sheet looking for players with low yellow card accumulations. (By the way, did anyone else see the U.S. player get bashed in the head and bloodied? That was gross).
*Biggest technological advance: This year compared to last year. Hassle-free wireless, everyone online who wasn’t at the draft. It was glorious.
*Biggest traveler: Stu, all the way from the St. Cloud area, and wearing a “Nixon in 78″ half-shirt. We don’t even know where to begin with that, but we do think the best part is that isn’t even a presidential election year.
*Biggest losers: Anyone who followed the draft live who wasn’t actively participating. OK, we still love you.
*Best sandwich picks: Rounds 13 and 14 from Jon: T-Jack (T-JOKE to some commenters) and Ryan Longwell. What a homer.
*Worst situation: The server who kept taking our empty glasses before we could refill them.
*Best trash talk: Sin City Rollers co-conspirator Victor Lebanon claiming our sandwich picks of Jerricho Cotchery and Selvin Young in rounds 6 and 7 trumped his one terrible pick (Kevin Smith) the round before. (Note: VL is grumpy by nature and would have said that regardless of which players were taken).
*Best part: The season hasn’t even started yet, and already half the league members hate their teams.
Fasola-link! Major cities at night from space.
44 Responses to "Thursday (The Draft) Edition: Wha’ Happened?"
*Best part: The season hasn’t even started yet, and already half the league members hate their teams.
*raises hand*
Dave MN taking Darren McFadden at No. 19 overall. Could be this year’s Purple Jesus. More likely this year’s Curtis Enis.
Steven Jackson was last year’s Curtis Enis, and he was supposed to be a “sure thing”. So, I’ll take my chances.
*Best call: Jon nailing our manwich picks at 20 and 21: Larry Johnson and Tony Romo.
These picks would not be considered Manwich BOLD.
At least 3 peoples are checking out the draft results right now. Yup, we’re a bunch of nerds.
Latte- any chance of the draft order being randomly generated earlier than 1/2 hour before tonight’s minor league draft?
At least 3 peoples are checking out the draft results right now. Yup, we’re a bunch of nerds.
Ogre will be stopping by to take your dignity
Ogre will be stopping by to take your dignity
Thank you for assuming I still had some.
After a quick glance steals of the draft:
- Steven Jackson in Round 2- You guys knew the holdout was over right?
- Ryan Grant in round 3, he’s a top 10 back
- Willie Parker in round 6, he’ll get you yards
Reaches or really bad picks:
- McFadden
- Ricky Williams
- Brandon Marshall
- Any team taking 2 kickers, TE’s, or Defenses
Dave MN- Raise both your hands. How drunk were you? Did you at least drink “good” beer?
Jon took Landon Donovan in round 13.
I wanted to, if only to drop his [redacted] [redacted] as fast as possible. Take that, Landycakes, you pansy!
I love my team!!!
JPF took 3 QB’s? Does he know Rodgers isn’t backing up Favray anymore?
Well if you add all three of my qb’s they equal one. Actually the only reason I did was I wasnt sure I could count on any of them
And if I get lucky and all 3 play well, I might be able to trade one for another lesser running back.
I’m still not over the deal we got from Major’s. I am honestly considering getting a few friends together to fake a draft.
JPF- I think Cutler could be the best of the 3 this year. I guess you didn’t miss out on much taking Rodgers, and if he is good then your set.
Brandon
What was the deal and which Majors did the “A” team attend? Plymouth?
Brandong - Solid idea. We might move one of our real drafts there even. I’ll be guarding my glass much more carefully next time. I think I had it taken away at least twice.
jama - Golden Valley.
1 free pizza
20 free wings
On Wed wings are 35 cents
$10 GC for everyone next visit
punch card good for one free beer every week of the nfl season Sun or Mon
You had your glass taken? What, was it a High School keg where you paid $5 for a red Solo glass and as soon as you lost it you had to buy a new one?
We had pitchers of beer, but somehow glasses kept going missing. The girl in the mascara kept stealing them. She might be related to the underwear gnomes.
Id like to thank Roughkat for being commish..things went smooth last night.
Rand - you forgot another major event: the two solid Jimmy Stewart impersonations.
I swear, I missed the guys I wanted by one pick at least two or three times. It’ll probably be the difference between having zero wins and one win this season…
*Best sandwich picks:Rounds 13 and 14 from Jon: T-Jack (T-JOKE to some commenters) and Ryan Longwell. What a homer.
Dave MN ordering a Seven Corners burger, being told they don’t make that, then teaching the waitress a lesson by picking Darren McFadden in round 2!
I think Brandong had the one solid Jimmy Stewart impression. The other was despicable, but in no way a reach like Ricky Williams.
Hootie
I don’t believe I can instruct Yahoo to randomize the order in advance. The only alternative would be for me to manually randomize (um, drawing names out of a hat) and then set the order myself. Maybe roughkat and the A-Squad have some ideas.
The good news is that danonymous registered last night. Yay.
latte - if you want to randomize an order, go to random.org and click the list randomizer link. Then follow the instructions. That’s what I did for a league and it worked great.
No worries, just checking. I’ll be rushing home just in time for the draft, so it’ll be a fun surprise.
Who are the 2 teams not abiding by the “use your commenter name as your team name” suggestion? I’m confused…and lazy.
Joker and danonymous are the guilty parties. They shall be punished in ways yet to be determined.
If you let me “randomize” the order I’ll make sure they draft 5 and 6, which have to be the suckiest spots to draft from. “Do I take Brady or a RB I have very little faith in?”
To determine our order we did a indian leg-wrestling tourney.
Actually, I used some online randomizer which then emailed all users so they knew it was legit. I wish I could have taken a mulligan because it gave Rand the #1 pick.
PS. The B-league already sucks for not using clever names.
Here’s ours:
The Daniel LaRussos
Team Venture
RandBall
[Redacted] Morons
Fisticuffs Jackson
The Taint Slappers
Shelley Malil’s Exes
Frontbutt
Sin City Rollers
Pugs Not Drugs
I’ll leave it to you to guess who’s who.
Dave MN ordering a Seven Corners burger, being told they don’t make that, then teaching the waitress a lesson by picking Darren McFadden in round 2!
Yeah, I also ordered a Hope & King and she looked at me funny. Stupid Majors. It just can’t pretend to be Town Hall for one night, can it?
Man, that Randball name sucks…. limited creativity. Sigh.
I would have preferred to see the use of fupah, but frontbutt is equally classy.
I changed the team name back to danonymous, are you whiners happy now?
What if we just include our Randball names into the team names, a la “Stensation Nation”?
Dan- I don’t know that peeps were whining. I wasn’t (or wasn’t trying to), just confused and too lazy to go back to the original post to figure it out for myself. I’m cool with the idea of having our commenter name be part of a witty (or not) team name.
RandBall Lite Draft Order
by fftoolbox.com
The following draft order was randomly generated for your league:
1 - lattewarrior
2 - Ty Webb
3 - The Hootie
4 - joker
5 - stensation
6 - jama
7 - danonymous
8 - newbie
9 - JRG
10 - Mike M.
The Hootie was whining, don’t believe him. He just can’t come up with a clever name so no one shall!
He’d probably come up with something lame like The Hootie and the Blowfish… lame.
I throw the bull[redacted] flag. Latte happens to randomly “generate” a draft order and look who happens to draft #1. Latte if you are going to give yourself the #1 pick and don’t want to get called out on it, you should know to “generate” jama as the #2 pick or at least the #3 pick. #6? Christ my team’s going to look like Dave’s.
Easy jama, what’s with all this picking on Dave’s team? Your team is not going to look like his. You wouldn’t pick a bunch of crappy players that only have “potential.”
Aside from Kyle Orton of course.
Kyle Orton has potential???
Gotta love that potential.
Speaking of…how’s Kyle Lohse doing these days?
Also, what happens if my team ends up being good? Does the world end? I’d like to think that fantasy football is incapable of bringing about the apocalypse, but you never know.
Ryan Grant is a top 10 back?
Based on seven games?
If he matches what he did the last half of last season this year with defenses keying on him because Favre is in the Big Apple then I’ll consider drafting Grant before round eight.
Until then he’s a ham-and-egger who could just as easily prove that he should be bagging groceries.
jama - YOU JUST GOT SERVED!!!! Suck it.
