I think I'm ok with that. Prefer later, but will go with majority no problem.

Commissioner's Note

The draft time has been changed to 6:45 PM Central / 7:45 PM Eastern. An intermediate time between the 8:00 PM Central and the 4:30 PM Central popped up today and I grabbed it. It's reasonably close enough to the 7 pm Central that we voted on that I hope it doesn't matter for anybody.

Consider this time set in stone.

A-OK with me, Commish

Can't we discuss this?

Here's the draft order this year.

1.JG
2.KJ
3.BL
4.DB
5.YO
6.JL
7.VJ
8.BB
9.TM

To set the order, I went through the following steps:
1 - I went to http://www.random.org/, my favorite random order generator website .

2 - I went to "Interger Generator" to choose a number between "1" - "20".

Below is the result of the randomized integer.



3 - I went to "List Randomizer" and input our list of owners (list from top to bottom per what I saw under "Managers" in Yahoo.)

4 - This list of owners was randomized 4 times to get to a final list which is our draft order. Below is the final randomized list.

Shit.

I take it you don't like the #1 pick?

it's always tricky. I wonder how many times the 1st overall pick went on to be the top scorer of the season in our league. unless Albert Pujols has an undisputed monster season, it's not that easy.

Too much pressure

Didn't I have have the first pick last year? I think I did.. and I won it. It's rare though.

Draft room is open.

I meant "how many times the player picked 1st overall was the top scoring player". there must be a line drawn somewhere but I believe the 3 or 4 initial picks hold the same potential for the "perfect draft".

1 hr 15 mins ... not bad. Good luck, fellas!

I'm happy with my draft. If ESPN's ratings are correct, I have 3 of the top 10 SP. I'm happy with my position players and bullpen too. We'll see. Good luck everyone.

Bengie Molina is NA? WTF? D'oh!

All 6 of mine are in last year's Top 10. Plus I have the Top 5 hitters from last year. Not sure how, but....

so you got carlos pena? lol

huh? Greinke was pretty awful last year. Haren was a .500 pitcher. Danks and Marcum were good, but not great. Are you talking about their projected stats last year?

I guess you're talking about projected stats from last year, because you sure didn't have the top 5 hitters either. You only have 4 position players that cracked 500 fantasy points. DB's almost entire roster had 500 fantasy points last year.

I posted that in a rush, and in retrospect realized that made absolutely no sense. I accidentally did a search of "all available players" instead of "all players"

lol. I knew I had a few cocktails last night, but couldn't figure out where you were getting these stats from.

I hope you mean my entire roster averaged 500 fantasy points, because otherwise, I'm in trouble.

lol. Yes. I didn't look at every roster, but I think you have the most 500+ players this year.

I have a number of workman-like players - no names that I'm really excited about - but hopefully, my team is slow and steady this year.

Bautista should be interesting for my team. I guess nobody believes he can do it again. When was the last time a guy that is eligible to play the inf and of, hits 54 HRs with 124 RBI's, gets drafted in the 4th round?


I forgot to add, he was also the #1 Fantasy player last year too.

You were my draft killer this year. As players were coming up I had my eye on you grabbed them before I could and Bautista was one of them. Chris Carpenter another. I can't remember at least two others, but you were on the same line of thinking as I was during the draft.

I'm happy with my team though. I have backup issues, but I learned last year that I can sort that out as the season goes on. I also have a lot of players that were near the top of there position in years past, but because of injuries and off years they went late in the draft (Markakis, Sizemore, Joe Nathan, Granderson...) and while I'm not depending on them, I'm curious to see how they come around this year. If one or two of them get back to form I could have ended up with a steal or two in the draft. The rest I'll replace with players DB drops

Great minds think alike. If it makes you feel better, you crushed me taking Reyes right before me in Rd 3.

I am quite happy with my lot....i have even heard of a few of them........

Mike Stanton has your name written all over him.

This season can't start fast enough. I want to take my new players for a test drive.