PreDraft - Finally
- Thomas
- Sep 4, 2018
- 5 min read
“People say I’ll be drafted in the first round, maybe even higher.” – Craig “Ironhead” Heyward
Alright, kids, it’s been a fun summer.
Joe finally got the haikus done (check out the previous LM Note) and then he ran his beer mile.
Things were dicey for a bit, but he came in at 12:10!
Tbh, those of you who thought this would be 8 minutes or less…. Did you think Joe could already just run a 5 minutes mile? Or did you think he would slam each beer in 0 seconds total? Just curious…
Moving on…
We’ve got a draft tomorrow, that’s a thing. So let’s get you all caught up so It can go as smoothly as last year :)
This Thursday… I can finally say this, how nice… gonna take a moment to shed a single tear of joy before I type this out
This Thursday we kick off the season in Philadelphia with a banner raising ceremony (promptly followed by a loss because our starters are hurt)
Without further ado.
Voting Results
This rule was almost unanimously approved:
The only owner that can keep a player who goes onto IR at any point in the season is the person who had them on their roster when the injured player last was active. ***If the said player ever becomes a free agent, the original owner gives up keeper rights & therefore no owner may keep them. (your roster has 1 IR spot included, use it wisely)
Free Agency is still split 50/50 so I guess by next offseason we’ll try to have a decent discussion about it.
Weekly high Score pot is getting more traction. It was 6-3 when voting closed to who knows, maybe it already has the support but just like free agents, we’ll have to wait and see.
The rule change didn’t affect any keepers so that’s cool. We’ve already updated the constitution appropriately.
Keeper List
Keeper selections have gone final, so we finally have the last pre-draft information we need to move forward.
Here are the league’s keeper selections, by draft order. *’s denote 2nd-year keepers.
Joe – Ezekiel Elliot, RB, Dallas – Round 2
Brian – Tyreek Hill, WR, Kansas City– Round 6
Thomas – Joe Mixon, RB, Cincinnati – Round 5
Pat Lockett – Melvin Gordon, RB, Los Angeles – Round 6*
Sam – Alvin Kamara, RB, New Orleans – Round 7
Phil – Le’Veon Bell, RB, Pittsburgh – Round 1*
Charlie – Rob Gronkowski, TE, New England – Round 2
Nick – NO KEEPER
Jacob – Jordan Howard, RB, Chicago – Round 6*
Pat Butler – Kenyan Drake, RB, Miami – Round 7
The draft board has been updated to reflect these keepers. You can find the board either by joining the league link for Clicky Draft (I’ll get to that shortly) or by heading to the Drafts tab under History/Data on the league website.
Draft Notes
The 2018 JPFL Draft will be taking place tomorrow, September 5th, at 8:00 PM EST
As I’ve mentioned a few times before, we are running our draft through Clicky Draft this year. Clicky Draft is “an online fantasy draft board built specifically to accommodate live in-person drafts. Clicky Draft allows leagues hosting drafts to display a draft board through a TV or projector while also allowing people to view and make picks from their phone, tablet, laptop, or desktop. It is a perfect draft board solution in a world where most drafts have a few members out of town.”
This will work exactly the same as our ESPN site drafts in the past with the addition of letting us enact our specific keeper rules properly.
1) The first thing you need to do is join our league in Clicky Draft. Go to this link and claim ownership of your team. You will be asked to make an account for login purposes. There isn’t a fee required, just make sure to use a username and password that you’ll be able to remember for the draft. It should take 3 minutes maximum to do all of this.
2) At 7:00 tomorrow, I’ll open the draft room. At that time, I’ll provide you all with a new link to enter the draft room. When you click the link, you’ll be taken to the draft room and will have full control of your team’s draft picks.
This draft will be accessible from ANY DEVICE that has internet access via a browser. You can use your computer, phone, tablet, whatever. You can even use an Xbox or PS4. If it has an internet browser, it can be used to draft your team. If you’re on the go next Thursday, just hop on with your phone to make your picks. You can also take advantage of this feature to give yourself multiple screens to use during the draft. You can draft from an iPad while researching on your laptop. The draft board will resize itself to fit whatever screen you’re using, so you can display it on your TV screen if you’d like.
There are several viewing options for how you’d like the draft board to display on your screen:
- Draft Board will display like a classic draft board, simply listing teams across the top and rounds underneath.
- Player Ranks will show you the Fantasy Pros ECR rankings, sortable by position (including “rookies only”) and team. You can also sort the list by any statistic.
- Team Rosters will show all the teams with their drafted rosters underneath
- Snake Board will slightly modify the Draft Board display to show the picks in our snaking format.
- Standard Board will show the board the same as Snake Board except it will reorder each round to show the first pick in the round on the left progressing to the last pick on the right.
I recommend using either Snake Board or Standard Board to view the draft. The board also gives you the option to readjust the height or width of the pick slots and choose specifically what information displays for picks (player first name, last name, team, position and bye week)
Clicky Draft does have a chat room built in, just like ESPN. Just like last year, we’ll be opening a conference call of some kind for everyone to join.
Draft Order
1. Marian’s Bitch
Joe I’ll let you try to think of a logo for this one…
If you ever have an idea for Joe’s next team name, just let me know anytime.
Here’s the remaining order:
2. McAvoy
3. Simmons
4. Lockett
5. Belka
6. Palting
7. Gaskin
8. Leon
9. Wild
10. Butler
League Dues
I’m using League Safe to collect league dues this year. It’s super trustworthy and you literally won’t have to do anything once you pay your buy-in. It works just like venmo except I don’t have to hold on to and keep track of the money for 4 months (which becomes a pain in the ass because Venmo uses that money to handle all of my other venmo transactions meaning I can either put your money into my bank account or just not use venmo for 4 months)
Join our league at this link and then use a credit card or whatever you pay your buy-in… after that, you just chill and play fantasy football and if you do goodly you'll suddenly have money added to your bank.
The deadline for payment is SEPTEMBER 19! After that date, you’re gonna be charged a $5 late fee which gets added to the league prize pot… tough shit.
Pay your bills,
Prepare your draft
See you Tomorrow (virtually)
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