Mock Draft Chat

[Hall]

What’s next?

As long as its not a combo draft with individual sport votes I'm down!

 

[femurov]

NFL is usually next in the rotation.

Maybe I can dig through this thread and see if I can find an interesting idea that we ended up scrapping and never got back to.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Been swamped at work, won't be able to run a draft for some time but still interested in participating.

 

[femurov]

So, I went through a few random pages and came across a couple of ideas that I don't think got used. I'm not sure about UK's position groups draft. I know we almost did it a couple of times and changed it last minute to something else (probably a bucket and cap or something), but I put it here anyway in case we didn't.

I'm not sure any of these are a finished product yet. We can still tweak them, if we feel the need, but it gets the discussion going.

Fuck it, let's get weird:

22 Player draft, since people said they were judging off of this anyways despite having 24 players.

Every drafter gets 6 Wild Cards

So whoever is 1st up in the draft takes a player, say Jerry Rice. The 2nd pick must now take a WR position. From here you have 3 options:

1) Take a player of the same position: WR
2) Take a player from another positions, BUT this player must be a teammate of the previous pick for at least 2 years.
3) Use a Wild Card to change the position.

So in my example above, the 2nd pick could do all of the following things:

1) Take another WR say Randy Moss.
2) Take another teammate of Rice's, say Joe Montana. The position has now been changed to QB.
3) Use a wild card. If they use a single wild card they get to simply choose another player from another position, which would then reset the position.

The stipulations above only apply to the first 18 rounds. Rounds 19-22 act as normal drafting rounds so teams can fill out their positions as necessary.

We can call this the UNO draft. I tried to incorporate Skips and Reverses in this, but it would just make things unmanageable.

Since we are going with different ideas, here is mine. Instead of each pick being one player, it's a position group. You can select any group that played together for one full season. So you are getting anywhere from 3-5 players with each pick. Position groups are:

1 QB/RB/FB- (2)....You will select two picks in the draft for this group, meaning you will have 6 players from those two picks
2 WR/ 1 TE - (2)
5 OL - (2)
4 DL - either 3 or 4 depending on system. if you are 4-3, you get 2 DT and 2 DE (2 picks, 8 players)
3 LB - again, if you are a 4-3 set, you get 3 LB's. (2 picks, 6 players)
4 DB's - 2 CB, 2 S (2 picks, 8 players)
3 Specialists - P, K - (2 picks, 4 players)

So here is how it works. Say I had the 1st pick in the draft and I decided to take the 1996 Cowboys QB/RB/FB with my 1st pick. I could then add Troy Aikman, Emmitt Smith and Moose Johnston to my roster. Then later on, I took the 2005 Steelers as my other QB/RB/FB pick and added Big Ben, Willie Parker and Dan Kreider. Those six players would be my roster for those positions. Then it would be up to me as to who my starters were, who was my backup QB and who was my 3rd down back. Same thing at WR/TE. Let's say that my WR/TE'S ended up being Julio Jones, Roddy White and Tony Gonzales from the Falcons and Wes Chandler, Charlie Joiner and Kellen Winslow from the Chargers. I could show 4 WR sets, two TE sets, whatever I want, and I added 6 players with only two picks.

***The great thing about this draft, IMO, would be that we would be drafting 48 man rosters, but the draft would only be 14 total rounds long!

Also, like any mock, the same player can't play for two teams, meaning once I took Troy, Emmitt and Moose, someone could go to a 70's Cowboys squad and take Roger, Tony D and Robert Newhouse, but not the 3 guys I took.

we can also do the alphabetical Draft... there are 26 letters in the english dictionary but we draft 24 players.... so 2 letters are not included... your choice of letter...

a player qualifies for a letter if their first or last name starts with it...

so the best O-lineman of all time qualifies for E and W since his name is erik williams

NFL partner draft. One drafts O one drafts D we don't find out who our part is until after the draft. I let half the league know they will draft O and the other half they will draft D.

We draft 20 players on offense and 20 on defense, 1 kicker, 1 punter, 1 kick returner, 1 punt returner for a total of 44 players, 22 by each drafter.

The guy drafting O picks the kicker and kick returner the guy drafting D picks the punter and punt returner.

We can talk about if we want any restrictions...

What about NFL/college Draft where you can only take 2 players per college for your team. So you already took 2 players who went to OSU then you can’t take anyone else who went there.

You could also do this for NBA but I’d make it only 1 per college team. If they didn’t go to college you can only take 1 who went from HS to NBA. I already call dibs on Kwame Brown.

 

[tducey]

That wild card draft sounds fun.

 

[Ellis269]

That wild card draft sounds fun.

Partner draft could be interesting too.

 

[femurov]

So... a Parter WC draft?

 

[tducey]

Any updates?

 

[femurov]

Any updates?

I'm at work, but I can work on something later tonight

 

[tducey]

Sounds good.

 

[tducey]

I could take a shot at running a draft if you guys wanted me to. I'm usually around a computer.

 

[Shanemansj13]

I could take a shot at running a draft if you guys wanted me to. I'm usually around a computer.

You would have to get mod privileges to edit threads

 

[tducey]

Now then, hope we can figure a draft out soon.

 

[femurov]

Sorry guys. Work has been setting up to open for carry out and delivery and it has been a pain in my ass to get everything up and ready for it. I should be able to run a draft, but I won't be as on top of it until early next week (and even then, it will be hit or miss). I will set up a sign up thread tonight and hope to get started sometime tomorrow. Updates will be sporadic, but I will do my best.

 

[Shanemansj13]

Sorry guys. Work has been setting up to open for carry out and delivery and it has been a pain in my ass to get everything up and ready for it. I should be able to run a draft, but I won't be as on top of it until early next week (and even then, it will be hit or miss). I will set up a sign up thread tonight and hope to get started sometime tomorrow. Updates will be sporadic, but I will do my best.

I can definitely help run it

 

[Shanemansj13]

Gotta figure out what we want to do

 

[femurov]

It looks like a couple of people liked Sushi's idea of the WC draft, but I only want to go forth with that one if he is in. If not, we can do one of the other ones.

So, @CitySushi.... you in?


This was the original proposal, updated to 24 players.

Fuck it, let's get weird:

24 Player draft.

Every drafter gets 6 Wild Cards

So whoever is 1st up in the draft takes a player, say Jerry Rice. The 2nd pick must now take a WR position. From here you have 3 options:

1) Take a player of the same position: WR
2) Take a player from another positions, BUT this player must be a teammate of the previous pick for at least 2 years.
3) Use a Wild Card to change the position.

So in my example above, the 2nd pick could do all of the following things:

1) Take another WR say Randy Moss.
2) Take another teammate of Rice's, say Joe Montana. The position has now been changed to QB.
3) Use a wild card. If they use a single wild card they get to simply choose another player from another position, which would then reset the position.

The stipulations above only apply to the first 18 rounds. Rounds 19-24 act as normal drafting rounds so teams can fill out their positions as necessary.

We can call this the UNO draft. I tried to incorporate Skips and Reverses in this, but it would just make things unmanageable.

 

[Shanemansj13]

It looks like a couple of people liked Sushi's idea of the WC draft, but I only want to go forth with that one if he is in. If not, we can do one of the other ones.

So, @CitySushi.... you in?


This was the original proposal, updated to 24 players.

Fuck it, let's get weird:

24 Player draft.

Every drafter gets 6 Wild Cards

So whoever is 1st up in the draft takes a player, say Jerry Rice. The 2nd pick must now take a WR position. From here you have 3 options:

1) Take a player of the same position: WR
2) Take a player from another positions, BUT this player must be a teammate of the previous pick for at least 2 years.
3) Use a Wild Card to change the position.

So in my example above, the 2nd pick could do all of the following things:

1) Take another WR say Randy Moss.
2) Take another teammate of Rice's, say Joe Montana. The position has now been changed to QB.
3) Use a wild card. If they use a single wild card they get to simply choose another player from another position, which would then reset the position.

The stipulations above only apply to the first 18 rounds. Rounds 19-24 act as normal drafting rounds so teams can fill out their positions as necessary.

We can call this the UNO draft. I tried to incorporate Skips and Reverses in this, but it would just make things unmanageable.

Sounds good to me

 

[tducey]

Me as well.

 

[Ellis269]

I’d be down for that.