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This weekend was a very busy one for me. Friday, my father-in-law got tickets for the Patriots vs. Panthers preseason game for my wife and me. They were really good seats on the left side of the end zone. This was the Panthers 1st home preseason game so the stadium was packed. The funniest part of the night were bootleg t-shirt vendors on the street selling anti-Mike Vick shirts. The shirts read, “Hokie to the Pokie”. I didn’t get to see what the picture looked like but for every person’s downfall there is another person looking to exploit it and make money.
Notes on the game, if you didn’t watch it. Panthers looked bad. They had a few good series but nothing else. The kicking game was bad with a blocked FG and another missed FG. Steve Smith missed scoring a TD near my seats but I did get to watch Keary Colbert score. The
The other half of my weekend was dominated by my money league drafts. One is an existing 16 team keeper and the other is a new 14 team keeper. Same set up in both leagues so I used the same cheat sheets as we held the drafts back to back. When I got to the draft, it was more of a party atmosphere then a serious battle of the minds. We had food everywhere, beer galore and music so load we had to shout our picks. I spent so much time preparing for this draft that I felt I was on auto pilot for most of the day.
For my 16 team draft, I took a risk and traded out of the 1st and up in the 5th. I gave up my 1st round pick and my 6th and 7th round pick to 2 different owners. The theory I had going into the draft was the player I wanted in the 1st round would fall to me in the second. Based on the team needs of the owners drafting in the spots before me netted me super value. I had 2 second round picks, which I used on MJD & T.O. keep in mind that 32 players were off the board to start the draft and my 1st pick was at #18. So I got really good value in that round. I then had 2 picks in the 3rd where I decided to roll the dice and took D. Driver as my WR3 and T. Bell as my RB2. The
Here is the follow up to the previous article discussing the change in ADP of the real Shark Drafts as compared to the Mock ADPs. I used the eight Mako Shark league drafts to analyze the players that were drafted higher then their Mock ADP and the players who slipped from their ADP. We focus on the 1st 6 rounds which are the meat of your roster.
As you can see there weren’t many surprises for the 1st round as most players were taken where they were expected to go.
The 2nd round started to show some risers and fallers. Even though Peyton Manning goes very high in mocks, he went even higher in the real drafts. Portis and T. Jones slid in drafts but it was interesting as Jones’ slide was before his injury.
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