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RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - The_Kidd - 04-04-2021
I'm still with my first player so my two drafts are very fresh in my head. It's about a year ago exactly since I joined this league. Let's say for my DSFL draft experience, I learned a tremendous amount of information for my big league draft ---- mainly what I should not do, haha! Coming into the ISFL draft, I felt very confident of my player and my draft stock. I finished with over 110 tackles and our Royals made the Ultimini in only their second year of existence. However, I did not make the pro bowl and I got nervous, so I started writing a bunch of media to highlight the numbers beyond the raw box score.
I had two goals coming into the draft: be the first cornerback off the board and be a first round pick. I continuously checked on the TPE ladder to see where I stood against fellow high value picks, ignorant to the nuances of the draft. I started studying team's depth charts to see which teams were likely to target me. In my head, I had narrowed it down to 4 teams: Sarasota, Yellowknife, Orange County, and Arizona based on draft position, roster fit, best player available approach, and number of extra picks available.
What I would soon learn is that I played myself too high up the leaderboard and off of most team's draft boards who were hoping to steal me in the 3rd round after GM picks. I think I talked to every team before the draft except Orange County, San Jose, and Baltimore. I talked to each team after the draft just to see what I did wrong(but it was more of timing and priorities) and the irony is that Baltimore ended up drafting me.
I didnt go first round, and Jason(Ray Ray Jackson) went to Honolulu at 6 before me, so I was a little hurt. Turns out that several teams saw me in the London locker room and were debating trading up once Orange County and Yellowknife passed me up. My Royals GM, Highhaschdi, put in good word in Baltimore, who at the time also had my DSFL recruiter, Exilizer, so I had some warmth coming into the locker room. I kinda cant wait to do it all again.
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - Kotasa - 04-04-2021
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Rich Triplet on DSFL draft day with his new GM Mithrainder
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - Oles - 04-04-2021
The Oles family has been through so many drafts now it's hard to recount just 1 experience. Whether it’s the patriarch Tyler Oles going in the 2nd round to the Philadelphia Liberty, and eventually bringing them a title, or the time when Kazimir Oles should have been first overall but was not given that distinction. The song and dance has usually been the same, however Kazimir Oles JR, the son of the Hall of Fame wide receiver who went first in the DSFL draft, and second in the ISFL draft, went much later than his father did. Many teams passed multiple times on the son of the great wide receiver, but it wasn’t because of his name, or off field issues, or questions about his ability to play, it was for a much simpler reason. This is something the family knew and prepped the young player going into the draft, so he wasn’t miffed by the teams passing on him because the teams just didn’t really need QB. The DSFL right now has a lot of high end DSFL QBs, players who have been around for a season and gotten the ropes but aren’t quite moving onto their ISFL team just yet. This put teams in a tough spot, take a player they don’t need at a spot where they could get other talent, or secure themselves a platoon at QB for 2 or 3 seasons even. The draft for Kaz JR was lack luster, watching himself fall, but at the end of the day Minnesota is where Kaz JR wanted to be. (263 words)
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - Frick_Nasty - 04-04-2021
I know I already have a PT pass but I felt like this is a good one to write about Gimmy Jaroppolo Jr. Was just drafted forty seventh overall in this years recent developmental simulation football league draft. I know I expected to be drafted later because I am a quarterback and they're very oversaturated at this moment in the developmental simulation football league. However I did not expect to fall to the fifth to last pick. You had teams that scouted me saying they were totally on board with a second quarterback system but they didn't take me instead they took a second kicker which makes even more sense if you think about it then you had other teams that didn't draft a quarterback at all and some that even drafted in an active quarterbacks as well it is what it is at this point I'm happy to be on Kansas City playing with Troy abed user @noanic is awesome as fuck and I would not want to be anywhere else at the moment. Frazzle and whatamus are good dudes who I have faith in getting me reps and letting me do my thing which is yeeting the football far as fuck. Go Kansas city coyotes.
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - pazuzu - 04-04-2021
PBE PT
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - StamkosFan - 04-04-2021
SHL CW
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - numberonedork - 04-04-2021
PBE Plus 3
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - mithrandir - 04-04-2021
The S22 ISFL Draft night was one of the happiest days of my sim league career, perhaps only second to winning the Ultimini as Tijuana’s general manager. In my time as a player in Tijuana, I had made friends with several players on the New Orleans Second Line, most notably Jay Doctor. Jay was my first sim league friend. We bonded over our shared Lord of the Rings fandom, and he was the GM who drafted me to play for Tijuana. I dreamed of joining him and others as the newest member of the excellent New Orleans secondary. New Orleans had a magical playoff run in S21, winning the Ultimini and securing the 12th and final draft spot in the draft. They traded a haul of picks to Honolulu to get the second overall pick, drafting Magnus Rikiya, defensive tackle. Everyone expected their second pick (and twelfth overall) to be quarterback Ben Slothlisberger, Stan Francisco’s heir apparent, and my teammate in Tijuana. Instead, the Second Line shocked the entire league, me included, by selecting me with the last pick in the first round. Leading up to the draft, most people had me mocked as a third or fourth rounder, but as the draft neared, rumors of me going higher started to surface. There was not a single mock draft PT submission, however, that pegged me as a first rounder. I was thrilled that New Orleans drafted me, as a first rounder no less. I heard on a podcast later that Honolulu had plans to draft me at thirteenth overall, so NOLA made the right move drafting me at 12 if they wanted me. I am so grateful to TomHanks and the rest of the Second Line war room for making my draft dreams come true as an ISFL first round selection.
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - ckroyal92 - 04-04-2021
PBE PT 24-4
RE: (S28) PT1 - Draft Day - GlimsTC - 04-04-2021
I'd like to talk about my DSFL draft experience, as that was really the only draft I genuinely had no idea where I was going. I had three teams I wanted to go to, which were the Kansas City Coyotes, Dallas Birddogs, and London Royals. These teams are where I spent the majority of my time pre-draft, and so I knew I'd fit into their cultures the easiest. However, the closer we got to draft day, the more I wanted to be a Coyote. I felt like out of all the three servers, KCC was the one I spent the least talking, and so I started feeling a bit panicked. It was silly, but I just really wanted to be a part of that culture. By the time I felt this way though, pre-draft was pretty much already done, and I knew I was going in the first three rounds, so I had a feeling that it probably wasn't happening. Come draft day, the most pleasant surprise possible hit me in the second round of the draft: The Kansas City Coyotes selected OL Felix Archstone. I verbally started popping off, incredibly happy that I was actually going to be able to be a part of the team. And be a part of the team I definitely was, as I was made the GM of the team mid-way through my first season, which is an opportunity I would not have received anywhere else at the time. It was a perfect storm of circumstances, and I'm so glad to have had that experience in the draft and after the draft with KCC. It's left an impact on me that I'll never forget and always be thankful for.
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