(S2) - Weekend PT #1 - Draft Prep

[Gwdaja]

Everything's going according to plan. Our guy, the player we want to take first off the board, has been off the charts. He's faster than expected. Strong. One of the strongest guys on the team. Maybe in the league. He's explosive and shows versatility. A dynamic athlete. When he met with us, he was a class act, a great guy. He was interesting, confident, easy to talk to, and showed that he was willing to do whatever it takes to maximize his potential. This is the kind of guy you want in your locker room. And everyone on our staff is raving about him. Hell, I feel bad for the other teams who can't draft him, cause they can't get our number one pick. He could change our franchise forever...maybe change the landscape of the league...

I...just got news that our number one pick prospect failed his drug tests. And there's word that a video is floating around of him performing "sexual acts with a local farmer's goat". The draft is right around the corner, this shatters our whole strategy. How were we supposed to expect this? I feel like I can't pass up on this kid's talent...but the city - no - the country, will have my head on a stake if I draft a goat fucker.

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[Esa77]

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The Otters war room is in a unique place: on a farm in northern california. The otters owner, known by the media to be a reclusive almond magnate, was speculated to be a guest star of H Broadcasting Office's second season of "True Crime." Also known as the hot garbage season, the season where actors spat lines with out the attached emotions, or the dumb season.
The war room is, sourced by rumor, to be a dark oaken paneled paneled room , resembling a new england wealthy family patriarch's study. The war room, belonging to the family of otters ownership has none of the technological connections recently adapted by other owners of the national simulation football league, but instead working off the physical properties of the football media collected.
Otters ownership was also rumored to be a tall man, appearing in the leading role of the latest season of "True Dectective." While many of the intriguing prospects come to mind for the shadowy owner of the otters exclusive franchise, no further information was uncovered by probing detectives journalists. The secret of the otters success might wel lcome from their leadership, who just mentioned he enjoyed crashing weddings.
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[Kendrick]

Going into this years NSFL draft the one thing I am looking for is activity. In my war room I am going through every prospects update thread and ensuring the most active updater is the one highest on my board. If you want to become a pro you have to work hard like a pro and that goes for every prospect. One of the other things I am doing is questioning and asking each prospects opinion on coming to my franchise. The worst thing you can do is draft a player who doesn't want to come to your team regardless of what overall selection they are. You don't need cancers in the lockerroom if you can simply keep them on another team. Draft a player who has his heart set on playing for you and you'll never have to worry about him bolting.

Your roster is made up of players. Players that you hope are wanting to stay with you for a long time, so questioning and getting down to the nitty gritty with each one of them is the way to avoid conflicts. Mayran Jackson ended up liking Arizona but he stated he wanted no part in them from day one. Times can change but if a player is updating and wants on your team, you make the best pick regardless of how talented you think they are.

[TheLastOlympian07]

As a NSFL GM, the draft prep never stops. Right from the league first coming into play, the GM's were scouting right away. Anyone who signed up and starting training the GM's were there watching and analyzing who was going to the gym week in and week out. The GM's sent out questions to try and see which players were in the right mindset to help the team be the best team in the NSFL. After the Season 1 Draft was over you think it would be time to sit back relax and give yourself a pat on the back right for a job well done? Wrong. If you did do that then you would already be missing out on the Season 2 draft. A good GM knows to keep planning all the time for a new draft no matter what kind of pick you have. The greatest QB of all time was drafted 199th overall! A player just won the Stanley Cup as a 210th overall selection as the last player taken! Some players taken 1st Overall have never won the Stanley Cup! Right from the get go you always have to scout and be prepared and ask questions to new draftee all the time and be ready because you never know who will help you team. Every pick matters.

[Stormblessed]

[Jogn]

The GMs of the Yellowknife Wraiths have a task unlike the other 5 teams in the NSFL, and have to pay extra attention when bringing prospects up to the Northwest Territories. With the frigid temperatures, high taxes, and difficult cost of living Yellowknife’s leadership team needs to be sure that a prospect will be willing to play, sign a long term deal, and stick around throughout the deal.

The Yellowknife war room contains perhaps the most detailed notes of all prospect visits - how the prospect looked when they got off the plane, how they seem to have settled on their long flight - a prospect flying from the University of Alabama to Yellowknife will be on the plane for 12 hours, and a road game in Denver or Baltimore will take 8 or 9 ½ hours in the air - what their reaction was driving through the small and dinky downtown. There is essentially a complete scouting report completed in the car about how the prospect seems to be feeling about the idea of not just being a Wraith, but playing in Yellowknife.

Of course, the Wraiths scouting room prefers players who have played in cold climates before and are ready to play in the NSFL’s hardest home stadium to visit. However, taking a flyer on warm weather prospects has shown success - Yellowknife managed to snag a Center from Hawaii after all.

[Molarpistols]

The Orange County Otters War-room is strangely silent. The locker-room is empty, not only of players on their off-season regimes, but of sound entirely.

Otters GMs sit with regional scouts and various other player evaluation teams in fervent quiet. This draft is going to be a doozy. The tension is palpable as they go down their evaluation list, player by player, to determine who they should target in the upcoming draft.

Not unaccustomed to sleep-less nights, the leadership team presses on throughout the nights and days, hour by hour, minute by minute, until the final Big-Board is complete. The Board, hidden behind closed doors, behind lock-and-key remains a beacon of victory in an otherwise loss-stricken atmosphere as the Otters regroup from their crushing defeat at the hands of the Outlaws.

The Otters veterans, still stinging from their harsh defeat by their bitter rivals refuse to talk to media about who they think would be a good fit for the team. Ian Bavitz, in one of the few comments we've actually been able to retrieve, said: "Honestly, the new players coming in will be great for the team, whoever it is. We're just moving onto Season Two, and anybody that can help us succeed there is welcome in my eyes. We've got our target, the Ultimus Cup, in our sights, we'll be building as best we can to achieve that goal.

Only time will tell if the preparation and dedication proves fruitful and leads the Orange County Otters to the promised land, and the Ultimus Cup.

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[WinstonKodogo]

Drafting is an art form.

You have many things you have to weigh up in that war room before you announce who you are going to take. Most people think it's easy you take the best guy on the board but that's not always the case. You need to look at how he will fit into your system for example the nippy wide receiver may be less valuable to you than the strong running back depending on what system you run.

You also need to look at their temperament, do you want to take the number one guy who's great on the field but gets on with no one in the locker room and is a complete diva or do you take the less talented guy who can become a leader for your team?

When it comes to later picks it becomes a lot easier you can find a real gem in the later rounds if you can find a guy who will continue to train his heart out when you may get a few guys who you pick up early but decide they don't need to train anymore and simply don't show up unlike the late round guy who's still going to take their place.

[dave]

Preparing for draft day might be the single most important task that a GM has. These young players will soon be the cornerstones, the foundation, for the team in a few years. Picking the right guys on draft day is a daunting task, who will bust, who will boom? Who is injury prone, who will come off an old injury and shake the world of football upside down? As a GM, I'm holed up in my office with one thing on my mind, film, film, and more film! Combine stats can be iffy to judge a player off of, but tape doesn't lie. Looking at a box score is great, but you can't see the full story behind a sheet of numbers. Watching film allows you to see past the numbers and get a better look at what any given player is doing. Some players have that X factor, a Je ne sais quoi, that you can't see from ink on a page, that you can only see by going play after play, game after game studying a player. That's how I find my talent. I look at players that the stats don't do justice for, who other teams pass over for somebody with flashier statistics. It only takes one sleeper pick to turn a team from good to great, great to elite. One sleeper from a quiet town somewhere in Nowhere USA to become the spark on a team that helps make the final push for the ultimate goal of any NSFL team, the Ultimus Trophy.