Howdy all! I did a little analysis on the 14 teams and their draft for the advanced league, and here is what I came up with. I basically did one-line blurbs for draft strategy, biggest reach, best sleeper, and best bargain - based solely on my personal opinion. I'm a little busy so humor is at a minimum, but please enjoy either way, and feel free to discuss! Rancho Drebabys Draft Strategy: LeBron and hope for the best Biggest Reach: T-Mac, Round 5 first pick (57) Best Sleeper: Rodney Stuckey, Round 7 (85) Best Bargain: Jameer Nelson, Round 11 (141) Jammer's Time Draft Strategy: Chris Paul + horde the Centers Biggest Reach: None, too afraid to take chances Best Sleeper: Al Thornton, Round 9 (114) Best Bargain: Ben Wallace, Round 13 (170) rounds Turnover's Draft Strategy: Surround proven names with several potential breakout stars Biggest Reach: Brandon Roy, Round 2 (26) Best Sleeper: Derrick Rose, Round 8 (110) Best Bargain: Gilbert Arenas, Round 11 (143) Lindwood's babyeaters Draft Strategy: Well-rounded, balanced attack...and Darko Biggest Reach: Chris Wilcox, Round 7 (88) Best Sleeper: Linas Kleiza, Round 10 (137) Best Bargain: Darko Milicic, Round 11 (144) Debt Team Draft Strategy: 1 good starter at each position, fill rest with pu-pu platter Biggest Reach(es): Beno Udrih, Round 6 (80), Travis Outlaw, Round 8 (108)...every pick from 6-13 Best Sleeper: Every pick from 6-13 Best Bargain: Al Horford, Round 5 (61) Hunter's Real Estate (wartie) Draft Strategy: Go big or go home + 6th man extravaganza Biggest Reach: Emeka Okafor, Round 4 (51) Best Sleeper: Amir Johnson, Round 9 (118) Best) Bargain: Kenyon Martin, Round 12 (163) Winless Hustlers Draft Strategy: Draft a bunch of white guys Biggest Reach: O.J. Mayo, Round 6 (78) Best Sleeper: Ricky Davis, Round 10 (134) Best Bargain: Kirk Hinrich, Round 9 (119) Freudian Slips Draft Strategy: Players traded or likely to be traded (Brand, Baron, Vince, Yi) Biggest Reach: Kevin Love, Round 7 (92) Best Sleeper: Yi Jianlian, Round 12 (161) Best Bargain: Ray Allen, Round 6 (77) Motown Prides Draft Strategy: Pray for comeback years (D-Wade, Artest, Ginobli, Bargnani, Marbury) Biggest Reach: Stephon Marbury, Round 13 (177) Best Sleeper: Rudy Fernandez, Round 10 (132) Best Bargain: Manu Ginobli, Round 8 (104) webz wombatz Draft Strategy: Pray for breakout/comeback years (Crawford, Bibby, Tyrus, Jeff Green, Nene) Biggest Reach: Andre Miller, Round 4 (47) Best Sleeper: Jeff Green, Round 9 (122) Best Bargain: Stephen Jackson, Round 5 (66) BC Kyiv Draft Strategy: Young guys with upside Biggest Reach(es): LaMarcus Aldridge, Round 3 (39), Andres Biedrins, Round 4 (46) Best Sleeper: Nate Robinson, Round 9 (123) Best Bargain: Mike Miller, Round 6 (74) Rapid Wien Sektion B Draft Strategy: Hey big booooooy Biggest Reach: Greg Oden, Round 3 (40) Best Sleeper: Chris Duhon, Round 13 (180) Best Bargain: Jamario Moon, Round 10 (129) Loanshark Draft Strategy: Traded Biggest Reach: Al Harrington, Round 5 (69) Best Sleeper: Chris Quinn, Round 13 (181) Best Bargain: Corey Maggette, Round 4 (44) Hakuna Matater Draft Strategy: Blindfold, throw darts at a chart of names Biggest Reach: Jose Calderon, Round 2 (15) Best Sleeper: Mickael Pietrus, Round 6 (71) Best Bargain: Jason Maxiell, Round 10 (127)
Always a pleasure to be in a league with you bro. A+ analysis. My actual strategy based on my draft position was to: take the best available (beginning of draft was center and PG heavy, so I grabbed a bunch of high profile forwards and shooting guards) draft big men late since I knew there would be alot of PF, C sleepers in the late rounds grab some rookies/sophs as they typically have the highest upside
very cool... good read, and interesting takes. scary tough by your take i took the biggest reach of the draft.... well atleast the earliest round one.
Great analysis Hog.. T-mac was a reach, but remember I won last year with six core players> Labron, T-Mac, Baron Davis, Kaman, R Jefferson and everyone's whipping boy Zach Robinson. I have retained three of those guys and will give them their rings tonight.......and hope that we can get to the finals again for the third straight year...I might even attempt a trade for at least one of those former players so Freudian let me know who you want.....
Always creative, insightful, and witty Wart. Good stuff. Yeah, I took the blind approach. I didn't have a star player to build around. Basically, with the fourteenth pick I got what amounted to a mid second rounder in a ten team draft. Billups was the top rated guy there. I grabbed Calderon because I figured I could at least win assists with those two guys. Those are the breaks. I suck at drafting anyhow.
i hardly even looked at your team tater, i just had to razz on ya somehow i thought roy was the biggest reach simply because i think you could've snagged him later and gotten more of a sure thing at 26, and it might take awhile before he settles in at portland with so many new players. dre, who is zach robinson? ;) i actually think t-mac might be a little underrated this year, and pick 57 might've been a reach, but then again you didn't pick again until 84 and he probably would've been gone by then.
my fear was that i'd be without a pg by the time i got to my 4th pick... I knew who i wanted at 2 and 3 and felt my 3 would for sure be there but was nervous about them at 2.... as is... i am still pretty weak at PG..... so we'll see how the other postions come thru with assists... On paper I'll take my team against any team in a game, whether that plays out into wins and loses in fantasy is to be seen.
Great analysis Wart. I always want to be strong in rebounding, FG%, FT%, and assists. Those are my foundation. I think my team will do well if I don't have any injuries.
lol Thanks Hog! :p Yeah...I have a lot of sleepers. Injuries and PT factored into most of my picks. Screwing up my que accounted for others :P
Great stuff Wart! But for the record, being the only GM not to have a "reach" pick doesn't make me scared, it makes me smart.
Fun reading. My draft strategy was to get mike miller and I failed. I also failed in keeper league. oh well. My second plan was to leave my draft list untouched and let the default gods do their magic since I seem to blow my draft. I did reach for love but I needed a big guy. Should I have gone with yet another SF and hoped for a trade? Time will tell.
I talked to BBJay right before the draft, and we're convinced that this will be Darko's breakout year. I mean, somebody has to play for Memphis. Hopefully the balanced attack thing works well in the Advanced League. And, hopefully, Weezy continues his rebounding with the new OKC Thunder. I expect his scoring to drop for sure, because last season Durant took 70% of their team shots.
looks like my biggest reach was ramon sessions in round 9...wasn't even suited up for milwaukee last night
Huh? The games started last night? I'm already getting blown out because I didn't have even a single guy playing!!!! Great start to the season for me.
