The Home Stretch

Final Draft Order

As a reminder, this year's draft is straight up and down, not snaking. This is why you had the option of claiming as many as three players from your roster from last year. The top four draft picks were based on the final standings from last year's regular season. The remaining eight were based on last year's finish in the playoffs. Please check the league page, Draft, and then Draft Results to make sure you players were entered correctly.

1. Hen Pen (3)
2. HesAKeeper (?)
3. The Kolber Kissers (3)
4. Whos Ochocinco (?)
5. Norfolk State (0)
6. Coco's All-Stars (3)
7. jared sucks (1)
8. He Hate Me (2)
9. Tinea Cruris (2)
10. Huron Heartbreakers (3)
11. Fighting Gobblers (3)
12. NL Supremacy (3)

Due to a clerical error on my part, HesAKeeper and Whos Ochocinco have been given an extended period (8/26) to decide on the players they want to tag.

What Can You Do Now Until the Draft?

Wheel and Deal

This was explained earlier, probably in better detail, but I'm going to remind you. You have three options:

1) Sit pretty. Map out your big board. Sweat out the possibility that a Top 30 player might fall into your lap in Round 4.

2) Make a trade for a tagged player. 1 for 1, 1 for 2, 2 for 3 ... It does not matter. What happens if you acquire a tagged player so that you have more than three keepers? Well, the additional players go into your subsequent rounds (4, 5, and so on).

3) Trade a draft pick position for a draft pick position. Unfortunately, after testing the system, Yahoo! does not allow you to have an unequal amount of picks. Everyone has to have 15. So, the only point in trading a draft pick is to flip flop positions for a round or two. Essentially, I don't really seeing this as adding much leverage if you are going down in position. I don't mind if you want to trade a draft pick position and a player for a higher position in a different round.

As an aside, all trades must be submitted to me before the draft. I must get two separate e-mails from each party (or three, or four if it turns out to be a blockbuster).

Pay Your Dues

I checked in with our Treasurer, Mr. Trice, and there have only been two payments thus far. Please send a check to Ben (e-mail him if you need his address ... bwtrice [at] gmail.com) or ask me how you can pay through PayPal. Using PayPal will bump your fee up to $8 since PayPal likes to take about $1 for a service charge.

If you are mailing your check, please make sure it is postmarked by August 31. If it has not been mailed out by that day, you will incur a small late fee and your team will be frozen until payment is received. For more details, check out this post.

Is There Something I Can't Do?

This issue was raised and I just want to clear things up. With the exceptions of Ben B. and Jamie, until tomorrow, the players you did not keep are now free agents. Meaning, you forfeited your rights to them and can not use them in a trade or any other transaction.