1989 Draft

[Andrew]

The draft will start Monday March 15 at noon ET.

Please look at the utility to make sure all traded picks are correct.

Pick Time Limits:
1st Round, 2nd Round & Sandwich: 4 hours
Remaining Rounds: 2 hours

The draft clock runs between 8am and 10pm ET. The utility will autopick for you if you go over your time. Managers who go over their time limit will be placed on Autopick until they return. Please make use of the preference list to avoid going over the time limit.

Let me know if you have any questions on how to use the utility.

Preference List Usage

- To add players to your Preference List click the check box next to their name and click the 'Add to List' button. You can then move players up and down the list or remove them using the provided buttons.

Team War Room

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The Team War Room is available only to logged in users who are currently in control of a team as defined in the league file. From here, teams can review the available players, see what picks they’ve made and when their next ones are due, manage their draft list, configure their auto draft settings, and manually draft players if it is their turn to pick.

To add players to the draft list, click the check box next to their name, then click the Add To List button. You can add multiple players at once, and they are added in the order they appear on the page, not the order clicked. Use the up/down/remove buttons next to the draft list to manage the players once they’re on the list. The view button will take you to the HTML page of the highlighted player in the draft list.

There are three options under user preferences that GM’s should address:

Auto Draft From List: Checking this option tells the draft code to go ahead and pick the top player off your draft list should the draft come around to your pick. If you leave this box unchecked the draft will not auto select from your draft list even if it is your turn to pick.

Auto Draft…: Checking this check box tells the draft code to make an auto selection of your pick. If you have this box and the auto draft from list box checked, the draft code will first check your draft list for the first available player, and then auto your pick only if there are no available players left on your draft list. If this box is checked, but the auto draft from list box is not checked, your draft list will be ignored when the draft auto picks for your team.

…After Round: If you have the auto draft option checked, and entered a draft round number in this field, then the draft will wait until that round has completed before auto picking for your team. For example, a team may wish to make manual picks in their first three draft rounds, but auto pick the remaining 7 rounds of a 10 round draft. In that case, you would click the auto draft check box, and enter 3 in the draft round field. The utility will then auto select for you in rounds 4 and higher. If this field is
left blank and the auto draft box is checked, then all rounds will be auto drafted. If this field contains a number, but the auto draft box is not checked, then no auto picks will be made even after the round specified.
The save button will save both the draft list and the user preferences. You MUST click this button to save changes to your draft list.

If it is your team’s turn to pick in the draft, the “Add To List” button will be replaced by a button used to make a draft pick. In this case, check the box next to the player you wish to draft and click the button.

Remember to click 'Save' after you make any changes to your draft preferences or player preference list.
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[Clay]

I should have the #2 overall pick

[BradZ]

The draft utility doesn't seem to have any of the traded picks in it? I may not be looking at this correctly.

[Andrew]

It doesn't. Working on them right now

[Andrew]

Should be up to date now.

[BradZ]

Philly should have the Syracuse 2nd rounder, I think.

[Andrew]

Philly should have the Syracuse 2nd rounder, I think.

Fixed

[Matt]

Looks good to me. Five picks in the 1st three rounds again for Batavia...which bust will it be this year!

[Lintyfresh85]

Went through my big board from last year to see how well my scout did with the class now a year older.

I went through the Top 25 guys according to my rankings and checked to see if they were currently in the Top 100 prospect list. Then, I filtered out all the guys that were MR or closers as they don't tend to show up as top prospects anyways.

So, without further adieu, here is how my scout has faired on his Top 25 position players and starting pitchers, so far.

1. LF - Chad Rowe (-)
2. CF - Jerry Daly (42)
3. 1B - Jerry Jones (61)
4. SP - Jerry Howell (8)
5. LF - Pete Merner (22)
6. LF - Wes Famer (-)
7. C - T.J. Miller (-)
8. SP - Tamasaburo Okamoto (20)
9. 1B - Zander Foster (53)
10. CF - Kel William (-)
11. 1B - Ismael Reyes (31)
12. 1B - Derrek Campbell (93)
13. LF - Rex Whittier (-)
14. 2B - Cristin Rivera (75)
15. SP - Robby Williams (45)
16. 1B - Arthur Allaire (-)
17. 3B - Don Robison (56)
18. 1B - T.J. Walker (-)
19. SP - Loren Washington (30)
20. SP - Hctor Pagn (1)
21. 1B - Lucio Molinari (63)
22. 3B - Loren Randall (98)
23. 3B - Cormac Dye (-)
24. CF - Hctor Marn (77)
25. LF - Jerry Murphy (-)

Results:

As you can see, my scout seems to have correctly predicted that 16 out of the Top 25 players would be considered top prospects.

A break down by position shows the following.

C - 1 player in the Top 25; none rated as top prospect
1B - 7 players in the Top 25; 5 rated as top prospects
2B - 1 player in the Top 25; 1 rated as top prospect
3B - 3 players in the Top 25; 2 rated as top prospects
SS - No players rated in the Top 25
LF - 5 players in the Top 25; 1 rated as top prospect
CF - 3 players in the Top 25; 1 rated as top prospect
RF - No players rated in the Top 25
SP - 5 players in the Top 25; 5 rated as top prospects

Conclusion:

Interesting results to be sure. My scout was dead on with who he thought the best pitching prospects were going 5-5... but he was awful with OF'ers going 2-8. Infielders he went 8-12 which isn't too bad.

Does anyone else keep old scouting reports? How did your scout do when you update the rankings with the Top Prospect list?

[Pat]

I'm confused...

why are none of the international players showing up in the utility? Are they not eligible?

[liquidcrash]

If you have it set to display stats, it looks like only feeder league players show up. If you change that to ratings, I think everyone is there from what I've looked at so far.

[Delandis]

There's a guy in the draft named "The Letter Z" Mendoza. Now I like Z as much as the next guy, but that's gotta go.

[Lintyfresh85]

Nah, its TheLette.

Much cooler.

[Lintyfresh85]

My favorite name so far?

Helespôntico Jarava

Dudes name is Hell spawn. Badass.

[Pat]

Hugh Gentry