LAOJoe & RTTRUTH's 11th Annual Collaborative Mock Draft

@Willie OTC
@matthewwillson29 on deck
@Torgo in the hole

 

3.41

the VIKINGS select; Anfernee Jennings, EDGE - ALABAMA

 

Yes, got my target, but couldn't log in until after rebooting my PC... sorry for the delay. I was receiving a error message.

 

Snipers on the rooftop

 

Mathew X 2 Texans and Bengals

 

Falcons standing by for sniper fire...

 

Where’s my bulletproof vest

 

There might be some shame on the horizon.

Standing by

 

Since we have another lull, finishing yesterday's lull:



The big secret is that since one stack of pieces goes directly over the other, the 4th and 8th piece are matching halves (so are the 1st and 5th, 2nd and 6th). So if you arrange to have the participants put the 4th away as the hidden piece, it will match the piece on the bottom of the stack. That's why the take three pieces and put them IN THE MIDDLE is important - the bottom piece is left alone and the 4th piece is now on top.

Now, if you do the down-under deal with seven pieces (the "she loves me" to the bottom, "she loves me not" gets discarded), the final piece will be the bottom one. After one piece moved and one discarded, you have six pieces, and the final piece will have one underneath it. After another iteration, there are five pieces with two underneath the final piece. One more iteration leaves four pieces with the final one on top.

So if you start the down-under deal with four, five or six pieces, those are the positions where you want the final piece (aka the "force card") to be. The question is how to get it there. And that's where a nifty bit of arithmetic comes in. If you divide 7 by 4, 5, 6 or 7, the remainder that you get is the same number as the number of pieces that you want underneath the final piece. That Monday, Tuesday etc nonsense does the trick without even sounding like you're counting numbers. You cycle through the stack one time (7 divided by any of those numbers = 1 plus whatever remainder) and the remainder is the number of extra pieces on the bottom of the stack.

So as long as each participant has 4+ pieces remaining (note the instructions to remove one, two or three - Woody Aragon's original version has removing none as an option as well), then the force card will be exactly where it needs to be after moving seven pieces from the top to the bottom. Then you do the "she loves me" thing, and everyone ends up with their final piece matching the piece they put away.

And there you have it... you could buy those instructions for $15, or just watch the video and read this post for free.

 

Texans shamefully auto:

Jonathan Greenard
OLB/Edge
Florida

Bengals shamefully auto
Devin Duvernay
Wide Receiver
Texas

 

You're up ATL

 

We’re football fans Torgo. Reading comprehension isn’t exactly our strongest suit.

 

Mathew really went and took a nap. He was just here this morning

 

@xinik

You'll be up pretty soon. Just Torgo and I in front of you at this point.

 

I will have (The Pick Of Destiny) for the Cardinals in a short while.

 

Greenard was on my list, but not the top of it. The main two names I had in mind are both still available, but we've had a bit of a run at another position so I'm shifting gears and taking care of this one while I still can...

Falcons select
Raekwon Davis, DT, Alabama

I want a Hog Molly to put in rotation for run defense. A project will do. He's certainly a project, which is why he has fallen this far. But he has potential to be more than just a rotational Hog Molly, so I'll take the chance on him. Maybe he and Deadrin Senat can help push each other.

 

So when teams come a throwing all the rotators will be on the sidelines

 

I see we got sleeping beauty coming up again shortly

 

We do have a few math-oriented folks here. The beauty of the trick is that it's pure math as far as the mechanics go, and all the misdirection is aimed at making the audience not realize that any math is involved.

But for those who are math and reading challenged, it's still a professional caliber trick that absolutely anyone can do. Football fans should be especially adept at counting through the days of the week.

 

Well the best part is I got sniped twice in the last three pics. But really that is incorrect. The best part is I had to snipe myself once in the last three pics, and then Torgo hit me again.

The value on Davis right now is incredible