Congratulations to everyone on completing this year's Collaborative Mock Draft, and thank you for participating. For the first time in quite a few years, our mock draft has actually grown. So once again, welcome to our new members. We're happy to have you joining us!
I ran across this interesting item earlier: Fun fact: at the start of training camp in 2003 (twenty years ago this season), only 63 total draft picks from the 1999 draft were still with the teams that had drafted them. That's one total player less than an average of 2 per team. Also noteworthy: that was in the days when you could still sign your first rounders to five- and six-year contracts. 21 out of those 63 players were first rounders. High turnover and churning the roster is nothing new.
Titans sign Spencer Anderson OT Maryland (tentative: this may become an autopick for a missing draft pick, so I'm reserving the player by listing him as a Titans UDFA)
Saints sign Mike Jones Jr. LB LSU (tentative - may become autofill for missing pick so I am reserving the name)
Hey guys! Sorry I missed this exercise this year. Are we still doing the picked higher/lower challenge?
@Joe McDonnell , @SportsFanatic / @Campbell - I might have missed your late seventh round picks. If I did please let me know. Otherwise, please select a player that you like from the remaining pool of unsigned players. You may select Maryland OT Spencer Anderson or LSU LB Mike Jones, Jr. if you like either of them. I am holding them in reserve so that no one may take them as UDFAs, and they will eventually become the autofill picks to complete the draft grid at some point.
Welcome back! We certainly missed having you in the mock. I'm not sure if the Draft Value Challenge will happen this year. That was @LAOJoe and @RTTRUTH 's thing, and Joe is unfortunately in the hospital today. So I don't know who will be laying out the details, setting up the rules etc for it. I'm stuck with work obligations for most of the day today and nearly all of tomorrow, so I won't be able to do much as far as setting up / hosting extra games.
I would still like to. Although we are short on time. I have to get my daughter ready and out the door. When I get back I’ll try and post a lazy version up. And we’ll have up until 1 hour before the draft to hand in our entries
I'm gonna get a blank form and start working on it. If its a bit wonky because I have to cut and paste so be it. Yes I take forever to do this challenge.
I'm home now. Got home at 6 but this is one sleep cycle and I'm back to bed soon. Feeling a lot better.
One lazy version you could try would be the kind of thing I did with it last year - instead of having everyone pick a couple of names from each round, pick a couple of ranges of draft picks and everyone chooses higher/lower for those specific players. For example, you could do something like the first 10 picks of round 3 and the first 10 picks of round 5, either as one big game or as two totally separate games. That way one of them is concentrated on tomorrow's broadcast while the other is focused on the Day 3 broadcast. (That also buys you some time as the entries don't necessarily have to come in today.)
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I have toyed with the idea of something simple. Just to bounce ideas, what would you think of picking five players from each round to go higher and five to go lower, and scoring could be as simple as 5 points if correct, bonus 5 for every full round correct by. -2 for it being opposite, extra -2 for every full round they go opposite. As for drafted correctly, we could just do rounds two-four, and something like 5 points if you get it exact or it’s the pick immediately before or after, 3 points if it’s within 10 spots, 1 point if it’s within 16 spots on either end, and a simple -4 for every full round you miss by. Easier to score. Am I on the right track?
Between you and LAOJoe, are the ones scoring this thing. Sooner I know the rules better off I am. Five players per round is 80 players... if you include UDFAs. Drafted Correctly is kinda close to old scoring.
