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[pawrestlersintn]

All you guys should post their teams.

 

[impalanut]

One of the problems of a league with only 10 teams is that each is a relative all star team. It would be much more indicative of ability to evaluate the wrestlers if there were more teams therefore requiring evaluation of more than just the star wrestlers. Anyone can pick a strong team if they don't have to draft anyone ranked lower than 12-15. I don't know what the right number of teams per league should be, but I would think around 25 so that even wrestlers who won't make the NCAA tournament could have some impact.

 

[Cali_Nittany]

Autopicked:

 

[psumacw]

One of the problems of a league with only 10 teams is that each is a relative all star team. It would be much more indicative of ability to evaluate the wrestlers if there were more teams therefore requiring evaluation of more than just the star wrestlers. Anyone can pick a strong team if they don't have to draft anyone ranked lower than 12-15. I don't know what the right number of teams per league should be, but I would think around 25 so that even wrestlers who won't make the NCAA tournament could have some impact.

the thing is, when everyone has a good team, no one does.

it's all about what you want to emphasize. with 25 teams you're trying to find the kid who barely gets in to the tourney who maybe makes the bloodround. with 10 teams, you're trying to find the guy ranked 7-10 who makes the finals. which one is harder to find? i'm not sure. which one is more impactful to actual ncaa team finishes? definitely the latter.

another issue with 25 team leagues, there are very few free agents that are worth a damn. if 80% of your roster is head and shoulders better than the free agents, there's really not a lot to do week-to-week. then we get to injuries. you draft seth gross in the first round last year in a 25 team league, guess what your season is over before it started. heck even bloodround guys would be mid-round picks if you have 25 teams.

however when there's a slew of capable free agents in a 10 team league, you have more decisions to think about and thus more opportunity to flex your evaluation muscles.

 

[psumacw]

here's my team:

rivera and micic were autopicked for me before i showed up. shields and mcfadden were autopicked as i was figuring out the interface. i accidentally took griffin parriott in like 7th-ish round as i was trying to take mason parris so i dropped him after the draft for brooks as a dart throw.

 

[Gumby79]

Since I have no idea on how the season will be scored. I drafted largely in WrestleStats "projected points" I have no idea what that means, but figured it was important. I was also drafting out of the # 10 spot, so that didn't help.


Starters
* fantasy points will only be awarded if the matches are wrestled at the specified fantasy weight
* watch out for starting a wrestler at a weight other than what's on the teams roster
S125 ST #2 Nick Piccininni (125)
S133 ST #6 Luke Pletcher (133)
S141 ST #4 Dominick Demas (141)
S149 ST #8 Kaden Gfeller (149)
S157 ST #2 Ryan Deakin (157)
S165 ST #3 Mekhi Lewis (165)
S174 ST #13 Andrew McNally (174)
S184 ST #4 Louie DePrez (184)
S197 ST #7 Jacob Warner (197)
S285 ST #5 Demetrius Thomas (285)
Floaters
* fantasy points will be awarded for matches that occur at ANY weight for floaters
141 ST #10 Mitch McKee
157 ST #11 Larry Early
Bench
125 ST #14 Fabian Gutierrez
157 ST #14 Zach Hartman
184 ST #15 Tanner Harvey

 

[tikk10]

the thing is, when everyone has a good team, no one does.

it's all about what you want to emphasize. with 25 teams you're trying to find the kid who barely gets in to the tourney who maybe makes the bloodround. with 10 teams, you're trying to find the guy ranked 7-10 who makes the finals. which one is harder to find? i'm not sure. which one is more impactful to actual ncaa team finishes? definitely the latter.

another issue with 25 team leagues, there are very few free agents that are worth a damn. if 80% of your roster is head and shoulders better than the free agents, there's really not a lot to do week-to-week. then we get to injuries. you draft seth gross in the first round last year in a 25 team league, guess what your season is over before it started. heck even bloodround guys would be mid-round picks if you have 25 teams.

however when there's a slew of capable free agents in a 10 team league, you have more decisions to think about and thus more opportunity to flex your evaluation muscles.

I get your point about every team having a starting roster of top ten ranked guys, but if you have 25 teams the draft is unfair to those picking 20-25, because it's going to be very difficult to win the league with your best guy being a #3 in his weight. A 25-team league w/ 15-man rosters means that more than half the entirety of NCAA starters will populate the league. Lots of teams will be starting guys with .500 records. I mean, yeah, that's its own challenge, but it should be fun for casual fans too. I like a 10-team league b/c everyone has a chance at least one #1. Maybe 15 teams?

 

[Cali_Nittany]

@andegre Definitely not a necessity but if it isn't too time consuming, seeing the round by round draft results would be cool. Btw, thanks again for doing this. It looks great!

I'm curious where in the draft, the autodraft picked Jaden Mattox for me. Do you have any kind of penalty in your algorithm for non-starters vs starters being autodrafted?

 

[philflyboy]

Sorry guys was away all day and had no clue you picked today to be the day. I am glad this team does not count! Will propose a trade so I can see a little of the functions.

Thanks for setting this up. Look forward to playing later this season

 

[Cali_Nittany]

And @andegre we need to do a BWI vs HR challenge. I want to see Ironturd, weateiowastate and vodka against anyone with a pulse.

 

[andegre]

@andegre Definitely not a necessity but if it isn't too time consuming, seeing the round by round draft results would be cool. Btw, thanks again for doing this. It looks great!

I'm curious where in the draft, the autodraft picked Jaden Mattox for me. Do you have any kind of penalty in your algorithm for non-starters vs starters being autodrafted?

It doesn't differentiate between RS and non-RS....the Auto-Pick loves Jaydin Eierman...I may need to add that in.

The ticker at the top shows the draft order, but it only goes back to previous picks. Once the draft is done, that ticker shows ALL picks. But, once the draft is done, I hide the link to the draft page because I figured nobody cared at that point.

From the group homepage, if you just add /draft to the URL, it will take you to the draft page to see everything.

 

[andegre]

My bad, navigating to "https://www.wrestlestat.com/{yourleaguehomepage}/draft" is throwing an error right now. I need to get this fixed today...

 

[ringworm2013]

How long did the draft take? I wanted to draft with a test group, but I only have 1.5 hrs until a meeting after the start of the draft. I know I can autopick, but I don't want to slow things down if I do!!!!

 

[andegre]

How long did the draft take? I wanted to draft with a test group, but I only have 1.5 hrs until a meeting after the start of the draft. I know I can autopick, but I don't want to slow things down if I do!!!!

5 “real” users takes about 35 minutes. I think the BWI group had 6 so it may have been slightly longer than that.

 

[andegre]

"psu strong" draft starting in a couple minutes...

 

[andegre]

Giving the league commissioner/owner the chance to start the draft......

 

[andegre]

I kicked the draft off, too many people waiting and no commish...

 

[ringworm2013]

What just happened? ringworm1998

 

[andegre]

What just happened? ringworm1998

So the league commissioner joined after about 4 rounds. I had toggled him to auto-pick since he was gone.

When all those picks went through I believe I clicked the "Simulate Remainder of Draft" on accident and it rifled through all of those rounds. I believe he was trying to turn off HIS auto-pick setting, but accidentally auto-picked for everyone in the group.