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For this season’s offseason task, I decided to talk about draft stock, mine specifically, and why I inadvertently caused one of two extremely funny scenarios to happen.
First, I’d like to go back to my first player in order to add some context. I was part of the S25 draft, I earned as much as I could, and going into draft night I was excited. I ended up going much further down than I expected, and this might have fueled me to earn as well as I did while I was active. One of my goals for my new player was to have a much better draft position, though that took a bit of a hit when I was drafted exactly in the middle of the DSFL draft; by ratio it’s the lowest I’ve gone in my 3 drafts. I don’t care that much though, instead I put the pedal to the metal earning, and ended up near the DSFL TPE cap by the final update and well over it now. This, along with my propensity to write way too much on this site leaving me with well more than enough cash, put me near the end of the first round, or as an honorable mention, in a large number of mock drafts before the draft officially started at the end of the Ultimus.
But there was a problem that I did not anticipate: I had a vacation to go on, and it left me without internet connection for basically the entirety of it. Moreover, I had not warned anyone I was going to be away from the league; I did tell a couple scouts that I was going on vacation, but not that I would be totally inactive as I was for about a week. Considering I should have had internet connection on the vacation, I did not even tell anyone in my locker rooms about this.
So, the draft begins. At the time of writing this, it’s probably over and we’re less than a day out from the draft stream. But for the first 4 or so days of the draft, I didn’t show up anywhere; not on Discord, not on the forum, I didn’t even claim the TPE I got from the season and playoff predictions. As I write this, I don’t know where I have been drafted, but I know that one of two things have occurred:
Either I fell past the area I expected to go, somewhere between picks 11-18, and whoever picked me got a max earner who didn’t actually miss a single task even with the vacation messing things up, or I got picked somewhere in the first 2 rounds, and whoever picked me then had to agonizingly wait for any signs of life, which I ended up showing on Tuesday. It could have been a lot funnier if I went with my original plan, which would have had me not do any updates until Friday morning, but I decided to come back to do the tasks I needed to earlier, so whoever drafted me won’t be left in the lurch THAT long.
With all that said, draft picks can make or break a franchise’s future in this league. This draft WILL make or break the Second Line. And my absence from the league from the Tuesday before the Ultimus to the Tuesday after it could end up making the franchise that drafted me extremely pleasantly surprised. Or it could have scared whoever drafted me immensely as an entire 3 day weekend came and went without a peep out of a player who, prior to the draft, had a late 1st round grade.
For this season’s offseason task, I decided to talk about draft stock, mine specifically, and why I inadvertently caused one of two extremely funny scenarios to happen.
First, I’d like to go back to my first player in order to add some context. I was part of the S25 draft, I earned as much as I could, and going into draft night I was excited. I ended up going much further down than I expected, and this might have fueled me to earn as well as I did while I was active. One of my goals for my new player was to have a much better draft position, though that took a bit of a hit when I was drafted exactly in the middle of the DSFL draft; by ratio it’s the lowest I’ve gone in my 3 drafts. I don’t care that much though, instead I put the pedal to the metal earning, and ended up near the DSFL TPE cap by the final update and well over it now. This, along with my propensity to write way too much on this site leaving me with well more than enough cash, put me near the end of the first round, or as an honorable mention, in a large number of mock drafts before the draft officially started at the end of the Ultimus.
But there was a problem that I did not anticipate: I had a vacation to go on, and it left me without internet connection for basically the entirety of it. Moreover, I had not warned anyone I was going to be away from the league; I did tell a couple scouts that I was going on vacation, but not that I would be totally inactive as I was for about a week. Considering I should have had internet connection on the vacation, I did not even tell anyone in my locker rooms about this.
So, the draft begins. At the time of writing this, it’s probably over and we’re less than a day out from the draft stream. But for the first 4 or so days of the draft, I didn’t show up anywhere; not on Discord, not on the forum, I didn’t even claim the TPE I got from the season and playoff predictions. As I write this, I don’t know where I have been drafted, but I know that one of two things have occurred:
Either I fell past the area I expected to go, somewhere between picks 11-18, and whoever picked me got a max earner who didn’t actually miss a single task even with the vacation messing things up, or I got picked somewhere in the first 2 rounds, and whoever picked me then had to agonizingly wait for any signs of life, which I ended up showing on Tuesday. It could have been a lot funnier if I went with my original plan, which would have had me not do any updates until Friday morning, but I decided to come back to do the tasks I needed to earlier, so whoever drafted me won’t be left in the lurch THAT long.
With all that said, draft picks can make or break a franchise’s future in this league. This draft WILL make or break the Second Line. And my absence from the league from the Tuesday before the Ultimus to the Tuesday after it could end up making the franchise that drafted me extremely pleasantly surprised. Or it could have scared whoever drafted me immensely as an entire 3 day weekend came and went without a peep out of a player who, prior to the draft, had a late 1st round grade.