2) Tell us about your draft class. Is there anything that makes it special in comparison to other classes? Where did your fellow draftees land, how are they doing? Did anyone turn out to be an unexpected steal of that draft based on what you know today? Do you think anyone in your draft class will become a hall of famer? If you’re new to the league, how do you think your class will do? Where do you think people will get drafted to?
Is there anything special about my draft class? Hmm. Hard to say. It was just the biggest draft class we've had, featuring 284 players selected to the ISFL over 24 rounds. Pretty easy to pull some stuff out as special, when you have 284 players to pick from. In a draft that big, there's bound to be steals just because you're getting so many quality players in later rounds. There was 3 GM players picked in it, and several other players that went on to become GMs after that. The Jack brothers, Quarterbacks that were GM selections for the Wraiths & Sabercats. Colt Mendoza, the most legendary sim tester. Magnus Rikiya, the OL revolution, Zamir Kehla, the list goes on. With 284 players there's a million stories to pick out from this draft. 29 players have surpassed 1000 TPE.
Colt Mendoza - The #1 pick, Steg had some epic articles and cemented himself as a messiah in the OL circles. The OL revolution was already slowly underway, but Steg put out an article backed by over 25,000 test games of data. This article showed with definitive data that human OL could provide not only better results at equal TPE, but also human OL could give equal performance but for much cheaper at the tackle position. At this time there was only a few teams running with human OL, and it was a legitimate issue where people actively told players not to create OL cause they were useless, or avoided drafting active players if they were OL. Steg also wrote a second article again reiterating the strength of human OL, and a couple articles about CB attributes. A combined 50,000 games of OL testing, and 180,000 of CB testing. It was a wild time leading up to that draft, and Steg articles probably had a drastic effect on where the several active OL in this draft were taken. Steg would also go on to be a DSFL GM for the Birddogs.
The OL changers - If you looked now, you might see Mo "Mamba" Magic as a 1st round pick and think that an OL went in the 1st round. Unfortunately, despite Steg's article, we weren't at that point yet. I was the first OL to go off the board, in the 3rd round at pick 33. We did see Magic & Benson Bayley Jr switch to OL afterwards, both flipping from the defensive side. They were part of a fairly large contingent of players that switched to join OL afterwards, rather than teams drafting them. These are the only 2 from S22 that switched, but there was roughly 10 players overall that switched between then and now.
The GMs - The Jack brothers were both GM players, Colby, controlled by flyeaglesfly, took the helm in Yellowknife. Monty, controlled by Rradum, went to San Jose. Benson Bayley Jr, mentioned previously, was an LB at the time of the draft and is now an offensive lineman, had recently been put in charge of the Chicago Butchers. The Butchers had gone through a whole lot of turmoil, and not long before the draft Bayley was put in charge. There's players who at the time weren't GMs, but got the chance after that. Steg, Colt Mendoza, as mentioned got a DSFL job, and I believe there are/were a couple others, but I can't be sure as it doesn't list co-GMs anywhere on the site (only head GMs on the wiki). I think Exilizer/Derred de Ville for the Hawks, Panda for the Pythons , NTG for the Buccaneers. Highschdi got an expansion job with Berlin. There's bound to be more.
Steals - It's impossible for there to NOT be steals in a draft this deep. You had several round of great actives. In this case, talking about a steal is a pretty small difference. A player like Nick Kaepercolin went in the 5th, Jamar Lackson went in the 7th. Lackson is 2nd in TPE for the class, and Kaepercolin is 4th. Buckley, Dawkins and Nakamura, 4th round picks. Von Pebbles another 7th rounder. All these players are over 1000 TPE. In this case, can you even really consider 4th round picks steals? Buckley is 24th in TPE, which at 12 teams per round, puts him at the end of the 2nd round. So a jump from top of the 4th to top of the 3rd? Is that a steal. The size of the class makes the scale completely different. In most drafts, you would be ecstatic to get a 1000 TPE player in the 3rd round (and I'm sure teams still are), but for example a player like Haha Mango-Panda was selected 26th, the 2nd pick of the 3rd round, and has 1002 TPE. Excellent right? Well actually, it's not a steal. Mango-Panda is ranked 29th in TPE in the class. Yes, despite getting a players with 1002 TPE in the 2rd round, there was actually still 28 players that have more TPE.
The S22 draft was an epic draft and I am so glad I was a part of it.
Is there anything special about my draft class? Hmm. Hard to say. It was just the biggest draft class we've had, featuring 284 players selected to the ISFL over 24 rounds. Pretty easy to pull some stuff out as special, when you have 284 players to pick from. In a draft that big, there's bound to be steals just because you're getting so many quality players in later rounds. There was 3 GM players picked in it, and several other players that went on to become GMs after that. The Jack brothers, Quarterbacks that were GM selections for the Wraiths & Sabercats. Colt Mendoza, the most legendary sim tester. Magnus Rikiya, the OL revolution, Zamir Kehla, the list goes on. With 284 players there's a million stories to pick out from this draft. 29 players have surpassed 1000 TPE.
Colt Mendoza - The #1 pick, Steg had some epic articles and cemented himself as a messiah in the OL circles. The OL revolution was already slowly underway, but Steg put out an article backed by over 25,000 test games of data. This article showed with definitive data that human OL could provide not only better results at equal TPE, but also human OL could give equal performance but for much cheaper at the tackle position. At this time there was only a few teams running with human OL, and it was a legitimate issue where people actively told players not to create OL cause they were useless, or avoided drafting active players if they were OL. Steg also wrote a second article again reiterating the strength of human OL, and a couple articles about CB attributes. A combined 50,000 games of OL testing, and 180,000 of CB testing. It was a wild time leading up to that draft, and Steg articles probably had a drastic effect on where the several active OL in this draft were taken. Steg would also go on to be a DSFL GM for the Birddogs.
The OL changers - If you looked now, you might see Mo "Mamba" Magic as a 1st round pick and think that an OL went in the 1st round. Unfortunately, despite Steg's article, we weren't at that point yet. I was the first OL to go off the board, in the 3rd round at pick 33. We did see Magic & Benson Bayley Jr switch to OL afterwards, both flipping from the defensive side. They were part of a fairly large contingent of players that switched to join OL afterwards, rather than teams drafting them. These are the only 2 from S22 that switched, but there was roughly 10 players overall that switched between then and now.
The GMs - The Jack brothers were both GM players, Colby, controlled by flyeaglesfly, took the helm in Yellowknife. Monty, controlled by Rradum, went to San Jose. Benson Bayley Jr, mentioned previously, was an LB at the time of the draft and is now an offensive lineman, had recently been put in charge of the Chicago Butchers. The Butchers had gone through a whole lot of turmoil, and not long before the draft Bayley was put in charge. There's players who at the time weren't GMs, but got the chance after that. Steg, Colt Mendoza, as mentioned got a DSFL job, and I believe there are/were a couple others, but I can't be sure as it doesn't list co-GMs anywhere on the site (only head GMs on the wiki). I think Exilizer/Derred de Ville for the Hawks, Panda for the Pythons , NTG for the Buccaneers. Highschdi got an expansion job with Berlin. There's bound to be more.
Steals - It's impossible for there to NOT be steals in a draft this deep. You had several round of great actives. In this case, talking about a steal is a pretty small difference. A player like Nick Kaepercolin went in the 5th, Jamar Lackson went in the 7th. Lackson is 2nd in TPE for the class, and Kaepercolin is 4th. Buckley, Dawkins and Nakamura, 4th round picks. Von Pebbles another 7th rounder. All these players are over 1000 TPE. In this case, can you even really consider 4th round picks steals? Buckley is 24th in TPE, which at 12 teams per round, puts him at the end of the 2nd round. So a jump from top of the 4th to top of the 3rd? Is that a steal. The size of the class makes the scale completely different. In most drafts, you would be ecstatic to get a 1000 TPE player in the 3rd round (and I'm sure teams still are), but for example a player like Haha Mango-Panda was selected 26th, the 2nd pick of the 3rd round, and has 1002 TPE. Excellent right? Well actually, it's not a steal. Mango-Panda is ranked 29th in TPE in the class. Yes, despite getting a players with 1002 TPE in the 2rd round, there was actually still 28 players that have more TPE.
The S22 draft was an epic draft and I am so glad I was a part of it.
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