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I’m new to the league so I’ll answer the latter part of the question. How do I think the draft class will do? Well, considering I went 46th in the draft, I think the draft was very deep indeed. How often do you get a future hall of famer in the last 10 minutes of the stream. Hopefully you all can smell my optimism from a mile away, but I think the Berlin Fire Salamanders had a steal of a draft, and that this will catapult them into dynasty status right away. Who was the steal of the draft overall? Clearly, Kurt Wagner! He was the 2nd of three tight ends taken in the draft, Goto Imnegs.net going earliest, at pick 27 in round two. The other hasn’t cracked 100 tpe yet and was taken in the same round as Kurt, In fact, many of the fourth rounders seemed to be much lower in attribute scaling than Wagner, which goes to show how much Tight End positioning hurts your draft stock. When your peers are kickers, you know something is up. Rick Van Vale was taken two spots *before* Kurt Wagner, and he hadn’t cracked 100! Will anyone become a hall of famer from the season 48 draft clas? Besides Kurt Wagner, I sure as heckfire do! It would be pretty lonely otherwise! But in all seriousness, and because I don’t think it’s appropriate to use this media to submit conjecture about a user’s future activity, I will be analyzing the sample size that was handed to me on a plate by the draft media’s TPE earnings.
The first 9 picks are all over 200 TPE earned, with most but for Warren Peace being well on their way to the 300 mark. I don’t know at what TPE count does a player become useful to an ISFL team, and of course it all comes down to positional weaknesses when determining the speed of call-up times, but it must be done because I don’t care what league or sim league you are in, those counting stats matter to the Hall of Fame Committee. They like to see so-and-so had so many catches, and will forgive early seasons of mediocrity, often pinning the blame onto the GM crew for throwing a rookie into too deep of a pool. After Caleb TheGeicoCamel went 10th, the 11th through 19th picks were all of the same draft caliber for TPE. That is just ridiculous. These must all be well-established users with deep pockets for expensive trainings and fancy equipments. And that will help. No one is putting asterisks next to Canton shrines for if their career was funded off the backs of older players after all! (One thing I found interesting was how Adolin Collins, same position as Robot Sunfish and only a single TPE behind both Sunfish and ZigZag ZigStep, was taken 16 and 17 spots behind them. I’d submit Adolin as another steal of the draft. And what the heck happened with Mr. Irrelevant, Gusztav Farkas? Raven had the most earnings in the whole draft!
29 of the 53 players taken in the draft crossed that 200 TPE threshold, and 15 of them were above or at 225. Given that those who have already max earned are likely to continue that max earning, but factoring in that the sim probably favors certain careers over others in a frustratingly arbitrary manner, I will surmise that there will be 12 Hall of Famers from this class. Not all of these max earners will make it, an unjust result I fear, but there will be some blessed careers as well. And that is what makes for good football!
Oh and by the way, I was put in a mock draft as going eighth overall. Was that crazy or did I fall for good reason?
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I’m new to the league so I’ll answer the latter part of the question. How do I think the draft class will do? Well, considering I went 46th in the draft, I think the draft was very deep indeed. How often do you get a future hall of famer in the last 10 minutes of the stream. Hopefully you all can smell my optimism from a mile away, but I think the Berlin Fire Salamanders had a steal of a draft, and that this will catapult them into dynasty status right away. Who was the steal of the draft overall? Clearly, Kurt Wagner! He was the 2nd of three tight ends taken in the draft, Goto Imnegs.net going earliest, at pick 27 in round two. The other hasn’t cracked 100 tpe yet and was taken in the same round as Kurt, In fact, many of the fourth rounders seemed to be much lower in attribute scaling than Wagner, which goes to show how much Tight End positioning hurts your draft stock. When your peers are kickers, you know something is up. Rick Van Vale was taken two spots *before* Kurt Wagner, and he hadn’t cracked 100! Will anyone become a hall of famer from the season 48 draft clas? Besides Kurt Wagner, I sure as heckfire do! It would be pretty lonely otherwise! But in all seriousness, and because I don’t think it’s appropriate to use this media to submit conjecture about a user’s future activity, I will be analyzing the sample size that was handed to me on a plate by the draft media’s TPE earnings.
The first 9 picks are all over 200 TPE earned, with most but for Warren Peace being well on their way to the 300 mark. I don’t know at what TPE count does a player become useful to an ISFL team, and of course it all comes down to positional weaknesses when determining the speed of call-up times, but it must be done because I don’t care what league or sim league you are in, those counting stats matter to the Hall of Fame Committee. They like to see so-and-so had so many catches, and will forgive early seasons of mediocrity, often pinning the blame onto the GM crew for throwing a rookie into too deep of a pool. After Caleb TheGeicoCamel went 10th, the 11th through 19th picks were all of the same draft caliber for TPE. That is just ridiculous. These must all be well-established users with deep pockets for expensive trainings and fancy equipments. And that will help. No one is putting asterisks next to Canton shrines for if their career was funded off the backs of older players after all! (One thing I found interesting was how Adolin Collins, same position as Robot Sunfish and only a single TPE behind both Sunfish and ZigZag ZigStep, was taken 16 and 17 spots behind them. I’d submit Adolin as another steal of the draft. And what the heck happened with Mr. Irrelevant, Gusztav Farkas? Raven had the most earnings in the whole draft!
29 of the 53 players taken in the draft crossed that 200 TPE threshold, and 15 of them were above or at 225. Given that those who have already max earned are likely to continue that max earning, but factoring in that the sim probably favors certain careers over others in a frustratingly arbitrary manner, I will surmise that there will be 12 Hall of Famers from this class. Not all of these max earners will make it, an unjust result I fear, but there will be some blessed careers as well. And that is what makes for good football!
Oh and by the way, I was put in a mock draft as going eighth overall. Was that crazy or did I fall for good reason?
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