This is an excellent article, and you've clearly done some very good research here -- which imo deserves a bonus payout, frankly (I'm surprised anyone not on the Hawks in those early days remembers Wachter, for example; great LR guy) -- but...
...this is not true.
Without checking, I immediately thought "Boss Tweed was later". So I checked.
Smallwood was selected at 53 overall, in the 2017 (season 2) draft. There are several hall of famers who were drafted later in the inaugural draft alone (checking the draft article on the wiki, I can see Hendrix at 56, Saint at 58, LeClair at 62, Delacour at 65, Westfield at 72, Turkleton at 77, Ernston at 79, Miller at 88, and, as I suspected... Boss Tweed at 99).
Don't get me wrong, Darren Smallwood has one of the best (if not *the best*) stories of going from "unwanted" to "legendary" in league history, and there are mitigating factors here like the sheer size of the inaugural draft, and the larger number of unknowns (due to the fact that most users are known quantities later on etc), but I just wanted to correct that bit.
This isn't a criticism, for what it's worth. It's easy to miss some of this information (and I can maybe see about making it more accessible in future; I have a nagging feeling someone has gone later than Tweed even), but since I'm still technically the league's lead historian, I suppose correcting stuff like this when I see it is part of my job.
(09-12-2021, 09:06 PM)SouljaBoy2007 Wrote: Selected in the 7th round, Darren Smallwood is the latest drafted hall of famer in ISFL history.
...this is not true.
Without checking, I immediately thought "Boss Tweed was later". So I checked.
Smallwood was selected at 53 overall, in the 2017 (season 2) draft. There are several hall of famers who were drafted later in the inaugural draft alone (checking the draft article on the wiki, I can see Hendrix at 56, Saint at 58, LeClair at 62, Delacour at 65, Westfield at 72, Turkleton at 77, Ernston at 79, Miller at 88, and, as I suspected... Boss Tweed at 99).
Don't get me wrong, Darren Smallwood has one of the best (if not *the best*) stories of going from "unwanted" to "legendary" in league history, and there are mitigating factors here like the sheer size of the inaugural draft, and the larger number of unknowns (due to the fact that most users are known quantities later on etc), but I just wanted to correct that bit.
This isn't a criticism, for what it's worth. It's easy to miss some of this information (and I can maybe see about making it more accessible in future; I have a nagging feeling someone has gone later than Tweed even), but since I'm still technically the league's lead historian, I suppose correcting stuff like this when I see it is part of my job.
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