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  • Originally posted by Kontiki View Post
    I think my connection this year may have been worse than last. Which, again, is kind of odd because I went through a full mock draft yesterday without one connectivity issue.
    I hear you Kontiki, I think I am estimating conservatively when I say that I think I was disconnected about 50 times during the course of the draft. Frustrating. Last year I had no problems.

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    • I found it interesting to look at the auction by value spent. It really shows how we all "overspent" early and there was a lot of value late


      1 Alex Ovechkin, Was $61 (flubber)

      6 Sidney Crosby, Pit $59 (flubber)

      2 Evgeni Malkin, Pit $56 (Asher)

      10 Zach Parise, NJ $44 (flubber)
      39 Ilya Kovalchuk, Atl $44(sparrowhawk)

      29 Rick Nash, Cls $42(kontiki)
      30 Henrik Zetterberg, Det $42 (HHB)

      36 Roberto Luongo, Van $41 (sparrowhawk)

      5 Tim Thomas, Bos $40 (HHB)
      46 Dany Heatley, SJ $40(sparrowhawk)

      3 Pavel Datsyuk, Det $39 (kontiki)

      38 Ryan Getzlaf, Ana $38 (sparrowhawk)
      55 Martin St. Louis, TB $38 (Asher)

      9 Joe Thornton, SJ $37 (snoopy)
      28 Marc Savard, Bos $37 (HHB)
      35 Corey Perry, Ana $37 (HHB)

      25 Jarome Iginla, Cgy $36 (HHB)

      45 Patrick Kane, Chi $33(sparrowhawk)
      53 Bobby Ryan, Ana $33 (krill)

      13 Zdeno Chara, Bos $32 (krill)
      50 Mike Green, Was $32(sparrowhawk)

      51 Dion Phaneuf, Cgy $31 (Asher)

      18 Olli Jokinen, Cgy $30 (snoopy)

      8 Daniel Sedin, Van $29 (Asher)

      16 Niklas Backstrom, Min $28 (snoopy)
      20 Jeff Carter, Phi $28(snoopy)
      48 Nicklas Backstrom, Was $28(kontiki)

      12 Martin Brodeur, NJ $26 (Asher)
      40 Pekka Rinne, Nsh $26 (Asher)
      59 Miikka Kiprusoff, Cgy $26 (krill)

      26 Eric Staal, Car $25 (krill)

      22 Evgeni Nabokov, SJ $24(snoopy)
      68 Michael Cammalleri, Mon $24 (krill)

      60 Jonathan Toews, Chi $23 (flubber)

      42 Marc-Andre Fleury, Pit $22(kontiki)
      49 Jason Spezza, Ott $22(snoopy)

      15 Marian Gaborik, NYR $20 (kontiki)
      21 Cristobal Huet, Chi $20 (HHB)
      31 Alexander Semin, Was $20(snoopy)

      11 Nicklas Lidstrom, Det $19 (Asher)
      23 Daniel Alfredsson, Ott $19(snoopy)
      41 Dennis Wideman, Bos $19(kontiki)
      89 Thomas Vanek, Buf $19 (HHB)

      32 Tomas Vokoun, Fla $18 (krill)
      58 Johan Franzen, Det $18 (krill)

      56 Chris Pronger, Phi $17(snoopy)
      61 Jay Bouwmeester, Cgy $17(snoopy)
      66 John Tavares, NYI $17 (krill)
      76 Cam Ward, Car $17 (flubber)

      65 Mike Richards, Phi $16(kontiki)

      52 Nikolai Khabibulin, Edm $15 (krill)
      99 David Booth, Fla $15 (kontiki)

      62 Brad Boyes, StL $14(kontiki)
      79 Ryan Miller, Buf $14 (flubber)

      33 Scott Hartnell, Phi $13(Guynemer)
      43 Slava Kozlov, Atl $13 (krill)
      70 Alexandre Burrows*, Van $13(Guynemer)
      75 Simon Gagne, Phi $13 (Asher)
      94 Devin Setoguchi, SJ $13(Guynemer)
      95 Patrik Elias, NJ $13 (HHB)
      98 Dan Boyle, SJ $13 (kontiki)

      19 Mike Knuble, Was $12 (Guynemer)
      69 Steve Mason, Cls $12 (flubber)
      82 Michael Ryder, Bos $12 (krill)

      80 T.J. Oshie, StL $11(Guynemer)
      97 Brenden Morrow, Dal $11 (kontiki)
      104 Vincent Lecavalier, TB $11 (flubber)

      63 Ryane Clowe, SJ $10(snoopy)
      71 Brian Rafalski, Det $10 (HHB)
      88 Henrik Sedin, Van $10 (kontiki)

      81 Henrik Lundqvist, NYR $9(kontiki)
      91 Chris Mason, StL $9(sparrowhawk)
      103 Teemu Selanne, Ana $9(Guynemer)

      78 Carey Price, Mon $8 (Asher)
      106 Patrick Marleau, SJ $8 (Guynemer)

      72 Marian Hossa*, Chi $7 (flubber)
      85 Martin Havlat, Min $7 (flubber)
      100 Brian Campbell, Chi $7(sparrowhawk)

      86 Daniel Briere, Phi $6(Guynemer)

      90 Jonas Hiller, Ana $5(Guynemer)
      109 Nathan Horton, Fla $5 (Asher)

      92 David Backes, StL $4(Guynemer)
      113 Duncan Keith, Chi $4(Guynemer)
      116 Alexei Kovalev, Ott $4 (Asher)

      107 Alexander Frolov, LA $3 (snoopy)
      108 Milan Lucic, Bos $3(Guynemer)
      131 Semyon Varlamov, Was $3(sparrowhawk)

      37 Mike Johnson, StL $2 (krill)
      101 Kimmo Timonen, Phi $2(Guynemer)
      115 Marty Turco, Dal $2(Guynemer)
      118 Mark Streit, NYI $2 (kontiki)
      133 Chris Kunitz, Pit $2(sparrowhawk)

      73 Aaron Ward, Car $1 (krill)
      83 Matt Walker, TB $1 (krill)
      110 Brian Gionta, Mon $1(flubber)
      112 Joe Pavelski, SJ $1 (Asher)
      117 Derick Brassard, Cls $1(sparrowhawk)
      120 Paul Stastny, Col $1 (Asher)
      121 Brent Seabrook, Chi $1 (HHB)
      123 Tomas Holmstrom, Det $1 (snoopy)
      124 Shane Doan, Pho $1(sparrowhawk)
      125 Scott Niedermayer, Ana $1 (flubber)
      127 Kristian Huselius, Cls $1 (Asher)
      128 Scott Gomez, Mon $1 (HHB)
      130 Rob Blake, SJ $1 (snoopy)
      132 Niklas Kronwall, Det $1 (flubber)
      135 Milan Michalek, Ott $1(sparrowhawk)
      136 Alex Tanguay, TB $1 (flubber)
      137 Paul Kariya, StL $1 (HHB)
      138 Blake Wheeler, Bos $1(sparrowhawk)
      139 Sergei Gonchar, Pit $1 (HHB)
      140 Bill Guerin, Pit $1 (HHB)
      You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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      • How bad does my team suck?

        Hong Kong Fooey (Krill)

        C Eric Staal 25
        C Johan Franzen 18
        LW Slava Kozlov 13
        LW Michael Cammalleri 24
        RW Mike Johnson 2
        RW Bobby Ryan 33
        D Zdeno Chara 32
        D Aaron Ward 1
        G Tomas Vokoun 18
        G Nikolai Khabibulin 15
        BE Miikka Kiprusoff 26
        BE John Tavares 17
        BE Michael Ryder 12
        BE Matt Walker 1
        You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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        • It's not too bad.

          Just drop these 3 immediately and replace them:

          Mike Johnson
          Aaron Ward
          Matt Walker
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          • Originally posted by Flubber View Post
            Well if you had stayed online it could have gotten QUITE expensive-- I had the same idea of Ovechkin no matter what
            -- When would you have bailed?
            I have been thinking about this since last night and still not sure of my answer, but I can see myself going to $80 without any problem....how about you?

            My logic was the the top 5 LW's, Ovechkin is clearly the class of them and the talent drops of fast. Top 5 centres, Crosby/Malkin are tops, but it doesn't drop off as quickly and they arn't so far out in front.

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            • How does the trading work? And what about replacing dropped players?

              My understanding of the latter is that the person at the top of the list picks a new replacement, then drops to the bottom of the list, and works his way back to the top as everyone else gets a pick, and the cycle continues ad infinitum? And each person gets a certain amount of time to make a pick, and then automatically drops to the bottom of the list? Is that right?

              Cam Barker a decent pick as a defender?
              You just wasted six ... no, seven ... seconds of your life reading this sentence.

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              • You can add/drop whenever you want, whomever you want. Waivers only apply to players dropped recently (last 2 days), then it's in order of waiver priority. You're talking about a draft, which is the other way of initially selecting players [we had an auction].

                Trading works in that you offer whatever to someone else and they accept or decline it...
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                • Yeah, Barker is decent.
                  "The issue is there are still many people out there that use religion as a crutch for bigotry and hate. Like Ben."
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                  • Originally posted by Flubber View Post
                    I found it interesting to look at the auction by value spent. It really shows how we all "overspent" early and there was a lot of value late
                    This actually seems to happen in every single auction league I've been in. The bargains you can get at the end are incredible.
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                    • Hell, even at the beginning there were bargains. Crosby went for $20 more than Datsyuk!
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                      • I wouldn't say 'overspent' early on. There are only so many players with a significant differential to average in an 8 team league; you do well 'overspending'. Flubber, Sparrowhawk, and Boo did most of the 'overspending' , and I have a feeling those three may well be the top three in the league this year. I got a bit screwed up by taking my practice auction the night before - when the prices started going beyond that, I started to hold off, but I definitely should've gone in for Crosby or at least Datsyuk at those prices.
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                        • Originally posted by Guynemer View Post
                          Hell, even at the beginning there were bargains. Crosby went for $20 more than Datsyuk!
                          I know!! I thought that was a good deal but I was waiting for Crosby and I also hoped and thought I could get centres for cheaper generally- I probably overpaid for Crosby but when you can get Toews and Vinny for as cheap as I did, I ended up not regretting it

                          There were actually lots of folks that I thought went cheap at various points but in an 8 team draft there is so many undrafted good players that its not surprising that decent folks went real cheap
                          You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                          • Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                            I wouldn't say 'overspent' early on. There are only so many players with a significant differential to average in an 8 team league; you do well 'overspending'. Flubber, Sparrowhawk, and Boo did most of the 'overspending' , and I have a feeling those three may well be the top three in the league this year.
                            Thats why I put overspent in quotes. We did overspend early in the sense that there are a whole bunch of folks that went for way more than similar level folks that went later-- I don't regret spending lots on the elite few players. I went in the draft knowing I was unlikely to compete for the top d and goalies and being totally willing to have several one buck players. I had actually gone in thinking I would go have some one buck goalies but then adapted when I saw I could get some decent goalies by spending in the teens for each-- I actually ended up being reasonably pleased with my goalies with the main issue for me being they are all pretty similar so I won't know who to sit
                            You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                            • Oh and I looked at the schedule for the first "week" and it doesn't look like our benches will matter all that much that week-- Almost every team plays on the same nights so the first week might come down to who can figure out who will have a great night
                              You don't get to 300 losses without being a pretty exceptional goaltender.-- Ben Kenobi speaking of Roberto Luongo

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                              • Originally posted by snoopy369 View Post
                                I wouldn't say 'overspent' early on. There are only so many players with a significant differential to average in an 8 team league; you do well 'overspending'. Flubber, Sparrowhawk, and Boo did most of the 'overspending' , and I have a feeling those three may well be the top three in the league this year. I got a bit screwed up by taking my practice auction the night before - when the prices started going beyond that, I started to hold off, but I definitely should've gone in for Crosby or at least Datsyuk at those prices.
                                I think you're placing far too much emphasis on a select few players, especially given the style of league we have. I will be very surprised if those three teams are the top three, with the obvious wildcard being injuries.
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