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[Sparrowhawk]

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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[Flubber]

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)

[Krill]

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

[Asher]

It's not too bad.

Just drop these 3 immediately and replace them:

Mike Johnson
Aaron Ward
Matt Walker

[Sparrowhawk]

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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[Krill]

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?

[snoopy369]

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...

[Asher]

Yeah, Barker is decent.

[Imran Siddiqui]

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.

[Guynemer]

Hell, even at the beginning there were bargains. Crosby went for $20 more than Datsyuk!

[snoopy369]

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.

[Flubber]

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

[Flubber]

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

[Flubber]

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

[Kontiki]

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.