We completed our first ever draft (as opposed to an auction) for the Ezra Stiles Rotisserie Association’s NBA league. After starting piecemeal early in the day, we all got on a conference call at 7:00 PM EST to get things moving. Well, most of us (one owner was heading to an airport and called in intermittently, and another didn’t have Skype).
It was fun, but a bit longer than I expected, finishing a bit after 1:00 AM, as at times there were delays in tracking down the owner whose pick it was. Overall, though, a good start to the season.
I still prefer an auction, but a draft is still good, and at times interesting. Quite often one owner picked a guy just ahead of another who wanted the same player.
Kobe Bryant‘s wrist injury caused him to drop to the 5th round. If he can play through it, I really like my team!
The full draft order is here:
http://www.rotovalue.com/cgi-bin/Draft?league=2&year=2012
It’s an 8 owner, 6 category league: FG%, FT%, points, rebounds, assists, and the sum of steals and blocks (since neither alone are important enough to be a full category), and we’ve been going strong since 1988.