{"id":216,"date":"2011-12-22T11:45:07","date_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/?p=216"},"modified":"2011-12-22T11:45:07","modified_gmt":"2011-12-22T16:45:07","slug":"draft-hangover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/draft-hangover\/","title":{"rendered":"Draft Hangover&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We completed our first ever draft (as opposed to an auction) for the Ezra Stiles Rotisserie Association&#8217;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&#8217;t have Skype).<br \/>\nIt 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.<br \/>\nI 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.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/PlayerDetail?player=58&amp;league=2&amp;year=2012\">Kobe Bryant<\/a>&#8216;s wrist injury caused him to drop to the 5th round. If he can play through it, I really like my team!<br \/>\nThe full draft order is here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Draft?league=2&amp;year=2012\">http:\/\/www.rotovalue.com\/cgi-bin\/Draft?league=2&amp;year=2012<\/a><br \/>\nIt&#8217;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&#8217;ve been going strong since 1988.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We completed our first ever draft (as opposed to an auction) for the Ezra Stiles Rotisserie Association&#8217;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&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/2011\/12\/22\/draft-hangover\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Draft Hangover&#8230;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.rotovalue.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}