*** VD 14 Commentary Thread ***

[cavebird]

Okay, so who definitely hasn't? There's one guy who's been around forever (from my days) that has a legit shot this time who hasn't been mentioned.

[frae]

Okay, so who definitely hasn't? There's one guy who's been around forever (from my days) that has a legit shot this time who hasn't been mentioned.

I haven't, but I don't expect that it is changing now. I finished 2nd at least once and have a couple 3rd's too, but no titles.

[cavebird]

I haven't, but I don't expect that it is changing now. I finished 2nd at least once and have a couple 3rd's too, but no titles.

You were the one I was asking about. You are definitely in with a shout for it this time. Too early to tell---some players could go to different teams and that could be decisive, but you are really close.

[cavebird]

VD ethics question: if one games out the rest of the draft and realizes whether a certain (possibly not particularly good) player goes to one team or another (that player can't/won't/would be silly to take him) how much can that player say in perhaps a post about contenders or not contenders to try to steer the player to the team that might give the person a much better chance to win? Ethics is a bitch.

[johnnya24]

VD ethics question: if one games out the rest of the draft and realizes whether a certain (possibly not particularly good) player goes to one team or another (that player can't/won't/would be silly to take him) how much can that player say in perhaps a post about contenders or not contenders to try to steer the player to the team that might give the person a much better chance to win? Ethics is a bitch.

Nothing like that is allowed. Especially at the end of the draft. No influencing what or who other people could / should take ... directly or indirectly.

[cavebird]

Yeah, but how do you follow the ethics rule and still get the right result? Trust these jokers?

(j/k I would never do something like that; if I would, I wouldn't have posted the previous post.)

[heyelander]

Okay, so who definitely hasn't? There's one guy who's been around forever (from my days) that has a legit shot this time who hasn't been mentioned.

Pretty sure my highest finish was 4th and that was in the first one I played.

CJ is scottthompson, slider, nascarfan from back in the day. He's been around just as long as me.

[frae]

You were the one I was asking about. You are definitely in with a shout for it this time. Too early to tell---some players could go to different teams and that could be decisive, but you are really close.

My ability to project others and maximize my own picks does not inspire confidence, but that $5 bet I made in Heys casino on myself at 10,000-1 looks good now.

[heyelander]

I'm quaking in my boots

[Ken]

I just mapped out the rest of my draft, and whew is it ugly. The battle for last place is on, do any of you have what it takes to lose to me?

[cavebird]

I just mapped out the rest of my draft, and whew is it ugly. The battle for last place is on, do any of you have what it takes to lose to me?

You won't be particularly close to last place. One team already has it in the bag.

[The Feral Slasher]

I just mapped out the rest of my draft, and whew is it ugly. The battle for last place is on, do any of you have what it takes to lose to me?

Probably....but after stealing Yost you deserve last place

[cavebird]

Yeah, but how do you follow the ethics rule and still get the right result? Trust these jokers?

(j/k I would never do something like that; if I would, I wouldn't have posted the previous post.)

And it never even mattered, one of the teams involved went in a completely different direction, so the player is now back to being irrelevant.

[heyelander]

I just mapped out the rest of my draft, and whew is it ugly. The battle for last place is on, do any of you have what it takes to lose to me?

[johnnya24]

I just mapped out the rest of my draft, and whew is it ugly. The battle for last place is on, do any of you have what it takes to lose to me?

I tried to do that about 11 rounds ago and was shocked by what I saw. My remaining mid-strength letters looked like ENVO's, and I had so many must-picks already if i didn't want to butcher my good letters/decades. And added to that, all my attempts at flexibility backfired, some spectacularly. Not to mention Frae and Garp's brutal tag-teaming of my options.

A draft to forget. Even damage-control has been damn near impossible.