Jonesy 2004 - The Draft

When, Where, Why, Who, What?

The Jonesy 2004 draft is:

  • Saturday, August 21, 2004
  • We start at 6:00 pm
  • At Castle BillSkull: 1219 Bonnema Ct. Naperville, IL
  • Bring your $50

Please take it easy on me and call my cell (630-215-3961) if your draft plans change. With the excellent response we have gotten, we shan't be waiting long for anyone. Thanks!

Draft Order

Lottery teams (busters) from last year will pick first, then the newbies will be randomly selected, and then the playoff teams. The draft order is:

  1. Ian
  2. Angero
  3. Moz
  4. Young Bill Krieger
  5. Danny
  6. newbie
  7. newbie
  8. newbie
  9. newbie
  10. newbie
  11. newbie
  12. newbie
  13. newbie
  14. Eric
  15. Denise
  16. Tommy

The draft is a wrap-around... Tommy selects first in the 2nd round, and Ian last. [Steve, I am perfectly willing to vote on changing this because I agree with the logic of your position on the pro-style draft. I doubt it would pass though.]

A couple people from last year dropped out, in case you're counting. It does look, however, like we are going to have 16 teams this year.

Changing the Rules

There are a number of tweaks from last year's rules. These were discussed a couple weeks ago at a very high-level meeting of Jonesy executives held at a watering hole in Warrenville. We will vote on them before choosing our players. The rules changes are:

  1. Defense scoring - We overdid the D/ST scoring last year. Proposed changes: change sacks from 2 pts to 0; a shutout is still 10 points, but defense allowing 1-6 pts is 6 pts (down from 7) and allowing 7 or more points gets you nothing. BTW, all turnovers are still 2 pts.
  2. Trades - It is proposed that we allow trades. Any owner can call for a vote on a trade... majority rules, in the case of a tie, the CEO decides. The trade deadline is Yahoo standard Nov 14.
  3. Player moves - Increase the number of player adds/drops from 10 to 15... one per week.
  4. Number of playoff teams - We have 14 pretty solid teams. How many should make the playoffs? 4, 6, or 8? If 4 teams make the playoffs, then these teams would meet in NFL weeks 15 and 16. If 6 teams make the playoffs, then a wildcard game would be held on week 14. Personally, I like 4 teams in the playoffs.
  5. Aloha special - I will ask the league special dispensation to allow BJ and Stacy to have consecutive draft positions, to ease communications with Hawaii. After either is selected randomly, the other gets the next spot.

READ ME - I have removed the lineup and roster increases from the list of proposed changes. I never thought we'd get to 16 teams, as seems likely now. With this many teams, the old rules and 12 rounds of drafting is fine by me. Anyone can propose that we do the increases, however, and here's my old text on these items:

  1. Lineup size - Last year's lineups included a QB, 4 position (RB/WR/TE type) players, K and defense. We want to add a fifth position player to each week's lineup. The proposed positions are: QB, RB, WR, WR, RB/WR, WR/TE, K, D.
  2. Roster size - Increase the roster size to 14. Each team will have 6 bench spots.

Please, if you're new, don't freak over all this silliness. I'm just being thorough. In all likelihood, you'll pick 12 guys on Saturday and play 7 of them each week. Simple.

Finally

And finally, a couple last points:

  • We are a friendly league. If someone draft an injured guy... or, oh I don't know, picks a player who quits the NFL to be perpetually high, then the player's condition will be noted and the pick can be re-done if so desired.
  • First Bear selected... that's a shot.
  • Favre in the first round (Ian and Steve)... that's a shot too.
  • In the area of incredibly minor fantasy minutia, special teams TD's get points for both the player and the team. For example, if Dante Hall runs back a punt for a TD, then he gets 6 points and so does the KC D/ST. Get it?

I hope to play some Texas Hold 'Em after the draft. Eh?