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Hey everyone, we had our first Experts League draft of the year on Wednesday. 12 teams/23 rounds. Here's a look at the first few rounds with the participants listed first:



1. Todd Zola

2. Brandon Funston

3. Myself

4. Jeff Erickson

5. Eric Karabell

6. Mike Sheets

7. David Gonos

8. Tristan Cockcroft

9. Walter Lis

10. Matthew Pouliot

11. Greg

12. Brian Walton



FIRST ROUND

1. A-Rod

2. Hanley Ramirez

3. Jose Reyes

4. Albert Pujols

5. David Wright

6. Jimmy Rollins

7. Chase Utley

8. Matt Holliday

9. Alfonso Soriano

10. Johan Santana

11. Carl Crawford

12. Miguel Cabrera



SECOND ROUND

13. Ichiro Suzuki

14. Ryan Howard

15. Ryan Braun

16. Jake Peavy

17. Grady Sizemore

18. Vladimir Guerrero

19. Prince Fielder

20. Brandon Phillips

21. B.J. Upton

22. David Ortiz

23. Carlos Beltran

24. Carlos Lee



THIRD ROUND

25. Russell Martin

26. Lance Berkman

27. Mark Teixeira

28. Victor Martinez

29. Derek Jeter

30. Curtis Granderson

31. Magglio Ordonez

32. Carlos Guillen

33. Justin Morneau

34. Robinson Cano

35. Brian Roberts

36. Joe Mauer



FOURTH ROUND:

37. Derrek Lee

38. Aramis Ramirez

39. Erik Bedard

40. Alex Rios

41. Troy Tulowitzki

42. Chipper Jones

43. Travis Hafner

44. Miguel Tejada

45. Chone Figgins

46. Bobby Abreu

47. Josh Beckett

48. Manny Ramirez



FIFTH ROUND:

49. Ian Kinsler

50. Garrett Atkins

51. Brandon Webb

52. Adam Dunn

53. C.C. Sabathia

54. John Lackey

55. Nick Markakis

56. Dan Haren

57. Jon Papelbon

58. Eric Byrnes

59. Michael Young

60. Roy Oswalt



SIXTH ROUND:

61. Torii Hunter

62. Cole Hamels

63. Carlos Pena

64. Brian McCann

65. Chris Young

66. Adrian Gonzalez

67. Vernon Wells

68. Paul Konerko

69. Edgar Renteria

70. Hunter Pence

71. J.J. Putz

72. Rafael Furcal



SEVENTH ROUND:

73. Shane Victorino

74. Howie Kendrick

75. Ryan Zimmerman

76. Corey Hart

77. Jorge Posada

78. Justin Verlander

79. Dan Uggla

80. Aaron Harang

81. J.J. Hardy

82. Joe Nathan

83. Francisco Rodriguez

84. Scott Kazmir



EIGHTH ROUND:

85. Placido Polanco

86. Carlos Zambrano

87. Takashi Saito

88. Jose Valverde

89. Todd Helton

90. Kenji Johjima

91. Billy Wagner

92. Delmon Young

93. Brad Hawpe

94. Felix Hernandez

95. Gary Sheffield

96. John Smoltz



NINTH ROUND:

97. Orlando Cabrera

98. Alex Gordon

99. Francisco Cordero

100. Mariano Rivera

101. Fausto Carmona

102. Jason Bay

103. Hideki Matsui

104. Chris Young OF

105. Roy Halladay

106. Jeff Francoeur

107. Juan Pierre

108. Manuel Corpas



ROUND 10:

109. Matt Kemp

110. Andruw Jones

111. Stephen Drew

112. Dustin Pedroia

113. Adrian Beltre

114. Mike Lowell

115. Kelvim Escobar

116. Jermaine Dye

117. Daisuke Matsuzaka

118. Aaron Rowand

119. Jarrod Saltalamacchia

120. Jim Thome



ROUND 11:

121. Bobby Jenks

122. Tim Lincecum

123. Ben Sheets

124. Brad Penny

125. Nick Swisher

126. Rickie Weeks

127. Willy Taveras

128. Trevor Hoffman

129. Edwin Encarnacion

130. Johnny Damon

131. Rich Hill

132. Yovani Gallardo



ROUND 12:

133. Huston Street

134. Matthew Cain

135. Joba Chamberlain

136. James Shields

137. Jacoby Ellsbury

138. Khalil Greene

139. Jeremy Hermida

140. Kevin Youkilis

141. Chad Billingsley

142. Raul Ibanez

143. Rafael Soriano

144. Javier Vazquez



ROUND 13:

145. James Loney

146. Kosuke Fukudome

147. Felipe Lopez

148. Josh Willingham

149. Michael Bourn

150. Carlos Delgado

151. Ivan Rodriguez

152. Jeff Kent

153. Pat Burrell

154. Hank Blalock

155. Brett Myers

156. Josh Hamilton



ROUND 14:

157. Pedro Martinez

158. Bengie Molina

159. Francisco Liriano

160. Nate McLouth

161. Michael Cuddyer

162. Cameron Maybin

163. Brad Lidge

164. Ramon Hernandez

165. A.J. Burnett

166. Geovany Soto

167. Ted Lilly

168. John Maine



ROUND 15:

169. Ian Snell

170. Adam LaRoche

171. Ken Griffey Jr.

172. Tim Hudson

173. Jason Isringhausen

174. Adam Wainwright

175. Chad Cordero

176. Jeff Francis

177. Jered Weaver

178. Billy Butler

179. Jhonny Peralta

180. Orlando Hudson



ROUND 16:

181. Evan Longoria

182. Matt Capps

183. A.J. Pierzynski

184. Carlos Marmol

185. Jason Varitek

186. Chien-ming Wang

187. Jeremy Bonderman

188. Dustin McGowan

189. Joakim Soria

190. Eric Gagne

191. Justin Upton

192. Troy Glaus



[ January 08, 2008, 05:07 PM: Message edited by: Greg Ambrosius ]

send out the lynching party!



How could cheesehead Greg not take RYAN BRAUN?



Had to pass on him twice

Cano in the third round of a 12 teamer? Somebody should turn in their expert badge.

Ichiro pick 13 is worse than Cano in the 3rd which is pretty bad.

Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS:

Cano in the third round of a 12 teamer? Somebody should turn in their expert badge. THAT is why I keep telling Greg they should be called "Industry Drafts"



Looks like I have to work on TK now

Matt Poliout made that pick from rotoworld he was in my home league for 5 years. Never once cracked 5th place.

Originally posted by Captain Hook:

send out the lynching party!



How could cheesehead Greg not take RYAN BRAUN?



Had to pass on him twice You should know by now Perry that I'm a Packers HOMER (Brett Favre is picked by me every time!!), but I'm not a Brewers HOMER. In fact, I'm not even a Brewers fan, but I do like what they're building now. Braun would have been cool, but when I looked at the bottom of a 12-teamer I told Tom you could easily get a top SB guy and a power guy with those first two picks and then go from there. It worked well with Crawford and Howard, but we'll see how the final numbers work out.



I'll admit the 3-4 turn wasn't as appealing down at the bottom, but I filled out my infield in the first five rounds: Howard, Brian Roberts, Aramis Ramirez, Michael Young. That left me with a weaker than I wanted OF. Oh well.



Man, one thing Tom and I both noticed this year was the lack of depth at starting pitching. There is a huge dropoff at a certain point where taking a starter can actually hurt your team. I know I'd look that position over harder next time and maybe jump in for that fourth and fifth starter a little earlier. I finished with Cole Hamels, Carlos Zambrano (yeah, I know the downsides), Rich Hill, Matt Cain and Brett Myers, but finding the sixth SP in a 12-team league was nearly impossible. I can imagine in the 15-team NFBC, things will dry up even earlier.



Enjoy all. We'll post both drafts in full soon enough.

Originally posted by Captain Hook:

quote:Originally posted by DOUGHBOYS:

Cano in the third round of a 12 teamer? Somebody should turn in their expert badge. THAT is why I keep telling Greg they should be called "Industry Drafts"



Looks like I have to work on TK now [/QUOTE]yeah, we're all just industry guys, certainly not experts!!

Ichiro, Peavy, Cano =

Reyes, Ortiz, Teixeira = Wow! what a start! Looks good to me, Tom.



Ortiz will always have the knock against him because of his lack of position, but all three have a real shot at 1st Round calibre points this year.

Biggest suprise to me is Beltran sliding down to the 23rd pick.Also Jeter is to high, he's steals where cut n half and no power, even his bavg dropped.[no thanks]I love Cano but he is a little early,last i grabbed him in the 4th round in a 15 team draft,his power is rising.

Biggest suprise to me is Beltran sliding down to the 23rd pick.Also Jeter is to high, he's steals where cut n half and no power, even his bavg dropped.[no thanks]I love Cano but he is a little early,last i grabbed him in the 4th round in a 15 team draft,his power is rising.

I've added several rounds to this thread as well, so look at the first post on page one. I'll put all 23 rounds up this week for all to see and you'll get the first issue of Fantasy Sports Magazine later this month if you were an early-bird signup.

Through Round 12 is now locked and loaded here.

Four more rounds were added to this thread. We now have draft results through Round 16 of this draft. Enjoy.

Greg, I don't understand why your doing a expert 12 team mix draft for the mag. The experts draft should be the same as the NFBC. Your under cutting your own contest. Promote the 15 man draft and make the experts draft it.

Originally posted by Walla Walla:

Greg, I don't understand why your doing a expert 12 team mix draft for the mag. The experts draft should be the same as the NFBC. Your under cutting your own contest. Promote the 15 man draft and make the experts draft it. It's not that I'm trying to make it easier on the Eric Karabell's of the world, it's just that our magazine reaches a large audience of readers who compete in 12-team leagues and thus we need a mix of both results. I'm not ready to convert the ENTIRE fantasy baseball world to our 15-team concept. Remember, it took God seven days to create the world, so give me time to convert the masses to our format.