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Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:02 am**

The Chicago main event will be held at the Donald E. Stephens Convention Center on Saturday, March 17th starting at 1 p.m. EST (noon CST). Please be on time as all drafts will start exactly at the top of the hour. Here is the draft order for Chicago League 2:

CHICAGO LEAGUE 2

1. JP Kastner

2. Philip McDonald

3. Jason Aberli

4. Mark Wigent

5. Mauro DeAndrea

6. Richard Lepow

7. Jack Haan

8. Nick Cole

9. Jason Dellaglio

10. Brent Grooms

11. Gerry Scotto di Marco

12. Edward Nolan

13. Bruce Lev

14. David Geisinger

15. George Kleemann

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 4:16 am**

I got one of my last choices, but I'm just happy to have a draft spot before the weekend!

Good Luck everyone!

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 12:23 pm**

Ah good to see that Brent Grooms and Gerry Scotto di Marco will not be in my league. Good luck guys. Email me ([email protected])if you will be in Chicago Friday night we can go have a beer or two and talk about the draft.

Todd Nord

[ March 09, 2007, 06:24 PM: Message edited by: Snord35 ]

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:10 pm**

Hey Todd

I will shoot you an email if I am going to make

it in town before to late on Friday.

Are you happy with your draft spot?

Posted: **Fri Mar 09, 2007 1:48 pm**

Sounds good. I should be getting into Chicago around 6-7 PM

Very happy picking from the 5 spot. Had three satellite leagues where I picked 12, 13, and 12. Only one team I'm really happy with out of the three. But now I'll have to see how I do from the other side of the draft.

Todd

Posted: **Wed Mar 21, 2007 7:27 am**

Well, its about time we move our League up to the top of the Message Board and get some discussion going.

Tough draft. I was not expecting to pick Santana at 7. I was hoping for Crawford, and expecting Utley to be there. Then I picked a boatload of old guys on my team - Manny, Abreu, Sexson, Giambi, T. Jones, Wickman, Aurilia. I'm hoping for no heart attacks this year.

Just one man's opinion, but I like Brent's team at 10 and Nick's team at 8. I have some work to do to stay with you guys.

Good luck.

[ March 21, 2007, 01:28 PM: Message edited by: The Mighty Men ]

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 3:56 am**

I didn't record the entire draft, so I am in no position to critique teams at this point.

The draft definitely didn't go as I expected, and the ADP turned out to be a useless tool for this league. A lot of interesting strategies were used, so this looks to be a very challenging league.

A few teams went with the big risk big reward strategy, which is something I tried in 2004 with little success, so it will be interesting to see how things turn out for those teams in 2007.

Good Luck!

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 4:10 am**

Hey....I drafted 6th. Nice meeting everyone I could talk to. I also feel like before the season Team 10 has a really good roster. Mighty Men, even though this was your first draft it seems like you have a lot of profit potential with Lofton, Victorino, Hart, Ensberg in rounds 12-15. Also like Padilla in round 21. Your team looks very good as well. Only thing I would be worried about is age but all of these guys seem durable. My first two drafts in NFBC I really was more drafting based on ADP and trying to get value. This season I just decided to get players that I think are going to have a good season.

Anyways...more discussion always welcome.

Posted: **Thu Mar 22, 2007 5:46 am**

Great times in Chicago again this year!

It was great meeting all of those that I had time to chat with. I didnt record any part of the draft outside of my team so I cant really give an opinion on who had the best day but it should be a competitive league. See you on the league boards. Good luck all!