Greatest ever draft ?

[Paul-London]

Theres been some superb drafts in the past with teams picking up a whole host of starters and setting the foundation for a future FWL Bowl win.

When you are 0-14 like Barcelona the only way is up, you want to get rid of the losing mentality and bring in new players.  Dragons GM Ross Mather has certainly done that with a whole host of players leaving the Dragons.

Currently the team has a record FIFTEEN free roster spaces !!
 
They have just 7 players in the secondary , 3 LB's, 8 offensive linemen, one TE, 4 RB's and 4 WR's.

Luckily they have got a lot of draft picks...

1 first round
2 second rounds
5 third round picks
2 fourth round draft picks
4 fifth round draft picks
3 sixth round draft picks
4 seventh round draft picks
3 eighth round draft picks

24 draft picks to fill 15 roster spaces.

An incredible amount of rookies will join the Dragons side making them the youngest team in the league by far.  Its probably the most important night in Barcelona history when the draft starts tonight.  If they get it right they could be a future team to watch, get it wrong and things could get even worse.

[jcompton-Orlando]

I did a little checking, and the great Bridson Dismantling included a draft in which the Dark Knights selected an astonishing 41 players... but 24 picks is also pretty impressive.

[Ross@Barcelona]

Shhhhhhhhhhh I don't think Paul wants to be reminded of that again.

[Paul-London]

Ha ha i know everytime its mentioned i think 'how could i let it happen' !

As i said in the draft room, Bruce Henderson was bored as basically he hardly had to do anything and was on cruise control as Mario left him a great team, they went 13-1 and he won the final so he went.  Then D.Bridson came in and wanted to make the team 'his own' which i did kinda get but then most of his trades he hardly got value for , granted i was one of them !

He then went for a QB in the draft by just ST and INT, that brought him QB Carlos Alamarino (sp) who might have had good ST/INT but the rest of his stats were crap. He didnt even make the team and wasnt even signed by anyone else and stayed on the FA list a year before retiring.  The team were a shambles, Ross started making them decent and Mario did a great job as well and got them back to a powerhouse.  Shame though as that Austrian team could have been one of the greatest of all time for years

[jcompton-Orlando]

He then went for a QB in the draft by just ST and INT, that brought him QB Carlos Alamarino (sp) who might have had good ST/INT but the rest of his stats were crap.

In all fairness, Paul, back then the draftee lists weren't published with explicitly spreadsheet-tabulated SUMs and until you told this story I didn't realize that when someone would send you a draft list saying "best QB on ST and IN" that you wouldn't also take the overall sum into account. It was a first-round pick so you can argue that the guy should have been able to make an explicit list of players, but...

[Paul-London]

I think it would have taken much longer if 'best QB by INT/ST' also meant best QB by all stats but the one with the most INT/ST out of all the QB's (eg imagine it for OL's with best OL by AG/ST etc)