DB5 selects Daniel Johnson via SMS

Let's get this show on the road.

Pure Silk selects Cedric Jackson via SMS

Bugger, there's the 2 I wanted. Bear with me for a bit.

Thought you wanted this show on the road Hendo haha

For no reason other than him being G/F, I'll take Thomas Abercrombie.

The first pick for the Chuck Taylor All*Stars is Damian Martin

left field first pick but i will take Alex Pledger

Was planning on reaching for him. But not that much!

Luke Schenscher.

pick 7- shawn redhage
Steal!

AMAZIN selects Kevin Lisch & Jacob Holmes via email.

Jamar Wilson

Seth scott

Oscar Forman for me

League Two showing League One how it's done!

Cameron Tragardh will be joining the Chuck Taylor All*Stars

Very happy to add Adam Gibson at this point.

Pure Silk selects Peter Crawford via SMS.

Adam Ballinger and Adris Deleon for the next 2 picks for DB's Expendables.

at 10am this morning i was cursing league 2 for no moves. I take it all back. Good job guys

Meanwhile Elite league have had 1 pick today. :)

Yeah I was running late this morning....oops.

Pure Silk takes Matt Knight

Well that makes my pick easy.
Was either Knight or Crosswhite, so I'll take Ian Crosswhite.
Liking my team so far.

Clarky takes Alex Loughton via sms.

Mika Vukona

Bizzy takes Ben Madgen.

Jesse Wagstaff

Forman and Loughton are gone too.

am i able to pick??

AMAZIN selects Darnell Lazare and Corin Henry

Aaron Bruce

Thats 3 imports for Amazin Skip

Whoops my mistake. (Going off his draft list)

AMAZIN selects Corin Henry and Anthony Petrie.

Lazare is still available.

Will Hudson

Darnell Lazare

Mitch Creek

Bizzy - You already have 2 centres. Need to pick again.

3.2 You are allowed to draft a maximum of 3 Centres, 7 Forwards & 6 Guards. Any dual position players count towards both positions.

I'll take Hudson in that case :D

I would hold off on that Hendo8888 - According to the rules I was allowed to pick Hudson.

Yeah, I thought it was 3 as well.

Sorry guys. My mistake. Bizzy's Hudson pick stands.

It is still Hendo8888s pick.

So in that case, I will take Stephen Weigh.
If Marty is going to still play him 35 minutes, I might as well have him.

Pure Silk selects Shane Edwards via SMS.

Rhys Martin
Ben Allen

Pure SIlk selects Brad Hill via SMS

I'll take the player who disappointed me the most last season. Mainly because I picked him in the second round.
Glen Saville. Fills it up in a lot of areas.

My starting 5:
Crosswhite
Weigh
Saville
Abercrombie
Gibson

2 import spots still available (not that there's 2 imports worth getting).

Welcome to the Chuck Taylor All*Stars....

Jason Cadee

This makes the starting 5:

Trigger
Loughton
Creek
Martin
Cadee

I really like your team hendo. There aren't any stud imports left, but alot of teams won't be able to pick them up as they have already reached the 2 import limit. If you can snag 2 of them, while everyone else is picking up bench Aussies, your team could be very strong with 7 legit starters. And I like the G/F versatility of Saville and Abercrombie.

Yeah, it's taking shape nicely.

In surprised nobody has taken Lance Hurdle yet. A bit surprising, and a few of you may regret it later in the season

i may well regret this but Gameboy James Harvey

Why gameboy, always wondered?

Bizzy selects Graeme Dann via SMS

Liam Rush

Has anyone actually ever seen AMAZIN post on Hoops?

skips alias perhaps?

Haha.

Bizzy, over Gruber? Even with the G/F position versatility? No Catron this year at the Hawks means that if Gruber is firing, he'll get minutes, and efficient minutes. There will certainly be games where their other bigs have foul trouble, etc.

gonna be honest here and say im not enjoying the external talk coming about players that are yet to be drafted. No probs with the drafted ones, but talking about players that are still in the draft is spoiling chances of them going as sleepers.

Bit with you there Ox.

Doesn't particularly bother me... just means you need to work harder to find a sleeper!

Sorry guys, his draft list he gave me was only a top 20.

See you guys at at 4:30 tomorrow then.

Anon, sorry, was just checking the thread and was a bit shocked.

What's happening here??

Waiting for AMAZIN to make his picks...

I am pulling the pin on AMAZIN. It has been 19 hours and he has not communicated with me in anyway since Friday.

I am in the process of finding a replacement.

The replacement will also be given the opportunity to swap any already drafted players with undrafted players before making their next 2 picks.

I hope to have this sorted in the next hour or so.

Cheers guys.
More work skip, hope it is a quiet day in the office mate : )

Sounds like a plan.

Great idea , think we all want this done & dusted.

Might be a little longer than I thought. Still trying to key up a replacement. Draft is officially on Hold until I have.

Happy to be in both leagues if you can't find anyone :D

No way. If you got promoted, Statman would go crazy having to compete against 2 of ya!

Hey all

I would like you all to welcome Wookiee to the League replacing AMAZIN.

Wookiee is a Kings fan (don't hold that against him) and a big NBL fan in general. Some of you may know him from Ozhoops.

He is just deciding whether to swap any existing players and will make his next 2 draft choices shortly.

Let's then get this draft back on track!

Is Wookie Michael Kingma?

I'm assuming if he chooses to swap out existing players that any he drops will become available right away....

Correct.

Hey all,

Not swapping out any players, so will go against my better judgement (and hope that my player picking curse puts him out for at least two rounds) and select:

40. Larry Davidson (WOL) C

and why bother choosing between the two of them when I can just draft:

41. Matthew Burston (MEL) C

and hope that between them, I get a full season out of the C postion!

Welcome aboard Wookiee!!

Welcome Wookie.
Happy we can get moving again. Not happy you took Davidson though.

cheers :) I'm not too happy I took him either, being both a Kings fan and a fan of healthy players, but looks like AMAZIN was a fan of guards so I had to make do ;)

Glad I can put my support behind Mighty Mouse though :)

Alright about time.
Let's go.

Welcome to the player from Kashyyk.

sorry guys, i need to assess my draft list...

...

Russell Hinder

Bizzy selects Dave Gruber via SMS

Tom Garlepp

Clint Steindl

Cameron Tovey.
Another one who fills up the stats in a lot of ways.

Pure Silk selects Jeremiah Bullfrog Trueman via SMS

Lance Hurdle
Slim Rychart

Pure SIlk selects Todd Blanchfield via SMS

Hendo8888 takes Chris Goulding via SMS

Clarky takjes Kevin Braswell via SMS

Nathan Crosswell please be good and have no comeback issues

Tim Coenraad

Darryl Corletto

for my last two bench spots I'll take:

56. CJ Bruton (NZB) G

and

57. Greg Hire (PER) F

Good time to grab Curtis Withers*

Lucky Sydney don't have byes. Looks like I'm running with 1 centre this year.

Guess I am running with the solo centre as well....

Not all doom and gloom lads, still 2 fwd/ctrs out there.

Interesting to see who nabs the last 2 imports. I felt that leaving picking one up too late may have left me without a 2nd one, and the scoring potential is hopefully a bit higher than the remaining players.

Bizzy takes Barlett via SMS

BJF selects Massingale via SMS

I might take a gamble on Corey Webster....

Wooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!! I get an import!

Jason Forte

(Now wait while I have to replace him in a week or so...)

very surprised he dropped to you.

Great work on the SMS updates skip. Its made the draft fly along.

Very glad I didn't pick up Forte in the other league now. He is fucked.

why?

I'd expect all 8 of my players to be starting 5s for their team. So pretty happy.

Crosswhite
Weigh
Abercrombie
Saville
Gibson

Tovey
Goulding
Forte (while he lasts)

Last year I went for imports too early and ended up with not much on the bench. This year I held off too long for imports and almost missed out completely.

Pure Silk selects Tommy Green via SMS

Greer

Considering Forte just got sacked, and there's only been 1 pick since mine, am I able to change my pick?

I'm afraid not. You will need to go through Free Agency once the draft is completed. Same goes for ox with Withers.

That's harsh. I just lost pick 58 all together, am back to 1 dodgy ctr, and can't replace him with the leftover junk until the end, which will have to be a development player???

The bright side is that it's an Import, who will be replaced with another import. What if the news had been that Redhage had gone down with a season ending injury.

And you are 2nd on the Waiver, so hopefully you shouldnt have issues replacing him.

But if we don't win rfa bidding, we are expected to PLAY our 8th picks, which we don't get until everyone else makes their 10th picks.

You have the choice to make this a small disadvantage or a large one. Why choose the latter?

That's the bitch of the draft Im afraid.

If I make an exception in this case, what happens if later today it's announced that someones first round pick is cut/injured.

Think yourself luck that it's your 8th pick in the draft.

I cant speak for Wookiee, but I don't think he is going to cut Lisch or Henry, which means you are in the box seat for any new imports to the league.

injury is different to sacking. These guys are not eligable to play, or be listed any longer.

Like i said, your in a position where you can limit the effect it has. As it stands, our, 8th pick becomes our 9th, our 9th becomes 10th, and 10th will be last player avail in the draft, or a dev player. So it affects 3 picks, not just one. And to replace him, we then lose our spot on the Waiver.

Too many flaws to your reassurance on a replacement. They are talking replacing one with an aussie. What if its a luke nevill? Neither Hendo or I see the rights to him.

Meanwhile I have 0 imports (yes 0) and my waiver wire pick is all the way down at 6.
My quality team doesn't look too happy anymore.
But yeah, that's my fuckup for not planning ahead.
Happy with my starting 7 though.

Sorry. The decision stands. If this had happened tomorrow when the draft was over there wouldn't even be a discussion.

Could have been worse... Draftee could have died

At the end of the day , we are doing this as a hobby. For a bit of fun. Rules are rules and you cant break them for anyone. Thats just the way it goes. Suck it up and move on. Good onya Skip for sticking to your guns and look forward to a good competition this season. Good luck all.

Skip, what happens if Massingale becomes an Aussie in the season?
Can i then add another import?

As unfortunate as it is, I agree with Skip's decision. Every pick of an import is a gamble and the timing of the sackings (before the draft is over) has caused an issue.
If these two had been sacked before the draft started then there would be 2 less to choose from, or if they were sacked after then replacements would need to be found on the Waiver Wire. It happens, and as Pure Silk said, at the end of the day we are doing this for a bit of fun.

Slightly more on topic.... Who is on the clock for the next pick?

BJF - Yes, you can.

Pero V
Leon Henry

Pure Silk selects Luke Martin via SMS

I take Robbins.

(I agree with Skip's decision, just annoying).

Crosswhite
Weigh
Abercrombie
Saville
Gibson

Tovey
Goulding
Robbins
(someone)

I was going to take Robbins.... give me a few minutes to think this next pick over...

I was going to take Robbins last pick, until you left Forte for me.

The only interest I had in Forte was his G/F eligibility, but I wasn't too worried when he got picked up.

In other news, the Chuck Taylor All*Stars would like to welcome their late draft smokie.......
Auryn MacMillian

a guy that went 11/ 3/ 2 last season this late? you bet Michael Cedar is selected

Bizzy selects Cam Gliddon via SMS

UPDATED WITH REMAINING PLAYERS

FORWARDS
Dillon Boucher
Daniel Jackson
Lucas Walker


GUARDS
Chris Cedar
Tyson Demos
Aaron Grabau
Bennie Lewis
Mitch Norton
Nate Tomlinson
Kevin White
Kerry Williams




Development Players
Tom Daly# G
Matt Andronicos# F/C
Shaun Bruce# G
Josh Bloxham# G
Reuben Te Rangi# G/F
Tai Webster G
Morga Natanahira# G/F
Ben Purser# F
Callum Jenkins# F
Brendan Teys# G

Aaron Grabau

Wookiees final selections are..

Dillon Boucher

Nate Tomlinson

Ox selects Lucas Walker via email

Mitch Norton

CORRECTION.

The incorrect Waiver order is listed at the top of this thread.

As per the email sent out on August 13. The waiver order is the reverse of the lottery draw.

CORRECT WAIVER ORDER.
1 - Wookiee
2 - Ox
3 - Bizzy
4 - BJF
5 - Hendo8888
6 - Pure Silk
7 - DB5
8 - Clarky

I thought whoever had the #1 Draft Spot ended up with the #8 Waiver pick....

EDIT: the email I have with the rules in it (from 12/9/2012) says:

6.1 This is used to sign restricted free agents throughout the season. The order of this to begin with is the reverse of the initial Draft order.

That's the reverse of the Lottery.
So it would appear you won the lottery and chose pick 4?

Bennie Lewis Boom Boom

Yeah I chose to pick at #4, I must have missed the bit in the Lottery email that said the Waiver order was based on lottery position.
It doesn't really bother me overall, just wanted a bit of clarification...

In other news, with their final pick in the 2012/13 FNBL Draft the Chuck Taylor All*Stars select....

Tyson Demos of the Wollongong Hawks!

I complete my draft by selecting Daniel Jackson.
His preseason has actually been pretty good. Don't expect him to do much in the regular season though.
Is he actually in the 10 this year?

Final roster:
Ian Crosswhite
Stephen Weigh
Thomas Abercrombie
Glen Saville
Adam Gibson

Cameron Tovey
Chris Goulding
Brad Robbins

(Replacement for) Jason Forte
Daniel Jackson

My season appears to hinge reasonably heavily on what Townsville do. I'm assuming Ox will use his waiver pick to replace Withers, so my replacement will either be an import if they sign 2, or probably nothing/someone pretty useless if they choose to sign an Aussie instead.

I look like this:

Pledger
Garlepp
Forman
*Lazare
Vukona
Harvey
*Massingale
Crosswell
Lewis
M Cedar

May lack some scoring bunch in the G spot but have elected to go with only 1 real jump shooter who can score in bunches when he gets going.

I'm pretty happy with my final roster, especially considering the limited preparation I did for the draft.

D. Martin
C. Tragardh
A. Loughton
M. Creek
J. Cadee
C. Steindl
K. Braswell*
C. Webster
A. MacMillian
T. Demos

I think I might lack a dominant scorer, but I think I have enough guys who will rack up stats across multiple categories. I'm hoping they will all be efficient scorers, but I have my doubts.

Pure Silk takes Chris Cedar via sms

So the Fear Boner's final squad looks like:

C - Luke Schenscher
C/F - Seth Scott*
C/F - Will Hudson*
F - David Gruber
F/G - Tim Coenraad
F/G - Graeme Dann
G - Ben Madgen
G - Everard Bartlett
G - Cameron Gliddon
G - Mitch Norton

I'm reasonably happy. My final 2 picks, hopefully see court time.

You seem to have an abundance of Centres.
Maybe you want to trade me one of your imports?

And to Wookiee, how do I score Waiver wire pick 1 off you?
It's probably more valuable to me, you have 2 very good imports who aren't going anywhere.

Should be ok still, with a lineup of:
C- Russ Hinder
PF- Jesse Wagstaff
SF- Shawn Redhage (C)
SG- Aaron Bruce
PG- Jamar Wilson (vc)

Ben- ?????? Hoping for a stud Guard import
Ben- Liam Rush
Ben- Daryl Corletto

Cover- Aaron Grabau, Lucas Walker

As Hendo said, TSV will determine my strength, but i have versatility in captain choice, depending on games per round, and opposition matchups.

Luckily, imports arent the only thing on Townsville's shopping list

Tom Dooley thanks skip.

Here is each team with their points. (External)

Luckily we don't have a points cap, as 4 of you are over!

Ox - 75
Hendo8888 - 74
BJF - 73
Wookiee - 71
Pure Silk - 66
Bizzy - 63
DB5 - 62
clarky - 58

I run a budget team like the Hawks...

perhaps we could also run an alternate league that complies to the points cap too?

guess that makes me the bullets?

I like the sound of a league that complies with the points cap. It adds another element to the draft and preparation.

So the 2 highest point teams both have already sacked their imports.

Too much work involved as it is already without complicating it with the points cap.

I did consider getting us all to set our teams up on a dream team site to save some time. But then you could have issues with players not fitting under their cap and they dont always have every player there to select.

Quietly confident with my team IF the big man Knight stands up. Was my #1 pick last year so to get him as my 3rd this year was pleasing.All teams IMO look pretty even. No clear standout unlike last year.

Barring Injury my Round 1 team will be

Knight
Edwards
Hill
Crawford
Jackson (c)

Blanchfield
Greer
Trueman

DNP
L.Martin
C.Cedar

Really like the idea of putting the teams into the dream team site, wonder if they would fit?

really liked the idea of teams going into nbl dream team, so i punched mine in. I can get my 9 players in with 90k free. So depending on who my 10th guy is, and what position he is eligable to play (need a ctr), it is possible. But if it was withers (or a new import), i was 30k short. Also, player positioning is a problem, unless all players are aligned with what dream team positions them

Any new import will be $116K i think

My 9 players only have 18k left.
So regardless of who I get for Forte, my team will still be overpriced for DT.

My whole team comes in with $125,700 to spare... I am definitely a budget team!!

I end up with $180,200 spare. BUDGET!!

Ok, so just to get it on record, my team is:

C: Larry Davidson (WOL) C
F: Anthony Petrie (ADL) F
F: Jacob Holmes (TSV) F
G: Kevin Lisch* (PER) G
G: Corin Henry* (SYD) G

B: Matthew Burston (MEL) C
B: CJ Bruton (NZB) G
B: Greg Hire (PER) F
IR: Dillon Boucher (NZB) F
IR: Nate Tomlinson (MEL) G