OK, rosters are now set up and the only manager still to accept their invitation is LINUX, so his team is still assigned to me at the moment.
Some teams had players on IR at the season's end so their rosters currently exceed the 30 player max as a result (as all IR slots are empty for the new season). I've therefore taken a view as to who I'd expect you to drop, as outlined below so that the rosters are all valid. Please let me know if you want to do something different and I'll amend the roster accordingly. I've also included my team for completeness, as I was on of them.
Sheriff:
Retained From IR: Victor Cruz, Lorenzo Taliaferro
Dropped From Main Roster: Mark Sanchez, Jimmy Clausen
Dropped From IR List: Miles Austin
Sharplea:
Retained From IR: Sam Bradford, Tyler Eifert
Dropped From Main Roster: Shaun Suisham (NB: Only one drop needed as only 29 players rostered)
Tighty:
Retained From IR: Brandin Cooks, Nick Foles
Dropped From Main Roster: Niles Paul, Dwayne Harris
Dropped From IR List: Antone Smith
Tal:
Retained From IR: Montee Ball, Austin Sefarian-Jenkins, Danny Woodhead, Justin Hunter
Dropped From Main Roster: Ka'Deem Carey, Tim Wright, Joseph Fauria, Kyle Juszczyk
Sicilian:
Dropped From IR List: Dennis Pitta
The only other player I couldn't add is Jonathan Dwyer into Team Moody as he's not on the Yahoo list (he's suspended due to firearms charges, so hardly a loss), but Moody is currently one player short from the B/F list.
So all teams are now populated with their B/F players, and the first task at hand now is for you to figure out who you want to drop to accomodate newly drafted rookies when we start drafting. For now your teams are at full capacity, so for each player you pick up you're going to have to create a space. You don't need to actually drop anyone just yet (as you can do this when making the picks) but it's worth starting to think about.
More details on the draft to follow, but you should hopefully all now be able to see your team rosters (all players will be on the bench initially). Please note that all teams are currently locked from adding or dropping players for the time being, as the normal free agency player pool won't be operational until we've done the draft.
Also, for info, here is the draft order so you can start your prep:
1.01 Tal
1.02 Tighty
1.03 Sicilian
1.04 ForthThistle
1.05 Horneris
1.06 LINUX
1.07 sharplea
1.08 Sheriff
1.09 bobby1
1.10 ChipRich / LeKnave
If anyone is puzzled by this, the first 6 picks are determined by the order of the Consol finish last season as per this note from last year (basically, this was to encourage teams in the Consol to stay competitive in the play-offs), so Tal gets 1st pick for winning the consol then in order of finish down to LINUX who lost the 9th place playoff. Main play-off teams then fill the last 4 slots in reverse order so our defending champs ChipRich and LeKnave get pick 10.
Link regarding this is here for info:
http://blondepoker.com/forum/index.php?topic=54617.msg1971330#msg1971330 (point 4).
I don't think there were any draft pick trades made at all last year, so the same order exists for all subsequent rounds. In reality, I doubt people will make more than 5 rounds of picks as it gets increasingly difficult to find players to drop. However, you're free to negotiate and agree trades from this point forward including draft picks. Please just let me know if anything involves 2015 picks, as I'll have to keep a log of this offline until we're done drafting. Within the site, you should see draft picks as tradeable commodities when making trades. Please note that these are NEXT YEAR'S PICKS. If you want to propose an offer including any of this years picks then you need to do so in the comments field when making the offer (e.g. "plus I get 2015 2.06"). If trading next year's picks, Yahoo has to have an equal number of picks in the trade offer, so just include the highest round available (e.g. 30th round pick) to achieve this.
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