Fandom Dispersal Draft

[dlgood]

Was having a random conversation today about sports, the draft, and so on with soundingsea when I had a weird thought...

What if our favorite TV shows could make trades? Can you imagine how that might go?

You might trade actors around to fill major gaps in the cast, or stockpile talent. What if Veronica Mars could just sell off characters to get under the CW cost caps.

Like, would you trade the Vengeful Ghost of Don Lamb off to Grey's Anatomy in return for Addison Montgomery and Cash Considerations?

Or what if there was some arbitrary dispersal draft. Pretend the existing shows all got axed, and we could sit and draft any cast among existing primetime lineups to put our programs together.

How crazy would that be? Anybody want to throw out some hilarious ideas for general amusement. I may have to develop this more, later on...

Comments

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

Does Supernatural or Grey's have dibs on Jeffrey Dean Morgan? And does the loser of that get a compensatory pick? In what round?

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I think you have to do it by the Character, don't you. In case of character who appear on multiple shows, you just declare them property of whichever show they appear on most frequently.

So he's both Denny and John. Maybe you could trade Denny for John and a coma patient to be named later.

[bastardsnow.livejournal.com]

That's a fair point. But would Dead!Denny necessarily be more valuable than Dead!John? What is that value based on? Money? Hotness of consort? (cuz, Kat Heigl.... ::drools::)

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Dead Denny was really, really rich. That's probably worth something.

What would be real amusing, would be to see the show run by the Hollywood Equivalent of Dan Snyder, where they go bonkers unloading every valuable minor character to stock up on washed-up overrated former TV mainstays.

[kalbear.livejournal.com]

Nathan Fillion is clearly the Jeff George of TV - he should be a marquee star, but he fails whenever he gets on a show. I think Lost should draft him fulltime.

The Office needs more hawtness, and (sadly) Desperate Housewives has plenty to spare. I figure there should be a trade of Jim for Felicity Huffman and a hottie to be named later.

Deadwood's loss is BSG's gain, as they pick up Ian McShane as the final cylon, who tells Baltar to Declare, or shut the fuck up.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Not quite. Jeff George is a cancerous clubhouse presence who tends to look great but make teams far worse by his mere presence. The closest parallel to Jeff George would probably be Shannen Doherty.

Fillion strikes me as more like Jon Kitna. You'd think he'd be pretty good, but his teams don't win and he winds up getting cut and bouncing around.

I'll Play

[keith5by5.livejournal.com]

Dream Cast

I'll make my show the return of Tru Calling so, here's the changes I'll make in the cast and crew:-

Co-Director - J. Michael Straczynski
Co-Director - Ronald Moore
Writer - David Greenwhalt
Writer - J.J. Abrams

Tru Davies - Eliza Dhusku
Davis - Zach Galifianakis
Harrison Davies - Shawn Reaves
Richard Davies - Edward James Olmos
Dr. Carrie Allen - Chrasima Carpenter
Jack Harper - Michael Shanks
Jensen - Nicholas Brendon (make him a mature student)

Hiro says

[cactuswatcher.livejournal.com]

I'd like to see Hiro Nakamura from Heroes make guest visit to all the shows to ask the naive embarrassing questions that need to be asked.

Hiro on Ghost Whisperer, "Melissa, why you always walk around with boobs hanging out on family show?"

Hiro on Bones, "Temperance, why you always rattle on ignoring nice peoples' feelings or you, maybe, just one nasty bitch?"

Hiro on Medium, "Alysson, middle daughter very annoying. You want get rid of? I have sword."

Hiro on ER, "Doctor, everybody leave here. Why does anybody keep watching this show?"

Hiro on CSI whatever, "Didn't I see this plot on Law and Order last night?"

Hiro on Everybody hates Chris, "Chris, what you have to complain about? I have to go around talking like idiot."

Re: Hiro says

[a2zmom.livejournal.com]

bwah! Yeah, I'd watch that.

Re: Hiro says

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I would trade Hiro Nakaura to "The NBA on TNT" in return for Charles Barkley resulting in some classic scenes:

1. Hiro "Flying man go dunk dunk on european man!"

2. Charles Barkley throws Peter Petrelli through a window for being too emo.

Re: Hiro says

[alleynyc.livejournal.com]

I would TOTALLY watch this.

[thelastgoodname.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea. But I have a question: can you trade future draft picks? Like, two shows would trade a May Emmy-bait sweeps guest star for a non-Emmy-bait guest star and a single-episode extra? But you wouldn't know which guest stars were being traded until you got to that point in the filming schedule; I can totally see Sally Field from ER getting traded to House for Michelle Trachtenberg and Sela Ward.

Also: Homicide: Life on the Streets should trade Falsone and Bayliss for Adam Schiff and Jack McCoy from Law and Order. Homicide is a little light on the righteous legal side (it might require a reconsideration of their offensive scheme, but it would be worth it), while Law and Order could use some variation in the attitudes of their detectives.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

This is a great idea. But I have a question: can you trade future draft picks?

As far as I'm concerned, one could posit any trade for which an explicable analog exists within the sports world. This could include:

1. Draft Picks
2. Cash consideration
3. Expiring contract
4. Cap-friendly throw in
5. Player-to-be-named later. (Usually the PTBNL must come off a pre-submitted list)
6. Equipment

I would, though, try to avoid particularly lopsided trades. Every decade or so, there's a legendary fleecing i.e Celtics trade draft rights to Joe Barry Carroll [aka Joe Barely Cares] to Golden State for Robert Parrish and Draft Rights to Kevin McHale - but we don't make that a regular practice.

[markeyisapunk.livejournal.com]

I just want buffy and veronica to rumble. and as little as I knwo about drafts, I'm guessing you don't get two michael jordans per team...

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Generally, no. But imagine a case where a show just got canceled. Historically, leagues have had a dispersal drafts where the teams get to pick players off of a team that has just folded.

In our case, it would operate in the reverse - where VMars would draft Buffy Summers from the now folded BtVS franchise. That said, I don't know how we'd arrange our draft orders and VMars clearly wouldn't have the cap space for Buffy available.

We'd have to wait for VMars to get canceled, and then watch a cash cow show like CSI pick up the both of them...

[markeyisapunk.livejournal.com]

or heroes!

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

Yeah. Although, Heroes would probably have to trade away some real value to move up and get both Buffy and Veronica (both would be first round...)

In our theoretical dispersal draft, they'd have to trade Mr. Bennet or a Petrelli brother, plus a secondary character like Micah or Isaac, and their second draft pick...

[markeyisapunk.livejournal.com]

oh I'd happily can isaac and teh older petrelli brother (hell I'd throw in nikki just for fun) but it's ocurring to me that M might feel a little out of place on heroes. or would she... maybe she's figure out teh whole bomb time travel thing in one episode...