Signs of Life

[dlgood]

As I am lazy and tired, I'm sitting around watching the NBA Draft tonight. Not really anything of value to add about that. So, list of things I've been up to:

Okay. I'm too lazy to list.

Executive Summary: Watching my baseball team be lousy. Not having any success in the romance department. Gearing up for summer softball league, hoping I don't hurt myself this year.

Comments

[hjcallipygian.livejournal.com]

I have a theoretical question that's been mulling around in my head since the NFL draft.

With the continued inflation on the value of top picks in the first round, why does a team with a really high first-round pick just... not pick immediately. I know it can work that way because Minnesota didn't get their pick in on time one draft and the Jags immediately jumped up and drafted Byron Leftwich (which is a whole other can of beans). So, let's say that Miami at #1 this year didn't like anyone for a #1 pick value. They don't sign anyone before the draft, they wait their ten minutes and then the Rams are on the clock. At any point past that, Miami can jump in and pick, so they wait until #2 and #3 pick then make their pick, and argue that guy was really the #3 pick in the draft so they can sign him for less.

I mean... it's illogical and insulting to the player drafted, of course, but I've never heard it mentioned before.

[dlgood.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what would happen - nobody's tried it, as far as we know. (Minnesota went over time on the Leftwich pick because they were trying to make a trade with Baltimore and couldn't get it done.)

Presuming you believed the player you wanted would still be available, and assuming you were unable to trade down, I would think it'd be clever to stall your pick long enough to get bypassed, just to save the money.

The league may well have some sort of collusion rule in place to punish you for doing that, so you'd have to do it in a disguised way -- people would really have to think you were trying to trade or really disorganized.

Because the team below you would be pissed to find out you'd deliberately done it, the players would be pissed, and it'd be really embarassing if you got jumped but the next team did the same thing.

It would end up like baseball, where the best players routinely drop down in the draft because the top picking teams can't afford to sign them.

[stars91.livejournal.com]

My team's been lousy as of late too. Don't feel bad! I watched part of the draft with my 78 year old mother last night. She was more interested in it than I was!

Good luck with softball!