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With only just over 4 weeks to go before the season starts, it is time to announce the draft order for each league and the draft date.


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IF YOU HAVE NOT ALREADY DONE SO, PLEASE ACCEPT THE INVITATION TO JOIN YOUR LEAGUE AND CREATE YOUR TEAM NAME ASAP (this only applies to new players and people who have changed leagues)



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I am going to recommend that all the drafts are held on the Monday night 20th of October. This is a week before the season starts and it will allow time for any undrafted players to pass through waivers.


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If you are unavailable on the 20th of October, you can set up a pre draft list whereby the system will automatically take the next available player from your list.


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Due to the time difference between here and the US, the earliest time we can commence the draft is at 10.00pm (AEDST).


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For those people playing for the first time this season, we use the snake format for the draft. E.g whoever has pick 1 in the first round, will have the last pick in the second round (e.g pick 24) and will have the first pick in the third round (e.g pick 25)


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Based on feedback received last year, we are going to extend the time for selection of each pick from 30 seconds to 60 seconds.


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Also, you can trade draft picks between teams in your league.



The draft order has been completed using your Too Serious user ID. Once everyone has joined their leagues, I will set up the draft order for each league on the website and you will then be able to propose trades of draft picks once this occurs if you wish to do so.


If anyone has any questions on how the draft works, how to play ESPN fantasy basketball or any other questions, post a comment below and one of us will respond to it.



This season promises to be huge and I know I can't wait for it to start.



Here is the draft order:



Premier League


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Evening everyone, it's been a completely mad day for me today - last minute sign ups to the syndicate and placing all the syndicate bets has seen this Bear glued to the computer and phone all day!!!
In the end, we had 30 shares snapped up by 18 regular/semi-regular TSer's!!!
That means $750 in the kitty, so with that much to play with I am seriously expecting to at least double our expenditure at a minimum!!! That means the pressure is on Holey that his predictions come up
I have spread the bets around in 4, 5 and 6 leg multi's, with a few 7 and 8 leg ones thrown in plus a monster 9 leg that will see us laughing if it comes in
The main players we will be cheering on are Sloane, Gibbs, Beams, Treloar, Tyson, Harvey, Gray, Buddy and Libba - with a few multi's including Roughy, Lynch and Ellis.
Have also placed a few straight out bets on team vote leaders - Sloane, Beams, Treloar, Tyson, Buddy along with Roughie, Ellis and Lynch!!!
Have also gone for Gazza to be leading at round 5.
Can't go in to all bets right now as it would be an all night job just to post them, but I will get the spreadsheet out to all signed up share holders as soon as I complete updating it.
Enjoy the count gang and cheer our players home!!!

So, who's interested in that age old tradition of grabbing a beer or three at the Lagerfield?

So long as you don't mind my ramblings, it should be a good evening.

Let me know!

Friday 19th - 750pm - Swans vs Norf Melb
Nm In Jacobs, Out mcmillan - emgs Currie, tippett, Mullett
Swans - no chnage, emg Towers, Mitchell, Laidler

Saturday 20th - 445pm - Hawks vs Port Adelaide
Haw - In Suckling, Out Sewell - emgs Hartung McEvoy Sewell
Port Adelaide - no chnage, Emg Impey, Mitchell, Newton

State League Grand Finals
WAFL - East Perth vs Subiaco
SANFL - Norwood vs Port Adelaide
VFL - Footscray vs Box Hill
TSL - North Launceston vs Western Storm
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The Swans and Hawks will both start strong favourites and the underdogs will have to defy history to make the last Saturday in September, with the Hawks in 2001 getting within a kick of the Bombers after a massive last quarter onslaught the only 5th-8th team to put up a decent prelim final performance..

Boomer and Cyril will get a bunch of headlines as will soem of the stars of the weekend including Kayne Turner and Robbie Gray.

Show who you think will make the Granny per thethumbs poll below, I will try to put teams up later in the week (but if I can't hopefully someone else can)

Feel free to talk up your teams or discuss trade rumours, Mad Monday stuff, 2015 chances of the Cats etc etc below

Lost and lonely team needs new, loving home
The Manangatang franchise has become available for a new coach/coaches to own
Apply below for this once in a... while... opportunity!

*includes Jobe Watson (HGH pre-purchased)


On a more serious note, we are looking for a member of the TS community to take over the helm of the Manangatang Orangutans. We have had a missing coach for a few months which has made this position available. This is not because of us, we are a great group of peeps to talk to and I have certainly had a great first season.

Please note, these leagues do require some time, even off-season, so we are looking for already active TS members. If you would like to be considered please post below (we haven't decided whether it will be first in best dressed or not)

Thanks!

[span style='background: #ffffff;]You don't need a salary cap of $10,000,000. Not even 9, 8, 7 or $6,000,000 to still be able to beat the SuperCoach 2014 winner's score of[span style='background: #ffffff;]54,465![span style='background: #ffffff;]Same rules, you'll only need $5,609,600.
Initial Team
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Trades
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<p style='text-align: left;]Final team
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Rookies galore & perfect trades, that will do the trick.


Edit (1) 18-Sep-14: Added trades values & profits here.

Edit (2) 18-Sep-14: Round by round, click here.

All invites have been sent out for everyone to join the leagues.
Can everyone please join their league and can everyone also please ensure their rosters are empty.

We have a couple of people keen to play that could not get into Division 3, so we may set up a 5th league if there is more interest over the coming weeks.


This is how the leagues have finished up:

[span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;]PREMIER:<strong style='color: #444444;]Mick[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Karlos[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Dabombers[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Fez[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Walesy[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]HEAVER[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Steve[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Owen[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Ruddy;<strong style='color: #444444;]jet[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Stowie[/b][span style='color: #444444; background: #fcfcfc;];<strong style='color: #444444;]Rev.[/b][/b]
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[span style='color: #444444;][span style='color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-position: initial; background-repeat: initial;]DIVISION[span style='color: #444444; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-color: #fcfcfc; background-size: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial;...

On the back of the 3 hours lost writing this report, only for it all to be lost with the server issues on Friday - this year's article will be shorter than usual! More pictures and numbers, and less commentary - lets talk about it in the comments section.
[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]To briefly explain how to read the graphs below:<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
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[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]Raw = tally of 3-2-1 votes I have given to each player throughout the year, based on an updated formula that includes a combination of stats and expert opinion.<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]Adjusted is the average of 100 random generated counts, that applies a random weighting to each players performance in each game...i.e. helps understand the strength of the votes given, and also the possibility of picking up additional votes that I hadn't originally given.<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
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[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]% chance of winning is how many times they end up in front across these 100 counts.<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]spread is the % chance of what tally they will land on, again based on these 100 counts.<br style='background: #fcfcfc;[/img]
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[span style='background: #fcfcfc;]Odds are TopSport as of Friday afternoon, who are currently accepting Brownlow team multis....

Ok, it appears that in winding the servers back for summer I've achieved 2 things.
1. I've killed images.
2. I've killed performance.
#1, I'm not sure about- #2, is going to need to wait until tonight to sort out! Hope you guys can deal with the awful performance until then.

Hawks vs Cats - no surprisemy tip is the Hawks

<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Hawthorn
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]In: Hodge, Stratton, Hill
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Out:Schoenmakers, Litherland, Hartun

<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Geelong
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]In: Johnson, McIntosh, Motlop
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Out: Brown, Smedts, McCarth


Swans vs Freo - probably the hardest one to tip for me, the Dockers have won first up finals as udnerdog in 2012 and 2013 and I am keen to tip them but am not sure how much impact Macpharlin and Michael Johnson missing will make

<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Sydney
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]In: McGlynn, Franklin, Kennedy, Bird, Pyke
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Out: Mitchell, Biggs, Towers, Naismith, Jones
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Fremantle
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]In:Griffin, Silvagni, Fyfe
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]Out: Johnson, Suban, Crozier

NM vs Ess - North for me (sorry Chief), but who can back them with any confidence this season ?? Whichever team wins can lock in a 2nd home final againstthe loser of the Hawks and Cats so should be mightly pleased with the ladder order doing them a massive favour.

<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]North Melbourne
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff; color: #000000;]In: Firrito, Thomas, Greenwood, Goldstein, McDonald
<p style='margin-bottom: 1em; background: #ffffff;...