Play the Draft Participants

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Hoping for $13 Mil by the end of the week

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drake20

1st place.

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What's the league info?

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Cody Latimer is +$305k for me. Not much anyone can do with that info since the profit to be made off of him at this point is fairly minimal.

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**SHORT VERSION***
Get $12m salary cap. Buy as many/few rookies as you can fit given their cost, which is based on a plethora of mock drafts. Check/print out "Draft Order" to see how much they are worth if they are drafted at a given position and compare to cost. Example: Clowney costs $3.9m. The #1 pick is worth $4.2m, so you make $300k profit if he goes #1. The #6 pick is worth $3m, so you lose $900k if he goes 6th.
Only players drafted in the top 3 rounds are worth anything, so if you buy a player that is drafted in the 4th, you lose everything. Prices are updated daily so you can sell a player and use profit on different ones if you want. Go to the site and use code 885B8FC7 to enter league (15 player limit per league)
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Stumbled upon a website called playthedraft.com when one of the writers I follow on twitter posted about it a few days ago. Just now looking into it. This is a bit long winded but it sounds fun as frick. Some details are still a bit sketchy but here's the gist of it (my explanation is better than the site's ultra vague one):

-You're given a $12m salary cap to spend on however many rookies you can buy with that money.

-The monetary value of the players changes daily based on where they are expected to be drafted (apparently they base this off of a couple dozen "reputable" mocks). So, for example, Clowney is the highest priced player at $3.9m. The cheapest players are valued at $425k.

-You need to click on "Draft Order" at the top and see what the actual values are for where they are drafted. I would recommend printing it out so you can easily look at it while you buy players. So looking at that, the #1 pick gets credited with $4.2m. So if you purchased Clowney (that sounds kind of racist) at $3.9m and he goes #1, you made $300k. That's a great return, but you can only fit 3 Clowneys under your salary cap. Jordan Matthews is valued at $780k. If he gets drafted by the Jets at 18, you make ~$900k. You can fit about 17 Jordans under your cap compared to 3 Clowneys.

-You only get credit for players drafted in the first 3 rounds. If you take a chance on, say, Antonio Richardson being drafted higher than his value, but he gets drafted in the 4th round, you lose all $650k that you invested in him.

-You can sell players if you think that they have gone from a good value to a bad one, then use the profit to purchase better values.

-Unfortunately, you cannot short sell players with values higher than you feel are appropriate.

-The stock market shuts down on draft Thursday and the person with the most valuable lineup at the end of round 3 wins.




So that's it. Go to the site and use league invite code: 885B8FC7

The league is limited to 15 members (though the forum I read a lot of details on said that they managed to add more, but it seems inconsistent). Since there is a limited number of participants, I would prefer that the people asking for an invite keep up with the goings ons. Nothing crazy, just maybe once a week. Just don't want anyone signing up and never checking again (or not even using their full cap space). If it fills up, someone else can start a group and continue using this thread.

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Not sure when it shuts down exactly, but it's definitely before the draft begins. I'm sure it's fairly early in the day so that there's no trading in the event that the Texans announce their pick early.

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The whole thing has been pretty fun so far, and shite gets real tomorrow.

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Definitely doing this every year and hopefully next season they allow shortselling.

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