So it doesn't look like we've got much in the way of new features for the 2010-11 UPL Basketball: The Decision. But we are continuing with the UPL Draft Lottery, the results of which we will be announcing later in this post. The draft itself will be in prime time for the first time ever. Given the difficulty we've had with Saturday morning draft times, we've made an executive decision to move the draft to Sunday, October 24, at 7:30 pm (central), in prime time.
What this means is that we need to get our keepers e-mailed to me a week in advance, by Sunday, October 17th. After you sign up for this year's league, you can look at last year's results and see who is on your rosters. Also, trades can be made - contact me via e-mail, and I'll send out a notice to the other owners for evaluation.
And without further ado, the results of the 2010 UPL Draft Lottery. Based on last year's order of finish, each team receives a number of "lottery tickets" in this season's draft. The numbers that correspond to each team are randomly assigned. Each teams will receive the following number of tickets.
| Team | Rank | "Tickets" |
| Phatsnapper | 11 | 1667 |
| IamJabberjaw | 10 | 1515 |
| Floor Burns | 9 | 1364 |
| WakeupWithTheKing | 8 | 1212 |
| Chowtime | 7 | 1061 |
| Love T'Wolves | 6 | 909 |
| Westy's Ballers | 5 | 758 |
| Sparty Rules | 4 | 606 |
| SuckMyDribblingBalls | 3 | 455 |
| O.N. Thugs | 2 | 303 |
| IamJabrone | 1 | 151 |
| TOTAL | 66 | 10000 |
The process is similar to the procedure used in the past, and is detailed here and here. This year, Jeff, C-Lauff, Westy, and OD provided the numbers for the winning lottery tickets. The results are as follows:
Picking 11th: IamJabrone. Last year's defending champions are choosing last in the 1st round.
10th: O.N. Thugs. Things progress according to plan, as the 6-time UPL Hoops champions pick at the end of the draft again.
9th: SuckMyDribblingBalls. Again, the order of draft is continuing on as one would expect.
8th: Sparty Rules. Still no changes, as the lottery remains on track.
7th: Westy's Ballers. The lottery is still on track.
6th: Love T'Wolves. So far each of the picks are what the statistics would predict.
5th: Chowtime. Last year's 7th place team is picking 5th this year, as expected. This is the most predictable draft that we've ever seen in the UPL.
4th: Floor Burns. Finally, a minor shakeup. Last year's 9th place team (3rd to last) is picking 4th. This means that WakeupWithTheKing has won one of the three lottery slots, in a minor upset.
3rd: IamJabberJaw. Last year's 10th place team is picking 3rd, which means that WakeupWithTheKing will be jumping up at least 2 spots.
2nd: WakeupWithTheKing. The lucky streak as run out, but moving up two spots in the draft is a nice little bonus. And more importantly, this means that...
1st: Phatsnapper. For the 2nd time this week, Phatsnapper has won a UPL event. He starts off the week pulling off a last day victory in UPL Baseball, and today, he has won the 2010 UPL Basketball Draft Lottery. Congrats to Rup.
Phatsnapper is on the clock.
-Chairman (aka O.N. Thugs)
3 comments:
Yawn, this was to be expected. Can't wait to defend my title.
Can we move our draft later? Ideally, it would be after the kids are in bed?
That's no problem, I don't think. Sunday night is a much more flexible time, and I think that there will be a move to primetime UPL drafts in the future (especially since that 10:30 am timeslot is a little dicey for pimps and ballers, like myself).
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