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Yeah I think the teams are fairly well balanced. Some people could definitely be active in the trade market to bolster their teams and Dinny might even be able to trade Deepak for Sanchez as he has three QBs. I was not happy with my team at the end of the draft but I think with a couple of trades I can get a decent team. Looks like Vicki/Nate week one and our number one draft pick Shelly against our returning champ. Elite WRs vs. Elite RBs in that game.

Yeah having kickers close to the top of the board in the 12th round was a bit strange. There were still some decent teams put together. Did Dinny's autodraft get him any Jets players?

I will have to paraphrase as I do not have them memorized. Chaos Dem Foosballers Hook 'em Horns Suck it ALO Dac Pack Dizzy Salty Ones Iron Lung Iphone Hockey is Better Atlanta Maytweezies The Schwarz is with you

You can have them.

I thought Ivan was running your draft.

This guy makes some good points for the first time players. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/video/nfl/2010/08/31/083010.fantasy_first_timers.SportsIllustrated/?xid=cnnbin&hpt=Sbin

Excellent. We should have a pretty good turn out tonight. I think this draft will be a bit more difficult than last years with the four new players grabbing up talent. I am really undecided with what to do at #3.

It is really quite nice. I greatly prefer it to the version for my iPhone.

We do have draft pick trades. Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk

Vicki, it will automatically do auto draft if you do not show up to take over. I have moved it to 9:30 in hopes you can make it.

Okay I ran the draft random generator and we came up with the following order: ShellyH Deepak VPI NMaher The Monkey Salt Peanuts Raffy Audio Sceptic Mexican Dragon Boomana F1GTR Moonshine I have posted a PDF of the results here http://home.comcast.net/~jakkar/Draft.pdf If no one has issues with this I will put this draft order into the system. In case people have problems with the legitimacy of this I put everyone's name in a bag and had Colin draw for our back-up list.

I am actually going to remove the e-mail addresses and just give a link the final order as I do not know the site and have no idea what they might do with e-mail addresses provided.

I have filled out everything I can on the random draft thing. I do not have e-mail addresses for a few people handy here at the office but I have the majority filled in so everyone will feel that the list is legit. I am going to generate the draft order shortly unless anyone has any problems with doing it this way.

My options are to set the draft order myself or allow ESPN to do it one hour before the draft. I suppose we could come up with some sort of lottery to choose our own draft order and set it soon.

We are actually bumped back to 9:30 EST now. This should give time to Vicki to get setup and get us done at a reasonable hour.

The usual draft strategy has been to pick up RB or WRs first as they can get more points and you have to play more of them each week. This year I am considering picking up a QB in the second or third based upon how the draft plays out.

For Vicki I will gladly move the draft back until 9:15ish. Does that work for everyone? You can certainly pick more but you are better off dropping the defense or someone off the bench to replace the kicker or defense when they are on bye. A fourth RB will be far better value than a back-up Defense, Kicker or TE when they can be grabbed off waivers at any point. If you have a great defense then drop another bench player to pick up a fill in defense for that week and then drop that defense to fill with a better option (RB, WR, etc.)

Are there three kickers good enough to have on your roster? I tend to pick up a new one each week based upon who in playing indoors. I am hoping we have a good show tonight as this league seems to be taking hold here and proved to be a fun one last year. Hopefully this year our ZERO trades from last year will not continue and there will be some action during the season and during the draft to spice things up.

I love the Defender but it does add a lot of weight. We should do lunch and you can check it out.

In another league I am in only 2 of the 12 players showed up for the draft and it made for a terrible draft. It was funny when one guy ended up with 3 kickers and another had 5 QBs.

We draft tonight. Really happy that NFL and College football are finally back. For all our new team, check out the draft kit on ESPN for some useful information on your draft including bye weeks for each player to ensure you do not draft 3 RBs with the same bye week with your first three picks. There is a chat built into the draft board that we can use or we can take over the chat here as Deepak recommended for live draft trash talk, etc.

Yeah everyone should have that lens in their bag. Then he would probably need two or three really nice tripods to support it. One for portraits and one for sporting events (monopod maybe) and one for hiking (carbon fiber). I use Gitzo.

Now you need to convince him to buy some nice glass as the 5D mkII will quickly show the flaws in lesser lenses. Surely he would like 5-6 pieces of L Glass.

I like new toys better than old toys.

I am selling the 35L as I like the lens but it is not one that I see myself using enough to keep. I was hoping to sell it and get more lenses instead of a body as I am waiting for the 5D mkIII before I upgrade my bodies at this point. I am intrigued by the 7D plus cash offer as it could replace the 50D as my crop camera.