Casey Bass: It's getting awfully close to baseball season and that means close to draft season. Now one of our most popular show was the show that we do with Tom Eriquezzo where we talked about a way to draft players. Well, today we have a completely different kind of draft. We're going to examine that. So stay tuned. It's a draft edition on ClubHouseGAS.
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I think, it's put up there early that they don't want. So that way, somebody else would bid up and use all their points on them. So, when they play, they want to come to that. No body has got any points and that may get them cheat. So, you get back in there.
Dan DuPree: Well, in our league each of the ten teams which is allocated a certain number of points and in our league it's 10,000. And you can bid on any player that's brought up in the draft up to the maximum number of points you have and when I say maximum number you have, you can carryover points if you don't use your entire number of points or allocated points from year to year.
So you could in fact have more than 10,000. So, you get the allocated points, and typically what'll happen is each coach will list 20 players that they think should be drafted. And then at the beginning of the draft, each coach will pick a number which will pick the order.
If I pick number 1, then the first name on my sheet of 20 would be the first name that was offered out for the auction. If the guy had number 2, then after my guy was auctioned off, that guy would get the next. The top remaining guy on his list would be put up for auction after that and you will work your way through it.
Each time a guy's auction, it gets scratched off of each succeeding person's sheet and you work your way through it and pretty much you'll get through, I would guess may be 65, 70, maybe even 80% of the guys in a particular draft where their names will be brought up in that manner.
When we get to the end of it, everybody hasn't selected there full allocation of players. Then they go to alphabetic on the remaining guys who tried out and that's the way you work your way through it. So you can spend up to 10,000 points, you can spend up to 10,000 points on an individual player.
Typically, what happens and the way the coaches will do it, I'm not sure that everybody does it this way, but if you look at, historically, if there are 60 kids that are going to get drafted, they will look historically at what each of those 60 slots has gone for. Maybe the number one guy has gone on average over the last five years at 8,000 points.
This gives you sort of a reference point. So, you work your way through, you want the 60 allocating out the points that historically that number has gone for. And then you start slotting the players after tryouts and after your research to try to pick Joe Smith is number 23. Number 23 should go for 650 points. So, it gives you kind of a benchmark and you have got to do a lot of research.
We have a lot of tools to work with. We've got the coach's assessments of every player from the prior year. We've get all-star assessments, we've got the tryouts, we've got the order of whatever the selection process was in prior years for earlier leagues, Double A, Triple A.
I personally feel like, you get as much information from the coach's assessments in prior years as certainly as you do from tryouts. There are some coaches who do a good bit of scouting, but that's sort of a hit or miss proposition.
Everybody has their own kind of style. The good news about a deal like this, particularly when you've got coaches in a league that stay with the program, that you're not changing coach's every year or every two years, is not only is it a tremendous amount of fun. You really do get a fairly descent allocation of players. Some years you get a better allocation, some years you get a lesser allocation but year in year out, it's pretty fair.
Casey Bass: So much information, and hopefully you can digest it. If not go back and watch the show again, again and again and then go our message boards and post your comments or questions. We'd love to hear from you and hear about your kind of draft, maybe we will do a show on that also. That's going to do it for us today. And we'll see you right back here tomorrow for another great edition of ClubHouseGAS.
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