1966 FOOL Draft Order & Eligibility List

[Young Drachma]

The draft begins as of tonight, after the end of the FOOL Classic. The rules are as follows:

- The draft will last until Thursday night at export time. (10 pm eastern)
- You either 1) make your pick on the thread or 2) submit a preference list to me with the list of names in order of the player you want.
- The picks are signed to minor league contracts.
- There is just one round. There will always only be one round if this is successful.
- Conversely, you can trade your pick to someone else if you want to, but you cannot trade "future" draft picks, you may only trade this pick in this draft.
- If you don't submit a list or don't make a pick by the deadline, you will be alloted the best available player (by star rating) after all of the other teams who submitted have made their selections.

1966 FOOL DRAFT ORDER
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1. Long Beach Island
2. Chicago
3. Charleston
4. Rio Grande
5. Baltimore
6. El Paso
7. Boston
8. Seattle
9. Valdosta
10. Compton
11. Ann Arbor
12. Hartford
13. Texas
14. Brooklyn
15. Compton (via trade with New York)
16. Colorado
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Here is a list of draftable players, you'll need to go to FOCL (college) or Reebok HS (HS) to see these guys and I do that, so the game won't make them regular free agents.

	POS	#	Name		TM		LG	Lev	Age	NAT	HT	WT	B	T	OVR	POT
	2B	28	Lorenzo Torres	Kings Bay Base HSRHSB	HS	17	CUB	6' 2"	215 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	4 stars
	SS	15	Axel Rivet	Minneapolis HS	RHSB	HS	17	CAN	5' 8"	200 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	3 stars
	2B	28	Cristo GutiérrezChula Vista HS	RHSB	HS	18	MEX	6' 1"	205 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	3 stars
	1B	23	Manny Román	Central City HS	RHSB	HS	18	PAN	6' 0"	195 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	4 stars
	SP	9	Carol Koornberg	Miami HS	RHSB	HS	17	ARU	6' 4"	210 lbs	Left	Right	1 star	5 stars
	SS	20	Larry Anderson	Central City HS	RHSB	HS	17	USA	6' 0"	195 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	LF	31	Scotty Welch	Kings Bay Base HSRHSB	HS	18	USA	6' 0"	220 lbs	Left	Left	1 star	5 stars
	2B	14	Eric Compton	Gulf Breeze HS	RHSB	HS	17	USA	5' 11"	180 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	3 stars
	CL	48	Denny Hennessey	Sebree HS	RHSB	HS	18	USA	6' 0"	210 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	SP	4	Elliott Hall	Johns Hopkins	FOCL	COL	20	USA	6' 5"	210 lbs	Left	Left	1 star	4 stars
	SP	3	Sam Williams	Louisiana	FOCL	COL	21	USA	6' 4"	205 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	2B	12	Tyson Jones	Hamilton	FOCL	COL	20	USA	6' 0"	210 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	CF	34	Don Pierce	MIT		FOCL	COL	20	USA	5' 10"	185 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	RF	33	Patrick BuchanaUMass-Boston	FOCL	COL	21	USA	6' 5"	200 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	5 stars
	1B	17	Powell Kirkpatrick Knox		FOCL	COL	21	USA	6' 3"	220 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	3 stars
	SP	53	John Payne	Richard Stockton FOCL	COL	20	USA	6' 5"	215 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	3 stars
	LF	98	Ron Harris	-	-	-		21	USA	5' 10"	180 lbs	Left	Left	1 star	5 stars
	3B	21	Alejandro Trujillo	-	-	-	21	USA	6' 0"	205 lbs	Switch	Right	1 star	4 stars
	C	26	Guy Kidd	-	-	-		21	USA	5' 11"	200 lbs	Right	Right	1 star	4 stars

[Commo_Soldier]

I was just curious where Brooklyn is going to fit in this draft? Also what are the rules on offering contracts to players that are on the draft eligble list?

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by Commo_Soldier

I was just curious where Brooklyn is going to fit in this draft? Also what are the rules on offering contracts to players that are on the draft eligble list?

Oops. Sorry. I'll fix the list.

You all are 14th (it's based on record or if a tie, then the team that's lower placed.)

As for contracts? They're minor league deals. For the ones that are left over? I'll put them into the FA pool after the draft is complete.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

Oops. Sorry. I'll fix the list.

You all are 14th (it's based on record or if a tie, then the team that's lower placed.)

As for contracts? They're minor league deals. For the ones that are left over? I'll put them into the FA pool after the draft is complete.

I'm a little confused. I see there are players available right now in FA that seem to be prospects. Why aren't they part of this? What exactly determined which prospects went where? Why are the prospects above part of this, and are they the only ones, as it appears?

I understand what we're trying to do; I just don't get how it is set up right now. I won't be able to adjust things tomorrow, as I work my second job, so I need to get an import in now.

[Chief Rum]

Also, I think I said this before, but I just don't have a darn clue how to find the FOCL or HS players. I have just wasted 20 minutes clicking around trying to find it. Can someone please help me with this? Not all of us have been playing OOTP all the way through. I last played with version 6.5.

[Chief Rum]

Okay, I was finalyl able to just search out the players individually and add them to my shortlist. So I can see them now at least. I wish I could actually find a college league or a high school league, though. I can't even filter the player search list by these leagues.

[Cringer]

Top right corner of the game you will see a little box that says 'Select League' and you go up there. A drop down menu will appear and you can switch between the different leagues. From there you can go over to the teams drop down menu and go through the different teams.

From what I see though all the teams are full of players, so doing what you did and searching for them may be the easiest way to go. At least for the last three guys on that list that don't have a team name next to them.

[Cringer]

I am finding that some of these players listed above are on the reserve roster of their teams, at least a couple of the college guys so far. I thought somethings was messed up until I saw that.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Cringer

Top right corner of the game you will see a little box that says 'Select League' and you go up there. A drop down menu will appear and you can switch between the different leagues. From there you can go over to the teams drop down menu and go through the different teams.

From what I see though all the teams are full of players, so doing what you did and searching for them may be the easiest way to go. At least for the last three guys on that list that don't have a team name next to them.

Thank you! Sheesh, never saw that.

I did already find all of those players and add them to my shortlist, so I did it that way. But outside of the players you mention, it probably would have been easier through the league.

[Young Drachma]

You can also use the search within the game to search for a player.

[Young Drachma]

Here's an addendum to the draft list.

The game generated a bunch of rookies who are available to be viewed in the free agency area within the game.

I didn't know that it would do that. But I guess it makes sense.

In any case...any of those players are eligible to be drafted, too.

I think next year, if we do this again, I'll just say "any rookie that's in the FA pool who has never played in FOOL" can be drafted and just negate any signing of said players in-game.

[gstelmack]

Boston list in

[muns]

Hartford list is in

[JeeberD]

Man, I'm clueless as how to figure out who in the college and hs leagues are draftable...

[Young Drachma]

Originally Posted by JeeberD

Man, I'm clueless as how to figure out who in the college and hs leagues are draftable...

I'll make it easier for you. Just go to the free agency for the FOOL. Look at anyone who is a rookie who hasn't played in FOOL. Those players are all eligible.

I will move the kids from the HS and College leagues who I've "declared eligible" to the free agency as of tonight's sim, so you can see them too.

I didn't realize it'd be confusing, so that's my fault.

[JeeberD]

OK, cool. Guess my list will come later tonight or tomorrow, then...

[Alan T]

When is this list due by DC? Do I have to have my stuff in tonight?

[JeeberD]

I don't think you need to have it in tonight (at least I hope we don't)

- The draft will last until Thursday night at export time. (10 pm eastern)
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- If you don't submit a list or don't make a pick by the deadline, you will be alloted the best available player (by star rating) after all of the other teams who submitted have made their selections.

[gstelmack]

Man, I wish we could have had at least ONE pick today...

[Cringer]

I was just hoping for the 3 guys in front of me to pick and I would make mine. I might have to make a list if this drags on with no picks another day or so.

[muns]

Originally Posted by gstelmack

Man, I wish we could have had at least ONE pick today...

I agree...... only bad part about drafts.....

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by Dark Cloud

You can also use the search within the game to search for a player.

Which is a pain in the ass, and sometimes, they don't even come up, and you have to figure out why.

In any case, I have said before I didn't know where these players were. So just saying they're in 'X' league I couldn't find, doesn't really help much. Thank you, Cringer, at least for helping me out with that.

[Chief Rum]

Originally Posted by muns

I agree...... only bad part about drafts.....

Well, really, this was confusing from the get go. Not really DC's fault--as he said, he didn't know the game would generate new rookies itself. Just the way it turned out.

[Young Drachma]

Seems like this is a bad idea. It's not working how I intended and it's why I was opposed to the whole idea of a draft and I'm still trying to figure out how to compensate for the fact that the game 1) generates rookies and 2) doesn't move feeders automatically in an online league.

Edit: Got a good suggestion and we'll go with it. We're going to go to a real draft, but let the AI do it for all teams. You can trade what you don't like. I'll have a plan later.