FOFC Draft: The Four Sport Challenge - Best Athletes in History

[DaddyTorgo]

i suppose you're right

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

How about we all relieve the boredom by submitting some advance picks to Schmidty so that this doesn't happen again?

I asked before, but I didn't want to look like a dictator.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

True, but it can't hurt. Now that we're out of the early rounds you'll be surprised how little overlap there is. If everyone just sent a top three, I bet we could start moving pretty quickly.

There seem to be some observers that are more active than our participants. Maybe we can send picks to one of them (if they agree) to get things moving.

Of course, there comes a point when people should be replaced....

[DaddyTorgo]

if an observer posts that they will accept picks, I will see what I can do to work up a list of my picks although I don't think I've ever left the draft hanging at all.

[ISiddiqui]

You know he's going to take Al Del Greco, so just get on with it.

[oykib]

YOu could have each guy post "{next guy} is on the clock." after each pick. That gives a clear time since every post is time-stamped. Give people an eight-hour time limit or something and just start letting people after them draft if they miss it until they get back in.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by oykib

YOu could have each guy post "{next guy} is on the clock." after each pick. That gives a clear time since every post is time-stamped. Give people an eight-hour time limit or something and just start letting people after them draft if they miss it until they get back in.

Or you could volunteer to take people's picks.....

[DaddyTorgo]

alright. well i'm going to be off to bed shortly here, and then i'm off to work until ~ 6pm EST tomorrow. I don't anticipate that it will be my pick even then, but just in case it is, know that I will be home to do them (barring some idiotic circumstances that force me to stay at work...which would still mean i'd be home by 10pm EST).

[ThunderingHERD]

Sorry, I had to work 'til midnight. You guys should get on a reasonable schedule.

Anyway, I'll take Dick Butkus.

[DaddyTorgo]

rargle. there's one of my NFL picks off the board. *grumble*

[Karlifornia]

butkus...interesting. I didn't even think about him. Nice pick.

[oykib]

Originally Posted by ThunderingHERD

Sorry, I had to work 'til midnight. You guys should get on a reasonable schedule.

Anyway, I'll take Dick Butkus.

That's one of the guys I was talking about earlier during my RB review. Although he's not in any of the position groups I mentioned, He's more a top one or two guy than any RB that's left.

[General Mike]

I guess it's time for me to take my other sport guy. I'll go with one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, if not the greatest.

Rocky Marciano, other.

[oykib]

Originally Posted by General Mike

I guess it's time for me to take my other sport guy. I'll go with one of the greatest heavyweight boxers of all time, if not the greatest.

Rocky Marciano, other.

Cue Eddie Murphy quote from "Coming to America."

[General Mike]

Originally Posted by oykib

Cue Eddie Murphy quote from "Coming to America."

[kcchief19]

Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by kcchief19

Oh there they go. There they go, every time I start talkin 'bout boxing, a white man got to pull Rocky Marciano out their ass. That's their one, that's their one. Rocky Marciano. Rocky Marciano. Let me tell you something once and for all. Rocky Marciano was good, but compared to Joe Louis, Rocky Marciano ain't shit.

This is coming from a guy who has all white dudes on his team?

[TazFTW]

Damn the torpedoes. Full spead ahead.

With the fourth pick in the fifth round, Team Taz selects

Barry Bonds, Baseball

[Maple Leafs]

5.5 Mickey Mantle, baseball.

Schmidty is up.

[Schmidty]

Pete Rose

All time hits leader, one ahead of my first baseball pick - Cobb

[Maple Leafs]

kcchief sent his pick. He takes Whoopi Goldberg.

Woops, wrong PM. Hold on...

kcchief takes Julius Erving, basketball

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

5.5 Mickey Mantle, baseball.

Schmidty is up.

That's the one... it took THAT long for Mantle to get picked?! Wow! Maple Leafs, you are getting an absolute STEAL in the 5th round. I'd easily have taken him over Nolan Ryan or Joe Dimaggio.

[vex]

5.8 - Sammy Baugh - Football

He still holds the NFL punting record for highest average in a career (45.1 yards) and has the best (51.4 in 1940) and third best (48.7 in 1941) season marks. He was the first NFL player to intercept four passes in a game, a record he shares today. And he is the only player to lead the league in passing, punting and interceptions in the same season.

Baugh was among the 17 charter members to the Pro Football Hall of Fame in 1963. He also was elected to the College Football Hall of Fame.

[Travis]

5.9 - Jerry West - Basketball

25,192 points scored (27.0 career average)
6,238 assists
League First Team All Star 10 times
All Defensive Team 4 times
14 All Star Games
1972 League MVP
Playoff MVP in 69 (even though they didn't win)
Helped his team to 9 finals appearances in 14 seasons
29.1 playoff ppg average

[vtbub]

Maurice Richard- Hockey

[Travis]

Originally Posted by vtbub

Maurice Richard- Hockey

Huh, so much for him falling to my next pick. Had a hard time choosing between him and somebody (ANYBODY!) in basketball seeing as how that's my weakest area of knowledge and the bar seemed to be falling at an alarming rate.

Nice pick!

[DaddyTorgo]

some great steals coming off the board in this round, but I've still got my original two picks that I had in mind going in so I'm pleased. I'm ready to post whenever my turn next rolls around.

although losing Sammy Baugh as one of my NFL options does hurt.

edit: thanks kcchief for taking Dr. J. I was wavering between him and someone else in this round and that just makes my decision simpler.

[DeToxRox]

5.11 - Cue the lame posts, or nerds, but for my wildcard I select Your Olympic Hero Kurt Angle.

The guy is an Olympic Gold Medal Wrestler, and one of the best "wrestlers" in WWF history.

More of a pick from the heart, but I love the guy.

so ..

5.11 - Kurt Angle (Wildcard)

[Raiders Army]

Uhhhhh...I like him, but not that much. I voted for you in the Comedy Draft!!!

[Travis]

Originally Posted by DaddyTorgo

some great steals coming off the board in this round, but I've still got my original two picks that I had in mind going in so I'm pleased. I'm ready to post whenever my turn next rolls around.

although losing Sammy Baugh as one of my NFL options does hurt.

edit: thanks kcchief for taking Dr. J. I was wavering between him and someone else in this round and that just makes my decision simpler.

Heh, glad you're happy about it, I went in hoping to nab Dr. J and Richard with my 5th and 6th picks. That certainly didn't work out quite the way I had hoped.

Ah well, contingency plans are never a bad thing.

[Raiders Army]

Originally Posted by DeToxRoxDVHStyle

5.11 - Cue the lame posts, or nerds, but for my wildcard I select Your Olympic Hero Kurt Angle.

The guy is an Olympic Gold Medal Wrestler, and one of the best "wrestlers" in WWF history.

More of a pick from the heart, but I love the guy.

so ..

5.11 - Kurt Angle (Wildcard)

I also believed he defeated a tag team of midgets.

[DaddyTorgo]

i'm doing this as two seperate picks because I'm sure of the first but still debating the second.

5 (12) John Havlicek - Basketball


edit: fixed the fact that I picked an already drafted player cuz I was being smart.

[ISiddiqui]

Magic was a 3rd round pick.

[DaddyTorgo]

hah. i thought i couldnt' be that lucky. sorry i didn't look quicker. i'll go back to my original (that was off the board for me anyways)

[DaddyTorgo]

okay. after much debate, and going off my personal board again to make sure I snag this guy

6 (1) Denton "Cy" Young - Baseball

one man whose record will NEVER be beaten. The dominant pitcher not just of one decade, but TWO decades. And they named the damm award that all the other pitchers compete to win after HIM.

[DeToxRox]

6.2 - LeBron James (Basketball)

New kid .. But what he's already done for the game is incredible.

[oykib]

Wow... I'm suprised some of these guys (James, Angle, Rose) got picked at all-- let alone in the fifth and sixth rounds.

Rose, at least is an all-time great. But there are a good thirty or forty guys that are on a level beyond him that haven't been picked yet.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by oykib

Rose, at least is an all-time great. But there are a good thirty or forty guys that are on a level beyond him that haven't been picked yet.

I would dispute that strongly. He was a champion, and his statistics (especially hits) don't lie.

[ISiddiqui]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

I would dispute that strongly. He was a champion, and his statistics (especially hits) don't lie.

Neither does his OPS+

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by ISiddiqui

Neither does his OPS+

OPS= Over-rated Poopy Stat.

Seriosly, one stat (OPS) can't be used to judge a person's impact, and think most people would agree that Rose's impact was huge.

[oykib]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

I would dispute that strongly. He was a champion, and his statistics (especially hits) don't lie.

He was, indeed, a champion. But there are, literally, thousands of champions in the history of pro baseball. You only select two baseball players. Looking at Rose's championship team, there were two better players.

As I admitted earlier, Rose was a great player. But you still flubbed that pick.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by oykib

He was, indeed, a champion. But there are, literally, thousands of champions in the history of pro baseball. You only select two baseball players. Looking at Rose's championship team, there were two better players.

As I admitted earlier, Rose was a great player. But you still flubbed that pick.

You're kind of irritating and abrasive.

I hope you play in one of these drafts so I can pick you apart too.

[Grammaticus]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

OPS= Over-rated Poopy Stat.

Seriosly, one stat (OPS) can't be used to judge a person's impact, and think most people would agree that Rose's impact was huge.

Rose is Da Bomb! The common man's hero. Hell yeah he belongs!

[oykib]

Dola--

Although not nearly as bad as the Bo Jackson, Lebron James, or Kurt Angle picks.

It's about on the same level as the Nolan Ryan pick.

[Schmidty]

By the way, oykib: You're only irritating and abrasive when you criticize my picks.

[oykib]

Originally Posted by Schmidty

You're kind of irritating and abrasive.

I hope you play in one of these drafts so I can pick you apart too.

I would have been a part of this draft. But there's a fourteen hour time difference between Japan and EST. So it had filled up by the time I noticed it.

You can retroactively go back and make fun of the Baseball Auction or the Movie Star draft from a few years back if you want to laugh at my picks.

[Schmidty]

Originally Posted by oykib

You can retroactively go back and make fun of the Baseball Auction or the Movie Star draft from a few years back if you want to laugh at my picks.

I'm there, dude.

[Maple Leafs]

I believe Detox is up, with pick 6.2, correct?

By the way, just a reminder that vtbub has my pick for this round.

[TazFTW]

Originally Posted by Maple Leafs

I believe Detox is up, with pick 6.2, correct?

By the way, just a reminder that vtbub has my pick for this round.

Detox selected Lebron in post 336 (it wasn't bolded).

[Maple Leafs]

Ah... OK. So bub is up?