Spoiler - Jack English Draft Guide

[cloudedskate]

Quote: Originally Posted by ebongreen

For those who have enjoyed my other draft guides, I'm working on one for this draft and plan to post it within a week. New franchise, same drafts.

Are you going to post like you did with the Packers franchise? I enjoyed that a lot.

[Mike3207]

Until EG comes out with his version, there's a pretty good breakdown of the 2009 English draft here:

http://www.operationsports.com/forum...raft-path.html

It doesn't have Balanced potentials, but it does include player comparisons, school, and learning ratings for all players. Look for the zip file in about the 3rd post. I don't even want to think about how much time it took to do that. It looks the person attempted to do a complete draft guide for the English 2009 draft, but never finished it.

[ebongreen]

I'm actually using that one as a springboard for my own, so credits to CFraychineaud for his groundbreaking work. I couldn't find the source to credit when I looked originally - probably because I was looking with the wrong keywords in the wrong thread.

I pretty much finished the additional data collection last night, so my condensed/revised/altered version of his should be up in a day or two.

[Skarecrow]

wouldn't Flash Gordon be the 2010 draft? I just did the Flash Gordon draft, and I'm pretty sure I'm in 2010.

I'm hoping you get to the 2011 draft before I get there, but I doubt it.

[cloudedskate]

The OP is the English draft in 2009. Gordon is the 2010 draft.

[ebongreen]

Quote: Originally Posted by Skarecrow

I'm hoping you get to the 2011 draft before I get there, but I doubt it.

Been there, done that. :

[Skarecrow]

Quote: Originally Posted by ebongreen

Been there, done that. :

oh sweet!

Edit: Now if only I can convince you to sim the draft a few times to see where the star players tend to get drafted?

Ok, ok, maybe that's asking a bit much.

[ebongreen]

As promised, this is my shot at an overview of the English path 2009 draft. All potentials listed are for Balanced philosophy. Not every player is listed, but I'm confident that 90+% of the players you would want to draft are included. That generally means a lower-end cutoff of 80 POT.

I will note that in this draft there are a handful of DTs with the comparison "Marcus Tubbs" whose potential hovers around 80 - but with Patrick Lopez sitting there in the third or fourth round, why are you screwing with those guys?

If you feel like editing & expanding on the inclusions, please be my guest & repost, giving credit where credit is due. Speaking of which, I tip my hat to CFraychineaud: I used much of his work to create this one.

Note the column of Knucklehead: this denotes players whose personalities, when known, may make it difficult to reach agreements on contracts or may prove otherwise disruptive to team chemistry.