Apr 28
Our commenter draft competition against the newspaper beat writers who drafted for Sports Illustrated came down to the final pick of the first round. Amazingly, both sides had a total of 33 points after 30 picks, and the New York Giants draft pick was going to decide the victor.
Ralph Vacchiano of the NY Daily News correctly nailed the Giants taking Miami safety Kenny Phillips, and SI topped TBL, 38-34. (Trades were not factored in. Too messy.) Be honored, commenters – you made it interesting. Would the following commenters stand at your desk and take a bow for nailing picks accurately: Mike NYC, YYSA, Bottomless Chips, and Blazers. A job well done.
Hope you feel like talking about the draft, because we’ll have plenty of draft-related posts today.
Apr 25
Was it as fun for you as it was for us? Our commenter draft went off surprisingly clean yesterday – except that three people didn’t show up on time, and we had to pick for them. The SI draft you guys are competing against? Judge for yourself. Much of the Top 10s differ, so a winner could be determined early. We’ll have the final tally Monday morning and either celebrate or mock one another. After the jump, just a look at few of the strangest disparities (and there are many). Read the rest of this entry »
Apr 24
As predicted, this has been a debacle. Still, we think we’ve got a shot at taking down the challenge from the fellows at Sports Illustrated. They’re doing their draft right now as well. We hope to wrap this up in the next hour or so, posting picks every few minutes, so keep hitting refresh. Also, we’re totally farming this out to an ambitious intern or two next year. (We’ll start emailing all the intern applicants next week. Thanks for the patience.) Here goes nothing. (Gulp) Read the rest of this entry »
Apr 23
Commenters, you’re on notice: A challenge has been extended. Tomorrow, we’re going to have – or rather, attempt to have – the NFL Commenter Draft. Turns out SI.com is doing something similar – but we won’t spoil their mock draft idea. SI’s results should be posted sometime tomorrow. Just know that their drafters follow football much closer than you probably do. (Mock draft hater Frank DeFord is not participating, that much we can say. But he may have called you a lemming!)
Here’s the challenge: Based on this point system (one point for picking offense/defense right, two points for picking the correct position, or five points for getting the player right), we’ll see who can accumulate more points – you clowns, or the folks SI has drafting. Nothing’s on the line – except pride and bragging rights for at least 340ish days. After the jump is our draft order, and the plan is to get an email list going TODAY, just so things run smoothly tomorrow. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr 15
Apologies if you didn’t get the team you requested, but some folks are just quicker to the email draw than others. The next step: hit the war room. Instead of staggering this over the course of several days, we’re going to gangbang the draft NEXT THURSDAY, the 24th (two days before the actual draft). Starting at noon, the commenter selecting for the Dolphins will email us their pick, and we’ll post it. You will trash said commenter for their selection. Five minutes later, we will post the 2nd pick, and then the third, wash, rinse, repeat, etc.
Of course, this means that you will need to be at a computer next Thursday, and if not, then you need a contingency: email us Wednesday and let us know your top five player options (with one sentence for each). Your assignments after the jump. Read the rest of this entry »
Apr 14
It will probably fail horribly, but it’s worth a shot: We’re going to have you, the commenter, conduct the first round of the NFL draft. Here’s how it’ll work (in a perfect world) – after reading this post, you will email us (thebiglead@gmail.com) what team you want to draft for. Your email might look like this:
Subject: NFL draft
Body: I want to pick for Tampa Bay. My commenter name is IpeeFreely. Read the rest of this entry »
