After one of the most successful postseason parties since the late 90′s when porn got ordered, we’ve begun preparations for the 2008 PFFL season.
In the first order of official business, 2008 Division Assignments were drawn randomly. You can view the results on the Waymorefunner PFFL site.
A few notes:
- The last two Super Bowl champs (The Jedi Masters and Winning Beer Money) are in the Central
- Two 2007 division champs (SIAP and Kramerica) are paired up in the East
- Post Mortem is in the West for the fifth straight year.
- Kramerica is in the East for the third straight year
- Hedfullalicker (West), DDT (East), and WBM (Central) are staying in the same division they were in in ’07
- Post Mortem is the only ’07 playoff team in the West, while 4 of the 5 Eastern teams and 3 of 4 in the Central qualified for the postseason.
Next up, was the random drawing for the draft spot selection order. Before we get to those results, let me remind you of the changes that are in place for the 2008 draft. As announced in mid-August:
Some background: Our current draft order process re-randomizes every odd round. The goal of this activity was to increase the ‘fairness’ of the draft order for all teams in our unique 14 team league, via randomization (aka, every team has a shot at the 1st pick in the 3rd round). In addition, we started the “Pick your own first round spot” thing a few years ago as a way to increase the ‘fun factor’ in the offseason leading up to the draft itself. We could probably hold an endless debate about whether the randomization was truly “fair” or whether the pick your first round spot thing has been “fun”. I’m not going there now though, preferring instead to present our new and improved 2008 Draft process.
In 2008, we will draw names from a hat ONE time. This order will determine the order in which teams select their First Round Draft spot. The selection of a first round draft position will also determine your draft spot for the rest of the draft as follows:
The team who selects the #1 spot in round one will have the following picks:
1.01
2.14
3.14
4.14
5.01
6.14
7.01
etcThe team who selects the #14 spot in round one will have the following picks:
1.14
2.01
3.01
4.01
5.14
6.01
7.14
etcIn other words, the draft order will be set up with a traditional “serpentine” approach (each round is the reverse of the previous round), THEN the THIRD round (and third round only) will be flipped, so that rounds 2, 3 and 4 share the same draft order.
This is called “Third Round Reversal” or “Banzai” drafting. There is a bunch of statistical analysis that has gone into proving that this is the most equitable draft order, so our hope is that this order accomplishes the ‘parity’ goal that we had previously strived for with the re-randomization. AND, it should make the selection of your first round draft position a LOT more interesting, since the top spots will drop you near the bottom of the next three rounds.
The Draft Spot Selection order can be found on the same page that you make your spot selection. That page will be updateed soon to update the entire draft order once your selection is made. Of course, none of you will pick a spot until July anyway, but that’s beside the point.
Happy with your spot? Angered about it? Confused about which spot to select? Feel free to comment here or bitch to your mom. Your choice.
Carrie Underwood (a hot topic of discussion at the postseason party since she was on the SNL repeat airing after the playoff games finished and before JW and JH found the gay show) wishes all of you a happy FFL offseason.
