DDT is the first team up to select a draft spot. They have until 11:59 pm (CT) on Wednesday, July 6th, to make their choice. Some procedural details on the 1st round selection timer:

• The clock starts at 11:59 pm on Monday, July 4th
• Teams are free to make their selections before the timer is activated though. Any choices made before 11:59 pm on Monday, July 4th, will put the next team in line on the clock with the same Wednesday deadline.
• After Monday, every pick made will put the next team on the clock. They will have at least 48 hours to make their choice. So, if DDT makes their pick at 1 pm on Tuesday, July 5th, Winning Beer Money will have until 11:59 pm on Thursday, June 7th, to make their choice.
• If you are going on vacation, or will have limited internet access for any reason, over the next few weeks, let me know and we’ll work something out. (in other words, the commissioner reserves the right to pause the clock or make a selection for a team if an exception arises)

LINKS

Make your first round draft spot selections here: http://www.waymorefunner.com/pffl/leagueinfo/firstroundselect.php?season=2011

The 2011 myFantasyLeague site is up and running: http://www.myfantasyleague.com/2011/home/27911 (you might want to bookmark that)

Note: The divisions are setup, but the league schedule is not finalized yet — I’m going to wait to make sure we have a full 17 week NFL slate before I set that up.

Pic: Katrina Bowden

To kick things off, random draws were held at the postseason bash to determine 2011 division assignments and the order for 1st round draft spot selection.

Division Assignments — The Central division has complete turnover from 2010, while CSPJ  and Tappa Kegga Day are staying put in an effort to defend their respective division titles.

Draft Spot Selection Order — After two straight years of intense fan pressure due to choosing their draft spot first, Camel Toe can rest easy. They are #14 this year and will not have to make any decisions until draft day. DDT is on the clock and can choose their draft spot anytime. Of course, we won’t be putting a timer on this until after July 4th weekend, so feel free to mull this over for 6 months.

By the way, if you guys were impressed with the girls Steck found for the draft, you should’ve seen who he invited to the postseason party. (That picture up there was the only SFW one we were able to get before things got really crazy)

Thanks to Andy and Rob from HURL for their help in the draw.

Congratulations to Camel Toe, who gets to choose any of the 14 first round draft spots. Hedfullalicker, on the other hand, will get whatever is left. View the complete first round spot selection order here.

You can also view all of the division assignments.

Candice Swanepoel is pleased with the 2010 division assignments. View more of her Valentine’s photo shoot here.

Some reminders:

• Make your selections here
• The timer for Camel Toe starts now — they have until 11:59 pm on Wednesday, 7/8/2009 to make their selection of their 1st round pick
• Following Camel Toe’s selection, and after each subsequent pick, the next team in line will have until 11:59 pm on the date two days later. In other words, if Camel Toe makes their pick on the 6th, Kramerica has until the 8th. If Camel Toe makes their pick on the 7th, Kramerica’s deadline is the 9th, etc.
• If the timer runs out on your team, you will be placed at the end of the draft spot selection order.
• IMPORTANT: Your 1st round spot selection determines your entire draft order, in the “3rd Round Reversal” method that we used last year. In other words, if you pick 1st in round 1, you pick last in rounds 2, 3, and 4, then first again in round 5 with a traditional snake order after that. If you pick 4th in round 1, you will be 11th in rounds 2, 3 and 4, then 4th again in round 5, then in snake order. (Basically, the order is a snake order, but then round 3 is flipped around, so the order for rounds 2, 3 and 4 is exactly the same, and is the opposite of round 1)

DRAFT DATE

The 2009 PFFL Draft will be held on the traditional “Friday of the weekend before Labor Day weekend” date. This year, that puts the draft date as late as it could possibly be – Friday, August 28th. I expect that we will again start the draft around 3 pm, so plan your work time off accordingly.

Draft Order Selection Babe

That’s Cheryl Tweedy (or Cheryl Cole — I don’t know what the story is behind the two names) at a birthday party (maybe even hers) in a fairly awesome dress.

1. Camel Toe
2. Kramerica Industries
3. Double D
4. Hedfullalicker
5. Turd Ferguson
6. Post Mortem
7. Winning Beer Money
8. SIAP
9. DDT
10. Tappa Kegga Day
11. Sharp as a Bowling Ball
12. The Jedi Masters
13. The Hip
14. Chain Smoking Patch Junkies

This is the second year in a row that Camel Toe has come away with the first option at picking a draft spot. Last year, they decided to go with the #1 pick, and selected Ladainian Tomlinson, only to end the season with the worst record in the league. Wonder what their strategy will be in 2009…

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
etc

The 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
etc

In 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.