Welcome to the Pirate Islands Fantasy Football 2005 draft.

It has been a long cold spring without hockey to watch, so let's forget about the labor dispute and start paying attention to football. How about a draft to kick things off?

The way that the draft will be conducted is that one person will draft a player a day until it gets closer to the beginning of the start of the NFL season then we will draft multiple players per day. The draft will conclude at the latest one week before the start of the NFL season. The draft will work in linear format so we will draft from teams 1 through 10, and then start again with 1 through 10, until all the positions on the teams are filled. The reason that this is style is implemented as opposed to the snake format that normal fantasy football drafts use is because the draft is a time for the worst teams in the league to build up their team. Since a majority of the starters on each team are retained from last year, each team is not on equal footing to start out the season, this draft is supposedto bring some equality to the teams. Thus the worst teams need to get the higher picks round after round.

At the moment it looks like there will be some changes to the format this season. First is the scoring system. The two main problems from last year are that throwing touchdowns were way overvalued.(Payton Manning carried my team through the season, and while it is true he did help the Colts a lot last year, he didnt help the Colts as much as he helped my team.) The other scoring problem is games ending in negative points. Both of these problems should be fixed this up coming season with some other tweaks to the scoring system as I see needs fit (Im am sure Lance has something to say about the scoring system ^_^).The other major change is that I am going to look into reducing the teams that make it into the payoffs, it may go from 8 to 6 or 4, and it depends on the options that yahoo gives me. Check back for updates on the changes to the league format.

So lets get down to it; the draft order will be (reverse order of how the teams finished from last year):
1. Tsukestan Picklers
2. Snotvia Snotknockers
3. Svinksland Pillagers
4. HarborCoast RedBurns
5. Futontopia Eldars
6. SparrowIsland Maties
7. Tea Republic Steepers
8. Scotslandi Kilters
9. Ambersandia &s
10. Kreplachistan Rebels


I have made a spread sheet of the players that each team has as of the start of the draft. It can be found here.

Anyone may trade players, but just remember by the end of the draft every team must have 19 players. If you do make a trade, be sure to tell me so that I can make changes on the rosters.

I will be using this page for updates throughout the draft and the season, so be sure to check back here for the latest draft picks as well as other random news. If you would like to post your own stuff here let me know and I will add your account so that you can post as well.

On the clock for the first pick is the Tsukestan Picklers.