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had the big draft on saturday. some background:

- it is the 8th year of the league
- it's a keeper league
- 20 team league
- 5 teams dropped out from last year
- 4 new "expansion" teams this year (i'm one of those)
- top 7 finishers from last year won money from the pot (¥85,000; ¥50,000; ¥35,000; ¥25,000; ¥15,000; ¥10,000; ¥5,000
- the top 7 draft order is reversed. ie., 1st place picks 20th, 2nd place picks 19th, 3rd place picks 18th,..., 7th place picks 14th
- the last 4 teams from last year had to pay extra (¥10,000; ¥7,000; ¥5,000; ¥3,000)
- the last place (20th place) team got 20 "ping pong balls", 19th place got 14, 18th got 10, 17th got 7, 16th got 4
- the expansion teams got 3
- 8th-15th place got 2
- each team has 15 players, 10 starters/5 reserves (3 guards, 3 forwards, 2 centers, 2 utility players)
- so...total players drafted = 15 x 20 = 300 players!?!
- draft was offline but had online peeps from 3 other countries
- lineups are set weekly
- scoring categories/pt. breakdown: Points (x1), field goals (attmp=x-1: madex2.4), assists (x2.4), offensive rebounds (+2.1), defensive rebounds (+1.8), block shots (x2), 3-pt. (attp=x-1: made=x3.8), free throws (attp=x-1.2: made=x1.7), steals (x2.2), turnovers (x-1)
- bonus scoring cats: Triple doubles = +50pts. Game misconduct = -50pts* (if system allows). No points deducted for suspensions
- draft picks (except 1st round) can be traded

so, i ended up gettin' the 10th pick. really wanted e.brand but he got picked 3 picks ahead of me. i drafted ak47 with my first pick. after the first round, there's an expansion draft to balance the lineups for people who only kept 1 keeper as well as for the expansion teams cuz they don't have a full lineup. i drafted j.magloire in the first round of the expansion draft. then picked up a.iguodala in the second round of the expansion draft (i REALLY wanted him this year, so i might have taken him too early. but hey, if you look at as the 50something pick, then it's not too early). here's my team:

10. A. Kirilenko F
23. J. Magloire C
28. A. Iguodala GF
43. J. Terry G
63. L. Ridnour G
83. B. Haywood C
103. R. LaFrentz C
123. D. Williams G
143. M. Daniels G
163. M. Ely F
183. D. Fisher G
203. T. Ariza F
223. S. Stoudamire G
243. S. Parker G
263. E. Batista C

the draft took about 6.5hrs!!!

yesterday was my school's chorus festival. was a long day. highlight was when the pta did their gospel song. there was also a guy that played the pipe organ.

*** trivia time *** did ya know that a pipe organ has over 3,000 pipes?

since i was there, i missed an online fantasy bball draft with my buddies from back home. luckily i pre-ranked my players and ended up gettin' the 4th pick. i was the only person out of 10 that wasn't there. i'm pretty satisfied with my team.

round player
1 d.nowitzki
2 b.miller
3 m.bibby
4 d.howard
5 j.johnson
6 a.iguodala
7 j.howard
8 t.prince
9 b.gordon
10 j.crawford
11 m.daniels
12 s.dalembert
13 v.radmanovic

honda sensei was havin' some problems gettin' the video he took yesterday was crashin' on 3 of his pc's. so he asked me if i could try it on my mac. i was easily able to add all the 7th and 8th grade videos. he then tells me that he needs to stop contemplatin' & go out and buy an imac. need to get back to importin' the 9th grade vids and then puttin' all of them onto dvd. til next time...

kaz out...

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