8th Annual Swinging Bunt

[SouthSTLOF]

How much did it cost you?

It may have been pity for our MN friends who haven't set foot outside in months.

 

[Sixes]

1st pick may not be such a great thing....

 

[thejuggster]

1st pick may not be such a great thing....

last person that picked me for a superdraft, went undefeated and won the whole damn thing.

 

[Crash1207]

Does the full draft get posted somewhere? I'd like to be Mr. Irrelevant and go in with low expectations!

No, we don't publish the order of selection. Softball player egos are way too fragile for something like that.

 

[Derek01]

How much did it cost you?

Rumor has it a case of Nordeast and a ZJ.

 

[jshell73]

are you not playing this year??

I've retired

 

[SouthSTLOF]

No, we don't publish the order of selection. Softball player egos are way too fragile for something like that.

You maka good point. Though everyone who isn't on the #1 selector's team will know they weren't first overall.

 

[Mikaka]

You maka good point. Though everyone who isn't on the #1 selector's team will know they weren't first overall.

you don't know your position rank come draft time. hell, you'll probably never know it. just the captains.

 

[SouthSTLOF]

you don't know your position rank come draft time. hell, you'll probably never know it. just the captains.

Right, I got that. I was simply joking that if you are not on the team with the guy who has the #1 overall pick, you can safely assume you weren't the first drafted player. That is all.

 

[belly43]

I've got a 27.5 ounce filby I want to get rid of has maybe 200 swings on it. I want 120 out of it I have a receipt also.

 

[Mikaka]

Right, I got that. I was simply joking that if you are not on the team with the guy who has the #1 overall pick, you can safely assume you weren't the first drafted player. That is all.

clear as mud

 

[thejuggster]

last person that picked me for a superdraft, went undefeated and won the whole damn thing.

oops last person that picked me FIRST won the superdraft....

 

[SouthSTLOF]

oops last person that picked me FIRST won the superdraft....

Ahha, that changes the dynamic a little bit. Strong case for a first round pick there!

 

[Kurs76]

I feel like time is flying by and this tournament is coming up fast!

 

[Sixes]

yeah...now with another 6 inches of snow up here, it cant come soon enough!

 

[Sixes]

Draft sheets are out!!

i like what they have done to try and thwart some of the guys who would code their ratings and they have gone through and monitored what people rated themselves as….

 

[Hawkeye92]

Draft sheets are out!!

i like what they have done to try and thwart some of the guys who would code their ratings and they have gone through and monitored what people rated themselves as….

Is that info posted somewhere or are you a captain?

 

[Sixes]

I am a captain.

I do hafta to say, dusty does a helluva job with this.

He is organized, tries to be as fair as possible and has the best interest in the players of the tourney in mind.

 

[SouthSTLOF]

That is very cool. I wondered how many people honestly rated themselves vs exaggerated ratings.

 

[thejuggster]

Ahha, that changes the dynamic a little bit. Strong case for a first round pick there!

it was actually the very first ever held superdraft (aka Illinois Superdraft). I whined and cried the whole night to CARMEL that we was going to get our butts kicked.

 

[Sixes]

That is very cool. I wondered how many people honestly rated themselves vs exaggerated ratings.

I don't think exaggerated ratings were an issue, but more of stuff like putting themselves all 3s and C, 1B when they are an outfielder on a B team.

 

[SouthSTLOF]

I don't think exaggerated ratings were an issue, but more of stuff like putting themselves all 3s and C, 1B when they are an outfielder on a B team.

Really? Perhaps I'm just naive here, but I don't understand why players would want to do that.

 

[SouthSTLOF]

it was actually the very first ever held superdraft (aka Illinois Superdraft). I whined and cried the whole night to CARMEL that we was going to get our butts kicked.

Apparently your captain knew something about his players and picked a great team!

 

[Sixes]

Really? Perhaps I'm just naive here, but I don't understand why players would want to do that.

I don't either, but I guess it was being done.

 

[thejuggster]

I don't either, but I guess it was being done.

previous bunts a lot of guys admitted to it. One team had like 4 or 5 teammates on the same team. They all put the same thing. Dusty and crew are doing a great job changing things up to make sure people arent cheating.

 

[Sixes]

I am not from there, so I don't know everybody, but my 1st year, there was a team where like 6 guys with the same jerseys on....

 

[SouthSTLOF]

Classy, a fundraiser softball tournamnet for a charity organization and people still try those kinds of things. My first year also, I'm just looking forward to playing with a bunch of strangers and seeing how we do.

 

[Sixes]

You'll have a blast.

 

[SouthSTLOF]

You'll have a blast.

That's the plan! My wife and I are coming up with my friend Tripp and his wife, going to make a weekend out of it.

 

[Crash1207]

That is very cool. I wondered how many people honestly rated themselves vs exaggerated ratings.

I don't think exaggerated ratings were an issue, but more of stuff like putting themselves all 3s and C, 1B when they are an outfielder on a B team.

We have a small group that reviews all the ratings and will fix anything that looks way off. We don't catch them all but we usually make corrections to about 10-12 each year.

Oh, and we also make the "Secondary Positions" all uniform. That field is free form text on the form so guys can put in whatever you want. So we have guys clearly using that to make themselves stand out and that gets changed.