I don't watch sports, but I hear a lot about the draft. So do the players not get to choose which team they want to be on? It seems to me that the teams choose the players and the players get no say in what team they get to play for. Is that the case? Because I thought some players had contracts and that with teams...
205148
I believe it is like the WWE Raw/SmackDown Draft they have once a year.  But I believe the NFL draft really is random unlike WWE.
623084
I know a little bit about this. Hopefully more than you know now.\n\n1) You can. Anyone can enter the draft. A guy I went to college with applied for the NBA draft even though he was lousy and had no chance whatsoever of getting picked. He just thought it would be cool.\n\n2) I know it involved filing official papers with the league.\n\n3) As long as you don't hire an agent, you can maintain any college eligibility you might have left. If you hire an agent, that is the end of that.
48130
I'm not really into sports, myself. For some, it's probably just a competetive spirit. Pick a team, root for them. It gives one something to get excited about. In many cases, I also feel that some people (particularly those who get the craziest over sports) are pretty pathetic, and that the concept of ever being extremely proud of something they've done themselves is a lost cause. So they create a substitute, in a sports team, and attach their pride to it. It's ridiculous, but hey, they need something to be excited about, and it sure as hell isn't going to be anything in their lives.
315255
It doesn't neccasarilly make him a player. It will more than likely make him unattached. My advice: DON"T DO IT!
77241
Basically, it means that whomever has the higher waiver priority will get the player claimed off waivers (the period of time one must wait for the player to be added to your team) than one who has a lower waiver priority.  If you have waiver priority two, for example, and another team has a waiver priority five, and you both want to add the same player to your team, then you'd get the player and not the other team.\n\nYour league ranking should be right on the front page of the league itself.  But if you want to see how your league compares to other leagues, I'm not exactly sure how one would do that, because you really can't compare different leagues, anyway, especially if the league you're in is a private league.
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If you are drafted by a pro baseball organization you are "theirs" for two years, regardless of whether you sign a contract or not.  If you don't sign a contract within those two years with that team, you are thrown back into the draft pool and can be picked in the draft again, hopefully by a different team.\n\nLetters of intent are primarily used in the college context.  If you could provide a bit about where you saw the reference, that would be helpful; often, high school players sign LOIs to play for colleges, but those are released when the high schooler gets drafted by a pro team and decides he'd rather start his pro career right away.
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Will Blalock is not a good pick even if it is the last pick in the draft. I felt there were more talented players left on the board. I think they needed a post player anyway because Wallace might leave and they need some young blood there. Louis Admundson and Terrance Dials would have been better uses of that pick.
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OK the one basically had it correct. You put a guy on waivers and that is just before free agency. You say Hey anyone want this dude at this contract. Every team in the league has the chance to then pick them up at that contract. If they all say nah then the player goes back to the team. If someone picks him up then they have to pay the player at the contract of the team that put him on waivers. You don't have to give them anything else. It is a little like a free agency. If the player clears waivers then the team has to figure out what to do with them but have to pay the contract. They are saying they will try to buy it out.
158111
I'm pretty sure you can't do this once the season starts. As commish, you can control the dead team, but nobody else can. You don't have many options short of killing the league and starting a new one. At least you won't have to re-draft.
455999
You just decide what fantasy sport you want to play.  Yahoo fantasy sports is a good site and I like the way their leagues are set up (I've played in others and they were not as user friendly).  You can sign up to play in a public league and you'll be randomly assigned to a league.  Your team will be picked by autodraft then but you can still trade players and pick up other players.  Then it's just a matter of keeping your line up set to play.  Basketball and baseball take more work because they have so many games but you can set your line up for several days in advance. \n\nIt's really fun if you have enough friends and coworkers to have a private league where everyone in the league knows everyone.  You can do a lot of smack talk and make crazy trades and it's really fun.  It's really fun too if you can do a live draft (where everyone is either on line at one time choosing or you actually go to a sports bar and pick in person).  Just a warning for a live draft---that is alot of work for the commissioner because then they have to go in and assign all the players to each person's team.  Autodraft is easier but not as much fun.\n\nJust go to the yahoo fantasy website and you can get started.  It's fun and I hope you get a good team the first time out!\n\nOops---I thought of one more thing.  In some leagues you have a maximum number of times you can play a position, or maximum number of innings pitched, etc. so you might want to check on that too.  It's bad at the end of the season when you are all out of players because you didn't know about that and sometimes started people just to be starting them.
106208
Once the league is made and the draft is completed you can't delete or restart that league. If you really want that league then you can do an offline draft and then drop the players and pick up the guys that you drafted and make trades with the players that can't be dropped but that would be hard so i would suggest making a new league
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No they don't give you the option, but i have done keepers on Yahoo in the past....what you need to do is have everyone submit the players they want to keep then start a new league the next year, all you need is someone to keep records and to have everyone be resposible and draft the players they opted to keep. It takes a little work, but is well worth it in the end!
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A few questions - unless I'm missing somethiing here.\n\n1.  Each team has to play 19 games in order for all to play each other?   That means 190 games in that time frame?\n\n2. Not familiar with the term 'pitches'.  Is this another word for 'playing fields' ?  \n\n3. If it's youth football - is there a time limit to the game?\n\n4. Do you have to schedule a playoff at the end?\n\n---------\nOK -  You obviously sustained a moment of insanity when you volunteered for this.  \nYou have your hands full on this one. \nI'm still trying to digest it all. \nWill let you know if I come up with something.\nGood luck Mom!
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Basically you make a team and select the Live Online Draft option when your creating a team. Then you are placed in a league with a live draft and on the draft date you log on and make your picks. The following will help you get you there:\n\nGet a Team->Join Existing Custom or Public League->Join a Public League->select the "Live Online Draft" draft option.
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They might trade the pick because they have many needs to improve the team, all of which contributed to their 2-14 season. they might trade it for offensive line players, or maybe some defensive players, they are deperately in need of good players in many positions, though, that's for sure.
48009
Well, usually there is a selection process of people who want to buy the team. Other owners around the league also have to approve of the team being sold. Then the league has to approve and if you're the person the current owner chooses to sell the team to, then you get to buy it.
532443
Exactly right.... sometimes, as part of the conditions of a trade, the player's former team will agree to pay a portion of his salary, while his new team pays him the rest.\n\nIt has nothing to do with the player, in the sense that he has no say about who pays him... it's just whatever the clubs agree to when the trade is made.\n\nIf a team makes some bad deals, they can sometimes end up paying millions of dollars a year to players who are not even in the league anymore, because of careers ended prematurely by injury or other factors.