2010 NFL Mock Draft Contest

[Austin]

Its finally that time of the year again for the NFL to kick off its season un-officially with the 75th NFL Draft from New York Center! Just before the 2010 NFL Draft kicks off I would like to run a Mock Draft contest that will be different than our previous contests and will put you in control of multiple teams and allow you to play as a teams "General Manager".

Since we got this started a bit late you wont have as long to plan out your "draft strategy" but next year we will start on April 1st no matter what.

The rules are pretty simple:


Be present at the draft times
Have your pick posted in the selected draft times
If your unable to post PM me your pick for each pick and a secondary or even a third for each pick in case your 1st or 2nd pick has been taken already
Try to keep the picks realistic to team needs but we do want you to have fun
Trading up or down is allowed. You can trade players and picks out side of the first round
Post your answer to the tiebreaker to determine the winner in case of a tie
You can't change your selection. We are going by your first selection at each pick
You can trade teams but these trades must be finalized by me (most likely all of these will be approved)
Sign up before April 14th (Next Wednesday)


I am shooting for a draft date of the 19th through the 21st. During each draft day there will be a "Draft Tracker" thread for the GM's to post there picks. Once picks are made I will put it in the first post of the thread. We will be providing links from walterfootball.com to give you all the tools you need to make your decisions.

Scouting Pages

<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2010.php">Walter's 2010 Mock Draft</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2010matt.php">Matt's 2010 Mock Draft</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2010reader.php">Reader 2010 NFL Mock Draft</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/proday2010.php">2010 Pro Day Results</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2010experts.php">2010 Experts Mock Draft</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2010consensus.php">2010 Consensus Mock Draft</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/freeagents.php">2010 Free Agency Signings</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/freeagents2010recap.php">2010 NFL Free Agency Recap</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/offseason.php">Off-season Needs</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/combine.php">Combine Results</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/draft2008P.php">Draft Prospects</a>
<a href="http://walterfootball.com/mattdraft2010bigboard.php">Matt's 2010 NFL Draft Big Board</a>

Those should give you a great source of opinions and information on what teams need.

Now onto the other details. Each person will be in charge of multiple teams as I said before. I am going to try to give people teams that don;t pick right after or before each other so that it is more fair. The number of teams each person gets will depend on how many people sign up. I dont anticipate 32 people signing up so until that happens everyone will have at least 3+ teams to manage. Some teams have 2 first round picks so that does mean you have to plan picks for both of them also as well as your other team. For example of what im talking about: If 4 people sign up each person will get 8 teams so that its balanced.

Scoring & How We Determine the Winner

For the first 10 picks they will be worth 10 points because they are easier to pick. Picks 11-20 will count as 20 points. Picks 21-32 will count as 30. At the end of the NFL Draft's First Round on April 22nd I will add up all the points for each player from their correct picks. The overall score will determine the winner, and if there is a tie the tie breaker will be worth 10 points. Who ever is closest to the tie will be awarded the 10 points.

Other Details

As we get picks in from each player for their team we will announce the pick live through the site using our announcement system. We will also use that announcement to alert other players to post their next pick. During the official Draft we will announce the actual picks the same way as sort of a live blogging event.

And one final addition:

2010 NFL Draft Order
Pick No. 1: St. Louis Rams
Pick No. 2: Detroit Lions
Pick No. 3. Tampa Bay Buccaneers
Pick No. 4: Washington Redskins
Pick No. 5: Kansas City Chiefs
Pick No. 6: Seattle Seahawks
Pick No. 7: Cleveland Browns
Pick No. 8: Oakland Raiders
Pick No. 9: Buffalo Bills
Pick No. 10: Jacksonville Jaguars
Pick No. 11: Denver Broncos
Pick No. 12: Miami Dolphins
Pick No. 13: San Francisco 49ers
Pick No. 14: Seattle Seahawks
Pick No. 15: New York Giants
Pick No. 16: Tennessee Titans
Pick No. 17: San Francisco 49ers
Pick No. 18: Pittsburgh Steelers
Pick No. 19: Atlanta Falcons
Pick No. 20: Houston Texans
Pick No. 21: Cincinnati Bengals
Pick No. 22: New England Patriots
Pick No. 23: Green Bay Packers
Pick No. 24: Philadelphia Eagles
Pick No. 25: Baltimore Ravens
Pick No. 26: Arizona Cardinals
Pick No. 27: Dallas Cowboys
Pick No. 28: San Diego Chargers
Pick No. 29: New York Jets
Pick No. 30: Minnesota Vikings
Pick No. 31: Indianapolis Colts
Pick No. 32: New Orleans Saints


San Francisco 49ers and Seattle Seahawks pick twice
Carolina Panthers and Chicago Bears do not have a first round pick


GM's & Teams


Austin - 225 Minutes
Vic - 240 Minutes
Palmer - 230 Minutes


Austin's Teams


Arizona Cardinals - Pick #26
Houston Texans - Pick #20
Indianapolis Colts - Pick #31
New England Patriots - Pick #22
New York Giants - Pick #15
Oakland Raiders - Pick #8
Pittsburgh Steelers - Pick #18
San Diego Chargers - Pick #28
Seattle Seahawks - Pick #6, 14
Tampa Bay Buccaneers - Pick #3


Vic's Teams


Baltimore Ravens - Pick #25
Buffalo Bills - Pick #9
Dallas Cowboys - Pick #27
Denver Broncos - Pick #11
Detroit Lions - Pick #2
Green Bay Packers - Pick #23
Kansas City Chiefs - Pick #5
New Orleans Saints - Pick #32
New York Jets - Pick #29
San Francisco 49ers - Pick #13, 17


Palmer's Teams


Atlanta Falcons - Pick #19
Cincinnati Bengals - Pick #21
Cleveland Browns - Pick #7
Jacksonville Jaguars - Pick #10
Miami Dolphins - Pick #12
Minnesota Vikings - Pick #30
Philadelphia Eagles - Pick #24
St. Louis Rams - Pick #1
Tennessee Titans - Pick #16
Washington Redskins - Pick #4





To sign up post your name and answer the following tie breaker question: How long will the first round of the draft take in minutes?

[Vic]

Vic.... 240 minutes

[cory]

Lets make an NBA one to.

[palmer]

Just pointing out, the NFL draft is at Radio City Music Hall....

[Austin]

I know that palmer lol. Radio City Music Hall is in NYC. I toured it in 2006. Are you in or not palmer?

[palmer]

Sure, but it's so long and I'm probably gonna get confused. LOL Um.....I'd say the question is 230 minutes.

[Austin]

I might Cory but this is more like a experimental contest to see how this would work.

Alright. Really you just need to go to the off-season needs page, go to your teams pages and see what they need. Then look at the mock drafts and other pages to determine who would be the best player to go at the pick your team has. But since you cant guarantee that pick will be available in our draft its best to make a back up pick in case your 1st pick is taken.

I'm also thinking of using the teams each person gets during the regular season. Maybe something like a really modified fantasy football or something as simple as how many wins/losses a team has. My idea was to ask each player which team they would like to use during the regular season and see how many wins they get or how far they go etc. But thats just a concept right now. I would like to do a pick contest. Which is pretty simple, just post your picks for each game and get 1 point for each game you pick right. Which would flow into the playoffs to something like we had last season but point values go up in the playoffs or divisional games?

[Austin]

So far we have 3 people. Registration will be open until tomorrow afternoon. Also to the ones registered, do you have any teams you would like to control? I'll take one from each. I know Vic will probably want the 49ers lol.

[Vic]

yep... 49ers :)

[Austin]

All registrations are now closed. Each player has 10 teams since 30 out of 32 NFL teams have first team pick. I'll have teams issued tonight.

[Austin]

Teams have been added. I picked teams based on the NFL draft order. Each team was given a number (palmer was 1, Vic 2, and I had 3) and started at pick 1 for palmer and then counted 3 picks down and that was the next team, Vic at #2 and then #5 etc. At certain times I didn't take the team at the pick you was supposed to have because they were your teams division rival, which actually happened twice in a row for me (Dolphins and Bills) so I swapped teams with another player and finished. I also swapped teams to avoid giving a player two picks in a row.