In this issue: Keepers! Draft details! Minor rule changes! Ed judges you!

Keepers

Here are everyone's keepers, with the draft pick cost in parentheses:

Pulley: Justin Forsett (9th), Jamaal Charles (11th)

Dave: Matt Forte (7th), Philip Rivers (8th)

Mike: Matt Schaub (7th), Miles Austin (9th)

Mark Babel: Adrian Peterson (1st), Percy Harvin (10th)

Pat: Ray Rice (6th), LeSean McCoy (9th)

Allen: Jonathan Stewart (4th), DeAngelo Williams (7th)

Ed: Chris Johnson (7th), Shonn Greene (9th)

Kevin: Dallas Clark (4th), Tom Brady (7th)

Rob: Andre Johnson (1st), Beanie Wells (7th)

Derrek: Rashard Mendenhall (9th), Sidney Rice (11th)

Rabbit: MJD (1st), Vincent Jackson (11th)

Matt: Aaron Rodgers (8th), Steve Smith (NYG) (11th)

Draft Update

The draft is scheduled for 1:00 p.m. on Saturday, August 28. It will be at my apartment, 3514 N Leavitt, Chicago. Babel has awesomely invited us over to his rooftop for drinks afterwards. Blangums!

For you out-of-towners, make sure you let me know how you'll be drafting.

We will be drafting in the following order. The numbers in parentheses are the draft picks surrendered by each person.

1. Adam Pulley (9, 11)

2. Mark Babel (1, 10)

3. Pat Gawne (6, 9)

4. Allen Clark (4, 7)

5. Mike Romor (7, 9)

6. Dave Fultz (7, 8)

7. Ed Gross (7, 9)

8. Kevin Pattermann (4, 7)

9. Rob Gross (1, 7)

10. Derrek Drenckpohl (9, 11)

11. Nick Warren (1, 11)

12. Matt Harrison (8, 11)

As always, even-numbered rounds will have a reverse order.

Minor rule changes

Yahoo! now lets you do waivers instead of open free agency in their free leagues (which, we, of course, are in). I've now set it up so that all players, not just dropped ones, will be on waivers from Sunday through Tuesday each week. Starting Wednesdays, this will be open again. If anyone objects, please let me know.

Additionally, waiver priority will go by reverse record as opposed to previous waiver order like it has been in the past. Again, objectors please speak your mind.

We'll have two Rivalry Weeks this year - weeks one and thirteen. I'll get the schedule all set as soon as Allen joins the league. In addition to playing your rival twice, I'm also going to work out the schedule so that your other duplicated game will come against someone who finished adjacent to you in the standings (or close to it, given existing rivalries). Rivalry games are: Pulley-Rob (Clash of Hatred), Babel-Ed (Timberwolves Stocking Cap), Dave-Kevin (FIFA XBOX game), Allen-D (Optimus Prime vs Megatron), Mike-Matt, and Rabbit-Pat.

More About Keepers

Positional breakdown:

QB - 4

RB - 13

WR - 6

TE - 1

Draft round breakdown:

1st - 3

4th - 2

6th - 1

7th - 6

8th - 2

9th - 5

10th - 1

11th - 4

Big winners: Derrek follows up his third-place finish by setting himself up nicely for 2010, keeping a borderline-first-round RB for a ninth-round pick and a second-round WR for an eleventh. Pat and Ed are in pretty much the same position as each other, each keeping a top-four RB1 and strong RB2 without spending more than a sixth-round pick.

In good shape: Rabbit and Babel retain their stud RBs and grab good value with late-round WRs. Matt winds up keeping a top QB for a mid-round pick and a solid, if unspectacular, WR for dirt cheap. Mike holds onto a top-tier WR for cheap, and gets decent value with Schaub for a seventh.

Making the best of a bad situation: Pulley salvages a bit of value from his crapfest of a team last year, getting incredible value with Charles for an eleventh-rounder. Allen simply believes in the Panthers' ground game. Dave didn't change a thing from last year, keeping two pretty obvious values.

Mixed results: Kevin, while benefitting from his two-year-old acquisition of Tom Brady prior to the "Tom Brady Rule" coming into play, reaches for a TE in what is a very deep TE year and heads into the draft without any RBs or WRs on his roster. Rob's mancrush on Andre Johnson is fine, but Beanie Wells inspires no one.

Weekly Awards

Team Blangums: A new spin on the awards this week, I'll give Team Blangums to Mike, who not only responded to the keeper email in a matter of hours, but also gracefully dealt with yours truly assigning him the wrong keeper at first. Pulley could have shared this award, due to his even-quicker response, but loses credit for waffling on the league message board.

Slapped Heartbeat: Allen, for being the only person not registered for the Yahoo! league. For shame, Dr. Optimus.

Start of the Week: I'm going to give this to Pulley, for keeping Jamaal Charles for an eleventh-round pick.

Misplay of the Week: No one had any egregious keeper mistakes, and the two worst keeper values, Clark for a fourth and Wells for a seventh, were really the best second options for Kev and Rob, respectively. If you want to interpret that statement as them sharing this award, be my guest.

Closing Thoughts

Congratulations go to Adam and his wife, Megan, as they welcome Nathan Michael Pulley into the world! Chris Broussard has tweeted that Nathan Michael Pulley is already being looked at by some D-II schools.

I'll also re-iterate my minor desire to travel to Toronto to see the Bears play the Bills on November 7. Anyone interested?

See you all at the draft,

-E$

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