EVENT 7: BILLY, YOU'RE FIRED!

Round 21
241. kenhutchings - Juan Beniquez 1982
242. doug_tucker - Willie Upshaw 1982 (proxy)
243. gfdwarf - Buck Martinez 1985 (proxy)
244. Musial6 - Jason Thompson 1983
245. krazykat - Tom Brookens 1984
246. ehlekev - Doc Medich 1982
247. Risden - Charlie Lea 1980
248. GordieHowe - Mark Clear 1979
249. AllStarInc - Ken Forsch 1982
250. RickSmith - Lenn Sakata 1983
251. LMBombers - Bobby Clark 1979
252. rjnewman-Mike Stanton 1984
253. rjnewman- Jim Anderson 1979

GordieHowe needs to re-pick.

248. GordieHowe - Mark Clear 1979

167. Doug_Tucker - Mark " on a Clear day you can see forever" 1979

I'll wait on GordieHowe

For my replacement pick from the prior round, what happens if I want one of the guys picked after me? I need a ruling.

Then just take them. Your pick comes first.

Taking a player that was previously selected occurred several times in the previous six drafts. Each time the make up selection was from the players currently available, not from someones roster.

Rick

Round 21
241. kenhutchings - Juan Beniquez 1982
242. doug_tucker - Willie Upshaw 1982 (proxy)
243. gfdwarf - Buck Martinez 1985 (proxy)
244. Musial6 - Jason Thompson 1983
245. krazykat - Tom Brookens 1984
246. ehlekev - Doc Medich 1982
247. Risden - Charlie Lea 1980
248. GordieHowe - Lenn Sakata 1983
249. AllStarInc - Ken Forsch 1982
250. RickSmith -
251. LMBombers - Bobby Clark 1979
252. rjnewman-Mike Stanton 1984

Round 22
253. rjnewman- Jim Anderson 1979

Taking a player that was previously selected occurred several times in the previous six drafts. Each time the make up selection was from the players currently available, not from someones roster.

Rick

FWIW, I agree here with Rick.

Over the past few drafts, at least 30 players (probably higher) were selected in the draft even though the player(s) were not available because they were already drafted. I know that Mark Clear was picked by mistake (I've made the same mistake more than a few times myself), but this selection sets up the possibility of lots of re-drafting in the future. I would think that Sakata needs to go back to Rick in this case.

Any other opinions?

A ruling has been requested.

Since I am away I will not have time for full due process, so here is the ruling:

It is not each picking player's responsibility to verify the validity of all prior picks. Our own version of Caveat emptor - let the buyer (picker in this case) beware that their pick must be a valid pick or they risk getting skipped a few picks until they can repick. We will all work in good faith to identify invalid picks as early as possible. This is also consistent with our prior practice.

If we were in round 1-10 I might consider the other approach but given all factors Gordie must now repick from the available player pool. As a courtesy we will pause the draft for at least 8 hours to allow him to not fall any further behind. Or of course we can resume as soon as he picks.

Either that or we have a Kirk-Spock fight to the death like they did on Vulcan when Spock was in his mating mode.

Ipad was giving me problems sorry for multiple posts.