Brian Rosenbaum

Playoff Pool Draft

Rotoworld's Playoff Pool Draft

Monday, April 09, 2007

This past weekend, we at Rotoworld conducted our playoff pool draft. The ground rules were simple: ten teams, ten players, any position, in a straight points format. Almost every participant employed the same strategy, namely, hitching his wagon to no more than one or two teams in each conference and picking the best players available on each of those teams when his draft turn came up. Not surprisingly, not a single Islander player was chosen, as the Rotoworld clan seemed quite sure the Sabres would not fall to them in the first round. Let's take a look at the Rotoworld draft, round by round.

Team 1	Team 2	Team 3	Team 4	Team 5
Briere	Datsyuk	Vanek	Zetterberg	Heatley
D. Sedin	Lidstrom	Drury	Alfredsson	Spezza
H. Sedin	Bertuzzi	Pominville	Redden	Marleau
Connolly	Jagr	Naslund	Schneider	Fisher
Campbell	Shanahan	Iginla	Lang	Michalek
Zubrus	Straka	Tanguay	Holmstrom	Comrie
Salo	Richards	Hecht	Schaefer	Carle
Morrison	Prospal	Huselius	Corvo	Ehrhoff
Pyatt	Prucha	Numminen	Calder	Eaves
Bieksa	Kuba	Phaneuf	Priessing	Rivet
Team 6	Team 7	Team 8	Team 9	Team 10
Forsberg	Selanne	Elias	Afinogenov	Hossa
Kariya	McDondald	Gomez	Thornton	Kovlachuk
Crosby	Sl. Kozlov	Gionta	Cheechoo	Tkachuk
Gonchar	Niedermayer	Rafalski	Roy	Gaborik
Malkin	Pronger	Modano	Guerin	Demitra
Timonnen	Nylander	Zubov	Langkow	Lecavalier
Arnott	Getzlaf	Morrow	Kotalik	St.Louis
Whitney	Avery	Ribeiro	Recchi	Boyle
Roberts	Kunitz	Boucher	Bernier	Rolston
Legwand	Penner	Nagy	Spacek	Zhitnik

As you can see, Team One believes the Sabres and Canucks are destined to meet for the Stanley Cup. Team Two, on the other hand, has determined that the Red Wings and Rangers are the two squads to beat. If I were a betting man, I would place a buck or two on Team Four. We will follow this pool over the next seven weeks with interest.