The best offer for me to move down is to #12 and get another 2nd rounder this year with Tampa. I may do that and then move back up to get the WR. So torn!
Draft trade commentary - the game restricts the trades a bit which I don't mind. When you try to trade up in the draft you can only trade for that exact pick. You can't ask for another lower pick in exchange to try and balance out the trade which is a bit annoying but I didn't mind. When you trade down you will normally have quite a few offers. I would see 6 or 7 offers I think but those are the ONLY offers you can accept. There is no negotiation with any of those teams or any other team that made no offer. When you do make an offer it is a one shot deal. They do have colour coding to determine how much interest the other team has but you have no real way of knowing so make a fair offer. If they turn it down you lose the shot at drafting in that spot when moving up. The draft moves on one spot.
Back to my draft. I'm not exactly shrewd in the wheeling and dealing department. I panic. With those three prospects that rated B I did what I needed to do to make sure I got them. The WR was ranked #18. I traded down from #5 with Tampa and got the #12 pick and the #12 pick in round two. Then I tried moving up with most teams but nobody wanted to take my #12 and the last pick in the 3rd round to swap spots (#8 to #9 both declined). So I finally just traded my #12 plus 3rd and 5th to Cleveland at #10 to swap spots. I just would have been so disappointed to miss out on that WR and there were a few guys in the Top 10 that were sliding and I knew they would since they were overrated. So I got my WR. Turns out he's only got 84 speed (I did know he was a B speed) but he's huge and will be Plaxico. You don't get their true ratings until after the draft.
So now I want the MLB with the B grade ranked 32 overall. The 27th rated kid went in the Top 15 so I did not want to chance this. The scouted busts at the top do slide so I panicked again. I moved up from #32 all the way to #15 by throwing in the last pick in round 2. I then grabbed my MLB.
So now I still have the #12 pick in round two but only picks in rounds 4, 6 and 7 left. My SS (30th overall in 3rd round) is no doubt going to be there but as you get later in the draft you can see a two round discrepancy at times (4th rounders in the 6th). Once it came to pick at #12 in round two I knew I could probably trade down at least 10 spots and still get him. The problem was I didn't have any good trade down options. Most were teams offering future picks or a lower 2nd rounder and only an extra 7th rounder. I didn't want that. I was hoping to move down 10 spots and maybe pick up a 4th rounder but those didn't exist. So I just picked my SS. Of course the twitter feed trashed my pick lol. The twitter analysis is always done by overall draft grade and not real rating. So when the #2 overall pick slipped to #14 (C overall) it was praised even though I knew it wasn't a great pick. Same for the top RB ranked #7 overall that slipped to #24. Praised but I knew better.
At the end of the day though I'm VERY happy with what I got. The WR ended up 80 overall, the MLB 83 overall and my SS ended up an 80 although he's rated an 82 at FS and will now be starting there. He was actually listed as a FS in the draft stories but a SS in the draft.
The HOF decided to elect Tom Brady and Tony Gonzalez but Randy Moss missed the cut! Brutal! (first year HOF voting is fine for a video game imo).
(My son was taking the pics with our new iPad so excuse the angle lol)
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