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Tuesday, April 25, 2006 11:15 AM Perry

Final Draft Day - down to the Champs

Well, it looks like we are almost finished. Whew! I didn't think we would make it! In fact, many people didn't think we would make it. They said it's too hard to organize bloggers. They were right. It is hard to organize bloggers. With the exception of our rough start, only 2 picks have been Kiper'd. The code wasn't perfect, and the trading interface needed some work (you guys moved so fast, I didn't get a chance to upload the new rescind offer feature) but it still got done.

It got done without any trades...but the offers were flying in the background. Boy, were they flying! We even reached out to the 2 teams that didn't have a first round pick - just to make sure they were given an opportunity to get in the game. Overall, I am super happy with the results. How accurate this mock draft is compared to other mock drafts, or the real draft is yet to be determined. Regardless, the project can probably be deemed a success...as soon as the Steelers get that pick in!

I want to send a special thanks to all our GMs for making this happen.
Your ability to tolerate all my crappy emails and my rough first cut of this draft software was appreciated. You guys did a great job. Feel free to contact me with comments on your experience. I'll take all feedback. Including the bad stuff. It's the only way we will make next year's draft better.

To all our new readers: Welcome!
The draft board will stay up for awhile, and eventually move into it's own section of the site. The links you see on the board belong to the sites that participated in this year's mock draft. Take the time to visit them. (especially when the NFL season kicks off) Also, hang around the site for awhile, bookmark us, or just subscribe to the many RSS feeds we have if you are interested in anything and everything related to Chicago Sports. If anything hang around to see the wrap up of the first annual CSB Blogger NFL Mock Draft.

Finally, there will be a post-draft write up in the coming days. Let me catch my breath and aggregate everyone's comments. We want to get a discussion going on how each team's Blogger GM handled their pick. So take note Blogger GMs: If you have written up your pick or perhaps you even have a podcast covering it - get it to me.

I'm going to wrap up it up... Special thanks to the Lions, Packers, Cowboys, Giants and the Jets for keeping me on my toes during this draft. Oh, and before I forget the Giants GM is offering a special chance to each NFL Blogger GM to be listed on his site as the reference for your respective teams (within his site). I'll be sending out the link in an email so watch for it.

That's all! Now get back to work.

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# re: Final Draft Day - down to the Champs

Tuesday, April 25, 2006 7:13 PM by Jeremy

Here's my post on Darryl Tapp (my pick for the Seahawks).

http://bremertonians.blogspot.com/2006/04/mock-draft-tapped-out.html