Draft Order 2020

For our first year with draft slots, as explained here, we played the 2019 post-season to determine what the RD1 draft slots would be. After that, RD2-6 would be in Power Ranking order, snaking starting from RD3 and on. [ New Post-Season 2.0 | Power Ranking 2019 | Draft 2020 Sheet ]

2020 DRAFT SLOT RD1

1. Snack Bears (5-15)
2. Another Bad Creation (4-16)
3. So Buckets (10-9-1) *TB Champion
4. IL Conceived (7-13)
5. LA Buffy (8-11-1)
6. Team Thien (9-11)
7. Hilt the Stilt (6-14)
8. Team Cameltoe (3-17)
9. Swamp Dragons (15-3-2)
10. Spade (12-7-1)
11. Squirtle Squad (12-6-2)
12. Fob Stars (11-8-1)
13. Funk Coalition (13-7)
14. Fat Jubas (12-8)
15. Chunky Monkeys (14-5-1)
16. Sour Snails (14-5-1) *Champion

Notes: Due to the rule where a #9/10 seed cannot win a top two pick, Snack Bears and Another Bad Creation move up to *1/2 draft slot respectively

2020 DRAFT ORDER RD2-6

1. Swamp Dragons (15-3-2)
2. Sour Snails (14-5-1)
3. Chunky Monkeys (14-5-1)
4. Funk Coalition (13-7)
5. Squirtle Squad (12-6-2)
6. Spade (12-7-1)
7. Fat Jubas (12-8)
8. Fob Stars (11-8-1)
9. So Buckets (10-9-1)
10. Team Thien (9-11)
11. LA Buffy (8-11-1)
12. IL Conceived (7-13)
13. Hilt the Stilt (6-14)
14. Snack Bears (5-15)
15. Another Bad Creation (4-16)
16. Team Cameltoe (3-17)

Rules: FAAB Free Agent Auction Bidding

What is dead may never die! After failing to pass as a rule change in 2011, FAAB is back and passed by a strong majority. I think we are all more familiar with the concept of FAAB now but if you have questions about how FAAB works, see the explainer linked below.

Here are the specifics for our FAAB:

• Free Agent Auction Budding - Continuous
• Runs daily Monday through Sunday @ 5AM EST
• Team budget: $100
• Minimum bid: $0
• Tiebreaker: Reset Each Week to Inverse Order of Standings

In short, our FAAB means every free agent will be on waivers, it'll run daily (we can adjust the time if need be), there are still zero dollar bids for lots of picking up guys if needed. While FAAB may hamper some of our more aggressive streaming teams, I hope it won't dissuade them from engaging in that strategy.

• How to use ESPN's new FAAB feature (2010)

As a reminder, we do have a new-ish trade deadline, which is the last day of the regular season, aka WK20. [ See numbers 6 and 7 here: Conferences, Re-Seeding, No Roster Lock ]

Franchise ID Numbers

It's been a full ten years of SlamNation, can you believe it?! For the purposes of historical tracking, every franchise now has a "franchise ID," prioritized by conference, owner start year, and owner alphabetical order.

Each franchise ID number stays with the franchise through all ownership handovers, thus making it easier to keep track for spreadsheets, and to dig up historical numbers.

Russell Conference
1. FJUB - Fat Jubas (Eric)
2. CHMK - Chunky Monkeys (Evan)
3. FUNK - Funk Coalition (Jon)
4. FOBS - Fob Stars (Jimmy)
5. TRUO - Truo Thien (Thien)
6. SWMP - Swamp Dragons (Eddie)
7. SNAC - Snack Bears (Brandon)
8. CMTO - Cameltoe (Felipe)

Chamberlain Conference
9. SQSQ - Squirtle Squad (Brian)
10. ABCX - Another Bad Creation (Oliver)
11. BUFF - Buffy (Roger)
12. SOUR - Sour Snails (Trieu)
13. SBUK - So Buckets (Josh)
14. SPDE - Spade (Randall)
15. ILCN - IL Conceived (Frank)
16. HSTL - Hilt the Stilt (Dave)

Also note that I changed -- and standardized -- everyone’s team abbreviations into four letters. As well as moved full team names to the second field on ESPN. It all just makes it easier for me to pull and run stats. Thanks!