Mac of the MIAC Year 2 – D3 Dynasty Swimming

First off, I love the MIAC fantasy swimming. But I’ve got a question. If you are having people move up and down in leagues, and you are having career drafting, doesn’t that mean that you will have people owned by two people in the league? Also, if you can trade with in a league, does that mean you could have a guy on your team twice? With three leagues and three drafts, you could even get the same guy on your team three times!

And what about the swimmers who are on the team that gets relegated? If they aren’t represented in a league because their owner transfered to a different group, can they be drafted again? If that is the case, then you could, in year 3, have a relay of only one guy! And if that is the case, can you use just one split by that swimmer?

@Mac of the MIAC wrote:

Anyone else? Yes. If you post on this board and have referred to male swimmers as “studs” within the last year, you cannot participate. This is the 15 Centimeter Mark rule.

The Sport Guy actually tackled a question regarding calling great athletes studs,

Q: Can we declare a moratorium on the use of the word “stud” to describe athletes? I can’t be the only one who’s getting a liiiittle weirded out by the overuse of this phrase.
–Christopher, Hartford, Conn.

SG: I’d like to eliminate “stud” as well as any phrase that involves scouts or GMs and the words “drooling” or “salivating.” Instead of stud, can’t we just use “specimen”? And couldn’t we come up with another phrase than “filthy stuff” for a pitcher? The word “filthy” means “dirty, grimy or muddy.” It doesn’t even make sense. Would you ever say that a pitcher had muddy stuff? I like “nasty” a little more, but that’s been overused, as well — I’d much rather see us gravitate toward stronger adjectives such as “malevolent,” “callous” or “inhuman.” It should sound as though we’re describing a ruthless dictator from the 1500s or something. Here, watch how I handle this next question.

Mac, glad you’re back!

Why would you want to take a team that obviously sucks enough to be relegated?

I recommend sticking with keepers. I am however open to bumping up the entry fee even though I’m sure Speedo Mini-Chub will bitch about it.

I would however like to somehow add a few dual meets to the season… or some sort of mid-season event (like a Fantasy Minnesota Invite) where we take the top times prior to Jan 1 and give out some sort of award.

We tried this in the MIAA last year. Dual meets are too frequent and take up too much time. But Chapel Partner is right, you do need something more and the Fantasy Minnesota Invite would be perfect! If you can have some sort of midseason meet AND the MIAC Championships you’re all set. Beauty of the midseason meet (or any fantasy meet for that matter) is that you can add your 800 medley relay!

Be careful not to add too much to the season as it could result in the draft being the best part of it.

Allow me to put on my analrapist (I am the first analyst/therapist) stocking on my head and mention that the Minnesota Invite is now a Grand Prix meet and only teams that are invited are allowed to go.

@Mac of the MIAC wrote:

Does JC realize that converting Tyler Wakefield to a distance swimmer roughly a week before conference cost him the championship?

Jesus. This is ancient history. This has been debated to death in another thread I would just like to say that you’re an idiot for bringing it up again and still pondering the outcome of last year’s meet. True, Carlson’s decision was bold. However, he felt that it was the right decision for the team at the time. I believe that the final score wouldn’t have been as close without the move.

Hindsight is always 20/20; get over yourself and move on.

@Tobias wrote:

… the Minnesota Invite is now a Grand Prix meet and only teams that are invited are allowed to go.

Do you know what teams have been invited?

cannot help you there.

GAC lost because they didn’t swim fast enough to score more points.

Tyler Wakefield will return to sprinter status (unless he gets bumped by some incoming freshmen… or knocks up a fatty and quits the team).

GAC will not win the 200 FR this year.

Adam Meyer will be the breakout story of 2007-2008.

@Mac of the MIAC wrote:

It goes without saying that he did not make the best decision for Tyler.

One would think that if it’s the best decision for the team, it would also be the best decision for the athlete.

@Chapel Partner wrote:

GAC will not win the 200 FR this year.

Any evidence to back that up? Such as added splits or anything? I think it will still go to GAC, just not by margin it did when Amundson and Hagemeyer were on it. The 200 FR will suffer now that they have to spend more than 41 seconds on two of their legs…

@Chapel Partner wrote:

Adam Meyer will be the breakout story of 2007-2008.

Oooh. I like this claim. Bold. Very bold. I think that the breakout story could possibly come from Whitaker Davis as well.

I should have mentioned GAC lost too because of diving… but that has also been talked about into the ground.

GAC loses a 20.7 lead-off and 19.87 anchor.
If they replace them with Wakefield and Auyeung (not saying they will), you add about 2 seconds to the relay. Of course, those guys could have big years, but I’m basing this off last year’s times.

SJU graduates 3 of their 4. so they are probably out of the running.

But Olaf and St. Thomas return everyone. And Olaf lost to the Gusties by under 2 seconds. And St. Thomas was just under 3 seconds behind.

I know it is unlikely St. Thomas makes up that time unless they recruit some 20-point guy to match up with Hardy. But without knowing recruits, I’d give the edge to Koch, Westby, Bently, and Edwards over Winter, Stewart, Wakefield, and Ayeung.

I could be missing something, like Ben Hanson is a 20.9 50 guy, so feel free to correct me if GAC has someone else I am missing on the current roster who put up a sub 21 relay time, or low 21 open, last year.

And if GAC loses Assistant to the Head Coach Hagen this year, you gotta figure that is a blow to the team.