Results from the first TSO premier draft
The first ever Tradition Sports Online premier dynasty draft occurred this past weekend from Friday, May 13th and ended on Tuesday, May 17th. With some doubts going in, most agree it went very smoothly and was a great success. Everyone was able to follow the draft action on the TSO draft twitter feed and on the draft thread which generated a lot of activity. Staff member Shaun Mason was the mastermind of the program and spent most of his weekend running the draft.
To recap, every member in multiple premier dynasties had to choose one and drop the others they were in. Some premier dynasties became no longer premier, which left some guys without a premier home, and some leagues were called up to premier. All of the empty spots created from this restructuring were to be filled during this draft. Any premier member was eligible but commissioners could apply for draft exceptions in order to select a Foundation member who was already in a premier dynasty to their second league. 49 Spots were filled on the Xbox 360 side and 16 spots on the PS3 side. Dynasties such as Trifecta and the Duece and Cream of the Crop only had a few spots to fill whereas new dynasties such as Dru50′s west coast dynasty and Ryno’s dynasty had a complete roster to fill up.
For the Xbox draft, member MaxATX34 was the first overall selection to the Tradition. Ryno’s League had the second pick and selected the Richuation. The Duece filled their lone draft spot with TMFL Madden commish Keller at pick 4 and Dru picked recchem2000 for his first round pick to start filling in his 11 guys. The Tradition were the first to use a draft exception and select foundation member Twister 18 with the 36th pick. There were 5 total foundation member 2nd league picks on the xbox with bravejaf going to The Legacy, Papa Perry, Jmustang1968, and BDSDIGITAL all going to Ryno’s League. Dru’s league had the last pick drafting cfole33102 to conclude the draft Tuesday morning.
XBOX 360 Draft Order
On the PS3 side, things went a bit quicker with only 16 draft openings. Going into the draft, the Cream of the Crop was full, but created an opening at the last minute and had the #5 pick. Sim Nation picked BigSmooth33 1st overall followed by bamagrad to the Saturday Heroes and CLW to BCS Chaos. Filling out the first round, Zeroes2Heroes selected uagrad90 4th and Cream of the Crop grabbed eyeke #5. The PS3 selected 2 foundation members with jca312 going #14 to Sim Nation and cimmy24 also going to Sim Nation as the last selection.
PS3 Draft Order
