sweet mother of christ

i feel like i just read the congressional record for the day, capped by bench's summation of the day's business before the lights were turned out and everyone went home. as such, i don't think that it is really my business to stir up trouble (though maybe i will anyway). think of this as the week in review coverage, i guess.

on a purely personal note, i'm voting against monkeying with the stats, if only because i have sunk a fairly significant amount of time playing around with numbers based on the stats as written. if anyone writes up some genteleman's guidelines for this league, i would propose that potential rule change business should be brought before the league before the superbowl. that's when serious thought about draft strategy seemed to heat up this year, anyways.

i feel like someone opened a sliding door into carter's brain and i got to watch the gears turning. he found the one case where the structure of our league wasn't internally consistent, and tried to open that crease wide enough to drive a tractor through. woe be unto any piece of legislation that you happen to tangle horns with. btw, carter, if you haven't read the power broker already (esp the part where where robert moses uses an outdated timber statute to take long island estates at will - actually, here:


also interesting that everyone gave carter's end-run around the rules due consideration; i mean, it was running 6-0 against carter before anyone just flat out said no.

for the sake of czap's extended metaphor, here's my understanding of why carter can do what he's trying to do: it's just axiomatic.

if you want to keep a player, you MUST keep that player at the round at which he was drafted.
a) if the draft slot in question has already been used to keep another player drafted at the same round, the player will be kept in the next round.

the exception was created to address unavoidable conflicts created by the dropping/trading/exchanging of players during the season. carter's conflict is entirely avoidable - in fact, it's manufactured for the EXPRESSED PURPOSE of dropping the kept player down the charts - and is not covered by the exemption.

as for carter's trading wright AND his round one pick for santana the answer is that yes, czap would be absolutely free to complete such a trade, but he would do so knowing that would impossible to BOTH use the first round draft pick and keep david wright. there's no conflict - the trade can be executed - it would just be a stupid trade.