Season 57 MBA Draft Report

The Season 57 MBA draft started and finished heavily in favor of Tyler teams, with both available superstars (Dallas free agents Hall of Famer Juzan Djinn and league MVP and scoring champ Vicious Hick) both getting drafted by Tyler teams. 

The highlight for Tyler was Djinn returning to his home with the Dallas Demons, courtesy of the trade two seasons ago with Charleston that sent Kopi Luwak from Dallas to the Mountaineers. That trade gave Dallas rights to the first Charleston pick (which happened to be the second overall pick in the draft this season). As it turned out, the one in six chance for that pick to be a prime pick rolled the Demons' way. That made it a prime pick, in which the team doing the selecting names a player they are going after. They must then roll a 1 or 6 on one die. Tyler named Djinn, and the 33.3 percent chance went his way, so the five-time All-MBA star returned to Dallas.

Sacramento, which had the first pick in the entire draft, also rolled for and got a prime pick to start things out. They thus had shots at both Djinn and Hick, but had to name 10 different players before actually connecting on their man. 

Hick did not go until the 16th pick in the draft, where he was selected with a random roll by Los Angeles, where he will pair with another star guard, Pinky Toe.

With those picks, Los Angeles and Dallas became the most successful teams in the Season 57 Draft, with both being favorites to vie for the upcoming championship.

Add center Blob Dylan going from Gillette to Philadelphia, and Tyler teams got the concensus top three players in the drafrt.

Here's our ranking of how the teams fared in the draft.

1. Los Angeles

2. Dallas

a gap

3. Philadelphia

another gap

4. Sacramento

5. Oklahoma City

6. San Jose

7. Seattle

8. Gillette

9. Charleston

10. Milwaukee 

Philadelphia and Los Angeles both picked up two likely starters. Philly got both Dylan and the MVP of the Rookie Game, guard Mel A. Tonin. Los Angeles, nailed down Hick and rookie forward Rumpy Pumpy Lewis.

Every other team, with the exception of Milwaukee, picked up at least one projected starter. The Greyhounds may be forced to start rookie center pick Dave Cowhand, since he is their lone center at this time. 

The top 6 players in the draft went to:

-- Hall of Fame guard Juzan Djinn...returned to Dallas with 2nd pick as described earlier.

-- League MVP and scoring leader guard Vicious Hick went to Los Angeles with random pick 16.

-- Center Blob Dylan went to Philadelphia with pick No. 23, which was the fourth overall prime pick...Tyler hit on his first roll for Dylan.

-- Hall of Fame center Chochky Galumpkus went to San Jose with the 28th overall pick, which was the 8th prime pick. Dave hit on his first roll for Galumpkus. 

-- Two-time All-MBA center Johnny Bananas went to Oklahoma City with the fifth overall pick, a random pick, which was pretty much a waste since the Lariats' best player is All-MBA center Poop-Rupiah 3000.

-- Third-year guard Donny Dupons went to Los Angeles with pick No. 26, which turned into the 6th prime pick...Tyler got him on his second roll.He won't even start for them, since they have Hick and Toe.

NEXT UP: Player improvements (and regressions) followed by the Cut Pile draft to fill out the rosters.