Season 54 Free Agents are a huge-ass group

 

In a preseason that is seeing an unofficial record number of free agents jumping ship from their current teams, the two-time defending champion Dallas Demons are the only team to totally escape the exodus.

Twenty-three players will enter the Season 54 draft along with the usual number of 16 rookies, meaning that all but one team will get four picks each in what promises to be the biggest rearrangement of talent this league has ever seen. 

Except, of course, for Dallas, which, in the face of all this scrambling, stayed ridiculously pat.

Here are some Free Agent facts:

• 5 of the 10 teams in the league were hit hard...Sacramento, Philadelphia, Charleston and Seattle.
• Sacramento was decimated, losing six players, four of which were starters and one being the only Hall of Fame player who declared for free agency, Crentis Dentist. Tyler figured that the chance of the River Dogs losing 6 players to free agency was two-tenths of one percent. Bad juju to say the least. Only four players, one a starter, is on the current River Dogs roster, which is like starting over with an expansion franchise.
• Philadelphia's championship window with its current group took a major hit with the loss of starters Ehhy Table and team MVP D. Fenestration.
• Charleston also lost two starters, including All-MBA forward Sheetrock Hudson, the league's rebounding champ for a second time last season.
• Seattle lost its longtime stalwart at center and team MVP Sky Masterson.
• Three of the four playoff teams, Gillette, Oklahoma City and Dallas will be building off their current strong rosters with nary a loss of talent to free agency.
• The once-lowly Humps of Gillette go into the draft as the strongest team in the West, having lost one player, it's least effective starter.
• The nine biggest names in this free agent field include: forward D. Fenestration from Philly; forward Crentis Dentist from Sacramento; forward Sheetrock Hudson from Charleston; guard Thomas Thomas Thomas from Milwaukee; center Sky Masterson from Seattle; guard Ehhy Table from Philadelphia; forward Kevin Duran-Duran from Sacramento; guard Freddy Gooch from Charleston; and center China P from Sacramento. 
• Four free agents...Masterson, Dentist, Hudson and Fenestration were the MVPs of their respective teams last season.
• Hudson and Fenestration graded out second and third best at forward last season. Four of the free agent forwards were among the top 10 players at their position last season.
• 12 of the 23 free agents were starters...only San Jose, Oklahoma City, and of course, Dallas, did not lose a starter. But San Jose lost Hall of Fame guard Jesse Shershot to retirement.