Draft chips are stacked (2047-17)

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Draft chips are stacked (2047-17)

Post by Fat Nige » Sun Jun 13, 2021 7:37 am

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The chips are stacked against the new boys

It’s misfortune for the two UMEBA new boys, Riyadh & Cairo, in the draft stakes once more. While the established eight teams had filled their boots with several years of near major league ready talent in the UMEBA amateur draft, the latest two new boys have arrived just as the available draft talent has all but dried up. Maybe last year’s draft is not quite as bad as first thought, but it was pretty thin. A few of the former High Schoolers are showing slight chances of developing into diamonds (or more likely “fools gold”) in the rough, but it will be hard to predict the same outcome for the 2047 draft.

One of the factors in the 2046 draftees developing is the number of High Schoolers picked at 16 or 17-yr-old, they have the room to grow a bit having now been in a professional organisation from such a tender age. The same cannot be said for the 2047 draftees as the UMEBA Registrations Board did not accept the applications of any high schoolers to be eligible for the draft, meaning that everyone eligible for the current draft is aged 19-yrs-old. This severely limits their growth potential, already most are barely rated higher than UMEBA bench fodder at the most optimistic view and given their age it is very doubtful that any will develop much further. Where last year’s 16 & 17-yr-old draftees may have a year or two more at rookie ball to develop their skills, these 19-yr-olds should already be looking towards an A ball roster spot in 2048 and to be brutally honest very few have the potential for that. The expansion teams currently have just four top ranked prospects between them, and all but one of those four was obtained by trading away what little major league talent they had. Most other UMEBA teams can boast five top prospects each and all, but one has at least one prospect in the UMEBA’s Top-12 ranking. Cairo and Riyadh? Their highest ranked prospect is 49th in the Top-100, the 2046 first overall pick. All the five UMEBA top prospects currently come from the 2045 UMEBA draft while the highest drafted in 2046 is ranked 49th? Not only the highest ranked from the 2046 draft BUT the ONLY 2046 draftee to be ranked in the UMEBA Top-100 list.

Early predictions are that three, maybe four tops from the 2047 draft are possibly capable at the moment of cracking that Top-100 ranking list. It’ll be hard to list the two expansion minor league systems above their current ninth & tenth rank with odds like that. The Pharaohs & the Red Crescents will try of course and struggle manfully on year after year, but until the bountiful drafts of 2044 & 2045 work their way though the system it is hard to see the two expansion sides making any inroads into the established order of the UMEBA royalty. The Answer? I don’t think there is one, certainly the high school prospects must be accepted as eligible for the 2048 draft as a bare minimum, but other than that . . . Cairo & Riyadh just have to accept they will be bottom feeders until well into the 2050’s. Exceptional management might have them looking for mid-table glory by the turn of the decade, but for the meantime the annual battle with each other for the #1 pick is the most exciting thing about their seasons.
Nigel Laverick
(former GM of El Paso Chilis #WeWereShitty) ,
Now GM Riyadh Red Crescents #WeBeNotSoNewNow #WeAreJustAsShitty


Riyadh GM since May 2046

JL Manager of the Year 2000 (Baltimore Monarchs)
Nothing since


An MBBA GM since 1995 (off & on)

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