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NBA Draft for Dummies

Hello, all you fellow GMs reading this. Now, if you are someone who is a little inexperienced at drafting (like Cavs GM Danny Ferry) or just a total wackjob who has a serious mental disorder, and who probably thinks hiding behind a stop sign is a good hiding place in hide and seek (cough, cough, Grizzlies GM Chris Wallace), then I'll help you with these easy tips. But please, don't tell Stephen A. Smith I've been making your picks. I don't want word getting out. So here you go. Follow these rules, and you'll never draft another Sam Bowie or Christian Laetnner again.

Anthony E.'s Complete Idiot's Guide To The NFL Draft! Pt. 2!

Sorry it is so late, but here is PART 2!! This blog will focus on the Procedure and Rules of the NFL Draft. All Complete Idiots...Enjoy and learn!!!

Procedure and Rules

"The current format consists of seven rounds. Each team is assigned a selection in each round, with the team with the worst record from the previous year being assigned the first pick in each round. The team with the second-worst record gets the second pick, and so on. Ties are broken by strength of schedule. In the event that the strength of schedules are equal, a coin is flipped to determine who picks first. For teams that qualified for the playoffs, ties are broken first in the order in which they were eliminated from the postseason. However, the Super Bowl participants make the final two selections, with the team that lost the game picking next to last, and the winner picking last.

Hard and Fast

Not many hard and fast rules when it comes to golf. This is the most fickle of games. On days I feel great, I can just as easliy shyt the bed as play well. On days when my hands are swollen and my head hurts, I can often play great. I've quit trying to figure out this nonsense (not really). Anyway, there are some things, however tenuous they may seem, that tend to be as close to "givens" as you're likely to find in golf. Here are a few: