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Resolving Contested Draft Picks

Startup Draft - Royal Flush League

See the Draft Rules for how these players were awarded. Remember, that all contested players are placed first - so at the beginning, all teams have 38 million in unused salary cap cash - regardless of how many uncontested draft picks they had.

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Also with a rule change in 2014, players with salary 100 are placed first and when that is complete, all rosters (and salaries) are cleared temporarily to place the remaining players. In a 2015 rule change, we start the process first with any players given a #1 draft rank.

Resolving Players with Salary > 100 - Ranked #1 and Picked by 8 to 7 teams

8 players have a draft rank of #1 and we'll resolve them first...in the typical order (most teams first, descending salary, etc.)

First up, Jorge Soler (9 teams, Salary 123)

Team	Cap Left	Bid	Rank
We Want to play	38000	500	3
Miami	38000	500	4
Hervey Bay	38000	500	25
Runner Runner	38000	0	1
St. Louis	38000	0	10
Bedrock	38000	0	17
Kentucky	38000	0	20
Brush Park	38000	0	999
Vasilion	38000	0	999

3 teams listed a tiebreaking bid - in this case all the same amount - so they move on and since cap left and total players are at their starting values, we go to rank - which makes We Want to play the winner here.

George Springer (6 teams, Salary 603)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Full House 38000 0 1500 999

Topeka 38000 0 500 1

Bedrock 38000 0 0 12

Runner Runner 38000 0 0 15

Speed Wins and 38000 0 0 23

St. Louis 38000 0 0 29

Full House outbid Topeka for him

Paul Goldschmidt (4 teams, Salary 3145)

Team	Cap Left	Total Players	Bid	Rank
Bedrock	38000	0	1000	3
St. Louis	38000	0	1000	999
We Want to play	37877	1	1000	1
Axacan	38000	0	500	20

Three teams with identical bids - We Want to play out of the running since they got Soler - Bedrock wins out over St. Louis with draft rank

Aroldis Chapman (3 teams, Salary 2818)

Team	Cap Left	Total Players	Bid	Rank
Axacan	38000	0	500	15
St. Louis	38000	0	0	1
Bedrock	34855	1	0	13

Axacan with the winning bid

James Paxton (3 teams, Salary 504)

Team	Cap Left	Total Players	Bid	Rank
We Want to play	37877	1	500	10
Speed Wins and	38000	0	0	1
Axacan	35182	1	0	26

We Want to play wins out with an auction bid

Gregory Polanco (3 teams, Salary 476)

Team	Cap Left	Total Players	Bid	Rank
Axacan	35182	1	500	2
Vasilion	38000	0	0	1
Brush Park	38000	0	0	999

Axacan jumps up with an extra bid to take the player

Anthony Rizzo (2 teams, Salary 2789)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Knights 38000 0 1000 1

St. Louis 38000 0 500 999

The higher bid puts him on Knights

Kennys Vargas (2 teams, Salary 297)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Radioactive 38000 0 500 1

Topeka 38000 0 0 9

Radioactive with the extra cash

That's it for the #1 ranked players. Three players were picked by 8 teams. We resolve in descending order of salary.

Sean Doolittle (Salary 1599)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Vasilion 38000 0 500 999

St. Louis 38000 0 0 3

Kentucky 38000 0 0 9

Topeka 38000 0 0 11

Brush Park 38000 0 0 999

Radioactive 37703 1 0 24

Full House 37397 1 0 999

Bedrock 34855 1 0 21

Vasilion wins out with the only auction bid

Ryan Zimmerman (1385)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

St. Louis 38000 0 0 15

Runner Runner 38000 0 0 19

Miami 38000 0 0 22

Topeka 38000 0 0 28

We Want to play 37373 2 0 12

Vasilion 36401 1 0 999

Knights 35211 1 0 23

Axacan 34706 2 0 17

No bids, so we start off with cap space left/total players and between the four teams with empty rosters, St. Louis had the highest rank

Taijuan Walker (200)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

We Want to play 37373 2 500 7

Speed Wins and 38000 0 0 21

Hervey Bay 38000 0 0 27

Runner Runner 38000 0 0 28

Kentucky 38000 0 0 39

St. Louis 36615 1 0 25

Vasilion 36401 1 0 999

Knights 35211 1 0 17

We Want to play jumps to the top with a 500 bid

Two players picked by 7 teams

Troy Tulowitzki (Salary 1549)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Full House 37397 1 1000 999

Miami 38000 0 500 2

Topeka 38000 0 500 2

St. Louis 36615 1 500 999

Runner Runner 38000 0 0 5

Brush Park 38000 0 0 999

Bedrock 34855 1 0 7

Full House put up the highest bid

Javier Baez (236)

Team Cap Left Total Players Bid Rank

Hervey Bay 38000 0 500 26

Speed Wins and 38000 0 0 2

Brush Park 38000 0 0 999

Radioactive 37703 1 0 29

St. Louis 36615 1 0 9

Vasilion 36401 1 0 999

Knights 35211 1 0 11

Hervey Bay with the only auction bid