Inconceivable!!

Almost all of Hayashi's adversaries complain about the repeated reminders to visit this website. They should check it out as regularly as the Hayashi fans do. The draft is mere days away. Last week this web page stated that Hayashi's draft technique would involve securing as many running backs as possible for use either with Hayashi in in trades for other positions. Hayashi has a long tradition on the ground. Every fantasy football guide says in order to win your division, you must take running backs with the first two picks of the draft - at least two backs in the first three rounds. Then I thought about the Wallachian Raiders - not their two CDFL titles in four years or the fact that I couldn't remember any running back (let alone a top round pick) since the days of Curtis Enis and Ironhead Heyward. No, I thought about one of GM Maggie Worth's favorite movies - the Princess Bride. For those of you less metro-sexual than myself, the park that stuck in my mind was a bit part played by Wallace Shawn. Vizzini was his name - a genius with vast plans and a pre-calculated, logical counter move to any move made by his opponent. Every possible logical senerio covered he could not be defeated. When Wesley challenged him to a game of wits, every move made by Wesley was met with the exclamation "Inconceivable!" by Vizzini. From our pal Vizzini comes Hayashi's 2005 draft strategy. With the first pick being number ten, it is safe to assume that the top running backs will be gone. My best guess is that with the first pick of the draft, Priest Holmes will be donning the Shaker baseball cap. Alvada will probably snag Tomlinson. Quickly they will fall: Green, Lewis, Alexander, James - sure there are maybe ten elite backs available. I would probably end up with Marshall Faulk with the tenth pick. While that would have been great a few years ago, the injury bug worries me. Similiar to the 1991 draft when Hayashi claimed Randell Cunningham within the first overall pick, only to see him do down in week 1 for the entire year, my season would be ruined. Why pin my playoff hopes on an injured, fading star when I could break ranks and snag a top wide receiver? Hopefully everyone will fall like the little lemmings they are and take running backs, which would leave Randy Moss for me. A wide receiver instead of a running back in week 1? Inconceivable!! Being on the back end of the draft, my second pick will be at position 17. Now it's time for the running back, right? No - why take, at best, the 15th highest running back when there's a good chance I can get a top Quarterback like Peyton Manning or possibly one of my favorite's Matt Hasselback? I would normally go for Dante Culpepper to double up my Touchdown points with Moss, but I have it in good faith Wallachia will seek to return Culpepper to their team with their first round selection. Two picks and no running backs?! Inconceivable!! What this will do is give me two high quality studs in the first two rounds. Besides, once the top 8-10 running backs are gone, the quality of that position drops off. Most likely I will pick a running back in round 3 and maybe round 4. I would like to have Detroit rookie Kevin Jones. I am hoping he is overlooked and will fall to me in round 4. Many fantasy magazines and mock drafts have tabbed Jones to be the Lion's starter and the best running back in Detroit since Barry Sanders. How can I make him drop? He always goes higher than I expect in the mock drafts I have participated in. A little thing I like to call guerilla drafting comes to mind. Maybe a page out of Sun Tz's "The Art of War". It will involve sowing some false seeds of information mixed with truths. Play up the fact that Steve Marriuchi loves the platoon systems (Barlow & Hearst). Mention to other owners that Pinner and Bryson are having great camps and looked good in the most recent game. Drop some misinformation about a nagging hamstring injury. Sudden;y, there is doubt. Does another owner want to chance Jones with that high of a pick? What if he is splitting time? Best let him wait for now. There he sits for Hayashi. If that goes well, I can concentrate on the best back available in Round 3. Maybe Travis Henry will drop way down, or Brian Westbrook will be there. Maybe not the best backs in comparison with a Priest Holmes or Jamal Lewis, but my focus will be on running backs with big upsides. I have heard lots of people picking Thomas Jones up in Chicago as a potential big play sleeper this year. Maybe try to nab him. Later in the draft I will try some TD vultures like Lamont with the Jets, Moe Williams in Minnesota or maybe Chris Perry in Cincinnati. Round 5: I should be thinking second WR or QB - but if I have a shot at Tony Gonzalez, Todd Heap or Kellen Winslow II, I most likely will take that chance. Wide receivers are deep, but with limited number of starting QB's, I need to focus on one of them in Round 6. Then I will go back to WR in Round 7. We have 22 Rounds and I plan on two defensive teams and two kickers (only because there will only be two of each to go around). I may pick just one tight end and look to drop a reserve player for a new tightend in the week my starter has a bye. If I don't end up with Gonzales, Heap, Winslow, Crumpler or Boo Williams, I most likely will just drop my tight end in favor of the new one. That leaves 17 players to make up my QB, RB and WR positions. I look for 2-3 starting QB's and maybe Ben Roethlisberger or John Kitna for insurance on a post season run. This will not be a cookie-cutter, cheat sheet draft from a guide book. CDFL Opponents will be saying Inconceivable!! as I make my picks. Good picks, but not picks in the expected order or fitting the current school of thought. A few sleepers with good seasons, a deep league of 16 with watered down talent across the board will open the door for the Silver Dragons to make a playoff run.