Another night drinking with the scouts at the Barleymoe

Tonight Elijah Craig is joined by Tito, Evan Williams and Uncle Val

Elijah: Good evening draft nerds. What have you got for me tonight.

Uncle Val:  Well Elijah we got a report from the Stickball Council Assessing Talent (SCAT).

Evan: It is a very thorough report comparing the last 6 drafts. the three of us thought we should make you aware of the findings.

Elijah: How did you get a copy. I thought those reports were for members only?

Tito: I hadn't been deleted from the from the membership list when the report was sent out.

Elijah: Why exactly are you no longer a member? Did you forget to pay your dues?

Tito: Not exactly.

Evan: Hell Tito just tell him.

Tito: No, I'd rather not.

Uncle Val: Let me tell. Elijah, this was the best meeting SCAT ever had.  Elijah, do you know who Rudy Munoz is?

Elijah: I think he's the scout, who sells up players that are hard to sign. Wasn't he the scout on Jeimer Telis and Wayne Newman. He just never warns the owners about these guys not being ready to sign.

Uncle Val: Rudy is that and more Elijah. Not only is he a scout but on Sunday mornings he is the head pastor at the First Redemptorist Church of the Divine.

Elijah: Well that is good to know that there is a man of faith scouting for teams; but it still doesn't explain why Tito got kicked out of SCAT.

Uncle Val: Well Rudy was always asking about why Tito drank so much water at SCAT meetings.

Elijah: Did you or Evan switch water glasses, so Rudy was drinking Tito's Vodka?

Evan: Elijah, you know they kicked us out of SCAT after season 48.

Uncle Val: Rumor has it that Rudy'd daughter was a little tired of the fire and brimstone. She had begged her dad to let her serve refreshments at the meeting. She made the switch.

Tito: I never knew those meetings were so boring until I had to sit through one sober. But I did get a date with Celeste.

Elijah: So the reverend got drunk and you got a date with his daughter?

Tito: That is how I remembered it.

Elijah: What did the SCAT report say.

Evan: Well it really just compared this year's draft with the previous 5 drafts. The average player picked in the first 10 picks got a score of 83.25 for the six seasons of the study. This year the average picks scored an 86.1.

Uncle Val: So the top end of this year's draft was unusually strong. SCAT ranked drafts in groups of ten, through the top thirty picks this year's draft was better than normal. After that if fell off and was pretty near the norm.

Tito: The report did say that the 41 through 50 picks were a little higher than the norm but pointed out that was due to Seventy_77 and vegascowboy both making unusually strong picks at that stage of the draft.

Evan: SCAT, ranked vegascowboy's pick of Dan Brown with the third pick as the best player chosen. They also thought that renrog's selection of Coco Ramirez with the in the 31st to 40th picks for all 6 years.

Elijah: What else did the report say.

Uncle Val: It was pretty boring typical SCAT stuff.

Elijah: Thank you guys for your hard work. I'll see you guys next year.