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If Rocker is still there I think the Brewers will take him. The college arms this year are not all that great so it maybe another year where the Brewers take a bat again at least with their first pick. Some of the college pitchers where the Brewers will be making their first pick are probably more 2nd or 3rd round picks. Rocker probably has the highest upside but it is hard to tell where he will be drafted. He could be available when the Brewers are picking or he could be gone well before the Brewers pick. Justin Campbell is a name I have seen a few times mocked to the Brewers. Someone like Campbell who is more a 2nd round pick is probably who the Brewers would go with if they go the college arm pick. The Brewers already have a glut of OF's in the minors but I wouldn't be surprised if the Brewers take either Jordan Beck or Dylan Beavers both are college OF's. A prep SS wouldn't also be a surprise here either. Jett Williams or Cole Young would be my guess here if they go the prep route.

Maybe they will go with a prep arm in the first round if the right player falls but I am not so sure on that. I think the Brewers will still go with a college arm. Also new for 2022 but old for MLB the draft and follow is back. https://www.mlb.com/news/draft-rule-changes-with-new-cba It has been awhile since the draft and follow has been part of the MLB draft so this could be interesting or just nothing in the first year that this has come back.

Jim Callis has the Brewers taking 27. Brewers: Andrew Dutkanych, RHP, Brebeuf Jesuit Prep, Indianapolis https://www.mlb.com/news/mlb-mock-draft-2022-position-players-standout I don’t think the Brewers will go with a prep pitcher with their first pick. I don’t think under the Stearns era there has been a prep pitcher taken with the first pick. I think the Brewers go with a college pitcher with their first pick.

Until a “Karen” shows up and says you can’t sell hot dogs here and those don’t look like real hot dogs and then demands to speak to your manager!

The last Spider-Man and the new Doctor Strange movie are basically setting up the next phase for Marvel.

Also drafting a player who doesn't fit into a 3-4 defense or your blocking scheme is just a recipe for disaster. The players you draft have to fit into what you are trying to do as a team. If they don't fit then it is just a wasted pick. There maybe players who are available at the same time you are drafting someone who is better than you are drafting but they don't fit into the team. There are some players that it just doesn't matter and their athletic ability can overcome the scheme the team is using but those players are normally 1st round selections not 3rd, 4th or 5th round selections. Take Tarik Cohen for example a perfect fit for an offense like Andy Reed's. He is a RB who can run a little bit but is better out of the backfield catching. If you have a run first offense a talent like that would be wasted on that team especially if you are not throwing to your RB's and you want them to block. The offensive threat of the RB is now just there as a PR or KR and the occasional breakout run plays. Players have to fit into the system or scheme that the team is running. If they don't then that is a wasted pick especially late in the rounds where you are picking players specifically to fit into your teams system or scheme. Any player after the 3rd round are basically system or scheme players unless someone drops that would have been available in the 2nd or 3rd round.

There is an Athletic article that disagrees with this and puts the Bears draft at 24th and the Packers at 27th (worst in the NFC North). https://theathletic.com/3288166/2022/05/02/nfl-draft-rankings-classes-all-32/?source=user_shared_article

Majority of rookies don't really impact fantasy football all that much unless you have a really deep league. The Bears did address the DL with Dominique Robinson who according to some was a 3rd round pick value (picked in the 5th round). The Bears also needed to fix their secondary as they really don't have anyone to play CB in the slot and they needed another safety. Both of the picks the Bears took in the 2nd round should be starting on defense. I think they did good there value wise and the Bears had both of those players higher on their board than the players who were available to be picked. The 3rd round selection is a head scratcher there I will give you that. Though he does provide a lot of speed but route running is not the greatest from this player. I would have went with Tolbert at that pick but the Bears had Jones valued higher. Jones I am actually excited to see but he probably won't start in his first or second season. Thomas on the other hand should start in his rookie season. He is a completely scheme pick in the 6th round. He is a good run blocker but needs to work on his pass blocking but he fits in perfectly in the zone-blocking scheme the Bears use. The only pick I really question is the 3rd round pick and the Trestan Ebner pick in the 6th round. I am assuming they are trying to replace Cohen with that pick there. I think they could have gotten better value by picking another DL or WR with that pick.

That is his fantasy football rankings. The guys that the Bears drafted fit with their scheme for OL. I don't believe any of the players the Packers picked would have been a fit for the Bears in their scheme. Again this is where draft grades are not really all that relevant. Teams are going to pick players based on how they fit and not based on a grade or ranking from random people.

Draft grades are all nearly based on the player ranking and not based on team needs or fits on the team. The grades are rather useless really as they don’t really say all that much after the first 5 or 10 picks in the draft.

With Elon’s purchase being official now for Twitter, I wonder what the impact is going to be on the tech market. There are some rumors about Twitters earnings will be down a lot so the board took the deal. The price may drop a bit between now and when their earnings are reported if the rumors are true.

Maybe add a donate button for the website. Set up a PayPal or whatever account for people to donate to.

First major injury in the draft with Chase DeLauter breaking his foot. https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/chase-delauter-potential-no-1-pick-in-2022-mlb-draft-to-miss-at-least-three-weeks-after-breaking-foot/

Consumer prices rose 8.5% in March. Still not worried about inflation?

Ovechkin scored career goal 775 today which puts him 119 short of Gretzky. It looks like as long as Ovechkin stays healthy he should pass Gretzky near the end of his current contract. I will still take Gretzky over Ovechkin but where does Ovechkin rank all time?

I watched Metal Lords on Netflix cheesy but good.

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The books I read are not allowed to be discussed here. I read a lot of books from Thomas Sowell and others mostly. I have been reading the graphic novel BRZRKR which has been good so far. This is written by Keanu Reeves well co-wrote by him and another Matt Kindt and illustrations done by Ron Garney

I don't think the level of competition should really be an issue with WR. QB's sure but skill players I just can't get behind that. I believe Moss and Owens both had these same questions when they were drafted. Moss had some other baggage at the time which hurt his stock but still had the competition question attached to him. If the player can run, jump and catch I don't believe the competition is really going to matter. For a QB it is a little bit different as you can get away with mistakes that you wouldn't normally get away with in other conferences but for a WR there is very little that you can scrutinize there. You can say that the numbers would come down and they normally do even from players who are at a higher level of competition. I wouldn't be worried about competition when drafting a WR I am more looking at how well they cut, run routes and catch the ball. I would put the competition last or not even in consideration on determining which WR to draft over another. Competition matters when you are comparing stats but when comparing players on who you want to draft I don't think it matters at the skill positions.

Similar to my Bears draft but the Bears taking Chenal in round 2 along with a CB or WR. Also have Parham to the Bears in the 4th I think.

LOL probably would.

As a Bears fan this is what I think the Packers will do: On a more less trolling and serious version:

If you were doing this for work an application like Alteryx is a better option even R, Python or SAS would be better options if you want to go the coding route. If you needed more analysis you could then have Alteryx export the information as a hyper file which is what Tableau uses. Alteryx creates the hyper file which would then update your Tableau workbook.

I finally watched the new Ghostbusters movie last night. This version was better than the cringe one from a few years ago. The plot actually made sense in this one and the jokes were good.

If you have them linked it will save the filename and location into the cell. All you have to do then is keep the filename the same every time and then refresh in the workbook you want the information to be refreshed in. I believe you can select refresh on open in the settings of Excel. You can also create a pivot table off of the information and that will allow you to sort and filter without limitations.