Well, well, well. The team and 3 others got together for the Fantasy Draft I was telling you about earlier, and we absolutely killed it. It’s tough to get 10 working dudes in the same google doc at the same time to draft Division III Tennis players for hypothetical teams, but we did it. I must say it was one of the best times I’ve had as a blogger in my career, and this is something we will definitely be doing as we move forward with the blog. Anyways, you guys are all here for the draft results, so I won’t take up too much more of your time.
Note: We were allowed one “write in” player to our teams, but he had to play the backup #6 singles position.
Again, please read the Fantasy Draft Kickoff article that is right before this article for the rules and regulations of this fantasy draft. Link below:
http://www.division3tennis.com/the-2016-fantasy-draft-kickoff/
See below for the results. The number in parenthesis is the players projected position in the starting lineup. Have some thoughts? Put it in the comments!
Round 1 | Round 2 | Round 3 | ||||||
1 | D3ASW | Rafe Mosetick, #1, Emory | 11 | D3Regional | Michael Buxbaum, #1, Johns Hopkins | 21 | D3ASW | Jason Haugen, #5, Wash U |
2 | D3TennisBro | CJ Krimbill, #1, Case Western | 12 | D3West | Chase Savage, #5, Bowdoin | 22 | D3TennisBro | Kunal Wadwani, #4, CMU |
3 | D3ASouth | Michael Solimano, #3, Amherst | 13 | The Guru | Ari Smolyar, #2, Middlebury | 23 | D3ASouth | Max Macey, #4, CMS |
4 | D3TennisGreek | David Liu, #6, Chicago | 14 | Dante Quazzo | Anton Zykov, #2, Amherst | 24 | D3TennisGreek | William De Quant, #4, Middlebury |
5 | D3NE | Skyler Butts, #1, CMS | 15 | D3Central | Charlie Pei, #4, Chicago | 25 | D3NE | Jose Raventos, #3, Williams |
6 | D3Central | Adam Krull, #2, Trinity TX | 16 | D3NE | Gil Roddy, #6, Bowdoin | 26 | D3Central | Jesse Levitin, #6, Amherst |
7 | Dante Quazzo | Nick Chua, #1, Chicago | 17 | D3TennisGreek | Noah Farrell, #1, Middlebury | 27 | Dante Quazzo | Kenny Zheng, #5, CMU |
8 | The Guru | Palmer Campbell, #3, Middlebury | 18 | D3ASouth | Luke Tsai, #5, Chicago | 28 | The Guru | Paxton Deuel, #1, Trinity TX |
9 | D3West | Matt Tyer, #6, Trinity TX | 19 | D3TennisBro | Glenn Hull, #2, CMS | 29 | D3West | Tyler Kratky, #3, Wash U |
10 | D3Regional | Johnny Wu, #4, Wash U | 20 | D3ASW | Jonathan Jemison, #2, Emory | 30 | D3Regional | Rohan Shastri, #2, Williams |
Round 4 | Round 5 | Round 6 | ||||||
31 | D3Regional | Lester Yeh, #5, CMS | 41 | D3ASW | Jeremy Bush, #1, Wash U | 51 | D3Regional | Cam Daniels, #6, Wesleyan |
32 | D3West | Arthur Fagundes, #1, UT-Tyler | 42 | D3TennisBro | Taylor Hunt, #5, Redlands | 52 | D3West | Sven Kranz, #2, Chicago |
33 | The Guru | Josh Goodman, #5, Emory | 43 | D3ASouth | Luke Tercek, #2, Bowdoin | 53 | The Guru | Andrew Harrington, #4, Emory |
34 | Dante Quazzo | Julian Gordy, #6, CMS | 44 | D3TennisGreek | Aman Manji, #3, Emory | 54 | Dante Quazzo | Zach Bessette, #4, Amherst |
35 | D3Central | Andrew Yaraghi #1, Amherst | 45 | D3NE | Daniel Budd, #2, UT-Tyler | 55 | D3Central | Jake Roberts, #3, Wesleyan |
36 | D3NE | Ben Battle, #4, Tufts | 46 | D3Central | Aaron Revzin, #5, Amherst | 56 | D3NE | Brian Grodecki, #5, Williams |
37 | D3TennisGreek | Daniel Levine, #2, CMU | 47 | Dante Quazzo | Kyle Wolfe, #3, Bowdoin | 57 | D3TennisGreek | Jackson Frons, #5, Middlebury |
38 | D3ASouth | Abhishek Alla, #1, CMU | 48 | The Guru | Anthony Bello, #6, Pomona | 58 | D3ASouth | Jay Glickman, #6, Tufts |
39 | D3TennisBro | Peter Leung, #3, Chicago | 49 | D3West | Sachin Raghavan, #4, Williams | 59 | D3TennisBro | Jordan Sadowsky, #6, Williams |
40 | D3ASW | Kiril Kirkov, #3, CMU | 50 | D3Regional | David Perez, #3, Johns Hopkins | 60 | D3ASW | Edward Ang, #6, CMU |
Round 7 | Round 8 | Round 9 | ||||||
61 | D3ASW | Eshan Dave, #4, Hopkins | 71 | D3Regional | Michael Arguello, #2, Brandeis | 81 | D3ASW | Zain Ali, #5, Tufts |
62 | D3TennisBro | Nick Fiaschetti, #3, Kenyon | 72 | D3West | Spencer Simonides, #6, Pomona | 82 | D3TennisBro | Dhuruvvv Yadav, #4, Wesleyan |
63 | D3ASouth | Jake Yasgoor, #1, Pomona | 73 | The Guru | Stratton Gilmore, #2, Mary Washington | 83 | D3ASouth | Peter Jivkov, #5, Whitman |
64 | D3TennisGreek | Kai Yuen Leung, #1, Skidmore | 74 | Dante Quazzo | Kyle Richter, #3, Santa Cruz | 84 | D3TennisGreek | Jonathan Li, #6, Chicago |
65 | D3NE | Kyle Schlanger, #6, Middlebury | 75 | D3Central | Alex Cauneac, #1, MIT | 85 | D3NE | Joachim Samson, #5, Wesleyan |
66 | D3Central | Daniel Morkovine, #3, CMS | 76 | D3NE | Chris Ellis, #3, Bates | 86 | D3Central | Justin Kang, #5, Johns Hopkins |
67 | Dante Quazzo | Matthew Heinrich, #1, Stevens | 77 | D3TennisGreek | Steven Chen, #2, Wesleyan | 87 | Dante Quazzo | Jeremy Dubin, #2, Johns Hopkins |
68 | The Guru | Mohanad Al-Houni, #1, Gustavus | 78 | D3ASouth | Rob Turlington, #2, Kenyon | 88 | The Guru | Louis Stuerke, #3, Case Western |
69 | D3West | Chas Mayer, #5, Trinity TX | 79 | D3TennisBro | Max Liu, #6, Chicago | 89 | D3West | Adrian Sirovica, #4, Santa Cruz |
70 | D3Regional | Tom Suchodolski, #4, Redlands | 80 | D3ASW | John Carswell, #2, Wash U | 90 | D3Regional | Michael Liu, #1, Wesleyan |
Round 10 | Round 11 | Round 12 | ||||||
91 | D3Regional | Rob Jacobson, #3, Tufts | 101 | D3ASW | Jerry Jiang, #4, Bowdoin | 111 | D3Regional | Shaun Berman, #6, Wash U |
92 | D3West | Jonathan Kim, #2, Pomona | 102 | D3TennisBro | Michael Treis, #2, UW-Whitewater | 112 | D3West | CJ Antonio, #1, Oglethorpe |
93 | The Guru | Sam Malech, #5, Pomona | 103 | D3ASouth | Wilson Lambeth, #4, Trinity TX | 113 | The Guru | Rithwik Raman, #4, UW-Whitewater |
94 | Dante Quazzo | Andrew Arnaboldi, #6, Amherst | 104 | D3TennisGreek | Marko Mandic, #4, Pomona | 114 | Dante Quazzo | Nicholas Paolucci, #4, Kenyon |
95 | D3Central | Konrad Kozlowski, #6, Wash U | 105 | D3NE | David Zakhodin, #4, Case Western | 115 | D3Central | Andres Gomez, #4, NC Wesleyan |
96 | D3NE | Rohan Gupte, #2, Tufts | 106 | D3Central | Philip Locklear, #2, Whitman | 116 | D3NE | Jake Humphreys, #1, UW-Whitewater |
97 | D3TennisGreek | Graham Maassen, #3, Pomona | 107 | Dante Quazzo | Tristan Kaye, #5, Kenyon | 117 | D3TennisGreek | Andrew Komarov, #5, Case Western |
98 | D3ASouth | Jack Gray, #3, Sewanee | 108 | The Guru | Joshua Dughi, #6, Case Western | 118 | D3ASouth | Chaz Downing, #6, CMU |
99 | D3TennisBro | Sam Geier, #1, Kenyon | 109 | D3West | Jose McIntyre, #3, UT-Tyler | 119 | D3TennisBro | Lucas Pickering, #5, Skidmore |
100 | D3ASW | Clayton Niess, #3, Trinity TX | 110 | D3Regional | Patrick Ordway, #5, Bates | 120 | D3ASW | Patrick Wildman, #6, CMS |
Well, there you have it!! Remember, we will have articles going round by round and pick by pick where the participants can go through their picks and take you through their thought process. We will also have a poll for readers for you guys to determine who you think has the best team! Check back to the blog because the draft analysis is the main event here. Oh, and Season Previews soon too! Until next time. ASouth, OUT.
Is there any chance you guys will do a sweet and juicy review on this? will get some popcorn on the side when reading it.
Overlooked a few good singles dubs guys. Wilson (redlands), Mbithi (Trinity), Granoff (Brandies), Werman (Chapman), Litsky (Vassar), and Ko (MIT)
I can’t speak as much to Wilson or Werman, but here’s my take on the NE guys. All very talented players. First thing’s first, Mbithi graduated last year. Secondly, as multiple writers have said, there is so much talent at the #1 spot around the country, that the lack of dubs prowess from guys like Granoff or Litsky hurts their appeal. Granoff was 7-7 at #1 dubs last year, and didn’t have a great fall. Likewise, Litsky was 0-4 in doubles against ranked teams last year, and he played almost 1/2 the year at #3 doubles for Vassar. There were bound to be some All-Americans left out, and that’s crazy, but those are the rules of the draft. Ko has been talked about at length, so I’ll try to stay brief. He’s very unproven, especially in the dubs. However, you’re right, at the end of the year that could be the biggest oversight in the entire draft.
Did not know Mbithi graduated! And I see your point there. For the others I can see granoff having a litte more potential then litsky. Werman and Wilson are both solid players at both, I’m not sure how much doubles time Wilson gets though.
It’s gna be an interesting year!
No love for the Bishops. Sikh will be one of the best #2 players in the country this year and is a proven doubles player as well. Only bishop chosen was a guy that if he stayed would be #7 on our team but he is transferring so that pick was no good.
We had Sikh playing #1 for you guys this year. Who will it be, Brokakkis? Anyways Coach Hale, show us what you got this year! Let the rackets do the talking 🙂
Guess that means my pick of an NCWes player turns into Random Transfer #1
Tennisjon redux.
Where’s Anderson from Coe (15 in the country) and Metzler from Kalamazoo (18 in the country)??? Overlook a couple of top 25 guys for guys that play bottom of the lineup?
I think you are misunderstanding the concept of the draft.
Expanding on what ASouth said, the draft allowed each team to pick two #1s, two #2s, two #3s, etc. With that being said, Anderson and Metzler both play #1 for their team. So to be picked, we theoretically would have to place them in the top 20 of all the #1s in the country. While both very talented players, they are not top 20 players. Yes their current national ranking says they should be, but fall national rankings are inflated based off ITA results. Anderson plays in a weak ITA and Metzler had a great run giving each a high ranking for now. So these guys were not overlooked, they just were not considered to be in the top 20 of all the #1 singles players out there. Had we just picked all number 1s to fill our squads then yes, they likely would have been picked at some point.
D3NE with the steal of the draft in the last round.
No way Hull, Jemison, and Farrell should have been passed up in the early part of the second round. Patrick Wildman is a nice pick so late in the draft, he is better than many picked before him. MIT has a couple unknown freshmen that should have made this list, blue chip Sean Ko and Tyler Barr who has returned strong after being out.
Thanks for your comment D3Fan! I am interested, which #2 and #3 players would you have picked Sean Ko and Tyler Barr over? I was considering them, but also wanted to take into account doubles in my late round picks.
Sean Ko over Phillip Locklear. Ko was a blue chip last year on tennis recruiting. Tyler Barr definitely over Jose McIntyre and Kyle Richter and probably a lot of others. Is he listed as #3? With this format of needing a #3, that should enhance his value significantly. He may not be on the radar because of his time away, but he is healthy now and was playing very well over the summer and in extremely competitive fall matches with Harvard and Dartmouth players. Does that make Kevin Wang #4 for MIT? He would also be a good choice in this format, as he played #1 last year.
I think the decision of Locklear over Ko was driven by doubles potential – Locklear is a proven doubles player and honestly, freshman (especially from MIT) have historically struggled in doubles.
Richter was another doubles selection at #3. Barr was on my radar and showed me a little in the ITA but personally I was really looking for doubles players in the last 6 rounds. Call me crazy, but I don’t expect Ko or Barr to make a big impact in doubles. Regarding Kevin Wang, he didn’t exactly have a great year at #1 last year. I think overall the non-selections of the MIT players shows that our writers currently don’t trust the development. Up to the program to prove us wrong.
Either way, thanks for your comment!! We love hearing your thoughts.
Postscript. Sean Ko just beat Michael Solimano, who was the number three pick overall in this draft. Ko goes undrafted?
Ko is also slated at a #2 singles position. Solimano is a two way player (#1 doubles player for sure), plays #3 singles, and has national championship experience. He clinched one for gods sake. But yes, I see your point. It’s jsut that he plays #2 with little doubles potential, playing for a program that has historically not seen great improvements.
As someone who picked early in the second round, I’m going to strongly disagree with this. I think Farrell is the only one you can make somewhat of an argument for. I would much rather have Smolyar on my team compared to Hull and Jemison with the information that I have right now. Jemison is a freshman and an unknown quantity compared to a guy that played 1 singles and 2 doubles on a team that finished 2nd in the country last year. Given that Hull has won ITAs and was a dominant 6 last year, you can make a slightly better case, but I’d still rather have Smolyar as he will be used to the top of the lineup and is more likely to be a force in doubles as well. Despite his national title, I didn’t take Farrell here due to the depth of the pool at #1 singles. I ended up picking Deuel late 3rd rd. I also could have gotten Yaraghi in the 4th rd and both Heinrich and Leung even later. I don’t see Farrell running the table and winning all of his matches at 1 singles this spring, whereas I think that’s something Smolyar could do at 2 singles while Deuel can more than hold his own at 1.