The 2016 Fantasy Draft – Full Draft Results

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.

19 thoughts on “The 2016 Fantasy Draft – Full Draft Results

  1. D3 rocks

    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.

  2. TennisFan

    Overlooked a few good singles dubs guys. Wilson (redlands), Mbithi (Trinity), Granoff (Brandies), Werman (Chapman), Litsky (Vassar), and Ko (MIT)

    1. D3 Northeast

      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.

      1. Tennisfan

        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!

  3. Coach Hale

    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.

    1. D3AtlanticSouth

      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 🙂

      1. D3CentralTennis

        Guess that means my pick of an NCWes player turns into Random Transfer #1

  4. D3CentralFan

    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?

    1. D3AtlanticSouth

      I think you are misunderstanding the concept of the draft.

    2. D3CentralTennis

      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.

  5. Shaw Speer

    D3NE with the steal of the draft in the last round.

  6. D3FAN

    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.

    1. D3AtlanticSouth

      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.

      1. D3FAN

        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.

        1. D3AtlanticSouth

          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.

      2. D3FAN

        Postscript. Sean Ko just beat Michael Solimano, who was the number three pick overall in this draft. Ko goes undrafted?

        1. D3AtlanticSouth

          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.

    2. d3tennis

      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.

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