A New Day

With the new 2019 season around the corner, CTDB faced its biggest franchise shakeups yet. Over eighteen years, we've only had two franchises switch hands before -- Skool in 2004 and Ante Up in 2013. Now three franchises would be leaving the league, and one of them the defending champs!

For such an unprecedented event, we decided to throw a dispersal draft for the three incoming owners. First there was a draft of which franchises they would take over (and that franchises' accompanying draft position) and then we had a five round dispersal draft from the rosters of the three outgoing teams. Here is the Google Sheet with details but we'll take a look at the results below. [ 2019 Dispersal Draft ]

City of Angels Masterminds, Marcus (Athena Nike)
Roger's friend and advertised as "never having lost at fantasy football," Marcus has reportedly played actual basketball against the likes of Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen. That's, um, impressive. While heading into an international weeks-long vacation Marcus was kind enough to put up with all our hurried dispersal draft issues.

Given the first position in the dispersal, Marcus took Ezekiel Elliott and then followed that up with Odell Beckham Jr, Todd Gurley, Cam Newton, and TY Hilton. Time will tell if he is capable of losing a fantasy football season, but since he's already inheriting our defending champion Athena Nike franchise, the winning ways are already built into this team's DNA.

Custom J (Dirty Birds)
One of Evan's cousins that we've been waiting to indoctrinate into CTDB, Josh takes over the best franchise in CTDB history (no bias here, ahem). Unlike the previous ownership regime, Josh apparently ventures outdoors as he was on a camping expedition during most of the dispersal draft.

Granted top choice in the dispersal, Josh chose to take the RD1.2 pick in the dispersal, avoiding the snake picks at the end of each round. The future Josh Josh's will start off with DeAndre Hopkins, Joe Mixon, Nick Chubb, Robert Woods, and Leonard Fournette as their core. Placed into the competitive Marvel division, Josh will get first shot at taking down his cousin...

Crunch Bunch, Eddie (Fobsters)
A name already well know to us in our fantasy basketball league, Eddie aka Swamp Dragons, has proven his fantasy bonafides to us over the years. Now he's turned his attention toward our little ten teamer and will get the chance to not only crush his cousin, Evan, but also his older brother, Josh.

To do that, Eddie will have to fight his way through the Capcom division and he'll do it with Michael Thomas, Melvin Gordon, Dalvin Cook, Amari Cooper, and Kenny Golladay as his starting five. We hope to see Eddie in many future Super Bowls and laying waste to his family members -- and everyone else.

Welcome Marcus, Josh, and Eddie, we look forward to having you around in CTDB for many years! As for our outgoing owners -- Jimmy, Jon, Frank -- good riddance!