S2S 2011 Pick Profiles and Draft Coverage
This morning James published an article on the Rangers 1st round selection, Kevin Matthews. With that simple act, he closed the door on our 2011 first round pick profiles.
It took us three months to get through them all but we’re finally done.
So aside from giving Nathaniel, James and myself a reason to celebrate the completion of a project – which turned out to take much longer than we anticipated – what does this mean for you our loyal readers?
Well first and foremost, since James wound up doing most of the heavy lifting on the project, you can expect his content to shift focus to other topics in the near future. By the way, thanks for all your efforts James!
The second thing you can expect is that we will move at a much quicker pace when we tackle the first round selections of the 2012 draft. Experience is a wonderful teacher and now we know what we are getting into with the project. It will also help that we won’t be trying to get our site launched and underway just a week before the draft. When teams started making their picks back in June we were still trying to get our bearings and build things behind the scenes. And yes, we’re crazy enough that we’re planning on doing it again.
Third I can finally officially unveil the Seedlings to Stars Draft Page. It hasn’t been a secret as it has been available under the site’s toolbar for a couple months, but in the last several days I rebuilt and restructured all the information into a table. I think you’ll agree that the content is far easier to read than it used to be and all the appropriate links have been added. Right now if you click on the “Draft Content” heading you will see just the 2011 Draft Class and selecting that will take you to the page I just linked a few sentences above. So far I only have the information for the 1st round on the page, but I plan to add more rounds and more information as time goes on. I also hope to add other draft classes down the road and other links as I publish more draft related content.
Finally I can finally write a recap and reaction to how I did with the 2011 Seedlings to Stars Mock Draft. Since we plan on doing 1st round pick profiles next year, you better believe we will be doing at least one mock leading up to the 2012 Draft. Another undertaking that will surely improve next season as we will have more time to dedicate to the project than we did this time around.
I hope you’ve enjoyed our 2011 profiles and our draft coverage so far. If you haven’t, well, we will keep trying to win you over!
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