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Thursday, September 28, 2017

UPCL Trades, Draft-Eligible Players, and Draft Order

First, the big news around the league. Tonight marked the trading window for UPCL clubs, and while some expected big players stayed quiet, others made a huge splash. Four trades were completed, while a couple of others fell apart. Most notably, the Southern Monarchs and Queens Flames retained their compensatory picks. The Royal Crowns, also in a bit of a roster jam, decided to handle their business in house, so they were active in rejecting deals only. The four trades that were completed were:

The Oceanside Waves send Caitlin to the Southridge Defenders for the #25 overall pick, a fifth round selection. The Waves had decided to move on from Caitlin one way or another due to ideological differences, and found a willing partner in the Defenders, whose reputation for player development should aid Caitlin's fourth season greatly. In return, the Waves continue to search for the elusive right mix of players for sustained success, as the usually relaxed management begins to feel some pressure.

Another minor trade saw the Victoria Spurs send longtime veteran B. Chapman to the North Modernistic Nighthawks for the #19 overall pick, a fifth round selection. The Spurs have dangled Chapman on the trade market in both offseasons where trading has been allowed, and they found a taker this time. The Nighthawks add a veteran presence to a relatively young team, while the Spurs will try their rebuild on the fly with two selections in tomorrow's draft, looking to continue their development pedigree that began with Yekaterina two years ago.

Two teams that were expected to make waves were the Eastside Sharks and the Commerce Tradewinds. In this case, the Sharks packaged Taylor Swift and Niki in exchange for the #3 and #23 overall picks, in the third and fifth rounds respectively. The Sharks made the decision to trade Taylor after the dramatic shift in her public image earlier this month, with which they chose to "exclude themselves from the narrative" regarding their celebrity player. To make the deal more palatable for a rebuilding Tradewinds team, a solid third-year player in Niki was added, and the Tradewinds retain the #8 overall pick in the fourth round as well. The Tradewinds would make a later attempt to trade with the Crowns, but the deal was rejected.

The blockbuster trade of the night featured the Infinity Torpedoes, who solved their oversized roster problem by shipping out an expendable star in Whiskers alongside Legacy player Gabe in a two-for-one deal with the Maplewood Lumberjacks, who sent their now-former captain Fluffina the other way. This looks like a deal where both teams will improve, although the Torpedoes would have preferred to keep Whiskers had a trade not been so urgent to make. Instead, Fluffina will try her comeback campaign in Infinity, while Gabe's return to the league also sees him play for the team that originally drafted him, a homecoming of sorts for the cerebral veteran.

The players eligible for selection, alphabetically listed, are as follows (former team in parentheses).

Americus (Atlantic)
Anton (Rookie)
Avril Lavigne (Rookie)
Beth (Whitewater, Legacy Player)
Briana Livilotti (Rookie)
Bright (North Modernistic)
Cowzart (Pearl, Legacy Player)
Cubby (Maplewood, Legacy Player)
Dani (Web City)
Dominic (Viewpoint Sound)
Gal Gadot (Rookie)
Gizmo (Central)
Hannah (Royal)
Hershey (Rookie)
Ice Cream (Commerce)
Jack (Pacific, Legacy Player)
Jason N. (Rookie)
Jason V. (Rookie)
Josie (Rookie)
Katharine McPhee (Rookie)
Kodiak (Rookie)
Lize (Rookie)
Lorde (Commerce)
Max (Queens)
Melissa Benoist (Rookie)
Mitchell (Rookie)
Nicole (Capital City)
Paps (Eastside)
Pauline (Rookie)
Prism (Stonebridge)
Quincy (Rookie)
Rosemary (Rookie)
Rudolph (Rookie)
Sage (Rookie)
Salmo (Lighton)
Sparkles (Todavía)
Strawberry (Modernistic)
Stripes (Terrace City)
Sugar (Harrison)
Summer (Rookie)
Twinkie I (Lighton)
Vincent Sullivan (Rookie)
Vladimir Vasilyev (Rookie)
Waluigi (Maplewood)
Wild Thing (Whitewater, Legacy Player)
Wings (Pearl)

The Official Draft Order is as follows
  1. Southern
  2. Queens
  3. Eastside (via Commerce)
  4. Stonebridge
  5. Viewpoint Sound
  6. North Modernistic
  7. Lighton
  8. Commerce
  9. Terrace City
  10. Pearl
  11. Harrison
  12. Web City
  13. Todavía
  14. Capital City
  15. Stonebridge
  16. Viewpoint Sound
  17. Maplewood
  18. Eastside
  19. Victoria (via North Modernistic)
  20. Lighton
  21. Victoria
  22. Modernistic
  23. Eastside (via Commerce)
  24. Southern
  25. Oceanside (via Southridge)
  26. Terrace City
  27. Pearl
  28. Oceanside
  29. Harrison
  30. Web City
  31. Queens
  32. Tysini
  33. Midland
  34. Freedom
  35. Whitewater
  36. Todavía
  37. Atlantic
  38. Capital City
  39. Archtown
  40. Golden
  41. Westside
  42. Swordpoint
  43. Pronger
  44. Boston
  45. Central
  46. Pacific
The draft will be conducted tomorrow, September 28, 2017, starting at 1 PM Pacific.

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