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The NBA league has the NBA draft. NFL league has the NFL Draft. The MLB league has the MLB draft. Since this is a solitaire league and the entire nation gets to draft the player. Here is what I suggest...

First suggestion...

League name should be - NSEFL - National Solitaire Electric Football League (because the nation gets to draft the players)

2nd suggestion...(sorry norbert, I'm getting excited) - Create a war room like on NFL draft day and rank the coaches around the country by league. For example, lets say there are 10 leagues around the country. The BAM, DFW, NEFL, BEFL, MPFL, the Great Lakes, LAEFL, etc...Rank the coaches from top to bottom in each league. So you will have 10 different sets of rankings. Have the commissioners from each league rank them for you then send you the list. Then put them in draft order on your draft board. This will look like the NFL draft except it will have the names of the coaches instead of the names of the NFL teams. Ok, now you take the bottom coaches in each league and throw them in a lottery and pull the name (This should be 10 coaches because its 10 leagues). The first name you pick gets the number 1 draft pick, the second name you pick gets the #2 draft pick in the first round. This will continue for the first 10 picks of the first round. Picks 11-20 go to the coaches who finished with the 2nd worst record in their league. You will take those names and throw them in a hat a do the same thing.

3rd suggestion...You rank all the players in your league as if you are Mel Kiper of ESPN. You rank them all by position then you rank them all by best player in the league overall. You then post the draft board on the MFCA website. This will help the coaches around the country to look at the draft board and fill the voids on their rosters by team need.

Finally you hold a live draft. Lets say for instance it is August 9th, 2009 at 12:00pm CST. This way coaches can get on the phone and make calls to you. (Just like in an NFL war room). Coaches can also get on the phone with each other and make trades for draft picks. All trades have to go through you though you. Post the results!

You will have a live "National Solitaire EFL" Draft!

Hope you like the idea. I'm sure it can be tweaked a bit but it sounds really fun.