Tomorrow is Season 2 Draft Day. Here is what we know: Premier starts at 9am ET and finishes at 11am ET. Each team gets three minutes between each pick, Challenger will start an hour and a half later at 12:30pm and conclude at 2:30pm.
Obviously the best podcast in pickleball is covering the draft, with Thomas and Zane live streaming from the draft and providing insight and analysis. They will be live in Central Park with the teams and drafters to cover it all.
In today’s article we are going to cover 5 bold draft predictions and why I am making them.
First and foremost for this draft: the mock drafter is not an MLP insider and has no relations with any MLP GMs.
I do not know anyone important in pickleball, so these are just my own thoughts that I have come up with on my own. I WILL be VERY wrong on some of these guesses and very right on some others. This is mock drafting.
Here are my 5 bold draft predictions for Wednesday, July 12th:
There are going to be 9 or more men picked in the first round of the Premier Level draft
I think Season 1 proved that having a very dominant left sided male can really sway the equilibrium of matches, and GMs also learned this.
ALW and CP are the easy female picks in Round 1 – but if the ratio is 9-3, who is the 3rd woman?…
