World of Paign
As he has been every year, Herriott was active in the trade market throughout the season last year. After Reichert and B Scott made the first huge splash in week 5, Herriott quickly followed suit with a mega trade of his own. Just two days after Reichert and B Scott’s blockbuster trade, Herriott used his crafty trade magic with the always vulnerable Moeller and landed Nick Chubb and Jared Cook for his 2nd round pick. Later in the year, he dipped into the trading pool again with Tony and got DeAndre Hopkins and Brandin Cooks for his 3rd round pick. Herriott had his eyes set on getting his 2nd bobblehead.
All of that trading landed him a 4th place finish in the regular season with an 8-5-0 record and a date against Carmen in the 1st round of the playoffs. Herriott stunk it up in the playoffs and ended the postseason 0-2, losing to Carmen by 12 points and finished the season in 6th place after another loss to Smitty in the 5th place matchup.
This year, he has left himself in a world of paign coming into Draft Day without his 2nd or 3rd round picks. This isn’t the first time Herriott will be coming into draft day without a standard 1-15 slate of draft spots. Since trading future round draft picks became a part of The League! in 2014, Herriott has never come into draft day with a normal set of picks.
| 2015 | 2016 | 2017 | 2018 | 2019 | 2020 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 12th | 7th | 6th | 1st | 4th | TBD |
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| 2 | 2 | 3 | 1(Reichert) | 2(Reichert) | 4 |
| 3 | 3 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 5 |
| 4 | 4 | 6 | 3 | 5 | 6 |
| 4(Billy) | 4(B.Scott) | 7 | 4 | 6 | 7 |
| 5 | 5 | 8 | 5 | 7 | 8 |
| 7 | 6 | 9 | 6 | 8 | 8(Moeller) |
| 8 | 8 | 10 | 7 | 9 | 9 |
| 9 | 9 | 11 | 8 | 10 | 10 |
| 10 | 10 | 12 | 9 | 10(Moeller) | 11 |
| 11 | 11 | 13 | 10 | 11 | 11(Tony) |
| 12 | 12 | 14 | 11 | 12 | 12 |
| 13 | 13 | 14(Reichert) | 12 | 13 | 13 |
| 14 | 14 | 15 | 13 | 14 | 14 |
| 15 | 15 | 15(Reichert) | 14 | 14(Carmen) | 15 |
| 16 | 16 |
Herriott’s draft picks and regular season finishes by year
The only other time Herriott had an equally weak set of picks was in 2017 when he traded away his 2nd and 4th round picks to Reichert just hours before the draft in Nashville. He finished the regular season that year in 6th place, also ending the season in 6th place after yet another 0-2 playoff run.
Drafting without a normal set of picks has become the new normal for Herriott, however this year will be the biggest challenge he has faced to date. With the weakest set of picks his team has ever seen, his chances of getting back to the playoffs this year are about as good as the Illinis.
Herriott is starting the season on a very generous playoff bubble watch. Any other manager would probably be on relegation watch given the draft picks he has coming into the year. The one thing Herriott on his side is history. Coming into this season, Herriott has been to the playoffs a league leading 10 times and is currently on a 3 year streak of making it to the postseason. Whether it’s taking Grabs or Moeller to the cleaners with one sided trades or getting lucky on the waiver wire, Herriott always finds a way to bail himself out of trouble throughout the year.
We expect to see a lot of the same this season. Look for Herriott to make some crafty moves and pickups along the way as he tries to swoop his way into the #6 spot when the final whistle blows in week 13.