Do you know Ultimate too well? Do you stay awake waiting for Fantasy Baseball/Football/Basketball season to come around again?

Here’s your chance to enter into our equivalent. Just for fun.

We’re choosing 6-8 ‘Team Owners’ in the Men’s Division and 4-5 in the Women’s Division. Starting on Monday, July 20th, we’ll put out the rules for those owners, and let them draft their teams from any player in the world. After creating those teams, we’ll let our authors have a chance to break down each team on their strengths and weaknesses, and find out who drafted the best squad of 16-18 players.

We’ll also have a couple of ‘experts’ making attempts at breaking down the draft, pick by pick.

Now, for much of the world, I am sure this sounds like serious nerdiness. And it is. But if you are like us and love Ultimate, know what too much about players you’ve never met, and already spend time daydreaming about Professional Ultimate…here’s your chance to put this knowledge into a game.

Players will draft assuming that they are competing to win a 3-day tournament in September. If you draft players that are injured, we’ll assume they can heal by then. If you draft players that aren’t playing this year, we’ll have to hope they can whip themselves into shape quickly. We’ll have some lists of the players we know (we’ll try to put together a list of 300 for Men’s and 200 for Women’s for our Owners to use as a guide). That super-sweet player you know from Croatia that no one else knows about? That’s just good scouting, and totally allowed.

Owners can be anonymous if they want, but they’ll have to announce which team they are playing for…in an attempt to broaden horizons, our drafting rule is that no team can have more than 2 players currently playing with the Team Owner. Interesting situations that we haven’t accounted for will be voted on by the Owners (or we’ll find a Commissioner to rule on it).

We’ve set up what we think is a decent solution for how to do drafting efficiently and effectively, and we’ll be posting the results for all to see on the following week (assuming no untoward delays).

If you are interested in contributing as an Owner in either division, or as a Commentator on either division, we have a couple of spots left for each role! Let us know at info@the-huddle.org, and we’ll fill those spots on a first-replying basis. If you sign up, but it turns out you don’t know your players as well as you thought….well, you probably won’t win our Fantasy League Prize (we have something for the winner in each division, which we will keep if the Editors team wins it all)!

We hope this is a chance for people to have fun, and to give interested readers a chance to know more about and celebrate individual players at the top of their game.

Keep an eye out for the results coming soon!
Ben & Andy