Who are YOU drafting, and to what Brand?

[Kross Rhodes]

Who are YOU drafting, and to what Brand?

Who do you feel would be the sleeper pick here and how would you draft the Fox and USA rosters?

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Below is the full list of draft-eligible Superstars organized by assigned night:

Friday Night SmackDown – Oct. 11
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Ricochet
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
Lacey Evans
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Natalya
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Eric Young
EC3
Chad Gable
Heath Slater
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)
Tamina

Raw – Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
Titus O’Neil
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
Aleister Black
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
Daniel Bryan
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
Ali
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
Samoa Joe
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Rusev
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
R-Truth
Carmella
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Buddy Murphy
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Shelton Benjamin
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
Drake Maverick

These are the eligible people for each night for whomever wants to do this.

I'm gonna mull on this for a few minutes and comeback with my rosters.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Friday Night SmackDown
– Oct. 11
Raw Women’s Champion Becky Lynch
Roman Reigns
The O.C. (United States Champion AJ Styles, Luke Gallows & Karl Anderson)
Alexa Bliss & Nikki Cross
The Viking Raiders (Erik & Ivar)
SmackDown Tag Team Champions The Revival (Scott Dawson & Dash Wilder)
Cesaro
Kevin Owens
EC3
Chad Gable
Drew Gulak
The B-Team (Bo Dallas & Curtis Axel)

– Oct. 14
Universal Champion Seth Rollins
WWE Women’s Tag Team Champions The Kabuki Warriors (Asuka & Kairi Sane)
Aleister Black
Curt Hawkins & Zack Ryder
The IIconics (Billie Kay & Peyton Royce)
Sarah Logan
Fire & Desire (Mandy Rose & Sonya Deville)
AOP (Akam & Rezar)
Rusev
Buddy Murphy
Samoa Joe
Cedric Alexander
Rey Mysterio
Ali
Shelton Benjamin

Raw
– Oct. 11
"The Fiend" Bray Wyatt
Drew McIntyre
Randy Orton
Sasha Banks
Braun Strowman
Bobby Lashley
Ricochet
Lacey Evans
Natalya
Heavy Machinery (Tucker & Otis)
The Street Profits (Montez Ford & Angelo Dawkins)
Lucha House Party (Kalisto, Gran Metalik, Lince Dorado)
Humberto Carrillo
Akira Tozawa
Sin Cara
Heath Slater
Eric Young
Tamina

– Oct. 14

WWE Champion Brock Lesnar
SmackDown Women’s Champion Charlotte Flair
The New Day (Kofi Kingston, Big E & Xavier Woods)
Titus O’Neil
Intercontinental Champion Shinsuke Nakamura (with Sami Zayn)
Daniel Bryan
Bayley
Luke Harper
Erick Rowan
The Miz
King Corbin
Elias
Raw Tag Team Champions Dolph Ziggler & Bobby Roode
R-Truth
Carmella
Apollo Crews
Andrade
Liv Morgan
Jinder Mahal
Mojo Rawley
No Way José
Dana Brooke
Drake Maverick

If I was doing a booker, I'd tweak this a lot more. I can't help but want to make one brand better than the other, but this is what I can see happening / wanting to happen by just playing with it for a few minutes and being strapped to the Raw having more people rule and the dates of when they can be drafted, etc.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

One thing I did was gave SD the whole Women's tag division and just that for it's Women's division since they can wrestle singles as well and gave Raw most of the singles women. And also did something similar with the other divisions to give each show a more unique feel.

 

[Deezy]

Mandy rose and Alexa blss......all they do HLA.......guaranteed 8 million viewers.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Mandy rose and Alexa blss......all they do HLA.......guaranteed 8 million viewers.

While Fox is doing that, what is USA showing?

 

[Deezy]

While Fox is doing that, what is USA showing?

Cathy Kelly and Taynara Conti doing the same......bout a five share since they're not as well known....yet.

 

[Hoss]

NIGHT 1

1. Becky Lynch
2. Roman Reigns
3. The Fiend
4. The OC
5. Braun Strowman
6. Kevin Owens
7. Randy Orton
8. Viking Raiders
9. Sasha Banks
10. Alexa Bliss
11. Ricochet
12. Bobby Lashley
13. Drew McIntyre
14. Chad Gable
15. The Reival
16. Street Profits
17. Natalya
18. Cesaro
19. Lacey Evans
20. Nikki Cross
21. Drew Gulak
22. Lucha House Party
23. EC3
24. Humberto Carrillo
25. Akira Tozawa
26. Sin Cara
27. Heath Slater
28. Tamina
29. Eric Young
30. B-Team
​

Just gonna get night one up for now. I'll do night 2 later.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I didn't try to predict drafting order, just how the rosters would look after each draft.

I do think Becky will be first pick.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

I have to say I'm feeling good about the women's tags since they're all included as tags here.

 

[Hoss]

I have to say I'm feeling good about the women's tags since they're all included as tags here.

Are they though? There are 30 choices in the pool for tonight, but only if you split Alexa and Nikki into 2 picks.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

Are they though? There are 30 choices in the pool for tonight, but only if you split Alexa and Nikki into 2 picks.

Even if they split them, they're still including as eligible tag pick as well 3 other women's teams.

Leaves just enough hope WWE won't do something stupid here.

 

[Hoss]

Even if they split them, they're still including as eligible tag pick as well 3 other women's teams.

Leaves just enough hope WWE won't do something stupid here.

But the thing is, according to CBSSports' breakdown of the pool, the male teams count as one entrant in the pool. But the each member of the women's teams count as an entrant in the pool. If that makes sense. Like, when calculating the 30 entries in the pool tonight, The OC count as 1 entry, The Revival count as 1 entry, and so on and so forth. But Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross count as 2 entries. Same with The Kabuki Warriors and Fire & Desire in Monday's pool. That may not matter in the end if the shows just draft all the women's teams together, since they obviously CAN do that, but the way it's laid out makes it seem like that won't happen. But you never know. I guess we can be hopeful.

 

[Kross Rhodes]

But the thing is, according to CBSSports' breakdown of the pool, the male teams count as one entrant in the pool. But the each member of the women's teams count as an entrant in the pool. If that makes sense. Like, when calculating the 30 entries in the pool tonight, The OC count as 1 entry, The Revival count as 1 entry, and so on and so forth. But Alexa Bliss and Nikki Cross count as 2 entries. Same with The Kabuki Warriors and Fire & Desire in Monday's pool. That may not matter in the end if the shows just draft all the women's teams together, but the way it's laid out makes it seem like that won't happen. But you never know. I guess we can be hopeful.

According to WWE themselves, the women's tags are counted a s singles pick same as the men's.

Not sure why CBS is saying the opposite of what WWE is saying.

 

[Hoss]

According to WWE themselves, the women's tags are counted a s singles pick same as the men's.

Not sure why CBS is saying the opposite of what WWE is saying.

CBS isn't saying that the women's teams can't be drafted together, they're just calculating the members as two entries into the pool instead of one, for some reason. Idk, it may not matter at all in the end. It just kinda gave me pause. And maybe that's an error on CBS' part. But yeah. Who knows.