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Just completed my first year player draft. I don't think this qualifies as a house rule; more along the lines of management style. What I did, after receiving all of my scouting reports from the pool, was to collectively unite the assessments in a spreadsheet - rating each pick with their pick selection and assigning 'not selected' with a rating of 100. This established a go-forward draft-list in descending order of my scout team's preferences and I, being the benevolent GM I am, conceded to adhere to these selections.

Bad news was, I was the 47th pick out of 48 teams. Good news was (if you can call it that) the first three picks scratched top picks off the list, but it wasn't until the 12th pick that additional picks were being eliminated. It appeared some of my picks were going to still available into the next two to three rounds. Of course this resulted in a quick discussion with my scouting staff about "Why in the hell are these other teams selecting players that are not even on your radar?!*$"

Long story short, I was able to secure a pick from my selection list (which numbered about 30) as far as the eighth round before I had to physically start examining potential candidates that had not received priority looks. The result is we took the majority of what we wanted, settled for lower picks than we might have hoped for, but - IMHO - relied almost solely on the talent of our staff than on my specific whim or predilection and I'm good with the rationale behind that, regardless if the best players may have 'gotten away'.