Your chance to predict what Adam Peters will do next week
Did you say a contest?!
For eight years, from 2017 to 2024, I hosted the “Draft Pick-3” draft prediction contest that followed basically the same rules every year.
We’re gonna change things up a little bit in 2025.
This year, the Commanders have only five picks in hand, which seems to invite Adam Peters to trade back if he can — perhaps more than once. Also, instead of picking in the top half of each round as was usual in the eight prior contest seasons, Washington will be picking 29th out of 32 teams this season, expanding the variables — especially for the first round — by an order of magnitude (rhetorically if not scientifically).
For these reasons, I have decided to slightly change the contest structure (and name!) to reflect the reality of this smaller number of picks and greater variability in outcome.
The “Draft Pick 5” contest
In this new version of the contest, each entrant can identify 5 players in each round of the draft whether or not the Commanders currently have a pick in that round. Each player named that gets drafted by the Commanders will score points.
In a new twist, entrants have the option to predict that the Commanders will trade out of Round 1 and/or Round 2 completely. Those who correctly predict that AP will trade completely out of Round 1 and/or Round 2 will receive points for correct predictions of those trade outcomes.
Points scoring
Trading out of Round 1
Correctly predicting that Adam Peters will trade out of Round 1 earns 6 points.
Trading completely out of Round 2
Correctly predicting that Adam Peters will trade completely out of Round 2 earns 9 points. Note that these points are awarded ONLY if the Commanders do not make a second-round pick in the 2025 draft.
Right player; wrong round
If an entrant names a player who is drafted by the Commanders, but lists that player in any round other than the round in which he is actually drafted, the entrant earns 3 points.
Right player; right round
If an entrant names a player who is drafted by the Commanders AND lists that player in the correct round, the entrant will earn points based on the round in which the player was drafted:
- Round 1 = 4 points
- Round 2 = 6 points
- Round 3 = 9 points
- Round 4 = 12 points
- Round 5 = 16 points
- Round 6 = 20 points
- Round 7 = 25 points
An entrant may list any draft-eligible player in as many rounds as desired; however, there is no advantage to listing a player more than once in any given round.
To enter the contest, CLICK HERE to access the entry form
To enter the contest, CLICK HERE to access the entry form
If anyone posts multiple entries, the LAST entry posted by any individual entrant prior to 7:59 ET, 24 April 2025 will be that entrant’s “official” entry. No entries will be accepted after 7:59 ET, 24 April 2025.
In case of a tie, the entrant who has received the highest number of points for a single correct projection will be declared the winner. (For clarity, an entrant who earned 20 points for a correct 6th round projection would be declared the winner if no other entrant earned full points beyond round 5). If any entrants remain tied after applying the tie-breaker, then Bill-in-Bangkok will determine the declared winner.
To enter the contest, CLICK HERE to access the entry form
To enter the contest, CLICK HERE to access the entry form
THE PRIZE
Any contest is only as good as the value of the prize for winning, so here’s the deal; the winner will be entitled to the same ‘great’ prize as the eight winners of the Draft Pick-3 Contest. Once you’ve been named the winner, make an appointment with me, show up in Bangkok, and I’ll buy drinks for the two of us all night long at the bar or pub of your choice.
Previous Winners of the Draft Pick-3 Contest
2024 Panamon28
2023 VinceItaly
2022 Waltdeez
2021 dg28
2020 Rook6980
2019 dcbornskin
2018 Marooook!
2017 SkinsaneAsylum