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Players up for grabs in MLS drafts Posted: Thursday January 10, 2002 4:54 PMATLANTA (CNNSI.com) -- All former Fusion and Mutiny players will be placed into a pool for Friday's allocation and dispersal Drafts, along with all first-round picks in the 2002 SuperDraft held by Miami and Tampa Bay. The move follows the league's decision earlier this week to fold the Fusion and the Mutiny. All lower 2002 SuperDraft picks held by the Mutiny and Fusion (other than picks previously traded away) will be eliminated, including any picks for which they had traded. Prior to the Dispersal Draft, teams due allocations for the 2002 season will participate in an allocation draft and may select any one player or pick on the dispersal draft list per allocation. The MLS Competition Committee has approved the allocations and selection order for those allocations as follows:
ALLOCATION DRAFT SELECTION ORDER 1. Colorado Rapids (Failure to Make the MLS Playoffs) 2. New England Revolution (Failure to Make the MLS Playoffs) 3. D.C. United (Failure to Make the MLS Playoffs) 4. Colorado Rapids (Unused 2001 Allocation) 5. New England Revolution (Loss of L. Alvarez and M. Wright) 6. New England Revolution (Loss of William Sunsing) 7. Dallas Burn (Retirement of Lubos Kubik) 8. Los Angeles Galaxy (Loss of Luis Hernandez) 9. San Jose Earthquakes (Unused 2000 Allocation) Immediately following the allocation draft, the league will conduct the dispersal draft. The draft order is based on the natural SuperDraft order, as follows: DISPERSAL DRAFT SELECTION ORDER 1. Colorado Rapids 2. New England Revolution 3. D.C. United 4. Kansas City Wizards 5. Dallas Burn 6. MetroStars 7. Columbus Crew 8. Chicago Fire 9. Los Angeles Galaxy 10. San Jose Earthquakes The players below will be available in the Allocation and Dispersal Drafts. In addition, there are three (3) 2002 SuperDraft picks available to the 10 MLS teams. Those picks are: Player poolPlayer Former Team Alavanja, Lazo Miami Fusion Addo, Joseph Tampa Bay Mutiny Asad, Shaker^ Miami Fusion Barclay, Devin^ Tampa Bay Mutiny Beckerman, Kyle^ Miami Fusion Bilyk, Jeff Miami Fusion Bishop, Ian# Miami Fusion Brown, Adin Tampa Bay Mutiny Cassar, Jeff Miami Fusion Curtis, Ali Tampa Bay Mutiny Denton, Eric Tampa Bay Mutiny Diallo, Mamadou# Tampa Bay Mutiny Dunseth, Brian Miami Fusion Henderson, Chris Miami Fusion Jair** Tampa Bay Mutiny Kartes, Gus Tampa Bay Mutiny Keller, Josh Tampa Bay Mutiny Llamosa, Carlos Miami Fusion Lowery, John Tampa Bay Mutiny Marshall, Tyrone Miami Fusion Mastroeni, Pablo Miami Fusion McCarty, Chad Tampa Bay Mutiny McKinley, Ivan Miami Fusion Pena, Danny Tampa Bay Mutiny Pineda Chacon, Alex# Miami Fusion Preki Miami Fusion Quill, Eric Tampa Bay Mutiny Ralston, Steve Tampa Bay Mutiny Rimando, Nick Miami Fusion Rooney, Jim Miami Fusion Serna, Diego# Miami Fusion Sonora, Diego# Tampa Bay Mutiny Torres, Johnny Miami Fusion Trittschuh, Steve Tampa Bay Mutiny Woan, Ian** Miami Fusion^ ^ Project-40 Player #- Senior International **-Discovery Player Rules and regulationsDraft Rounds The allocation draft will last until all teams with Allocations have used their picks or passed, while the Dispersal Draft shall last until each team has passed or either players or picks remain in the Dispersal Draft. Once a team has passed, it may no longer participate in the Dispersal Draft (e.g. may no longer select players, use a timeout, etc.). Selection Clock Intermissions Timeouts Failure to Make Selection in Designated Time Trades Currently, Dallas owns Miami's second round 2003 SuperDraft pick, Los Angeles owns either a third round 2003 SuperDraft pick to be acquired by Tampa or Tampa's second round 2003 SuperDraft pick and Colorado owns Tampa's third round 2003 SuperDraft pick. In order that the elimination of Miami and Tampa Bay do not extend into future MLS SuperDrafts, additional picks in the 2002 SuperDraft shall be allocated as follows: 1. In lieu of the second round 2003 SuperDraft pick acquired from Miami previously, Dallas shall receive a second round 2002 pick in Miami's "natural" position. This pick will immediately follow the 2002 second round draft pick currently held by D.C.United, which it had previously acquired from Miami. 2. In lieu of the conditional 2003 SuperDraft pick (either second or third round) previously acquired from Tampa Bay, Los Angeles shall receive a third round 2002 pick in Tampa Bay's "natural" position. This pick will immediately follow the Mutiny's actual natural 2002 third round draft pick currently held by Chicago. This pick shall rank ahead of the third round pick acquired from Tampa Bay by Colorado (see note 3 below) because it was a conditional second round pick. 3. In lieu of the third round 2003 SuperDraft pick previously acquired from Tampa Bay, Colorado shall receive a third round 2002 pick in Tampa Bay's "natural" position. This pick immediately follows the pick created for Los Angeles under paragraph 2 above.
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