2019 Draft Picks Announced

Written by Jacke Finne
Feb. 26, 2019
Commissioners, Grady Hadar and Jake Fine, have announced the Draft order for the opening season for the Indianapolis Wiffleball League. The Nighthawks have the edge over the other teams with the first pick of the 2019 draft. After the Nighthawks, the Ironmen and the Crusaders come up next with the second and third pick, respectively. Finally, the Hillcats round out the first round with the fourth pick. The remainder of the draft will go in a snake-like fashion.

Reportedly, the current plan for the league that the commissioners and the team captains went over during the meeting a weekend ago is that all of the recruited players will be invited to a combine of sorts. On back-to-back weekends, the players will have the chance to make their case to get picked in the opening round of the 2019 IWL Draft in a tryout-like event.

"As of now, we believe that we will be holding a weekend, followed by another weekend the week after, of pickup games," IWL Commissioner Jake Fine said. "The Sunday night of the second weekend is when we will have our draft, and the subsequent weekends are when we will have something similar to Spring Training. We have no dates set in stone quite yet, but the other captains and I are looking to get a schedule out soon."

In other news, as you may have already known, the commissioners and the captains created the IWL Rulebook for the 2019 season during the meeting a weekend ago. "It was an extremely productive meeting," Fine reported. "We were able to... do stuff."