2023 SwimSwam NCAA Fantasy Draft: Yanyan Won, Ben Lost

by Ben Dornan 29

March 25th, 2023 College, News

2023 NCAA DIVISION I MEN’S SWIMMING & DIVING CHAMPIONSHIPS

We are back in action at the men’s NCAA Swimming & Diving Championships, which are currently running in Minnesota. That means that we will be continuing with our live updates for the SwimSwam Fantasy Draft, which you can read about here. Each of the four GMs (me, Braden, Yanyan, and Coleman) drafted eight swimmers to our team and are competing to score the most points across the men’s and women’s NCAA Championships.

After the women’s meet, Coleman was in the lead with 74 points, while Yanyan wasn’t far behind with 71. Braden had a respectable 60 points for third place, while I was in last place with 32 points (no comment). Now that the men are competing, you can keep following along here to see how the race plays out.

Overall Scores (Final)

TEAM GM SCORE
1 Bathtub Pool Swimmers Yanyan 137
2 Knoxville Knuckleballers Coleman 116
3 Gabe And The Jetts Braden 107
4 Taylor Ruck & Roll Ben 96

Men’s Meet Scores (Final)

TEAM GM SCORE
1 Bathtub Pool Swimmers Yanyan 66
2 Taylor Ruck & Roll Ben 64
3 Gabe And The Jetts Braden 47
4 Knoxville Knuckleballers Coleman 42

Women’s Meet Scores (Final)

TEAM GM SCORE
1 Knoxville Knuckleballers Coleman 74
2 Bathtub Pool Swimmers Yanyan 71
3 Gabe And The Jetts Braden 60
4 Taylor Ruck & Roll Ben 32

2023 NCAA Draft Scoring System

  • Individual Gold: 6 points
  • Individual Silver: 5 points
  • Individual Bronze: 4 points
  • Individual 4th – 8th: 1 point
  • Individual NCAA/US Open/Fastest Relay Split In History: 3 points
  • Relay Gold: 3 points
  • Relay Silver: 2 points
  • Relay Bronze: 1 point
  • Relay NCAA/US Open Record: 1 point
  • DQ: – 2 points

As a reminder, here are the teams:

TEAM KNOXVILLE KNUCKLEBALLERS TAYLOR RUCK & ROLL GABE AND THE JETTS BATHTUB POOL SWIMMERS
GM Coleman Ben Braden Yanyan
1 Kate Douglass (UVA) Leon Marchand (ASU) Gretchen Walsh (UVA) Alex Walsh (UVA)
2 Adam Chaney (UF) Jordan Crooks (TENN) Kelly Pash (TEX) Josh Liendo (UF)
3 Gabriel Jett (CAL) Erica Sullivan (TEX) Bjorn Seeliger (CAL) Torri Huske (STA)
4 Carson Foster (TEX) Katharine Berkoff (NC) Destin Lasco (CAL) Claire Curzan (STA)
5 Maggie MacNeil (LSU) Lexi Cuomo (UVA) Emma Sticklen (TEX) Hugo Gonzalez (CAL)
6 Grant House (ASU) Taylor Ruck (STA) Max McHugh (MINN) Lydia Jacoby (TEX)
7 Olivia Bray (TEX) Brooks Curry (LSU) Aimee Canny (UVA) Brendan Burns (IND)
8 Gabi Albiero (UL) Kacper Stokowski (NC) Aleksas Savickas (UF) David Johnston (TEX)

In addition to the live team scores at the top of this post, you can see an event-by-event breakdown as well as individual swimmer rankings, which we’ll update as the meets occur.

EVENT-BY-EVENT BREAKDOWN

MEN’S 200 MEDLEY RELAY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Stokowski: 4 Chaney: 1 Liendo: 1 McHugh: 3
Marchand: 5 Savickas: 1
Total 9 1 1 4

MEN’S 800 FREESTYLE RELAY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 5 Foster: 4 Lasco: 1
House: 2
Jett: 1
Total 5 7 0 1

MEN’S 500 FREESTYLE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Jett: 1 Johnston: 5
Total 0 1 5 0

MEN’S 200 IM

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 9 Foster: 1 Gonzalez: 4 Lasco: 5
Total 9 1 4 5

MEN’S 50 FREESTYLE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Crooks: 6 Liendo: 5 Seeliger: 4
Curry: 1
Total 7 0 5 4

MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE RELAY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Chaney: 4 Liendo: 4 Seeliger: 2
Lasco: 2
Total 0 4 4 4

MEN’S 400 INDIVIDUAL MEDLEY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 9 Foster: 4 Gonzalez: 5
Johnston: 1
Total 9 4 6 0

MEN’S 100 BUTTERFLY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Crooks: 1 Liendo: 5
Stokowski: 1
Total 2 0 5 0

MEN’S 200 FREESTYLE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Curry: 1 Jett: 5
House: 4
Total 1 9 0 0

MEN’S 100 BREASTSTROKE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
McHugh: 6
Total 0 0 0 6

MEN’S 100 BACKSTROKE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Stokowski: 5 Chaney: 1 Burns: 6 Lasco: 4
Total 5 1 6 4

MEN’S 400 MEDLEY RELAY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 4 Chaney: 4 Liendo: 7
Burns: 2
Total 4 4 9 0

MEN’S 1650 FREESTYLE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Johnston: 1
Total 0 0 1 0

MEN’S 200 BACKSTROKE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Stokowski: 1 Foster: 1 Gonzalez: 5 Lasco: 6
Total 1 1 5 6

MEN’S 100 FREESTYLE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Crooks: 1 Liendo: 6 Seeliger: 4
Curry: 1
Total 2 0 6 4

MEN’S 200 BREASTSTROKE

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 9 McHugh: 4
Savickas: 1
Total 9 0 0 5

MEN’S 200 BUTTERFLY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Jett: 4 Burns: 5
Total 0 4 5 0

MEN’S 400 FREESTYLE RELAY

BEN COLEMAN YANYAN BRADEN
Marchand: 1 Chaney: 4 Liendo: 4 Seeliger: 2
House: 1 Lasco: 2
Total 1 5 4 4

SWIMMER RANKINGS

SWIMMER TEAM (SCHOOL) TEAM (FANTASY) POINTS
1 Leon Marchand ASU Ben 42
2 Josh Liendo Florida Yanyan 32
3 Destin Lasco Cal Braden 20
4 Adam Chaney Florida Coleman 14
4 Hugo Gonzalez Cal Yanyan 14
6 Max McHugh Minnesota Braden 13
6 Brendan Burns Indiana Yanyan 13
8 Bjorn Seeliger Cal Braden 12
9 Gabriel Jett Cal Coleman 11
9 Kasper Stokowski NC State Ben 11
11 Carson Foster Texas Coleman 10
12 Jordan Crooks Tennessee Ben 8
13 David Johnston Texas Yanyan 7
13 Grant House ASU Coleman 7
15 Brooks Curry LSU Ben 3
16 Aleksas Savickas Florida Braden 2

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Emily Se-Bom Lee
1 year ago

at least ben didn’t draft matt sates this time

Chas
1 year ago

Yanyan selections consistent with her team name. Haha, love the irony. Her IQ is stratospheric. Sorry guys, be grateful for the learning opportunity your failures provide. She went with quality. Olympic medalists. Proven success at the highest level. You also-rans got distracted by bathtub swimming. Yanyan kept the big picture in perspective. Congratulations Yanyan! 👍 🥇 🏆

Suzy Q
1 year ago

yanyan eating y’all up 😭😭

Joel
1 year ago

Is Yanyan still 17 years old ? So impressive. (with a bit of luck thrown in but still impressive)

Admin
Reply to  Joel
1 year ago
BairnOwl
Reply to  Braden Keith
1 year ago

I’m curious how she got this job, considering her youth.

Steve Nolan
Reply to  BairnOwl
1 year ago

being able to write good doesn’t really have an age limit

Joel
Reply to  Steve Nolan
1 year ago

Neither does being able to write bad hey Steve?

Snarky
1 year ago

Yanyan. Can you pick some hot stocks for me? Please?

emma
1 year ago

If my calculations are right, the best undrafted team is:
Hobson (16), McDuff (12), Alexy (10), Magahey (8)
Nelson (13), McMahon (12), Elendt (10), Parker (8)
89 points total

PK Doesn't Like His Long Name
Reply to  emma
1 year ago

Standings without the first four picks would be Yanyan 109, Coleman 75, Braden 73, Ben 54. That undrafted team is likely ambitious-nailing McDuff, Alexy, and Parker would have been very difficult before the meet. But it does compete pretty well if you remove the top 4 from the scoring equation.

K Chilly
1 year ago

Leon vs Ben’s women’s team would be tied right now

Sub13
Reply to  K Chilly
1 year ago

He said he accidentally crossed MacNeil off his list or he would have picked her instead of Sullivan. If he had picked her instead then he’d be coming second overall.

Steve Nolan
1 year ago

Oh I love how this is going.

Admin
Reply to  Steve Nolan
1 year ago

If I lose to Ben, I’m retiring.