The London Roar have three top-50 scorers from last year among their unretained athletes: Adam Peaty, Maria Kameneva, and Christian Diener. Archive photo via Mike Lewis/Ola Vista Photography
Each of the ISL’s ten franchises has had the option to retain up to 15 athletes – but now, fans get to vote on one more athlete for each team to retain.
Here’s a look at the top swimmers in each team’s protection pool who weren’t retained.
One note: some of these swimmers might have fully withdrawn from the league, like NY Breaker star Michael Andrew. If we get confirmation that anyone is out of the league, we will remove them below.
Athletes are listed with their 2020 scoring stats across the regular season. Some swimmers on the protection lists didn’t compete in 2020, but many did compete in 2019 – they are listed without 2020 stats at the bottom of each team’s list.
You can cast your vote here – the ISL requires fans to sign up for streaming of the league this season, and fans will get to vote on just one team’s retained swimmer.
Playing devil’s advocate here, but doesn’t this leave room for someone who supports one team to create an account just to vote for an opposing team to retain someone that doesn’t make sense? For example, couldn’t a Condors fan create like 50 accounts with randomly generated email addresses to try to make sure that London Roar retains Elliot Clogg (4 point last season) instead of Peaty, Diener, or Kameneva?
Linn
2 years ago
Did London Roar change head coach? Did I just miss that info. It’s been Mel Marshall, right? Now it says Steven Tigg
Reading between the lines from what Rob said on stream about some people not wanting to commit to all races etc thus lowering them down the list of retained swimmers (pretty certain he mentioned Campbell being the last retained as she might not be able to race all meets). I would assume Adam thus Mel are either not available for all the races scheduled or are looking at a break post Olympics considering they potentially have Worlds, Commonwealth and Euros next year if they target all 3. It’s also worth noting there are AP race clinic tour dates scheduled for the first few days of when the league would be in Naples so can’t be in two places at once… Read more »
Thanks for the explanation! I don’t live in the right time zone, was hoping to be able to watch a replay when I woke up but couldn’t find one
Eric the eel > Phelps
2 years ago
how do we create an account on the website???
Mean Dean
2 years ago
Eddie back on the condors. Loved watching him last season
Willswim
2 years ago
This league likes to bounce back and forth between comically inept and needlessly complicated.
Here’s the step-by-step process:
Step 1. Create an account on ISL
Step 2. Hover over Season 2021
Step 3. Click on Draft
Step 4. Select a team below video
Step 5. Scroll down to the end
Step 6. Do 300 pushups
Step 7. Divide by zero
Step 8. Learn Swahili
Step 9. Out pizza the hut
Step 10. Learn to love again
Step 11. Talk about Fight Club
Step 12. Dance like no one is watching
Imagine spending all of this time, money, and effort on a draft, and then not posting on social media once on the first day of the draft.
I guess I can forgive tpyos, but to me that’s not even the 5th-worst thing about their social media presence.
Marcy Spann
2 years ago
These are my fan vote guesses (since the link is taking forever for me to do the actual fan vote…..thanks ISL)
AQC – Valentine Dumont (BEL)
CAC – Mitch Larkin (AUS)
DCT – Mark Nikolaev (RUS)
ENS – Ben Proud (GBR)
NYB – Emily Escobedo (USA)
LAC – Andrew Seliskar (USA)
LON – Adam Peaty (GBR)
IRO – Clement Mignon (FRA)
TOR – Brent Hayden (CAN)
TOK – Yui Ohashi (JPN)
Nick
2 years ago
I voted for Murez for LA and now when I go to vote for every other team it says I can’t vote because I already had voted for Murez. Yet we were told that we can vote once per team.
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Playing devil’s advocate here, but doesn’t this leave room for someone who supports one team to create an account just to vote for an opposing team to retain someone that doesn’t make sense? For example, couldn’t a Condors fan create like 50 accounts with randomly generated email addresses to try to make sure that London Roar retains Elliot Clogg (4 point last season) instead of Peaty, Diener, or Kameneva?
Did London Roar change head coach? Did I just miss that info. It’s been Mel Marshall, right? Now it says Steven Tigg
Reading between the lines from what Rob said on stream about some people not wanting to commit to all races etc thus lowering them down the list of retained swimmers (pretty certain he mentioned Campbell being the last retained as she might not be able to race all meets). I would assume Adam thus Mel are either not available for all the races scheduled or are looking at a break post Olympics considering they potentially have Worlds, Commonwealth and Euros next year if they target all 3. It’s also worth noting there are AP race clinic tour dates scheduled for the first few days of when the league would be in Naples so can’t be in two places at once… Read more »
Thanks for the explanation! I don’t live in the right time zone, was hoping to be able to watch a replay when I woke up but couldn’t find one
how do we create an account on the website???
Eddie back on the condors. Loved watching him last season
This league likes to bounce back and forth between comically inept and needlessly complicated.
Here’s the step-by-step process:
Step 1. Create an account on ISL
Step 2. Hover over Season 2021
Step 3. Click on Draft
Step 4. Select a team below video
Step 5. Scroll down to the end
Step 6. Do 300 pushups
Step 7. Divide by zero
Step 8. Learn Swahili
Step 9. Out pizza the hut
Step 10. Learn to love again
Step 11. Talk about Fight Club
Step 12. Dance like no one is watching
The whole website is complete rubbish.
Even their social media is rubbish and often littered with many typos/spelling mistakes/wrong dates…
Imagine spending all of this time, money, and effort on a draft, and then not posting on social media once on the first day of the draft.
I guess I can forgive tpyos, but to me that’s not even the 5th-worst thing about their social media presence.
These are my fan vote guesses (since the link is taking forever for me to do the actual fan vote…..thanks ISL)
AQC – Valentine Dumont (BEL)
CAC – Mitch Larkin (AUS)
DCT – Mark Nikolaev (RUS)
ENS – Ben Proud (GBR)
NYB – Emily Escobedo (USA)
LAC – Andrew Seliskar (USA)
LON – Adam Peaty (GBR)
IRO – Clement Mignon (FRA)
TOR – Brent Hayden (CAN)
TOK – Yui Ohashi (JPN)
I voted for Murez for LA and now when I go to vote for every other team it says I can’t vote because I already had voted for Murez. Yet we were told that we can vote once per team.
That’s what happened for me too. I’m just glad I voted for Peaty @ Roar first.