1997 Finances and Recommendations

Movie Recommendations

This year, the movies that we recommend are: Men in Black, Liar Liar, Good Will Hunting, My Best Friend's Wedding, Face/Off, Batman & Robin, Scream 2, Con Air, Contact, Flubber, I Know What You Did Last Summer, The Fifth Element, The Devil's Advocate, Jungle 2 Jungle, Anastasia, Spawn, Starship Troopers, Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery, Speed 2: Cruise Control, G.I. Jane, Alien: Resurrection, The Rainmaker, Soul Food, Wag the Dog, Private Parts, Mortal Kombat: Annihilation, Fools Rush In, Boogie Nights, Chasing Amy,

 The total collected by movies (which grossed over $1 million) is $6,556 Billion. Our fees from our services are $65.56 Million.

Recommended TV Shows

Seinfeld, ER, Veronica's Closet, Home Improvement, The X-Files, Just Shoot Me!, The Drew Carey Show, Frasier, King of the Hill, The Simpsons, Walker Texas Ranger, Dharma & Greg, JAG, Ally McBeal

Music Recommendations

For music albums for 1998, we recommend: KoRn- Follow the Leader, Metallica- Garage Inc.,

The estimated number of units for the best-selling albums for 1998 is 594 million copies at the average cost of $11 per album, which should give us a share of $49.128 million.

Video Game Recommendations

Game Boy: Donkey Kong Land III; Playstation: Final Fantasy VII, Final Fantasy Tactics, Madden NFL 98, Cool Boarders 2, Frogger; Nintendo 64: Star Fox 64, Bomberman 64; PC: Age of Empires, Frogger, Quake II 

 This year, we will make $101 Million from our services to the video game industry. The income from our forecasts and services for this year is $101 Million.

Basketball Recommendations

Our recommendations for the Mavs this year are (with the best being ^, then *, +, the last good forecast is /). For players that are expected to be undrafted, we will denote them as U. The players that we do not think will sign have #. They can keep their first draft pick to pick up: 9: Tracy McGrady.

PF/C: Tim Duncan^1,

SG/SF: Tracy McGrady^9,

PG: Chauncey Billups*3,

This year, we do not recommend drafting: C: Serge Zwikker#, Paul Rogers#, Ben Pepper#, Roberto Dueñas#, SF/PF: Mark Sanford#, SF: Ed Elisma#, Gordon Malone#, SG: Alain Digbeu#, Nate Erdmann#, PG/SG: C.J. Bruton#,

 Baseball Draft Recommendations

For the Texas Rangers draft this year, we recommend these forecasted high-value players: (Position, Name, estimated pick), (Best=^, 2nd=+, will not sign=*)

OF: J. D. Drew ^2, Vernon Wells ^5,

3B/RHP: Troy Glaus^3,

RHP: Jason Grilli^4, Jon Garland^10,

SS/RHP: Michael Cuddyer^9,

1B: Lance Berkman^16,

C/OF: Jayson Werth^22,

For this draft, we do not have recommendations within our draft range.

We do not recommend drafting this year: Jeff Weaver*, Chase Utley*, Eric Byrnes*, Xavier Nady*, Cliff Lee*, Garrett Atkins*, Jeremy Guthrie*, Jason Michaels*, Nick Punto*, Brandon Lyon*, Bill Duplissea*, David DeJesus*, Brad Hawpe*, Chad Qualls*, Aaron Heilman*, Heath Bell*, Willie Harris*

Projected to sign with the NFL: Antwaan Randle El*, Joe Hall*, Marques Tuiasosopo*, Freddie Mitchell*

Football Draft Recommendations

For the Cowboys, we recommend: ‡ indicates a projected Hall of Fame player, † indicates a projected Pro Bowl player. U indicates an undrafted player that is likely to be a Pro Bowler.

OT: Orlando Pace‡† 1, Walter Jones‡† 6, Tarik Glenn † 19,

TE: Tony Gonzalez‡† 13, Chad Lewis † U,

CB: Ronde Barber‡† 66, Shawn Springs † 3, Sam Madison † 44, Al Harris † 169,

DE: Jason Taylor‡† 73, Marcellus Wiley † 52,

DT: Darrell Russell † 2, Trevor Pryce † 28, Pat Williams † U

LB: Peter Boulware † 4, James Farrior † 8, Dexter Coakley † 65, Bertrand Berry † 86, Mike Vrabel † 91, Keith Mitchell † U,

RB: Warrick Dunn † 12, Tiki Barber † 36, Corey Dillon † 43, Priest Holmes † U,

QB: Jake Plummer † 42, Jake Delhomme † U,

S: Darren Sharper † 60, Tremain Mack † 111, Sammy Knight † S,

WR: Derrick Mason † 98,

K: David Akers † U,

The players we recommend are: 22: Ronde Barber‡†, 65: Jason Taylor‡†, 83: Bertrand Berry †, 94: Derrick Mason †, 101: Tremain Mack †, 127: Al Harris †, 129: Priest Holmes †, 187: Pat Williams † 

We recommend inviting the projected Pro Bowl players that we project to remain undrafted to our training camp: Jake Delhomme †, Sammy Knight †, Keith Mitchell †, and Chad Lewis † 

 Hockey Draft Recommendations

Our recommendations for the Stars this year are (with best being ^, then *, +, the last good forecast is /). For players that are expected to be undrafted, we will denote them as U. The players that we do not think will sign have #.

G: Roberto Luongo^4,

RW: Marian Hossa^12, Maxim Afinogenov +69,

C: Joe Thornton *1, Patrick Marleau +2, Olli Jokinen +3,

D: Brian Campbell *156, Eric Brewer +5, Nick Boynton +9, Scott Hannan +23, 

LW: Sergei Samsonov +8, Kyle Calder +130, Mike York +136,

The players we recommend are: 25: Maxim Afinogenov (RW), 52: Kyle Calder (LW), 77: Mike York (LW), 105: Brian Campbell (D)

Soccer Draft Recommendations

Our recommendations for the Burn this year are (with best being ^, then *, +, the last good forecast is /). For players that are expected to be undrafted, we will denote them as U. The players that we do not think will sign have #.

For the MLS College Draft, the best players available are projected to be:

GK: Kevin Hartman^29

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For the Supplemental Draft, the best players available are projected to be:

D: Carlos Llamosa^8,

M: Kerry Zavagnin^21,

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