1998 Finances and Recommendations

Movie Recommendations and Profits

This year the movies that we recommend are: Saving Private Ryan, A Bug's Life, The Waterboy, Doctor Dolittle, Rush Hour, Patch Adams, The Truman Show, Enemy of the State, The Rugrats Movie, Antz, Blade, The Parent Trap, Ever After: A Cinderella Story, Hope Floats, U.S. Marshals, The Man in the Iron Mask, A Civil Action, Halloween H20: 20 Years Later, Practical Magic, The Negotiator, Pleasantville, The Faculty, I Still Know What You Did Last Summer, Primary Colors, Sphere, The Thin Red Line, Can't Hardly Wait, The Avengers, Psycho, Disturbing Behavior, Blues Brothers 2000, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Home Fries, The Newton Boys, American History X, The Opposite of Sex, Palmetto, Hilary and Jackie.

The total collected by movies (which grossed over $1 million) is $6,539 Billion. Our fees from our services are $65.39 Million.

Recommended TV Shows

ER, Frasier, Veronica's Closet, Home Improvement, The Drew Carey Show, JAG, Becker, Ally McBeal, Dharma & Greg, Spin City, Walker Texas Ranger, The X-Files

Music Recommendations and Profits

For music albums for 1999, we recommend: Red Hot Chili Peppers- Californication, Limp Bizkit- Significant Other, Eminem-The Slim Shady LP, Metallica with the San Francisco Symphony-S&M, KoRn- Issues, Incubus- Make Yourself, Slipknot- Slipknot, Nine Inch Nails- The Fragile, Silverchair- Neon Ballroom, Family Values Tour '98

We also recommend singles from these groups and will work with publishers to release compilation albums called Sensational Singles, the artists included in the 1999 edition are: Backstreet Boys, Britney Spears, Santana, Blink-182, Christina Aguilera, Dixie Chicks, Destiny's Child, Dr. Dre, TLC, Sugar Ray, Bloodhound Gang, Rage Against the Machine, Staind, 2Pac and Outlawz, Bush, LeAnn Rimes, Stone Temple Pilots, "Weird Al" Yankovic, Filter, End of Days, Mandy Moore, Static-X, Sevendust.

The estimated number of units for the best-selling albums for 1999 is 674 million copies at the average cost of $15 per album, which should give us a share of $50.55 million.

Video Game Recommendations and Profits

Game Boy: The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening DX; Sega Genesis: NFL '98; Playstation: Resident Evil 2, Metal Gear Solid, Twisted Metal III; PC: Final Fantasy VII; Nintendo 64: The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time

The income from our forecasts and services for this year is $102 Million.

Basketball draft

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 pick up: 9: Dirk Nowitzki, 32: Rashard Lewis, and 35: Brad Miller.

PF: Dirk Nowitzki^9, Rashard Lewis+32,

SF/SG: Paul Pierce^10, Vince Carter*~ 5,

F: Antawn Jamison+4,

C: Brad Miller+U,

This year, we do not recommend drafting: C: Andrew Betts# PG: Corey Brewer# 

Baseball draft

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

LHP: Mark Mulder+2, CC Sabathia+20, Matt Thornton+22,

OF: J. D. Drew+5, Aaron Rowand+35,

3B: Felipe López+8,

1B: Carlos Peña+9,

RHP: Brad Lidge+17, Mark Prior+43,

C/OF: Jayson Werth^22,

For this draft, we recommend 10: Carlos Peña

We do not recommend drafting this year: Barry Zito*, Mark Teixeira*, J. J. Putz*, Mike MacDougal*, Adam LaRoche*, Cliff Lee*, Bobby Crosby*, Nyjer Morgan*, Mike Jacobs*

Projected to sign with the NFL: Earnest Graham*

Football draft

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.

QB: Peyton Manning‡† 1, Brian Griese † 91, Matt Hasselbeck † 187,

CB: Charles Woodson‡† 4, Patrick Surtain † 44, Samari Rolle † 46, Allen Rossum † 85,

WR: Randy Moss‡† 21, Hines Ward † 92,

OG: Alan Faneca‡† 26, Mike Wahle † SD,

OT: Kyle Turley † 7, Tra Thomas † 11, Flozell Adams † 38,

DE: Greg Ellis † 8, Leonard Little † 65,

RB: Fred Taylor † 9, Ahman Green † 76,

LB: Keith Brooking † 12, Takeo Spikes † 13, Sam Cowart † 39, Jeremiah Trotter † 72, Ike Reese † 142, London Fletcher † U,

S: Corey Chavous † 33, Lance Schulters † 119,

TE: Stephen Alexander † 48,

C: Jeremy Newberry † 58, Olin Kreutz † 64, Matt Birk † 173, Jeff Saturday † U,

FB: Fred Beasley † 180,

DT: Jamal Williams † SD,

K: Mike Vanderjagt † U, Phil Dawson † U,

The players we recommend are: 8: Randy Moss‡†, 38: Flozell Adams †, 100: Lance Schulters †, 130: Ike Reese †, 138: Matt Birk †, 188: Mike Wahle †, 223: Jamal Williams †, 227: Jeff Saturday † , 237: London Fletcher † 

We recommend inviting the projected Pro Bowl players that we project to remain undrafted to our training camp: Mike Vanderjagt † and Phil Dawson † 

Hockey draft

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 #.

C: Vincent Lecavalier ^ 1, Pavel Datsyuk ^171, Alex Tanguay*12, Simon Gagne *22, Scott Gomez*27, Mike Ribeiro *45, Brad Richards *64, Shawn Horcoff *99, Tyler Arnason *183, 

RW: Jonathan Cheechoo *29,

D: Andrei Markov *162, Francois Beauchemin +75, 

The players we recommend are: 39: Mike Ribeiro *, 57: Francois Beauchemin +, 86: Andrei Markov *, 153: Pavel Datsyuk ^ 173: Tyler Arnason *

Soccer draft

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:

M: Clint Mathis^6, Wade Barrett^12, Pablo Mastroeni^13,

F: Jeff Cunningham^9,

We think we can get: 10: Wade Barrett^

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

N/A

We think we can get: N/A