2000 Finances and Recommendations

Movie Recommendations and Profits

This year the movies that we recommend are: What Women Want, The Perfect Storm, X-Men, Scary Movie, Erin Brockovich, Nutty Professor II: The Klumps, Remember the Titans, Gone in 60 Seconds, Bring It On, Rules of Engagement, Coyote Ugly, Fantasia 2000, Next Friday, Final Destination; Dude, Where's My Car?; O Brother, Where Art Thou?; Frequency, The Replacements, Little Nicky, Almost Famous, The Legend of Bagger Vance, Snatch, High Fidelity, Billy Elliot, Battlefield Earth, American Psycho, The Next Best Thing, Quills

The total collected by movies (which grossed over $1 million) is $7.633 Billion. Our fees from our services are $76.33 Million.

Recommended TV Shows

ER, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, Will & Grace, Becker, Frasier, Just Shoot Me!, JAG

Music Recommendations and Profits

For music albums for 2001, we recommend: System of a Down: Toxicity, Tool: Lateralus, Radiohead- Amnesiac, Incubus- Morning View, Tantric- Tantric

We also recommend singles from these groups and will work with publishers to release compilation albums called Sensational Singles, the artists included in the 2000 edition are: P!NK, Gorillaz, Staind, Moulin Rouge Soundtrack, Kid Rock, No Doubt, Aaliyah, Michelle Branch, Toby Keith, Slipknot, D12, Depeche Mode, Missy Elliott, The White Stripes, Weezer, Busta Rhymes, Drowning Pool, Outkast, Rob Zombie, Muse, Sugar Ray, 311, Mandy Moore, Sevendust, Björk, Garbage

The estimated number of units for the best-selling albums for 2001 is 484 million copies at the average cost of $15 per album, which should give us a share of $72.60 million.

Video Game Recommendations and Profits

 Game Boy: Game Boy: Donkey Kong Country; (10M) Playstation: Dragon Quest VII, Dino Crisis 2, Frogger 2: Swampy's Revenge; (27M) Playstation 2: Madden NFL 2001; (5M) PC: The Sims, Diablo II, Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2; (19M) Nintendo 64: Excitebike 64 (18M)

The income from our forecasts and services for this year is $79 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 #. We do not advise trading our draft pick. Recommended drafts are: 12: Jamaal Magloire+, 31: Michael Redd*

SG: Michael Redd* 43,

PF: Kenyon Martin+1,

PF/C: Jamaal Magloire+19,

We do not recommend drafting: SG: Chris Carrawell#, G: DeeAndre Hulett#, Josip Sesar#, Cory Hightower#, Jaquay Walls#, Scoonie Penn#, F: Pete Mickeal#, PG: Mark Karcher#

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=*)

For this draft we recommend: 25: Adam Wainwright +.

1B: Adrián González +1,

2B: Chase Utley +15,

RHP: Adam Wainwright +29

We do not recommend signing: Paul Maholm*, Michael Bourn*, Jason Hammel*, Chad Cordero*, Ian Kinsler*, Brian Wilson*, Nick Blackburn*, Russell Martin*, Tim Stauffer*, Scott Baker*, Tom Gorzelanny*, Luke Scott*, or David Murphy*.

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.

The players we recommend are: 19: Shaun Alexander †, 49: Marcus Washington †, 80: Shane Lechler †, 109: Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila †, 144: Dante Hall †, 180: Tom Brady †, 219: Brian Jennings †,

We recommend inviting the projected Pro Bowl players that we project to remain undrafted to our training camp: Shaun O'Hara †, Adewale Ogunleye †, Shayne Graham †,

LB: Brian Urlacher‡† 9, LaVar Arrington † 2, Julian Peterson † 16, Keith Bulluck † 30, Ian Gold † 40, Marcus Washington † 59, Adalius Thomas † 186,

OT: Chris Samuels † 3, Marvel Smith † 38, Chad Clifton † 44,

RB: Jamal Lewis † 5, Thomas Jones † 7, Shaun Alexander † 19,

DT: Corey Simon † 6,

DE: Shaun Ellis † 12, John Abraham † 13, Kabeer Gbaja-Biamila † 149, Adewale Ogunleye † U,

TE: Bubba Franks † 14,

CB : Deltha O'Neal † 15,

K: Sebastian Janikowski † 17, Neil Rackers † 169, Shayne Graham † U,

SS: Mike Brown † 39,

WR: Laveranues Coles † 78, Dante Hall † 153,

P: Shane Lechler † 142,

QB: Marc Bulger † 168, Tom Brady † 199,

LS: Brian Jennings † 230,

C: Shaun O'Hara † U,

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 #.

The players we recommend are: 25: Justin Williams (RW), 60: Lubomir Visnovsky (D), 68: Roman Cechmanek (G), 91: Henrik Lundqvist (G)

G: Henrik Lundqvist ^205, Roman Cechmanek *171, Rick DiPietro +1, Ilya Bryzgalov /44, 

LW: Dany Heatley *2,

RW: Marian Gaborik *3, Scott Hartnell +6, Justin Williams +28, 

D: Lubomir Visnovsky *118, 

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.

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

D: Nick Garcia*2, Rusty Pierce*14, Carlos Bocanegra*§^†4, Danny Califf*†6, Kerry Zavagnin†30,

M: Bobby Convey*12, Shaker Asad*31, Micah Cooks*60,

F: Sergio Salas*27,

GK: Nick Rimando*^35,

We think we can get: no recommendations. 5: Danny Califf*†, 22: Sergio Salas*, 34: Nick Rimando*^, 46: Micah Cooks*