Announcing SwimSwam’s 2024 Olympic Games Fantasy Draft

By Coleman Hodges on SwimSwam

As is tradition at this point, the big meet of the summer is upon us and your favorite SwimSwam GMs are back in their drafting chairs. SwimSwam is proud to present the 2024 Olympic Games Fantasy Draft.

In this SwimSwam fantasy draft, five GMs gather to draft a team of swimmers competing in Paris. Each GM acquires a team of eight swimmers to create a team that will score the most points according to the scoring system below.

Scoring System for the 2022 SwimSwam Fantasy Draft

Individual Gold Medal: 6 points
Individual Silver Medal: 5 points
Individual Bronze Medal: 4 points
Relay Gold Medal, Swam in Finals: 4 points
Relay Silver Medal, Swam in Finals: 3 points
Relay Bronze Medal, Swam in Finals: 2 points
Any relay medal, Only Swam in Prelims: 1 point
Made an Individual Final, Didn’t Medal: 1 point
World Record Bonus: 3 points
DQ: -2 points

The 2024 Olympic Fantasy Draft took place on Wednesday, July 10, (notably before preliminary entries were released). Each of the five GMs had to select one swimmer from North America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania, and one from either South America, Central America, or Africa. GMs also had three wild card spots, which could be filled in with swimmers from any nation. Yanyan Li had the first pick, followed by David Clossy, Loretta Race, Coleman Hodges, and then Barry Revzin.

Check out the live draft here:

0:00 Fantasy Draft Introduction
2:30 Round 1
5:05 Round 2
7:43 Round 3
11:15 Round 4
14:57 Round 5
18:42 Round 6
23:23 Round 7
27:50 Round 8
32:12 Team Names and Final Rosters

Teams have been finalized and you can see which eight swimmers each GM will be relying on for points during the 2024 Olympic Games:

YanYan
David
Loretta
Coleman
Barry

The District Tap Lives On
Finke’s Lucky Duckys
Swim Shady
Coleman’s Cowbell Carpool
The Chicago Current

NA
Caeleb Dressel
Summer McIntosh
Bobby Finke
Kate Douglass
Regan Smith

SA/AFR
Guilherme Costa
Jordan crooks
Pieter Coetze
Tatjana Schoenmaker
Gui Caribe

EUR
Kristof Milak
Thomas Ceccon
Duncan Scott
Matt Richards
Leon Marchand

ASIA
Li Bingjie
Qin Haiyang
Pan Zhanle
Zhang Yufei
Siobhan Haughey

OCEAN
Mollie O’Callaghan
Sam Short
Kaylee McKeown
Ariarne Titmus
Kyle Chalmers

WILD CARD
Ryan Murphy
Katie Ledecky
Shayna Jack
Carson Foster
Gretchen Walsh

WILD CARD
Maxine grousset
Josh Liendo
Hwang Sunwoo
Hunter Armstrong
Chris Guiliano

WILD CARD
Jack Alexy
David Povovici
Lukas martens
Simone Manuel
Torri Huske

Let us know in the comments RESPECTFULLY who you think has the best team and who made a questionable pick (I’ll call myself out now, I think should have used my last pick for Meg Harris over Simone Manuel. The pressure got to me).

Additionally, check back in during the swimming portion of the 2024 Olympic Games to keep track of the fantasy draft scores as well as all of SwimSwam’s coverage of the biggest meet of the year.

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