1999 Finances and Recommendations

Movie Recommendations and Profits

This year the movies that we recommend are: Star Wars: Episode I - The Phantom Menace; Toy Story 2, Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me, The Matrix, Big Daddy, Runaway Bride, The Green Mile, American Beauty, Double Jeopardy, Wild Wild West, Analyze This, American Pie, Sleepy Hollow, Galaxy Quest, End of Days, Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo, She's All That, Three Kings, Bicentennial Man, Eyes Wide Shut, Never Been Kissed, Varsity Blues, Stigmata, Cruel Intentions, 10 Things I Hate About You, Fight Club, 8MM, For Love of the Game, Mystery Men; Girl, Interrupted; The Other Sister, Blast from the Past, At First Sight, Music of the Heart, Boys Don't Cry, and Office Space.

The total collected by movies (which grossed over $1 million) is $7.276 Billion. Our fees from our services are $72.76 Million.

Recommended TV Shows

ER, Frasier, Dharma & Greg, Becker, JAG, The Drew Carey Show, Spin City 

Music Recommendations and Profits

For music albums for 2000, we recommend: EMINEM-THE Marshall Mathers LP, LINKIN PARK-Hybrid Theory, Radiohead-Kid A, A Perfect Circle-Mer de Noms, Deftones-White Pony, Marilyn Manson-Holy Wood (In the Shadow of the Valley of Death), Family Values Tour 1999, and Kittie-Spit.

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: Britney Spears, N SYNC, Coldplay, Nelly, Limp Bizkit, Shaggy, Nelly Furtado, 3 Doors Down, Bon Jovi, Disturbed, Outkast, Pink, Lifehouse, Godsmack, Fuel, Snoop Dogg, Green Day, Rage Against the Machine, No Doubt, Hanson, Good Charlotte, Mandy Moore, Mudvayne, Orgy, and Björk.

The estimated number of units for the best-selling albums for 2000 is 615 million copies at the average cost of $15 per album, which should give us a share of $92.25 million.

Video Game Recommendations and Profits

 Game Boy: Pokémon Gold / Silver / Crystal; Playstation: Silent Hill, Final Fantasy VIII, Dance Dance Revolution, Dino Crisis, Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, Chrono Cross; PC: RollerCoaster Tycoon, Caesar III; Nintendo 64: Donkey Kong 64 †

The income from our forecasts and services for this year is $149 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: 9: Shawn Marion*, 36: Manu Ginóbili^* 

SG: Manu Ginóbili^* 57,

PF/C: Elton Brand*~ 1,

PG: Baron Davis* 3, Steve Francis+~ 2,

SF/PF: Shawn Marion*9,

SF: Ron Artest*(aka Metta World Peace) 16, Andrei Kirilenko+ 24,

SG/SF: Wally Szczerbiak+ 6, Richard Hamilton+ 7,

We do not recommend drafting: C: Frédéric Weis#, Tyrone Washington#, Venson Hamilton#, F: Rico Hill#, J. R. Koch#, Antwain Smith#, G: Louis Bullock#, Galen Young#, Roberto Bergersen#, Kris Clack#, Eddie Lucas#, SG: Melvin Levett# 

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: 38: Brian Roberts; 47: Brandon Phillips; 72: Justin Morneau+; 105: Hank Blalock+; 118: J. J. Putz+; 135: Shane Victorino+; 157: Chris Capuano+; 165: Marlon Byrd+; 195: Albert Pujols+; 225: Jake Peavy+472

OF: Josh Hamilton+1, Alex Ríos +19, Carl Crawford+52, Ryan Ludwick+60, Shane Victorino+194, Marlon Byrd+306,

RHP: Josh Beckett +2, Ben Sheets +10, Mike MacDougal +25, John Lackey+68, J. J. Putz+185, Jake Peavy+472,

LHP: Barry Zito +9, Chris Capuano+238,

SS: Brian Roberts +50,

2B: Brandon Phillips+57,

1B: Justin Morneau+89, Albert Pujols+402,

3B: Hank Blalock+105,

We do not recommend signing: Joe Saunders*, Greg Dobbs*, Scott Hairston*, Noah Lowry*, Rich Harden*, Adam LaRoche*, Chris Snyder*, Pat Neshek*, Michael Bishop*

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: 20: Mike Rucker † 22: Dré Bly † 55: Joey Porter † 85: Aaron Smith † 118: Jerry Azumah † 132: Roderick Coleman † 140: Desmond Clark † 158: Donald Driver † 193: Sean Morey † 229: Brendon Ayanbadejo † 243: Mike Schneck † 

We recommend inviting the projected Pro Bowl players that we project to remain undrafted to our training camp: Chris Hanson †, Alan Ricard †, Brian Waters †, Brian Moorman † 

RB: Edgerrin James‡† 4, Ricky Williams † 5,

CB: Champ Bailey‡† 7, Chris McAlister † 10, Antoine Winfield † 23, Dré Bly † 41, Jerry Azumah † 147,

QB: Donovan McNabb †2, Daunte Culpepper † 11, 

WR: Torry Holt † 6, David Boston † 8, Marty Booker † 78, Donald Driver † 213, Sean Morey † 241,

DE: Jevon Kearse † 16, Patrick Kerney † 30, Mike Rucker † 38, Gary Stills † 75, Aaron Smith † 109,

C: Damien Woody † 17,

LB: Al Wilson † 31, Joey Porter † 73, Brendon Ayanbadejo † U,

K: Martín Gramática † 80,

P: Josh Bidwell † 133, Chris Hanson † U, Brian Moorman † U,

DT: Roderick Coleman † 153,

TE: Desmond Clark † 179,

OG: Brian Waters † U,

LS: Mike Schneck † U,

FB: Alan Ricard † 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: 39: Mike Ribeiro 57: Brad Richards 86: Andrei Markov 153: Pavel Datsyuk 173: Tyler Arnason

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,

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: N/A

We think we can get: no recommendations.

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

We think we can get: N/A