I’m all signed up…I was looking at the draft ranking section, it is a little different than most I have seen…
Is this a live draft, or do we just rank the players and the computer does it?
JaxBeachBoy, if I understood correctly, it’s a live draft with an automated option. So you would rank the players, the draft would occur, and if you weren’t on live then the computer would draft for you. I haven’t checked out the details here but it seems a bit more complex than last year’s Yahoo! version. FWIW last year I couldn’t log into the Live Draft, but could watch as the computer picked a bunch of slobs for me. Fortunately I had ranked a few players for funsies, so at least I got a couple of good, premium players out of the deal. I’d recommend to all involved to do this as a backup even if you plan to do the live draft.
I just noticed that this is after the start of the regular season. (Sorry, but the synapses have been firing slowly lately). So, how would this work out? First live NFL weekend doesn’t count? Just want to make sure it’s thought out.
You sure it wasn’t yesterday?
I sure hope it wasn’t yesterday, since September isn’t until next month and Wednesday comes after Tuesday and not Saturday (at least in my area).
Did it fill up? The “search for league” part won’t come up with “The Straight Dope”…
'Cause, dangit, the Continental Drifters (another team in Milo’s league last year) wanna play!
(Except that the “Continental Drifters” is heretofore being reserved for Fantasy Baseball, so it’ll be named something different.)
Well, it wasn’t yesterday. The league still lists the draft time as September 11th. I also would strongly prefer to have our draft before the season starts. Is there any special reason to use sandbox? Their draft/roster system is WEIRD. If we can’t change the draft date, maybe move it over to yahoo, or somewhere else?
I assume you guys have heard by now about the Pick’em league started by meek… If not, check here and come sign up.
Panty-lite, the league is full with ten teams IIRC. There is some discussion at to whether to expand to twelve teams. Hope you can make it back in, since I don’t remember having trouble with the 'Drifters in this league, although to be fair you whooped my butt in the Pick’em league.
I’d like to expand it to 12; but I can’t.
I also can’t change the draft date, to before the season starts.
Unless we want to have a live draft at about 6 a.m., we can’t have one on Yahoo, either.
And unless you want to pay $130, you can’t have a league on CBSSportsline, NFL.com, or ESPN.com
I’m peeved.
As for the way the Sandbox draft works - IIRC, every team gets an opportunity to draft first at a particular position. It’s just the luck of the draw as to which one.
I guess, to look on the bright side, having a draft after being able to see a game will be interesting.
Oh, well! That’s life… I’ll either wait for a SDMB FF III league to start up, or just get off my lazy ass and start one myself. I MUST be in three leagues and one of them MUST be a SDMB league!
ShibbOleth, sorry your team won’t get to kick my team’s ass this year. But the Drifter’s pick-'em team is ready to compete again!
Okay, here’s an alternative proposal. Yahoo will let you input draft outcomes. We could set up a Yahoo league with 12 teams (so that Pant. and I can join), do our mock draft on www.antsports.com (a great mock draft site), and use those results.
Any takers?
Sounds good to me! So that’s two…
I can live with that. Would this help to get us from 10 to 12 teams and allow me to whoop on Pantellerite without needing to join another league?
I can switch…
Shibb, I can guarantee[sup]*[/sup] that this new league will allow you to do just that.
*Definition of “guarantee” varies by Munch’s state of residence and/or state of mind.
Better think fast–according to www.antsports.com:
Crap. Well, we can work something out. We’d have a little under 3 weeks to complete the draft, so we could do it over e-mail or something.
Does anyone know of any other mock draft sites?
I think that’s a great idea. We can do it over email, AIM or any other messenger, in IRC, or anything like that, and just register a private yahoo “Offline Draft” style league. I’ve been holding off on registering a 4th team on yahoo just in case something like this came up. We can also expand the league to even bigger than 12 if we want, yahoo is decently customizable.
I’m all for expanding the league to 12 and getting going before the regular season starts.
Whatever can be worked out so that we don’t lose any currently registered league participants, and still have a fair and equitable draft, I’m in.
Well, I’ve set up a Yahoo league. It’s at:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/show?page=leaguehome&lid=216207
League #: 216207
Password: cecilised
We’ll see who signs up, how many sign up, etc. Make sure to allow your e-mail to be seen, so that once we get 12 (I’ve set the max for 14 if there’s any newcomers who jump in), we can get an e-mail distribution set up. The max. number is adjustable up to about 6,000, so we shouldn’t have a problem there.
However, I have a few questions, that we’ll do majority rule on:
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How many points for a passing TD - 4 or 6?
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Do we want any points for receptions (i.e. 0, 1, or fractional)?
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Team defense or individual defense?
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2 or 3 week playoff?
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Last week of playoffs week 16 or 17 (many teams bench starters on week 17)?