# SDMB Auction Fantasy Football 2012 **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [July 16, 2012, 6:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393 "2012-07-16T06:57:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 2, 2012, 8:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/21 "2012-08-02T20:02:21Z")
I can’t make Wed 10:30pm. ---
**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/22 "2012-08-03T01:20:54Z")
Earlier draft is perfect for me 715 PM EST on a Wednesday! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/23 "2012-08-03T01:52:59Z")
Not sure if the rest of the league can manage that, but I’ll have to get another round of answers. Can you guys do Wednesday at 7:15? If not, we’ll stick to the original draft date, but this allows Jules to return to us and presents no complications for dale. ---
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 1:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/24 "2012-08-03T01:58:45Z")
> [@SenorBeef](#): > > Not sure if the rest of the league can manage that, but I’ll have to get another round of answers. Can you guys do Wednesday at 7:15? If not, we’ll stick to the original draft date, but this allows Jules to return to us and presents no complications for dale. I’m OK with 7:15 on Wednesday. ---
**Author:** ![Omniscient](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/omniscient/32/3290_2.png) [@Omniscient](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Omniscient)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/25 "2012-08-03T04:03:42Z")
I should be good for any of the times. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/26 "2012-08-03T04:15:34Z")
Any time on Wednesday works for me ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/27 "2012-08-03T09:55:52Z")
7:15 Wed is good for me. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/28 "2012-08-03T17:42:20Z")
Confirmed for Wednesday at 7:15 eastern. SenorBeef, Ellis Dee, Jules Andre, Omniscient, It’s Not Rocket Surgery, dalej42, Varlos. Working on confirming with MTRG, Chuck, DragonAsh, d\_odds, and Hamlet. One veto would prevent the change since at that point we’d be dumping one person to accomodate another - no net benefit. I’m guessing it would be a burden for DragonAsh because it would be very early in the morning there. But I’ll try to get ahold of them. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [August 3, 2012, 10:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/29 "2012-08-03T22:40:07Z")
7:15p EDT should be good for me. ---
**Author:** ![Overly\_Sentimental](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/overly_sentimental/32/4454_2.png) [@Overly\_Sentimental](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Overly_Sentimental)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/30 "2012-08-04T01:13:16Z")
7:15 is fine with me ---
**Author:** ![Hamlet](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hamlet/32/2818_2.png) [@Hamlet](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hamlet)\ **Post date:** [August 4, 2012, 3:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/31 "2012-08-04T15:39:39Z")
I should be good to go then. ---
**Author:** ![DragonAsh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/db5fbb/32.png) [@DragonAsh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DragonAsh)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 6:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/32 "2012-08-05T06:55:48Z")
Does kinda suck for me time-zone wise, but I’ll live - count me in! ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 7:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/33 "2012-08-05T07:00:12Z")
After I asked about times on Wednesday, MTRG posted > [@](#): > > It does not make much difference to me, so I will leave it up to the group. That seems to mean he could do either time on Wednesday. So I’ll change it. Oddly, a few times opened up on Wednesday that weren’t there before - 10pm eastern, and 7:30 and 7:45. I went ahead and set it to 7:30 Eastern on Wednesday the 29th. I’ll tell Jules, once he signs up we’ll be full. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 7:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/34 "2012-08-05T07:15:57Z")
I had signed up right as you were typing that, apparently. Thanks to everyone for being so flexible so I could join the league. I appreciate that. Special thanks to **DragonAsh** , because of the time zone difference. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/35 "2012-08-05T18:19:06Z")
Alright, well we’re set with all 12 returning from last year. Great. Any proposals or rule changes to consider? ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [August 5, 2012, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/36 "2012-08-05T20:38:22Z")
I have a standing offer to anyone in the league to trade $5 of draft funds for $6. I know it seems like you’d be giving up a little bit more, but $5 has looked really good in camp so far and $6 **is** coming off that injury from last year. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 2:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/37 "2012-08-07T02:20:36Z")
I’m going to post this to all my leagues. In our very first draft in the auction league, we ended up running the auction in voice chat like an actual auction. That was before yahoo had auction drafts. Anyway, we don’t actually have to hold the draft that way anymore of course, but it was kind of cool to have everyone in the same place able to chat about the draft as it went, it was pretty fun. I used to only run a free ventrilo server which has a max of 8 people, so I never thought about using it again, but now we run a 15 man SDMB server, so we could fit everyone in there. So I was thinking it would be fun if we all hopped on to voice chat during the draft. If there’s interest, closer to the draft I’ll post the server information and help anyone who needs to set it up. We’d be using ventrilo which is free. It’d be cool if everyone had a headset (or webcam mic or whatever) to talk, but even if you don’t, you could still log in and listen to the rest of us and respond in the text chat of the draft app. Anyway, just an idea to float up there. I think it’d be fun. ---
**Author:** ![Jules\_Andre](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jules_andre/32/9334_2.png) [@Jules\_Andre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jules_Andre)\ **Post date:** [August 7, 2012, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/38 "2012-08-07T07:13:20Z")
I agree it sounds fun so I’m in, I’ll be there. Didn’t we do that in the Super league last season? It really does make the experience more fun. ---
**Author:** ![EllisDee](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellisdee/32/4531_2.png) [@EllisDee](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/EllisDee)\ **Post date:** [August 17, 2012, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/39 "2012-08-17T21:33:34Z")
Apologies, but I have to drop out of this league. Commish can boot me. ---
**Author:** ![SenorBeef](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/senorbeef/32/2220_2.png) [@SenorBeef](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SenorBeef)\ **Post date:** [August 20, 2012, 4:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393/40 "2012-08-20T04:59:56Z")
I’m going to be short on time for a while, so I’m going to have a hard time doing much in the way of recruiting. If you know someone reliable that would be able to make the draft and would be interested in the league, see if you can recruit them. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-auction-fantasy-football-2012/628393.md?page=3)