I’m Hey There Fancypants. **Garcon’s Cedilla **is a buddy of mine.
Looking forward to the auction tonight, although unfortunately I’ll miss the first few players. Go computer autodrafter!
My vote would be for divisions. Just do them randomly if you want. I like to have them, because at least then when you’re in last place, it kind of looks like you’re only last out of 5, instead of last out of 20.
I saw it wasn’t listed above either. I guess I’ll wait until next year.
I’m only in there to fill out the group to 20. If you would like, I’ll be happy to step aside and unregister and let you grab my spot in the league. Just let me know.
Thanks for the offer; but I’m in 3 other leagues, so I’ll just sit this one out.
Were you signed up in the first place? I don’t recall seeing Team Ed Gruberman up there.
We’re drafting in about 1:45. The thing I’m gonna hammer home is to always keep a few guys in your nomination list.
We’re going to nominate players in order - you pick who’s up next for bidding, start the bidding for any amount you want (as low as 1) and when that player is sold, the next guy on the list nominates someone. If people are caught off guard, they can spend 15 seconds fumbling for their next nomination. With this many picks, that’d end up taking a lot more time. But yahoo allows you to create a nomination list. You IIRC still have to click “nominate” when it’s your turn, but at least you’ll have your next guys queued up and ready to go.
We’re going to have 20 seconds per player bidding time, but every time a bid is made with less than 10 seconds left, it puts 10 seconds back on the clock to give people a chance to bid again. It’s not like ebay, you can’t snipe it at the last second, so don’t delay your bids if you’re going to make one.
Any questions?
Are we back in on divisions?
I thought I had, but maybe not. When were the invites first sent out to last year’s players?
I’m not sure exactly when I sent the first round of invites, but probably early august. I thought I sent out a second batch of invites a few weeks ago.
Divisions are back in.
We had 2 divisions almost intact. The Scissor Me Timbers/Curry Porkrinds/Phoenix Redbirds/Mhendo division retained 4/5, and the Giants fan division of Frosted Lightning, VarlosZ, The Gusterrhoids, and Court Jesters retained 4/5. I split up the Jules Jammed Out of Playoffs division (just me and Retrovertigo) to fill up those divisions - I stuck myself with the first group, I stuck him with the latter group.
That left Donte’s Torino/Up By Three and Unrelated Siblings left out of the vets. I put them in a division along with Evil Monkey/MTRG, Hamlet, and brute squad/Only Mostly dead.
The other division is made from newbies to the league and unknowns. CMFD = Charles from our auction league (not from SDMB), Hey There Fancypants = MrSquishy, Garcon’s Cedillia is his friend, and “Not Sure” and “Sizzurp Slippers” haven’t identified themselves.
Not sure if we can change divisions after the draft, but if so, I’m up for suggestions as to how to do them.
Even if we all do a good job of hustling in the nominations and not waiting until the last second to bid, this is gonna be an endurance draft. 3:30 would be a *good *time, and I’m taking the over.
Should I knock the opening bidding clock down to 10 seconds?
Never done an auction draft, and normally 10 seconds to get a bid in seems fine with me. However, Yahoo drafts are not known for having robust software and I’m concerned people might not be able to get their bid in if they only have 10 seconds in which to do it. That said, whatever you choose, I’m fine with it.
Agree with you on the necessity of keeping the nomination queue filled. Not sure what it is, but I’ll try to do it.
Sizzurp Sippers is me, BTW.
Pity that “the other Adrian Peterson” and Stephen Jackson of Cincinnati seem to have dropped out of the League.
Yes. As soon as the room opens, I’m preranking 100 players.
I don’t know. On the one hand, I frequently am researching players and don’t even see the nomination until 15 seconds in or more. OTOH, with a 20 team league there’d be lots of players bidding, and the clock probably wouldn’t even get past :09 for 10 or 15 seconds in a lot of cases. I’m not sure how it would play out. Probably it would just save us a lot of time, though the safest play is to keep it at 20.
I’m not sure it would save us a ton of time. We’re probably going to get many bids for each player, enough for them to go over the 20 second minimum time anyway. It would’ve saved us time in the all-pro league when we were bidding $1 on kickers unopposed, but there won’t be a lot of unopposed picks in this league, so the time saved from 20 to 10 will be relatively small.
But it’s not too risky either - someone is definitely going to put a bid down in the initial 10 seconds (unless it’s some really hard decision as to whether to bid $2 on some late roudn player) which re-opens the time for the next bid.
I went ahead and set it to 20. I don’t think it will matter on most picks since they’ll end up going beyond 20 seconds anyway, but for a few it’ll give people more time to quickly check injury status or whatever.
You’ll also want a resource handy like rotoworld to double check that the players at the end of the draft aren’t guys that ended up getting cut recently.
Live draft is already open. Come in and chat with us.
If it gets stuck loading, just reload (control r) and it should work.
It ran about 3:15. But some of the people who needed to go early were able to finish up and take off by 2:30 or so, so not too bad.
It was definitely different from what I’m used to for a 12 man league. Everyone was more expensive. Makes sense I guess - more money chasing the same talent. Court Jesters (d_odds) was the only auto-drafter, and as a result, he got completely hosed. He didn’t pre-rank, so he just used yahoo default values, and since all our prices were higher than yahoo projected values, the autodrafter basically didn’t pick anyone. He finished with $158 and mostly non-starters on his roster.
It’s kind of funny, but it’s actually sort of a parity problem. His team will very likely go winless and it makes his division essentially a 4 team division, and the 13 teams that get to play him get a free win up on the other 7. I don’t know if there any sort of resolution to this, but I don’t really like it.
Not to spoil the pot, but I’m screwed.
Yahoo fried my puter somehow and I cannot log back into Yahoo!. Pardon my ignorance.
I’ll see what I can do.
If someone with better spreadsheet skills than me wants to list our draft by position, sorted by cost, that’d be interesting.
Rosters by team:
Unrelated Siblings (Uncle Brother Walker)
Court Jesters (d_odds)
The Gusterrhoids (Justin_Bailey)
Exploding Pancakes (SenorBeef)
Curry Porkrinds (tds1273)
Scissor Me Timbers (Munch)
No Use For A Name II (Retrovertigo)
Hey There Fancypants (MrSquishy)
Budget $200
Hamlets Out of Ideas (Hamlet)
Sizzurp Sippers (Gray Ghost)
CMFD (Charles, Non-SDMB)
Return of Ryan Leaf (Mhendo)
Up by Three (Taber)
Budget $200
Not Sure (Unknown)
Phoenix Redbirds (Dalej42)
Frosted_Lightning (Frosted Glass)
Evil Monkey (MTRG)
Garcon’s Cedilla (Friend of MrSquishy)
Varlos’ Zzzzzzz (VarlosZ)