I’m going to be a maybe for this year, I am now working second shift, so it’ll depend on the draft day. Are we sticking with the auction format?
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We’ll still be auction, yeah. It’s been very successful overall I think.
Traditionally we’ve been doing this league on the Tuesday after memorial day, which will fall on Sep 5 this year, probably 8:15 eastern. Can you make that?
Right now, I don’t know. I want to take some time off around Labor Day, but I need to coordinate with my coworkers. I should know in plenty of time before the draft.
I made a mistake - the Tuesday after Labor day is for the HHM league. We’ve done the Wednesday after Labor Day, which would be Sep 6, probably at either 8 or 8:30 eastern. Is that a problem for anyone other than enalzi?
As for enalzi - I’m not sure if we can move the draft up a week to accommodate you. With this league, we draft 300 players, which means we’ll be drafting guys who are not locks to make their roster - drafting so late in the preseason allows us to see the final cuts of the teams which impacts our draft more than ordinary drafts. But we could consider it if it makes it better for other people too.
Anyway:
Since last year yahoo has been automatically renewing teams when you renew the league. Which is dumb, because it used to be that people would have to accept their invite, so you know they took an action to declare their intent to be in the league that year. But now since it automatically renews, people rejoin the league often without even noticing and perhaps without intending to play. We could find out someone totally forgot about the league on draft day.
So to fix this, I booted everyone from the league and sent invites to everyone so that they have to accept their invite to renew their team, as it used to be. So if you intend on playing this year, please accept your invitation.
If you know that you won’t be able to play this year, tell us now so we can work on a replacement.
What’s the deadline day to let you know in or out? Negotiations for days off at my job around summer holidays are more complex than Mid East peace.
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I’ll hold off signing back up until we get the draft date sorted out. If I can’t make it work but we’re short on people I can try to pre-rank for auto-draft (or get up at 2 in the morning in Spain to do it on my phone)
That time on Wednesday evenings is no good for me. This semester, I teach a class that starts at 5.30 Pacific (8.30 Eastern), and runs for over an hour.
I’m currently signed up, but if this ends up being the draft time, I think I’ll have to bow out.
Alright, it sounds like our typical date will be a problem for a few people, so how is either Tuesday Aug 29 or Thursday Aug 31 work? Both would start at 8pm eastern ideally, but may have to bump that up to 8:30 if people can’t make the start.
Since I wrote about Tuesday and Thursday both being fine, my schedule changed so that after mid-August, Thursday will also be out. Looking like a strong consensus for Tuesday.