IIRC, the draft lasts about two and a half to three hours.
It could be faster is everyone paid attention. One of the things that slows it down is people not being ready with a nomination when it’s their turn to nominate. As **SenorBeef **says, the shorter nomination time this year will help.
If we want to delay it a bit to allow **Wilson **a better shot, I’d be fine with that, but I’m on the west coast so it’s not much of a hardship for me. It’s getting late on the east coast for people who have to work the next day.
The draft is abnormally long for this league normally, at a little over 3 hours. But we’ll be drafting with 16 or 18 people this year, and the minimum nomination time (where a lot of time was wasted) was cut in half, so I suspect we’d get the draft done comfortably under 3 hours. And people would be able to leave as they filled up their roster, so not everyone would need to stay till the end.
You can make the draft this time, right? It’s important for this league as the yahoo auction autodraft rankings are based on a 12 man league and so they won’t work here - you end up drafting a non-viable team.
We did a snake draft (faster than auction) with 14 people last night with the HHM league and it took about 1:45 - fantasy drafts aren’t generally that short.
Are you still willing to draft tonight, or are you trying to get out of it?
Not willing to spend 3 hours for something like this. Sorry, I guess I should have asked before I joined. No way for the system to pick players for me like last year?
Crap. Even with Hamlet, that makes 16, which is barely a Big League at all.
One of the things I liked about this league is the precarious nature of everyone’s roster, and the need to use marginal players. I guess it’s going to be more like a regular auction league now, and prices will probably go down as the pool of available players for each fantasy member is effectively larger, creating less demand.
The yahoo autodraft values are based on the costs of a 12 man league. When you go higher than 12 man, you have more money chasing the same players, so the average costs of buying players goes up. Which means that the yahoo auto drafter isn’t tuned right, so to speak, and won’t tend to bid on the more expensive players. You’d have to pre-rank enough of your guys to have a higher value so that the autodrafter had a chance of picking some up.
But if you don’t want to do it, I can work around it. Hamlet volunteered to be on stand-by in case we had an odd number of teams (you can’t run a head to head league that way), so if you want to leave, we can just not pick up Hamlet, and draft with 16. We’d have to try to accomodate Wilson by moving the draft back in this scenario, or booting Wilson and using Hamlet and still drafting at 16 but I’d prefer to work with Wilson. Ah, fun draft day decisions.
I agree with you - it is unfortunate and diminishes the main thing that seperates this league from others, but I think 16 would still be an enjoyable experience and different enough from 12 to be worth doing for a year until I can ideally recruit more people next year. I’d definitely prefer to keep the league going and try to fix it next year than give up.
Unfortunately it just seems like there’s not enough new people/interest on the SDMB anymore for these leagues. 10 years ago it was thriving, I’d have more recruits than I needed - but the last few years have required scraping up just enough until finally this year I just couldn’t manage to get it to come together.
So I say we go with 16, enjoy it, and try to get back up to 20 next year.
I don’t even know about costs for players, in the past that was not a factor in my leagues. I just picked players and cost was not relevant from what I recall. So it’s best for me to bow out.
Ah, yeah, it sounds like you’ve only done snake drafts, where each player gets a turn to pick someone, rather than auction drafts where everyone can bid on any players they want. Auction is ultimately more rewarding and gives you teams more in line with what you want, but it’s more complicated.
Anyway, I understand if you want to pull out. You can go ahead and leave the league, and we’ll manage with 16.
From the “my teams and leagues” page on yahoo, click edit, and you can drop a league from there.
If we’re drafting with 16 with a lower nomination timer, I think we could delay the draft and still finish earlier than we used to, so I definitely want to keep you included. I think 8:45 is probably the latest we could go, though - you’d miss out on the top 10 or 12 picks, but you’d still be fine drafting a viable team. I’d like to try to include you if that works.
8:30 should be fine - it’s looking more likely that I’ll be home sometime between then and 9. I’d be fine missing the first 1/2 hour - plenty of time to fill out the roster after that.
Should be all set. I moved back the draft a half hour. Shouldn’t hurt anyone’s attendance since they were planning to be there anyway, and because we’ll be drafting short handed with faster nom times this year it should still finish up faster than it normally does.
Draft is in about 7 hours.
I’ll tell Hamlet his offer to fill in won’t be necesary - he hadn’t actually accepted his invite yet, so the 16 player count is without Hamlet. Unless we have a last minute cancellation, I suppose, I’ll see if he’ll stand by just in case.
I’m pretty new here, and I just saw this thread. I would be very interested, and I am a fairly serious fantasy player – I am an active player, even when my team is doing poorly.
I would definitely want to join if there were an opening, but I will be driving from 5 to 5:45 or 6. Pacific time. For auction drafts, this is less critical, because you can nominate any player at any time, so it would not necessarily mean a terrible team…
If you need someone to make an even number, I’d be interested in doing it.