Click the “My Team” tab. Then select “Edit Team Settings”.
By the way, I suggest everyone go in and do one mock auction before draft day. They have mock auctions running all day long - the other teams may or may not be serious, but it doesn’t matter - it’s just to make sure there are no hiccups with the software and you know how everything works.
Okay, I’m in and all set. Thanks for resending.
Hotmail has gone from shunting all spam to a junk folder to bouncing about half of it. The first auction invite got bounced, so not only did it miss my inbox, it didn’t hit the junk folder either.
Not a huge fan of this aspect of hotmail, but it’s been this way for a couple years so I’ve gotten used to it.
Everyone go ahead and do that please and change your team name to either your SDMB name or your yahoo league FF name - that way it’s easy to know who everyone is on draft day.
We still have 4 people who haven’t signed up yet on the yahoo league. If you need the invite e-mail sent to another address feel free to PM me about it.
I meant signed up to the ESPN league.
I’d also like to reiterate that if you can’t make the draft on Wednesday, Sep 2 at 9pm EST, please speak up now. We can work with you and find another date. But it’s critical in an auction draft that every participates, so I need to know while it’s still practical to change our time.
Whoops, the invite to the ESPN league got lost in the shuffle of my inbox, missed it at first. I’m signed up now.
As an aside, I’d also recommend doing a couple of mock auction drafts (They have them going on all the time) to learn the system and how it works. I just got done buying Adrian Peterson for $140 and learned that when you type in your own bid, the 1 doesn’t disappear.
By the way, who won this league last year?
Do we want to consider using the yahoo division’s feature? It was pointed out in the general discussion thread that with a 12 team league you can have a very elegant division/schedule system of 3 divisions of 4 players, you play everyone in your division twice and everyone else in the league once.
Additionally, you can set it up so that the three division winners get a playoff spot, and the last slot goes to a wildcard.
I’m also not sure how we’d do the divisions, but I’d be open to suggestion.
I’m completely flexible. Although the spectre of a team with a worse record getting a playoff spot over another scares me, it is also more like the real NFL. Either way, I’m good.
I like the idea.
I was poking around the division settings in yahoo, and it says using divisions only effects scheduling and playoff berths. Is the scheduling you mention automatic?
I’m not sure. I’ve only activated the divisions feature for the 20 man league, and it tried to have everyone play everyone else once. But it may be for a smaller league it has a division-focused schedule. Either way it can be set manually without too much trouble.
I assume it would make sense to carry the auction league conceit over to waivers, and use Yahoo’s new “Free Agents Acquisition Budgets” system, right?
Absolutely.
Seems logical. I don’t know if the commish can change the starting money - we could base it off of what people ended the draft with if so.
Yeah, that’s a solid idea if supported. It may be too punitive if you only get a set amount of waiver cash for the entire season, though.
I say that because in the last 3 or 4 seasons I don’t recall a single instance of me putting in a claim for more than one player in any given week. Meaning if the waiver cash is reset every week, every claim I make would be a max bid. So I’m guessing it has to be one pool of money that lasts for the whole season.
If that’s the case, and you can adjust individual waiver cash, I’d say add the remainder from the auction to the standard total. That way you don’t have to hold onto a bunch of cash during the draft, but if you do you still get some benefit.
Do we want to stick with the default yahoo scoring system as we have been through the years?
The scoring system we have for the all pro league is generally superior IMO, but I don’t need to have it for all of my leagues.
Our standings since the league was created:
2007:
- Omniscient
- Boozahol Squid, PI
- LOUNE
- SenorBeef
- VarlosZ
- Chuck (from off board - the roomate)
- Ellis Dee
- Kiros
2008:
- Hamlet
- It’s Not Rocket Surgery
- Mike (the random dude in our mock draft on ESPN who became part of our league)
- SenorBeef
- Kiros
- Boozahol Squid, PI
- Spiritus Mundi
- Ellis Dee
- Chuck
- VarlosZ
- Omniscient
- RNATB
Ranking by average percentile (lower is better)
- Hamlet 1/12 (.083) = .083
- It’s Not Rocket Surgery 2/12 (.166) = .166
- Mike 3/12 (.25) = .25
- Boozahol Squid, PI 2/8 (.25) + 6/12 (.5) / 2 = .375
- LOUNE 3/8 (.375) = .375
- SenorBeef 4/8 (.5) + 4/12 (.333) / 2 = .4165
- Omni 1/8 (.125) + 11/12 (.916) / 2 = .5205
- Spiritus Mundi 7/12 (.583) = .583
- Kiros 8/8 (1) + 5/12 (.416) / 2 = .708
- VarlosZ 5/8 (.625) + 10/12 (.833) / 2 = .729
- Chuck 6/8 (.75) + 9/12 (.75) / 2 = .75
- Ellis Dee 7/8 (.875) + 8/12 (.66) / 2 = .7675
- RNATB 12/12 (1) = 1
Bolded name indicates participation in all (both) seasons.
I feel like I may have made some basic procedural error that I’m missing.
No, I think you got it right.
I think it’d be a better measure of FF acumen to use average points scored per season, though, to normalize out scheduling quirks.