I sent RNATB an e-mail just now in the hopes that he’ll get his pick in soon. I don’t want anyone to lose draft position when it’s avoidable. But in the other direction, people grumble when the draft moves too slowly and rules are enforced too loosely, so there has to be some sort of reasonable compromise.
I covered it a few posts ago, but just as a reminder: in the rare event that someone’s pick is not made in time, we have a 2 hour minimum cooldown between picks that come after theirs. The goal with this is that when someone is missing we don’t have people create a rapid-fire series of picks that puts the missing person’s pick much further behind very quickly.
The missing person can jump back in at any time and make their pick, but picks made validly by the managers who picked after them are permanent. So if someone misses the 1.06 pick, and the 1.07 manager takes player X their pick, and 2+ hours later the manager at 1.08 makes player Y their pick, the person who missed their 1.06 can jump in at any point to make their pick, but it cannot be player X or Y.