Sorry on the delay on the new thread and finalizing things - I’ve had to be away from a computer most of the last week and it’s not practical to do from my phone. Should be able to do it later tonight.
Do Charles or I, based on the inherited teams previous negotiations, owe draft picks to any of the other owners during this year’s draft?
Varlos’ picks - the set that starts at 1.12 - gained my 2.6 pick this year in exchange for their 3.12 picks this year because of a trade last year. So that’s a significant upgrade. That set of picks includes 1.12, 2.06, 2.12, (no third round pick), 4.12, 5.12, etc.
Heard back from yahoo about the commissioner issue:
I don’t know what limitations I have as co-comissioner rather than commissioner, but we can probably continue to use the league without starting in a new one. Although I don’t know what happens when I boot Varlos, which I haven’t done yet for ease of record keeping/roster management until we do the new owner draft. I’ll do my best to work within the existing league as co-comissioner.
Alright, I’ll get the new thread posted today and start the new owner draft.
Overly Sentimental and Ol’Gaffer: If we use an ABBAABBAABB format, so that the power of the #1 pick is offset by the other person getting the #2 and #3 picks, do you prefer A (1, 4, 5, 8, 9) picks or B (2, 3, 6, 7, 10 11) picks going into the draft? If you both have different preferences, then you get them. If you want the same or don’t care, I’ll just flip a coin and assign them.
Or, alternately, if you guys can make time to post at least a few times a day, we don’t even need to double up the picks, we can simply assign a straight up 1 pick at a time draft. With high attendance we could conclude the draft in a day or two, so maybe we don’t even need to do the doubling up thing. The more I think about it, the more we’ve got time to simply do a full one one pick at a time draft. We’ve got at least a week until roster cut downs, it should be pretty easy for two engaged people to crank out this draft quickly.
If we do the latter, can anyone think of compensation to the person who has the slightly worse draft at the #2 pick? I would say we give him the better draft picks, but with Varlos having an extra second round pick (but later picks in every round) I actually think they’re already fairly even.
Alright, annoying news. Varlos made me co-comissioner last year (and I wonder if he did that knowing he might disappear since that’s the first year he did it, and we never disscussed it), which as far as I could tell gave me full commissioner access. But it also appears to not have renewed with the league this year - I can’t go to the comission settings menu or see any mention of co-commissioner status anywhere. Which means unfortunately we’re going to have to start a new league to regain control. Once that’s all set up, it should work fine, but we’ll lose access to our league history on yahoo. Of course I suppose we can leave the original league open and occupied (but possibly inactive) so that we can still look through the history if we want. Otherwise I’ll create a new league and after the new owner draft or possibly after the cut date I’ll enter in all of the keeper information.
No reason we can’t get the new owner draft rolling today, all of the league management stuff is mostly going to be background hassle I’ll deal with. Sorry for the inconvenience but I don’t see any alternatives.
So I created a new league, “SDMB-Dynasty League”, and invited everyone. Eventually everything should be identical except for the two new owners. Most of the league business we have to conduct is in the thread (new owner draft, cut deadline, actual draft) and so we’ll continue doing those here. I’ll post the new league thread today and get the new owner draft started. Please don’t quit the old dynasty league yet - I don’t know if people leaving will screw up the way it lists rosters and such. Eventually the new league should match the old league. Sorry for the hassle, but it was unavoidable since we cannot gain the commissioner position of the old league. I will try to leave the old league open (possibly in a dormant state if I can figure that out) so it can be browsed for historical records.
The main reason for the ABBAABBAABB… format isn’t to speed it up; that’s just a side effect. The primary reason is for parity.
With an ABABABAB… draft, the person who gets 2 of the first 3 picks ALSO gets the #1 pick. By contrast, an ABBAABBAABB… draft gives one person the #1 overall, and the other guy gets 2 of the first 3 to even it out.