Sounds good. Why make the bench bigger? 30 man rosters is pretty deep, still shallower than HHM and the same as All-Pro but just curious if you had a rationale beyond it being a round number.
30 is the max total roster size allowable for yahoo and I figured we should use it. Standard 12 man league roster size is 15 IIRC, so it’s double.
RetroVertigo/No Use For A Name is going to take Munch’s place in the draft tomorrow. He wasn’t as accomplished last year, but he’s a reliable and good player. I’d strongly prefer to have everyone live draft, both for the experience and because the auto drafter does weird things even if you pre-rank, and I wouldn’t want weird results to lead to a dud team.
Munch can win his way into the league next year.
Don’t forget to install ventrilo. To get on the sdmb server, go to create new server, and use
Hostname: vent3.gamespeak.com
Port: 4303
Password: D*******s
1930s style password. Hiding it in case there are bots that look for vent account info.
Anyway ventrilo is easy to set up, but make sure you get it working before the draft starts. Post if you need help getting it to work. Even if you don’t have a mic, download it and hop on with us so you can listen in.
Will a Blu-tooth PS3 Mic work? Its all I have.
If you have some sort of blutooth receiver on your pc I think.
I would like to now recommend that we* kick out the non-playoff teams and allow players in with the longest longevity!
Seriously - glad you guys have an active player from the get-go, rather than an autodraft. It’ll be much better that way, even if it takes me 5 years to get back in.
Just think: now you can peer over RetroVertigo’s shoulder all season muttering about what you would have done.
You’ll have to get behind my wife.
Not going near that one.
QBx2
QB/RB/WR/TEx1
RBx4
WRx7
TEx2
Kx1
DEFx2
BENCHx11
Looks great to me. Also fine with using All-Pro scoring settings (though I’ve never been a fan of penalizing QBs for sacks).
I can’t come to a decision regarding which method of the standard draft is best. If only there was a non-standard draft type where this wouldn’t be an issue at all… 
I think I’d prefer the lottery idea and randomize each odd round’s order just for the fun and uniqueness of it. Plus it can become a fun mini event in the future that would help generate interest in the league before draft day. I’m just not sure that with a 30 round draft that it would be doable before the draft tomorrow.
I’m thinking we could just come up with 5 random orders and repeat them 3 times. We’d use the 1st and 2nd round serpentine for the 11th and 12th and 21st and 22nd rounds respectively and so on. That’s just drawing 6 names out of a hat 5 times, easy peasy.
Sorry, haven’t been able to get internet access until now, so I’m going to be cramming settings at the last minute.
QBx2
QB/RB/WR/TEx1
RBx4
WRx7
TEx2
Kx1
DEFx2
BENCHx11
Seems to work for people. I could go 6 WR to make it more standard if you want, not a huge deal either way.
We’ll go with the all-pro scoring, I think it’s a good system. We can work out more exotic systems for next year, I just didn’t have the time this year to get it sorted out. Or at least I missed my window a few weeks ago.
If you want, I’ll come up with a random draft through that lottery, if you trust me to come up with results from random.org or whatever. I have to get the custom draft order in soon, so I’m not going to wait on the normal 3 person random result generator we typically do. If that isn’t cool then we can just do snake.
If you want an outsider to run the randomness, I can.
Let’s just do a randomly selected (automatic) snake draft for tonight. Snake is sort of interesting in that you get a chance to yank one of the players from someone, and then a few picks later they do it to you. Varlos and I did that all throughout the dynasty league inaugural draft.
If you guys need help with ventrilo to see if your mics are working and such, hop on now and I’ll help you. If you can’t get connected, post it here or PM me and I’ll try to help you.
Is that supposed to say 1920’s style password?
The password is deathrays. I didn’t want to put it all in one post in case there was a bot looking for vent server info/password combos.
I’m not going to be able to use ventrillo. I’ll be in the draft room.
You can listen even if you don’t have a mic. It’ll be kind of awkward carrying on two entirely seperate conversations - you could always listen and respond via typing.
Never owned AP in a league before. Never had the first pick before.