I hear ya, I barely lost in the playoffs to make it to the championship game - I was devasted and almost turned in my fantasy football card. However, after that comment it just got a little personal and you have officially replaced Fade as my new little whooping boy........ (gotta love the smack a month or so before the season...now it's time to back it up)
Date should work, but any chance we could get the start time bumped up one hour earlier to 8pm CDT? I'm getting old and don't want to be kept up past my bedtime.
love the fast draft, however a sunday for you guys means a monday morning/arvo for us two downunder, have to check the diary when i get to work and see if i can get a day off sorry for the delayed response in changing to adsl 2 (faster broadband) this week and don't have a connection at home and can't get on at work...... will check back later tonight at my dads
Just wanted to post a little something that happened to me that I thought was funny. I was looking at some football information before I went to bed last night, and I ended up having a strange dream about our football draft. Actually, it was more like a nightmare. Somebody, I think LonghornFan, took a Cleveland Brown in the first round. Also, I had Internet problems in my dream and missed my third round pick, and the computer ended up taking Olandis Gary for me. WTF?? Don't ask me what part of my subconscious that came out of. Anyway, after waking up at 4 am in mortal terror, I started to wonder: what is going to happen if somebody has technical problems during the live draft? In past fanstar drafts, when someone runs out of time it just skips the pick. Will there be a computer auto-pick? I know you can manually set your team on auto-pick, but I remember people having problems with that in the past. Anyway, if auto-pick does get turned on if somebody's time runs out, how do we rank our players before the draft? I know you can do it once the draft begins, but that's not much good if somebody's connection craps out or they can't make it, etc.. Is there a way to do it before the draft starts? I really don't want to end up with Olandis Gary as my RB2. We have never done a fast live with the fanstar software, and my dream has me a bit freaked out. I think I'm going to have a few cold ones this weekend and forget about football stuff for a while.
Never done the live draft on fanstar either, so it should be interesting. I am pretty sure that once it is set to Draft with a 3 minute time limit and your time is up, the computer will select the top Overalll (OVR) player on the list for you (unless that position is filled according to our roster limits). I know the site made 2 picks for me in our recent baseball league. I had not set it on computer pick. fade, stop eating chocolate before going to bed
The draft is still set for Sunday, September 3rd, however at 7PM CDT (instead of 9PM), so we don't keep Fade up too long. There will still be three minutes between picks - 20 rounds. If there is any problems, or you won't be able to make it, let me know as soon as possible. I did notice people concerned over how a fast draft works on the website, since we have never done it that way - especially what happens after the three minutes if you didn't make a pick. The other option we could do is do a live draft in the bbs chatroom (where it would be much easier to make fun of Fade's picks), then I could add the players to your respective teams. That way if you can't make the draft or have to leave for a short while, you could send someone a list. We can try either way, so if you have a preference, let me know.
I really hope everyone shows up for the draft. If we wait a whole 3 minutes for each pick, 14 picks through 20 rounds...this draft could take up to 14 hours to complete. I'll be really, really drunk and sleepy by then.
I agree, hopefully everyone will be present or could send me a list, and when we do the draft everyone try and be ready so they don't take the whole 3 minutes - but not sure of any other way to do this (unless we start much earlier, but I hate to keep changing times - tough to get everyones vote in on it through the bbs), as majority here wanted the live draft However, I am liking the idea of drafting in the chatroom instead........just an idea.
Can we extend it from 3 minutes to 5 minutes? It might get pretty bad near the end when we have to pick up scrubs...
from the league page it looks like i am out, thanks for the memories i guess i have the day off, so please advise
Smeg, If you want in and can make the draft, you are definitely in..... Just let me know... I took you off, since you said you couldn't do it, but if you can "The Greek" knows it and you are in.
I am about 95% sure I will unable to do the draft on the 3rd. I will be out of town and most likely without computer access of any kind. Coincidentally, that will take about 95% of the fun out of it. Yay.
