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Post by Mike Randall- Braves on Feb 16, 2018 1:57:15 GMT
Part 1- Draft Time
As we have seen this season and in the past, our draft times have 2 sides pretty quick and very slow. I wont name teams but we have a large majority of the league taking less than 2 hours to pick, with only 3 taking 6 or longer. I think we can easily lower the draft times to 4-6 hours and still maintain the options for everyone to feel unrushed. This would not only speed up the draft but create some more fun during it, right now I feel checked out until it is my pick. I literally have seen my pick on the board but not picked for 3 full days, that should not happen. I love the draft convos and camaraderie it creates and lowering pick times would keep more people in draft room and make league that much closer with one another.
Part 2- Expiration of Time should result in loss of pick.
If your time runs out your pick should be skipped without a player. It moves to either back of draft or waiver wire. In every major league sport if you miss the pick you don't have someone placed on your team. I would propose just moving to the next person instead of having an auto-pick option turned on. To avoid this place your team on auto draft, that is what the option is there for. It is not only an efficiency piece but a respect piece for the rest of the league. There needs to be a negative for wasting everyones time throughout this process.
Just thoughts on ways to not only increase competitiveness but also efficiency and still not have to police people into showing up for picks.
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Post by Andy Germani on Feb 16, 2018 13:05:13 GMT
I'm fine with part one. I would even say a middle ground is go to the 4-6 hour time and increase the overnight pause. Say pause from 11 pm to 6 am. People can still pick but at the same time the person who gets on the clock after 9 doesn't get screwed over by unluckiness of on the clock timing.
Part two I am ok leaving the way it is because it is how it is in basically every fantasy league, those leagues just usually have like a 2 minute clock and not 8 hours. And I dont want the team that took forever to pick to have to make another pick ha.
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Post by srowland on Feb 19, 2018 19:42:52 GMT
For part 2 if owner would go to waivers there’d be no waiting for them to have another pick. Even if it’s end of draft there’s no one waiting on them at that point. I’ve done something like 5 or 6 other slow drafts this year and between all of them I’ve seen 2 total teams with an average of greater than 2 hours (one was 2h1m and one was 2h11m) we have 8 teams > 2 hours. It is tough to have a 3 round wait that you expect to take 5+ days .
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Post by alex on Feb 20, 2018 21:20:08 GMT
I am against both...
4-6 HRs sounds good, but sometimes your busy or you just don't know you are up... sure, it is easy to go auto, but don't forget we are doing a slow draft for a reason... you shouldn't be forced into being an auto...
as to the 2nd, if you are pushed to the end of the round, and the pick still doesn't come, then what happens?? do you get a full clock?? to many variables, so I would keep it that the computer picks for them... the computer does take players from your queue first anyway... so maybe the owner actually wanted that player...
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Post by Paul Hartman on Feb 21, 2018 15:21:22 GMT
I am against lowering the draft time from 8 hours. It's a slow draft and we always finish on time if not early. I firmly believe that if we lowered to 6 hours, we'd find ourselves next year looking to lower it to 4 because a dozen guys averaging 3+ hours. I think it's just people want to make their next pick and hate waiting no matter how long As for skipping picks if missed, that it what happens now. If the owner has people in their queue it will grab them at the 8hr point but if not it skips them and they would get a pick at end of draft. I think this works. If people who miss it have people in their queue knew that they could turn auto on, it would go quicker. But, it's not a common occurrence anyhow. I like the skip pick option though and would like to keep it.
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