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    Draft Utility (courtesy of VPI97), draft talk.

    Here is the draft utility. It is set up and ready to roll. All it really needs is the draft class, which will be imported when it is available in the game.

    You can take a look at the pages now though, and login to look at your team screen.

    We will be having time limits like last year, the first round may be 2 or 3 hours. The rest will be 1 hour. The utility does not have a built in time limit that I know of (I will get this clarified), so we will have our three guys watching during the week and myself on the weekends.

    Right now, I am thinking that things will be a little different then last year for missed picks. I am going to be a hardass basically. If you miss a pick at the end of your time, you will be picked for. To prevent this you need to set your preference list everyday incase you can not make you pick live. (Feel free to debate this, I will listen)

    Here are the links for the utility:

    http://www.imperialfl.us/draft/index.php (log in using your board name and password)

    Also,
    http://www.imperialfl.us/draft/draftorder.php
    http://www.imperialfl.us/draft/draftclass.php
    http://www.imperialfl.us/draft/draftbyteam.php

    Thanks, once again, go out to VPI97 for allowing us to use this.
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    Yep, key words being "set your preference list everyday". You have got to check in at least once a day, whether it be at night time or in the morning, and you have got to set it so your preference list will be used. If you can check in multiple times and make the deadlines, then it's your perogative - do what you will.
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    • #3
      And I guess right now the rough times will be something like 8 am CST until 12 midnight CST, but that is hardly set in stone. Maybe 11 PM is a better ending.
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      • #4
        Re: Draft Utility (courtesy of VPI97), draft talk.

        Originally posted by Cringer
        ....Right now, I am thinking that things will be a little different then last year for missed picks. I am going to be a hardass basically. If you miss a pick at the end of your time, you will be picked for. To prevent this you need to set your preference list everyday incase you can not make you pick live. (Feel free to debate this, I will listen)...
        I'm against this as it only seems to be "hardass" towards the GMs who pick on time or do their preference list. If a GM hasn't done a list then he's shown no interest/dedication to his pick and I feel it's better that his pick slides rather than he be handed a player that a "ready GM" shortly after him might have targeted.


        BTW - I also feel there's no need for league management to juggle the draft slots to "slide" the pick numbers. When the GM finally logs on (assuming he hasn't abandoned his team) he can pick his player out of what's left and pay the price due to his draft slot. The only round that's really gonna hit the cap is the 1st anyway and there's no reason all GMs can't have at least a 1st round preference list done by the time the draft clock is enforced.
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        • #5
          Re: Draft Utility (courtesy of VPI97), draft talk.

          Originally posted by LawrencePhantoms
          Originally posted by Cringer
          ....Right now, I am thinking that things will be a little different then last year for missed picks. I am going to be a hardass basically. If you miss a pick at the end of your time, you will be picked for. To prevent this you need to set your preference list everyday incase you can not make you pick live. (Feel free to debate this, I will listen)...
          I'm against this as it only seems to be "hardass" towards the GMs who pick on time or do their preference list. If a GM hasn't done a list then he's shown no interest/dedication to his pick and I feel it's better that his pick slides rather than he be handed a player that a "ready GM" shortly after him might have targeted.


          BTW - I also feel there's no need for league management to juggle the draft slots to "slide" the pick numbers. When the GM finally logs on (assuming he hasn't abandoned his team) he can pick his player out of what's left and pay the price due to his draft slot. The only round that's really gonna hit the cap is the 1st anyway and there's no reason all GMs can't have at least a 1st round preference list done by the time the draft clock is enforced.
          We're really trying to stay away from swapping picks inside the game. It may not have appeared to be such a big deal to a GM, but if you take a look at the transaction log and note the seemingly endless trades made in the offseason, you'll see what I'm talking about - it sucks big-time for Cringer and I.

          You also run into a problem where a GM may have abandoned his team or may be involved in some sort of emergency. We really couldn't let a guy fall too far, otherwise the future of a team could be impacted pretty badly.

          Did you guys know that IHOF doesn't even use time limits whatsoever? Their drafts, if I'm not mistaken, last about 1 1/2 weeks and they get things done because guys are respectful to each other and realize what needs to be done in order to reach their final goal.
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          • #6
            sovstar has pretty much covered the reasoning behind this.

            Let me add this. This is being done for the betterment of the league. If a team goes to complete shit, it hurts the league. I failed in some aspects of preventing this with Fresno last season before free agency, and we are lucky to have gotten an owner who took the team and has stayed with it all season long.

            The picks for a team, if required, will be done based off of needs, and the best player taken from those need positions of that team. There is no perfect system, but this will not be a problem if guys do their lists, or are able to make live picks.
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            • #7
              My wishlist code assigned a punter if a owner missed his pick without a pref list. Although I was going to give an option between a player and a position. So if Bob wasn't available, you could just take the highest rated TE/whatever position.

              This is fair. . .can you load the last draft class in so we can see how it works with data?
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              • #8
                With this utility, I saw for the preference lise you have the options 'yes no single' or something. Can you set the preference list to use the list only after your time has run out, and otherwise have it wait for you to make a manual pick?
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                • #9
                  Originally posted by MrBigglesworth
                  With this utility, I saw for the preference lise you have the options 'yes no single' or something. Can you set the preference list to use the list only after your time has run out, and otherwise have it wait for you to make a manual pick?
                  From what I've been made aware of, there is no limit built in to the draft utility nor will there be one.
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                  • #10
                    Setting the preference list every day won't be possible for me since I connect only from work ( and I have a weird schedule) but If the player is not on my list, I wouldn't mind having the commish (or anybody else) pick for me.

                    I'll do my best anyway.

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                    • #11
                      I did read something at IHOF recently where VPI said that you'll be able to put something like 'best available TE' in your preference list. Assuming that change will be in the utility when we use it, that should help out some guys.
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                      • #12
                        Originally posted by sovstar
                        I did read something at IHOF recently where VPI said that you'll be able to put something like 'best available TE' in your preference list. Assuming that change will be in the utility when we use it, that should help out some guys.
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                        • #13
                          No one has any more thoughts, comments on this utility and the draft?
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                          • #14
                            Originally posted by Cringer
                            No one has any more thoughts, comments on this utility and the draft?
                            I'm for it. And less taxes.
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                            • #15
                              I wish we could get more input from people on this. Ya gotta be ready when this goes live so you really should post your thoughts/questions now.
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