Dave Bancoft SS

Orel Hershiser SP

Posted by bigfatjew on 5/1/2017 3:38:00 PM (view original):
Proxy for Amerk - Pudge Rodriguez

can someone sm?

I didn't actually send a new list for today, as I was pretty sure I'd be around at 5 pm, but this pick stands because if I did, I-Rod WOULD HAVE BEEN at the top of my list, so thanks for making this for me and keeping things rolling.

You guys are on top of it today! Man oh man...not even 5 pm and we are almost done with the round. If sambus and bottomlee are on top of things as well, we could be halfway thru round 13 by midnight (at least) with tll that draftable time tonight. GREAT JOB!! That's how you do it!

You guys are on top of it today! Man oh man...not even 5 pm and we are almost done with the round. If sambus and bottomlee are on top of things as well, we could be halfway thru round 13 by midnight (at least) with tll that draftable time tonight. GREAT JOB!! That's how you do it!

Well, so much for this happening lol. Guess I musta jinxed things by mentioning it. Sigh....

sambus picked at 5:02 pm.

Thanks...missed that. Still my point remains. We coulda been ten picks into round 13 by now. Oh well....it's be nice if bottomlee picks soon, but he's on vaca so I guess we just have to be understanding.

Only 2 individuals can delay a draft this long and they are the book ends to a serpentine draft. Certain individuals should never be a book end because of their momentum killing histories . We are in Draft 6 at this point and if you have not figured out whom the momentum killers are and are not then we can look forward to future drafts having the same problem.

Actually being a bookend should be a reward from one draft to another allowing an individual whom helps facilitate the drafts momentum . ejstockman comes to mind right away for his previous draft assists as well. schwarze has assisted with comments and updates in your absences during this draft . Of course amerk1180 without you none of these drafts occur. Even while moving you have found a way to facilitate and manage this draft sir. You are always going to be the top facilitator of any draft we do and your efforts never should be taken for granted.

amerk,

first off I want to thank you for running this league. You do a great job with it and that is greatly appreciated. But I don't agree with your posts this morning...

Quote post by amerk1180 on 5/2/2017 4:11:00 AM:
This is ridiculous! Next draft, before I do the random draft order, I am going to ask everyone signed up if they have any problem being either #1 or #24 in the draft...assuring everyone that they will be able to draft their two picks before 10 pm. It's just not fair to 23 other guys that everyone else can be skipped but the guy who has the 24th pick cannot. Sorry bottomlee, but it's hard to believe that sometime in the past 6 1/2 hours, you couldn't have gotten online to make two picks....or at the least in the last 24 hours, send a proxy list with a few names on it. It's totally flipping off 23 other guys.

• I think it was unrealistic to expect to be halfway through the next round by midnight. We certainly could have picked up a few more picks, but getting a pick every half hour while we are off the clock doesn't seem likely in DEAL 6. It's much more likely that we would have been back on the clock some time tomorrow while we waited for picks to be posted during the day.

Quote post by amerk1180 on 5/2/2017 4:17:00 AM:
It just totally sucks that 23 other guys were SOOOOO sharp that the draft got to bottomlee at 5:02 pm...and here we are at 4 am in the same exact spot. Sad....I just HATE wasting drafting time like this. Normally, we NEVER have this issue in this league. Every other league I run but NOT the DEAL. I guess I just have to screen everyone if they have a vacation coming up or something else that may cause them to have issues while drafting. OR...maybe I am the only one who is PO'D and frustrated by this and I am the one who needs to just chill out.....

• Other than how frustrating it is to not see any picks overnight, what benefit are you expecting from staying ahead of the clock? For six drafts now we sometimes get ahead, but we always catch back up and and go on the clock, and then we keep moving forward.

Quote post by SouthHeat on 5/2/2017 4:30:00 AM:
Only 2 individuals can delay a draft this long and they are the book ends to a serpentine draft. Certain individuals should never be a book end because of their momentum killing histories . We are in Draft 6 at this point and if you have not figured out whom the momentum killers are and are not then we can look forward to future drafts having the same problem.

• I don't think that is true that only 1 & 24 can delay the draft. If bottomlee had made his two picks anyone after him could have created the same result because we would have been off the clock. I am far more frustrated when we wait multiple days for picks off the clock in round one, than I am with losing a few hours on any particular day and going back to being on the clock.