Note to self:  Never, ever, ever do another untimed / unscheduled Draft again, under any circumstances.

This is ridiculous.

Posted by all3 on 8/19/2011 2:55:00 PM (view original):
Note to self:  Never, ever, ever do another untimed / unscheduled Draft again, under any circumstances.

This is ridiculous.

yeah it never goes well. Had some of these go like 2 months before -and that was with a 12 hour skip rule

really bored reading about vertical jumps..

Randy Moss has a vertical leap score of 51" (130 cm),

Well, if snydpie is going to remain quiet on the matter of a schedule, maybe the inmates can run the asylum.  Someone (logain?) could post a schedule starting the sixth round on Sunday a.m. with timed picks every hour.  That would give anyone actually checking this forum time to see it coming up and react.  I'd volunteer to sitemail everyone that this is happening.

Plenty of us are on often enough to regulate traffic and keep everything moving.

At this point, there are lots of interesting players on the board and we're all just filling gaps after this round anyway.  I won't cry if I get skipped, and no one else should either.  And I don't mind taking over a team from someone who gets frustrated and bails.  Just adds to my fun, frankly, although the precise amount of fun might be affected by what kind of roster I'm inheriting.

I'm not wedded to any of this.  Just trying to be a good citizen.  There's no reason to let this die from inertia.

Now that we are into this, I wouldn't mind drafting more players if we are on a shedule. Could do 3 players in the 10th round to get everyone to 10 players?

I like the idea Brad, but I think we should start tomorrow rather than sunday. We can get 3 ppl to pick in the next 18 hours!

here's a sitemail list - 

empdenied,malone9975,dh555,garyman,snydpie,sappy,ashamael,longtallbrad,badja,sweg,logain,xxevilivexx,imahobbit,steelers821,all3,jayharvill

Posted by badja on 8/19/2011 3:27:00 PM (view original):
I like the idea Brad, but I think we should start tomorrow rather than sunday. We can get 3 ppl to pick in the next 18 hours!

I think Sunday is reasonable given that possibly people won't be checking WIS again today to see that we have gone timed on this draft. We are already past the pm games for today. The draft should have been over by Sunday but w/e. Peasants with pitchforks!

added some saturday worst-case scenario times for the 3 picks left in this round. Note, my spreadsheet has had all these times in it since early this week, not much work to do here.

Just run it like many of the leagues here.. miss your slot, and the draft runs along without you. Just bench players anyway

Posted by logain on 8/19/2011 3:31:00 PM (view original):

Posted by badja on 8/19/2011 3:27:00 PM (view original):
I like the idea Brad, but I think we should start tomorrow rather than sunday. We can get 3 ppl to pick in the next 18 hours!

I think Sunday is reasonable given that possibly people won't be checking WIS again today to see that we have gone timed on this draft. We are already past the pm games for today. The draft should have been over by Sunday but w/e. Peasants with pitchforks!

That's my thought.  Hopefully people will be patient with the ramp-up to an actual schedule if it's clear that the majority of participants plan to help this move faster.

snydpie, I don't know if you're around today but I trust you'll weigh in if you're uncomfortable with this.

Okay, I've sent a sitemail to all GMs proposing this plan and informing them that the schedule is posted (thanks, logain! you da man...). 

snypdie can certainly change this up, but hopefully this gives us a reasonable, no-tears way of picking up the pace.  I see no reason why we can't move much faster than the schedule suggests, once we kick into gear.

great thanks! I know people like to think an unscheduled draft will be more relaxed and easier on people but really, I have to check the site alot more to see if its my pick etc.. its much easier knowing, ok I pick at 2 pm. If I happen to check earlier great.. but I know I can show up and pick at that one time and have no problems.

With the positive direction some of the members are taking, I will remain for the bench rounds.  I have no interest in doing bench rounds with the current, untimed format.


ps - I love trash talk and debate.  I don't love arguing with a wall, which is what snydpie has been.

well done guys....id like to finish this thing as well and wouldn't mind taking on another squad if needed

i think 8 rounds should be enough though....most of our starters would be playing around 40(playoff mins) a night anyway


what are we doing at the end of this again? a tourney or rankings or something?....im in for whatever