Pretty simple concept here. The idea being to maintain the feel and strategy of the draft league while giving owners more opportunity to draft the players they want.

The Basic Concept

2 simultaneous 12 person snake drafts 

55 mil cap to allow for greater talent pool

I. The Draft

i) The 12 owners in the Eastern Conference and the 12 owners in the Western Conference will each hold their own 12 person snake style draft.

ii) The draft pool for each conference contains all players in the WIS database for each.

iii) Drafted players are exclusive within each conference. As such, there may be two instances of any drafted player in the league. 1 per conference.

iv) Given the shortened nature of each draft (12 owners instead of 24)  - we will draft all 12 players on our rosters.

v) The first 24 picks in each draft will be untimed with NO SKIPS. 

vi) Once those picks are made a daily drafting schedule with 1 hour time slots will be made - running from 10 AM EST - 10 PM EST for the remaining rounds of drafting.

vii) Once timed drafting has begun if you miss your time slot the draft is free to run on without you until your NEXT timeslot.

viii) Draft Order: Random in season 1. After that, works like the ODL. Except in two conferences.

That is in each conference: Draft order (to select slots) is based on order of finish. (Last place from previous season can select the slot (1-12) they draft in. Each owner that follows (based on record, worst to first except playoff results) can select any slot not previously chosen. Playoff teams will select in reverse order of their playoff results. Each of the losers from the first round will be ordered by record (using WifS tie-breakers if necessary) to determine order to select slots. This is repeated each round until the playoffs end. New owners are slotted at the end of the slot selection process.

ix) NO ROOKIES or WW


Miscellaneous Rules:


To the victor go the spoils:


Spoil: The winner of the league selects the 11 owners to join him/her in their conference.

If the victor doesn't return this priviledge will be granted in reverse order of draft slot selection (excluding new owners).




I think that is pretty much it. Sign-up below and choose a conference. You are free to move conferences as long as there is room to do so.

Eastern Conference:
1. felonius
2. malone9975
3. dh555
4. mikee1
5.bluenote75
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9.
10.
11.
12.

I am open to suggestions etc.

Eastern Conference - 5 to 1

I think maybe I should change the way draft slots are selected to something similar to ODL? 

I'm making a few changes as I think this out.

Western Conference /  People Are Strange

Eastern Conference/ Dead Cats, Dead Rats

You crazy, man.  I like the idea though.  Tentatively in West with Roadhouse Blues. 

The thing I may not like is drafting the whole team.  

If other people agree with that sentiment I would certainly be willing to cut it back to 7,8,9 somewhere in there. As it is I thought it would be unique to draft leagues to have to fight over the standard filler guys.

My first idea would be to go with drafting 8 rounds, the last a double pick round, and then allowing 3 under 1000 minute filler guys on each team.

love the idea...i like picking all 12 players as well...maybe do 2 picks each in rounds 9 and 10 though

crawling king snake.....eastern

As I was writing this up I originally thought about 2 picks rounds at the end - rounds 9 and 10 as you say. I thought that maybe that unbalanced the draft a bit though its scrub time anyway. I dunno.

Maybe make the 10th round the last round and allow 3 picks?

Welcome in any case. We'll figure out exactly what we want to do with this as more people join and give opinions. Myself, I am interested in drafting all 12 players at least once to see how it goes.

Ummm... I love this idea.  I'm not crazy about the team name thing, but if I can get over it, I'll be in.

Many of my leagues in the past I used musical team names. It really is quite fun, you find yourself singing/humming alot when you check box scores.

West - Ship of Fools....likely an accurate team name