when are we doing it?

[Matt26]

Guys, if its ok with Kyle (the commish), I wouldnt mind running the draft?

I am in this league, but I'm happy to get it underway.

Any objections?

Cheers
Matt

 

[Funkadelic]

You're an ideas man Matt, I have no problem with you running the draft. Cheers

 

[mattyj]

Is that why dad always calls him the ideas man?


(i have no objections either )

 

[Ryanm2117]

Fine with me

 

[Matt26]

I've sent Kyle a PM to make sure is ok by him first, if it is, ill post up a confirmed time when the draft order will be announced....I'm free tonight to do this so maybe around 7:30 - 8:00pm EST ill be able to post the order.

Maybe give everyone some time (open to suggestions) to suss out who they want to pick and then start the draft.

Cheers
Matt

 

[Magicman]

Matty boy go ahead!! yep im fine with the draft order tonight!!

Once we have those settled, we can organise a chat room date and time where we will hold the draft, sound good? Ill jot down each managers picks as we go along. Then set up the rosters afterwards, sound good?

awesome

Thanks again Matty

 

[mattyj]

do we need to be all online at the same time Kyle? cant we just have a thread and do it over a few days? that way we dont need to organise a time to be all on at the saem time???

just my thoughts...

 

[lockymac]

An ongoing draft thread would be great
Its hard for everyone to be here at the same time
I have commitments with my parole Officer etc that I dont know in advance

 

[Magicman]

well whatever suits you guys lol. so how much time do we allocate for someones pick? i mean this could take forever...... lol

 

[Billyhoyle]

maybe 12 hours? and then what happens if they are not online? Does it default to the next available player in the yahoo rankings?

 

[mattyj]

thats the fairest way to do it, if they arent around, next player in the yahoo rankings...

 

[kidd05]

Whered my post go? LOL. Guys, it's still a month to go til the season.. I am confident we can finish this forum draft in a week.

 

[Magicman]

ok well the first pick we may as well start off tomorow at noon then? sound good?

 

[mattyj]

could even start 2nite if the person drawn first knows who they want to pick? (i mean its either going to be Kobe or LeBron right??)

 

[the_pie]

yeh good witht hat plan, wouldnt mind it being tonight either, as matty says only gona be one outcome whoever gets first draft pick lol

 

[Matt26]

I'm happy to facilitate the draft process and give Kyle a list of which managers selected which players to then be set up within Yahoo.

I'm working on a master list of all players (as we speak) based on rankings that will help us track the players selected.

I was thinking of posting this master list of players in a thread and update this daily (however often I can do it) to show which players are left remaining to be drafted to help everyone out with their selections.

Im also happy to send PM's to people to chase up there picks, however in the case of someone not being around to pick, they will be given the highest ranking player left (possibly according to the positions) they require on their team.

So for example if player A hasnt responded within 12-24 hours and they needed a player, they would get the next highest ranking player available.

How does this sound?

Cheers
Matt

 

[mattyj]

Matt that sounds awesome, and youre a legend for doing all the hard work

 

[lockymac]

Super effort Matt
Really great stuff
I think we need a definite time period where if someone hasnt picked within a set number of hours then they get the next highest ranked.
We should set that time period I think
Well done Matt!!

 

[Magicman]

Mtt if you can do that, it would be awesome. Maybe we can also get someone to post each teams picks as we go? that would be sweet!

 

[mattyj]

Maybe we can also get someone to post each teams picks as we go?

wouldnt that be done in the draft thread? or are we going to PM our picks to the "draft master" aka twentysomething?

i just figured each person would post as they went ie:

my post would read

WIth the 5th Pick in the Draft, Darko's Destroyers Select Dwyane Wade from the miami heat

or something along those lines?