[FF]: 2015 Season Long Fantasy FIRST: Traditional League [Archive]

EricH

19-07-2014, 18:09

With the passing of another IRI into the record websites, it’s time for another season of Fantasy FIRST! This year, with there being multiple leagues planned, the tag “Traditional” is going to be used for the classic full-season, every-event-gets-a-draft format. Miss 5 drafts in a row and you get a warning; ignore the warning and you’re out of the league. I'm not gonna require any selection lists now because I don’t know when most of the events are gonna be, but be ready when drafting starts because it’ll be fast and furious! Trades of teams and/or draft slots are allowed if everybody involved agrees. Teams of up to 5 players are allowed; if the entire team from last season is still around just drop the name and team members’ names in.

Full rules are located at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2574

Drafting will start the day after Thanksgiving, assuming the event schedule allows for that.

1) Falcon (EricH)
2)

EricH

19-07-2014, 18:23

Incidentally, there are some changes to the traditional format that need some highlighting. (Changing part of the league operations is also traditional.)

The biggest change is that there are no drafts for individual districts. Those took up half of the drafts last year, and the number was projected to rise. That, plus the tendency to plunk new districts in halfway through drafting season, drove this change. The new format for districts is that there will be a single draft of up to 6 rounds for each district area (FiM, MAR, NE, PNW, and IN), with any draft of over 4 rounds being spread over two days. Each team will get its average FF score from all districts it competes in. Still being considered: shuffling the random drafting order between days, and how to deal with timing of list locks and competition-season trades inside the district system.

The other major change is in the waiver system's treatment of teams that add into an event after the event's draft is over. In the past, they'd go to a traditional waiver; this is being changed to a "Challenge Waiver". Pick up the team at your own risk; someone who is higher on the waiver priority list at the time you pick 'em up can challenge you (and thus potentially force a trade, although maybe not for that particular team), with multiple challenges sending the team to the next running of the traditional waiver, which will remain in force for all teams left after a player is removed from the league. (As for why this change is being made: I'm getting lazy and forgetful. ;) Actually, it's pretty demanding running waivers, and having to go in and check for teams adding can take a while.)

Anupam Goli

20-07-2014, 09:56

Excited for another season of FF. Here's to learning about more teams and more FIRST regions. Let's get this rolling.

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa) (one member defected to Florida, the land of the oranges, and another member joined from up north)

Bryce Paputa

20-07-2014, 13:40

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa) (one member defected to Florida, the land of the oranges, and another member joined from up north)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)

Cody Burd

20-07-2014, 16:11

4)B.O.T( Cody Burd )

mlantry

21-07-2014, 11:48

I'm in. Looking for team members preferably from the MAR region.
5.)Team MAR(mlanty)

BrennanB

21-07-2014, 12:09

orangemoore

21-07-2014, 20:24

Koko Ed

22-07-2014, 07:10

nikeairmancurry

22-07-2014, 14:37

9. Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)

Clinton Bolinger

24-07-2014, 13:08

10. PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)

MARS_James

25-07-2014, 22:20

Well lets hope I can actually be effective the whole season this time

11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)

Brandon_L

29-07-2014, 16:52

Posting as a "free agent", I'd love to participate again but not on my own/as my own team.

ks68

30-07-2014, 16:57

12. SHARP Cheddar (ks68)

EricH

30-07-2014, 20:27

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC) (Still would love to get some more people)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)

Free Agents: Brandon_L

One or two other tweaks/clarifications that I forgot to mention earlier: W-L record will not be counted during eliminations. This particular tweak comes about to make life easier on the scorers, while still keeping the RCA as the highest-scoring award (previously, winning the event would equal the RCA when W-L was factored in).

And, just for the record, if a team is known to be in contention for an award at an event, but not have their robot at the event, that team may be selected anyway. They will either get that award's score or nothing. Drafter's call on how much they feel like gambling.

BrennanB

03-08-2014, 12:12

MARS_James

03-08-2014, 14:01

For districts will we still get a new draft for the District Champs?

EricH

03-08-2014, 18:47

For districts will we still get a new draft for the District Champs?

Yes. One draft for all the events in weeks 1-6 (aka all the teams in the district), one for the DCMP.

I'm working on the schedule as events get added. Right now I'm looking at running the district drafts between Christmas and New Year's Eve (12/26-12/30) at the rate of one new and one continuing per night. "Continuing": Many of the district drafts will be run as multi-night drafts, probably with a reshuffle of the draft order between nights. I'm targeting each player/team picking 4-6 teams per district draft, depending on how many players we've got, but a 6-round draft on one night will be just about suicide for all concerned, so I'll be splitting most of 'em into two nights and probably changing up the draft order between the nights as well.

If everything works out, we might be able to sneak in a few off days into the bargain. (Har, har. At least we don't have to sneak a district that crops up late-season into the schedule somewhere.)

Jay O'Donnell

10-08-2014, 23:18

LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)

No more free agents!

Brandon_L

11-08-2014, 01:56

LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)

No more free agents!

Just confirming, he did ask me and I accepted

EricH

16-09-2014, 23:42

Question for y'all: If you had to make a choice between a shorter season with mostly two-a-day drafts, or a slightly longer season with more one-a-day drafts, which would you pick? The current anticipated scheduling is looking like we'd be mighty close on draft slots for a post-Thanksgiving start. I figure that we can squeeze 68 events in on two-a-days, and I can account for 64 events, scheduled or rumored (counting each district draft as two events).

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
13) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)

pimathbrainiac

17-09-2014, 19:02

And now entering in FF for the first time: Team Mastermind! (cjl2625 and myself)

That makes it:

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
13) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
14) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)

Koko Ed

17-09-2014, 19:30

EricH

19-09-2014, 23:20

Hopefully we don't get any more events--we're up to 66/68 drafting slots filled by my count (in the 34 available drafting days), counting rumored and expected events. I'm going to target shorter and more packed if I can. (Fallback if two or more events add is to add a week at the start of draft season, and sprinkle 1-draft nights around a bit more liberally.)

I would also like to make a note regarding scores for interdistrict play. For all scorers: A district team, playing in districts, is drafted in and has its score counted towards its home district only. You draft 'em in their home district, you get the average score across all district events attended, home or away. However, a district team playing in a regional is counted the same as any other team at that regional, no points are earned towards the district. Example: 67 goes down to Lafayette for a district. They cannot be selected by someone in the IN draft; their MI draft will cover the IN additional event. 217, however, goes to Midwest. They will be available to draft in Midwest, for the number of points earned at Midwest--no effect on their MI score.

EricH

26-09-2014, 15:52

And now, we have a schedule. I don't anticipate any changes to the event roster except maybe in the districts (which don't count towards this schedule anyways--see the block drafts at the end).

Google Calendar (https://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=kfdvkbgg89q1pkklajvlc16dcg%40group.calen dar.google.com&ctz=America/Los_Angeles): If you're interested in running a draft, make sure to pick a day you'll be available. (It's currently not set up for draft runners to edit--drop me a PM or a post and that can be changed.)

For those that prefer to just read a schedule...28-Nov Lake Superior Northern Lights
29-Nov Palmetto Georgia Southern Classic
30-Nov Dallas South Florida
1-Dec Inland Empire
2-Dec GTR-C Greater Pittsburgh
3-Dec Mexico City Central Valley
4-Dec Rock City Israel
5-Dec Los Angeles Utah
6-Dec Orlando NYC
7-Dec GKC GTR-E
8-Dec Alamo Australia
9-Dec Montreal
10-Dec Bayou Waterloo
11-Dec St. Louis Tech Valley
12-Dec North Carolina Central Illinois
13-Dec Virginia Davis
14-Dec Wisconsin Phoenix East Arizona
15-Dec Oklahoma Hub City
16-Dec Hawaii Buckeye
17-Dec Greater DC Peachtree
18-Dec Colorado
19-Dec Finger Lakes Ventura
20-Dec North Bay Las Vegas
21-Dec Windsor-Essex Long Island
22-Dec Silicon Valley Arizona West
23-Dec Lone Star San Diego
24-Dec North Star 10K Lakes
26-Dec Chesapeake Midwest
27-Dec Smokey Queen City
28-Dec MI 1 Alberta
29-Dec MI 2 MAR 1
30-Dec PNW 1 MAR 2
1-Jan PNW 2 NE 1
2-Jan IN District NE 2 (Those numbers in the last set? Which day of the block draft is happening.)

allgoodthehood

08-10-2014, 18:50

14) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)

pimathbrainiac

11-10-2014, 14:36

Correction, you're number 15.

And now entering in FF for the first time: Team Mastermind! (cjl2625 and myself)

That makes it:

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
13) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
14) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)

Making the list
1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
13) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
14) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
15) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)

EricH

26-10-2014, 19:56

And we're down around a month to go in signup before the player list is set. Anybody thinking of signing up, please do so by Thanksgiving so we've got a day or two to get drafts up. As a reminder, there is limit of 5 missed drafts in a row before you get a warning from me about needing to show up, so think carefully, and start planning accordingly.

I've had one or two questions about lists, namely format. Just put your list in a vertical column with the team you want first at the top, and get it to the draft runner(s) somehow. Google spreadsheet, PM, posted Excel sheet with a password, you name it, it'll work. Can't find a draft runner? Send it to me and I'll make sure it gets to whoever's supposed to run that draft.

Speaking of draft runners... Could use some help here. I know James has signed up for a few spots, but speaking from experience this is more than a 2-person operation. If you look at the description in the calendar, it should have who's running that draft. If there's a draft day that you happen to be available, and you think you'd like to run a draft, let me know. (And if you happen to want to run one of the drafts that I'm running, I'll gladly swap to the other one on that night.) I especially need runners on Tuesdays in early December, as I won't be available due to prior commitments.

therobo-titan

26-10-2014, 20:09

16. Beginner's Luck (therobo-titan)

wmarshall11

26-10-2014, 20:35

Maldridge422

28-10-2014, 00:08

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) B.O.T (Cody Burd)
5) Team MAR(mlanty)
6) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
7) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
8) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
9) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
10) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
11) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
12) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
13) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
14) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
15) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)
16) Beginner's Luck (therobo-titan)
17) Brolliance Beta (AGPapa, JoshPFalk, wmarshall11)
18) Daedalite InVAders (Maldridge422, Araris)

PVCpirate

02-11-2014, 18:45

Speaking of draft runners... Could use some help here. I know James has signed up for a few spots, but speaking from experience this is more than a 2-person operation. If you look at the description in the calendar, it should have who's running that draft. If there's a draft day that you happen to be available, and you think you'd like to run a draft, let me know. (And if you happen to want to run one of the drafts that I'm running, I'll gladly swap to the other one on that night.) I especially need runners on Tuesdays in early December, as I won't be available due to prior commitments.

I should be able to sign up for some drafts in December until the semester ends. After that I'm home on break so I can't really commit to anything, but I could still do some drafts if needed in late December into January.

MARS_James

02-11-2014, 22:50

Speaking of draft runners... Could use some help here. I know James has signed up for a few spots, but speaking from experience this is more than a 2-person operation. If you look at the description in the calendar, it should have who's running that draft. If there's a draft day that you happen to be available, and you think you'd like to run a draft, let me know. (And if you happen to want to run one of the drafts that I'm running, I'll gladly swap to the other one on that night.) I especially need runners on Tuesdays in early December, as I won't be available due to prior commitments.

Just going to say that when I look at the Calendar since the first day it was posted every day says busy and gives no other information

EricH

02-11-2014, 23:10

Just going to say that when I look at the Calendar since the first day it was posted every day says busy and gives no other information

If you click the event title, it'll pop up a balloon. In some of those balloons, there's a "Description" line--if that's present, it tells who's running the draft. (On my copy of the calendar, it'll highlight a color--but apparently that didn't translate over when I made it public.)

To make things a little clearer, I need help on the following drafts:
11/28 Northern Lights
12/1 Inland Empire
12/2 Greater Pittsburgh and Greater Toronto Central
12/3 Mexico City
12/4 Israel
12/5 Utah
12/7 Greater Toronto East
12/8 Alamo
12/9 Montreal
12/10 Bayou
12/11 Tech Valley
12/12 North Carolina
12/13 Virginia
12/14 Wisconsin

12/16 Buckeye and Hawaii

12/20 North Bay

12/22 Silicon Valley
12/23 San Diego *
12/24 North Star
12/26 Midwest

12/28 Alberta
12/29-30 MAR District (2 parts)*
12/30-1/2 PNW District (2 parts)*
1/2 Indiana District*
*Depending how schedule actually works out, I may be available to cover one or more drafts on these days.

Note that if you'd rather run the other draft on any given day, I'll swap, no problem.

BrennanB

02-11-2014, 23:42

Put me down for every other day after December 13th for now.

Calendar doesn't seem to be working for me either. :ahh: Possibly something in the settings that doesn't show the description?

EricH

02-11-2014, 23:46

Put me down for every other day after December 13th for now.

Calendar doesn't seem to be working for me either. :ahh: Possibly something in the settings that doesn't show the description?

Could be. I'll have to look at it. (Another oddity: The public share says that the times are in Pacific. They're not supposed to be... I might have to take it off public view for a bit to clean it up.)

Every other day--is that the odd days or the even days?

BrennanB

02-11-2014, 23:53

Could be. I'll have to look at it. (Another oddity: The public share says that the times are in Pacific. They're not supposed to be... I might have to take it off public view for a bit to clean it up.)

Every other day--is that the odd days or the even days?

Lets make it odd days ;)

EricH

03-11-2014, 00:01

Lets make it odd days ;)

Odd days it is! Looks like you drew Hub City, Finger Lakes, Long Island, Lone Star and Smokey Mountain.

And, for anybody wondering, James has all the events in Georgia and Florida covered.

P.S. I should have knocked off the "busy only" showing.

PVCpirate

04-11-2014, 15:02

Okay, I can take Greater Toronto Central on December 2nd, Israel on the 4th, Montreal on the 9th, Tech Valley on the 11th, Virginia on the 13th, and Wisconsin on the 14th. I should be able to do some others if they need runners on short notice, these are just the ones I can commit to this far out.

Koko Ed

04-11-2014, 16:12

I cannot commit to any drafts til after I know what's up with my job situation after November 21st. If I'm working straight nights I can't do anything. If everything stays as is I can do most drafts.

EricH

04-11-2014, 19:32

Updated coverage-needed list:
11/28 Northern Lights
12/1 Inland Empire
12/2 Greater Pittsburgh
12/3 Mexico City
12/5 Utah
12/7 Greater Toronto East
12/8 Alamo
12/10 Bayou
12/12 North Carolina
12/16 Buckeye and Hawaii
12/20 North Bay
12/22 Silicon Valley
12/23 San Diego *
12/24 North Star
12/26 Midwest
12/28 Alberta
12/29-30 MAR District (2 parts)*
12/30-1/2 PNW District (2 parts)*
1/2 Indiana District*
*Depending how schedule actually works out, I may be available to cover one or more drafts on these days.

orangemoore

04-11-2014, 22:45

If you need someone I can do drafts after December 20th on even days, so (12/20, 12/22, 12/24, 12/26, 12/28, 12/30, 1/2)

MARS_James

06-11-2014, 10:23

I am going to try my best to make all the drafts that I signed up for, If I won't be able to it will be known days beforehand so hopefully someone will cover for me. BTW any students on here take advantage of your clear work/school schedule while you can, because one day you will walk into work and your boss will tell you: "Hey we want you to start working nights for half the week" You will then respond with "Which Half" to which they will respond with "Haven't decided yet, just wanted to see if you would argue about it" -_-

Brandon_L

11-11-2014, 03:52

Just wanted to note, if you can't find anyone to run a draft send me a PM and I'll be willing to do a few. I did a few as needed last season.

Koko Ed

15-11-2014, 01:18

I cannot commit to any drafts til after I know what's up with my job situation after November 21st. If I'm working straight nights I can't do anything. If everything stays as is I can do most drafts.

I have been assigned to working straight nights (9pm til 11:30 p,) so I cannot do any drafts.

EricH

15-11-2014, 01:43

And after running through the calendar again, this time to add orangemoore on even days (aside from 12/30--the only items running that day are 2-day block drafts), it looks like we are set for anything after 12/13 (exceptions being San Diego, both drafts on 12/16, and most of the 2-day block drafts in the last week).

That means that early-season is where we're hurting for draft runners. Available events:

11/28 (Friday): Northern Lights Regional
12/1 (Monday): Inland Empire Regional*
12/2 (Tuesday): Greater Pittsburgh Regional
12/3 (Wednesday): Mexico City Regional
12/5 (Friday): Utah Regional
12/7 (Sunday): GTR East Regional
12/8 (Monday): Alamo Regional
12/10 (Wednesday): Bayou Regional
12/12 (Friday): North Carolina Regional
12/16 (Tuesday): Buckeye Regional & Hawaii Regional
12/23 (Tuesday): San Diego Regional**
12/29-12/30 (Monday-Tuesday): MAR District (2-day block draft)
12/30-1/1 (Tuesday and Thursday): PNW District (2-day block draft)

*I can run this if nobody else steps up. I'd greatly prefer NOT to run it, though, and will be taking random teams there regardless.
**I may be able to run this, but can't commit until about a week beforehand.

The good news is, we still have two weeks to figure out that first open slot, take names for more players, and figure out a T-shirt design (http://www.usfirst.org/roboticsprograms/frc/blog-Shirts-for-2015-Kickoff). (Kidding on the last one, though I was thinking of issuing a challenge to HQ to field a team. Then I remembered they'd have one of the most dominant SLFF players from the past.)

MARS_James

20-11-2014, 11:20

I will be unable to run the Georgia Southern Classic Draft due to work scheduling, my appologies

Cody Burd

20-11-2014, 20:59

I need to drop out

EricH

20-11-2014, 21:24

There is now one week left before the close of registration and the start of drafting season.

I still need draft runners for Northern Lights (11/28), Georgia Southern (11/29), and Inland Empire (12/1) to open the season. As a reminder, we've only got 3 possible makeup dates, and one of those happens to be the same day as Inland Empire.

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) Team MAR(mlanty)
5) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
6) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
7) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
8) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
9) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
10) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
11) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
12) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
13) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
14) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)
15) Beginner's Luck (therobo-titan)
16) Brolliance Beta (AGPapa, JoshPFalk, wmarshall11)
17) Daedalite InVAders (Maldridge422, Araris)

therobo-titan

23-11-2014, 03:35

I'm removing Beginner's Luck from the list. Just can't do the time commitment. I'll still be keeping up with the results though. Best of luck, everyone!

EricH

24-11-2014, 17:39

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) Team MAR(mlanty)
5) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
6) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
7) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
8) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
9) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
10) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
11) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
12) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
13) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
14) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)
15) Brolliance Beta (AGPapa, JoshPFalk, wmarshall11)
16) Daedalite InVAders (Maldridge422, Araris)

EricH

24-11-2014, 17:58

With less than a week before drafting begins, I'd like to take a moment to issue a couple of reminders.

1) If you miss 5 drafts in a row, you'll be getting a warning. Miss the next night's drafts, you're out. For the record, the first warnings would be going out no earlier than 11/30 (Dallas/South Florida), with the first boot(s) no earlier than 12/1 (Inland Empire).

2) To avoid having to deal with #1, all teams are encouraged to send in lists. Don't know who the draft runner is? Send 'em to me, I'll get 'em to the runner(s).

And, by way of schedule reminder and knowing who's running which draft, at least for the first week...
28-Nov Lake Superior Regional EricH
28-Nov Northern Lights Regional
29-Nov Georgia Southern Classic
29-Nov Palmetto EricH
30-Nov Dallas EricH
30-Nov South Florida Mars_James
1-Dec Inland Empire
2-Dec Greater Pittsburgh
2-Dec Greater Toronto Central PVCPirate
3-Dec Central Valley EricH
3-Dec Mexico City
4-Dec Arkansas Rock City EricH
4-Dec Israel PVCPirate

Note the empty spots--somebody needs to fill those as far as draft running. (We could also try running three drafts in one day, or running drafts consecutively instead of concurrently, but I consider those to be last-ditch measures.)

EricH

27-11-2014, 01:24

Registration is still open... but not for long. I'll close that at midnight EST on 11/27 (AKA, in about 22.5 hours).

Once that happens, I expect to have the first draft up shortly afterwards. All drafts for this league will use the tag [TSL] to distinguish them from any other leagues that happen to be drafting at the same time.

Littleboy

27-11-2014, 09:12

Brandon_L

27-11-2014, 19:54

Send me lists for northern lights drafts, which I'll run tomorrow night @7pm est

mlantry

27-11-2014, 20:25

Sorry things have come up and have to drop out

Brandon_L

28-11-2014, 00:28

Sorry things have come up and have to drop out

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
5) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
6) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
7) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
8) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
9) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
10) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
11) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
12) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
13) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)
14) Brolliance Beta (AGPapa, JoshPFalk, wmarshall11)
15) Daedalite InVAders (Maldridge422, Araris)
16) The Yellow Alliance (Littleboy)

Northern Lights Randoms:
2509
3926
4215
3055
5720
5464
2705
877
3054
2847
5148
525
2479
4623
4671
2574
2846
4226
3130
27
2169
3883
3633
2502
2532
4238
4207
3381
5348
4786
4656
3750
3754
2491
3723
4166
3298
4624
5638
3212
5172
3026
5290
5232
3297
3267
4506
4674
4741
2512
4480
2500
2175
876
2501
2518
4859
4182
4657
4531

EricH

28-11-2014, 00:56

It's after midnight Eastern, so registration is now closed for this league. And the drafts are starting to pop up for the first drafting day!

Lake Superior Random List
4511
3122
4230
2538
2526
4054
2177
3751
5253
2977
4762
3277
3042
5299
4217
3313
2220
4009
4397
4986
1714
3846
4260
3828
3276
3294
1816
2883
5658
2052
3290
3788
2499
3755
2503
5541
4239
2264
4703
2472
93
4845
2531
3840
3740
3036
5019
1716
2823
3184
5653
5690
5003
4539
5143
4181
4818
5542
4664
4728
3102
4011

EricH

28-11-2014, 21:34

Got a couple of quick administrative notes for y'all.

1) We've got 3 teams that didn't show up for the first two drafts. SuperPowerMatic, Swamp Life, and Mastermind all missed cleanly. I suspect Team Guh... was not paying full attention, missing one draft and making the other. I would like to remind everybody that if you can't make it, sending a note saying that you want randoms does count as attending. Remember, it's 5 drafts to the first warning, which is about 3 days.

2) We still need a draft runner for Georgia Southern tomorrow night. I'll take lists for that until one is found, then forward the lot of 'em. Worst case scenario... I think I can handle two full drafts at once. (I'm on Palmetto, in case y'all needed a reminder.)

3) For anybody wanting to cover said draft, or any future drafts... We've got some help. http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3042 is a document that will automate the process to a large extent--note that it is a macro-enabled spreadsheet, so you'll need to make sure macros are enabled. And http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2880 has a bunch of tips and tricks.

4) I've put a Google Doc (https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L82EHqb_K-APfLNFMptayvpqhp6kerIbiWwurkQrEwM/edit?usp=sharing) up with the overall current selections out of Superior. I think our scorers would appreciate it if all drafts ended up on there.

5) And a couple quick, quick notes: Just remember that if the person in front of you has picked, your slot is open. Thus, as of this writing (edit, 9:53 PM EST), the first pick may be made in Palmetto.

EricH

28-11-2014, 21:42

Palmetto Randoms: Draft starts at 7 PM EST.
343
4902
422
4514
1398
5020
342
4075
3651
4935
2815
4847
4074
4748
5317
900
4451
4452
4533
1102
1533
2632
435
4098
587
1553
4243
4020
4901
5063
1261
4823
4582
2187
3824
3489
1758
1051
1287
3976
5180
1539
5327
2028
3459
1293
836
1249
281
3490
5022
283
4576
2640
4267
4073
4505
4083
1225
5130
1876
2655
4561
4965
120

EricH

29-11-2014, 16:53

2) We still need a draft runner for Georgia Southern tomorrow night. I'll take lists for that until one is found, then forward the lot of 'em. Worst case scenario... I think I can handle two full drafts at once. (I'm on Palmetto, in case y'all needed a reminder.)

Option 1: run two drafts at once (until GSC finishes).
Option 2: Punt GSC to Monday and run it in parallel with IE, give you all one slow draft day early.

I asked my sanity what it thought. It didn't answer, so I assume I've lost it somewhere.

Option 1 it is! Starting at 7:05, and oughtta be done by the time the first round of Palmetto finishes.

Random list for Georgia Southern Classic (tiers will be up momentarily):
1912
3091
3329
5536
1369
4118
2918
1319
1746
1311
3581
3506
5579
1795
3140
2080
3516
1466
3600
5004
4148
4149
4235
4188
2556
4265
1002
4658
5002
3266
832
1683
4941
1902
3694
3635
5109
233
4189
4730
5734
3344

EricH

29-11-2014, 21:50

Go ahead and get your lists in for Dallas when you can. I'm going to be a bit later than last night at getting it up. (The drafting program I use worked just fine on one-tier drafts, but threw lots of curveballs at me on the 2-tier draft we just had. I'm trying to work some kinks out.)

Edit: It's up now, I think the kinks are worked out (at least enough to not affect anything--if you've downloaded the file, there's a new version out with the fixes), and the random list is:
Dallas Regional
647
4499
2613
148
2848
3037
5431
5682
932
4076
3282
4300
2897
4063
1477
1296
3802
624
3350
5411
2468
4364
3005
3310
3735
4206
4641
118
3676
4192
3370
3481
2950
457
1642
3355
5417
4354
704
57
987
5212
5739
5057
4045
5242
4301

MARS_James

30-11-2014, 17:45

Randoms for South Florida:
1592
5196
3242
5472
2658
1522
612
263
11
4471
4953
744
3992
1649
4592
2152
108
2016
4013
1251
4562
192
3259
5557
386
179
5591
3502
5329
4516
348
3653
2641
3410
159
5655
2383
21
5243
180
4517
2234
3233
1523
87
3164
1065
384
59
3932
5410

I have no lists from anyone

EricH

30-11-2014, 18:37

While everybody's popping in and out to make their picks...

Still need one or more draft runners for Inland Empire (tomorrow night), Greater Pittsburgh (Tuesday night) and Mexico City (Wednesday night). I could handle IE, but I would really, really, really prefer not to need to. I won't be available on Tuesday to run Pittsburgh.

Theoretically, we could pull either Pittsburgh or Mexico City to tomorrow night, too--but that's not an option I want to exercise.

EricH

30-11-2014, 21:31

EricH

30-11-2014, 23:08

Still need one or more draft runners for Inland Empire (tomorrow night), Greater Pittsburgh (Tuesday night) and Mexico City (Wednesday night). I could handle IE, but I would really, really, really prefer not to need to. I won't be available on Tuesday to run Pittsburgh.

Theoretically, we could pull either Pittsburgh or Mexico City to tomorrow night, too--but that's not an option I want to exercise.

Inland Empire is covered.

SCHEDULE CHANGE: Pittsburgh will be OPEN on 12/1, one day AHEAD of schedule. I will be running it; I suggest getting your picks in tomorrow, as I'll have limited time on the scheduled day.

Edit: Pittsburgh random list
128
4991
5740
3955
451
379
4467
306
337
1126
1708
4484
1014
3957
4150
156
4050
772
291
3504
2614
4615
1507
3324
1629
48
4027
2544
4269
2252
1885
2051
888
144
4049
2665
3015
1743
4032
4031
3062
5413
117
3954
3511
4547
3138
3260
2656

Brandon_L

30-11-2014, 23:09

I will be doing Inland Empire tomorrow night, so send me draft lists

Inland Empire randys:
1836
3021
3408
3965
3128
4574
3295
4984
4161
4056
597
359
2496
399
3476
5107
4114
5012
100
973
4413
4014
294
3562
1644
1197
3470
4140
2485
1148
2375
3250
2493
4913
974

EricH

01-12-2014, 20:11

Be it known that Team Mastermind has missed all the drafts since the start of drafting, which is 5 drafts (+1 because multiple drafts were run at once). They are therefore getting a warning PM.

Should they miss tomorrow night's scheduled draft, they will be out of the league.

And Be It Known that Team Mastermind has been BOOTED from the league for failing to show up for any scheduled draft on the day after a warning. At this time, no other team is in danger of getting the boot.

1) Falcon (EricH)
2) Rotten Peach Alliance (Anupam Goli, ttldomination, ghostmachine360, iPenguin, Navid Shafa)
3) Frog Farce (Bryce Paputa, zsm150, eghazal)
4) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, Rebka, JosephC, Grifbot, jlmcmchl)
5) Orange Juice (Orangemoore) (There could be more people at a later time)
6) Koko's X-Cats (Koko Ed)
7) Team SuperPowerMatic (Nikeairmancurry)
8) PureMichigan (ClintonBolinger, ZachO, IKE, JackN)
9) Swamp Life (MARS_James)
10) SHARP Cheddar (ks68)
11) LTown Throwdown (Jay O'Donnell, BrendanB, PVCpirate, Brandon Zalinsky, Brandon_L)
12) Team Mastermind (pimathbrainiac and cjl2625)
13) Team Guh... (allgoodthehood, LDiDomenico, Zach101, ice.berg, kfrisk)
14) Brolliance Beta (AGPapa, JoshPFalk, wmarshall11)
15) Daedalite InVAders (Maldridge422, Araris)
16) The Yellow Alliance (Littleboy)

For anybody wondering how this affects Pittsburgh Tier 1: I simply remove them from the draft, and there's some bonus time in between rounds 1 and 2.

EricH

01-12-2014, 20:38

Due to the removal of Team Mastermind, we have a number of teams that are suddenly free agents. See list below.

And normally, I'd do a full waiver process, but there isn't a picked team in the bunch. Sometimes players get lucky. So I'm thinking, let's go with a "Light" waiver process.

Lake Superior Regional 3122 3751 4986
Northern Lights Regional 3926 877 2532
Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2 1912 3091 1369
Palmetto Regional 4902 5020 4748
Dallas Regional Tier 1 4499 3037 4076
South Florida Regional 5196 2658 5329
Inland Empire Tier 2 1836 3128 4574

So... Here's how this is going to play out. Y'all have until the end of drafts on 12/5 to say you want X teams in Y order, either publicly or via PM to me. Uncontested claims get awarded first, then I go through and apply the waiver priority list to any remaining claims. Highest priority wins and goes to the bottom of the list.

Speaking of the list... It's all the new teams in order of joining, followed by the veterans in reverse order of finish in the regular season.
Frog Farce
Orange Juice
SHARP Cheddar
Team Guh…
Brolliance Beta
Daedalite InVAders
Team SuperPowerMatic
Ltown Throwdown
Koko's X-Cats
Falcon
The Yellow Alliance
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Rotten Peach Alliance
Frog Farce

Edit: Frog Farce has been awarded 1912 in Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2. The benefits of being first on the waiver list...and the drawbacks of the same.

EricH

01-12-2014, 20:39

And this is Falcon putting in a claim: 1912, Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2.

Bryce Paputa

01-12-2014, 21:21

We'd also like to claim 1912 from Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2. They got lucky with a few of their other randoms too. Is this same process used when a team is added to a regional?

EricH

01-12-2014, 21:39

We'd also like to claim 1912 from Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2. They got lucky with a few of their other randoms too. Is this same process used when a team is added to a regional?

Yes... and no.

We'll start with the easy stuff--you're the highest on the waiver priority list, and 1912, GSC tier 2 is a heavily contested team, so I'll go ahead and award them to you guys. (Hey, that was easy!) Which, seeing as it's actually a contested claim, will send you to the bottom of the priority list. When you figure out which team you want to drop, go ahead and update the GSC 2 list.

Now, as to the add process... It's similar. What I'm looking to do when a team adds to a regional is that whoever finds them and grabs them gets them, pending anybody above them on the waiver list claiming the same team within a time span of 5 days. If someone else does make a claim, the two players involved can either pass the "waivered" team on (with the original deadline intact) OR make a valid trade (team(s)-for-team(s), doesn't have to be in the same tier). If more than two players are involved before the deadline, then all parties may be involved in a trade, or opt not to be involved, their choice. Whoever ends up with the "waivered" team goes to the bottom of the list; anybody else involved ends up dropping down to right above them in some random order.

Bryce Paputa

01-12-2014, 21:52

Yes... and no.

We'll start with the easy stuff--you're the highest on the waiver priority list, and 1912, GSC tier 2 is a heavily contested team, so I'll go ahead and award them to you guys. (Hey, that was easy!) Which, seeing as it's actually a contested claim, will send you to the bottom of the priority list. When you figure out which team you want to drop, go ahead and update the GSC 2 list.

Now, as to the add process... It's similar. What I'm looking to do when a team adds to a regional is that whoever finds them and grabs them gets them, pending anybody above them on the waiver list claiming the same team within a time span of 5 days. If someone else does make a claim, the two players involved can either pass the "waivered" team on (with the original deadline intact) OR make a valid trade (team(s)-for-team(s), doesn't have to be in the same tier). If more than two players are involved before the deadline, then all parties may be involved in a trade, or opt not to be involved, their choice. Whoever ends up with the "waivered" team goes to the bottom of the list; anybody else involved ends up dropping down to right above them in some random order.

Ok GSC is updated. Uncontested waivers don't change the priority list?

EricH

01-12-2014, 22:02

Ok GSC is updated. Uncontested waivers don't change the priority list?

Maybe I should rephrase that: Uncontested waivers won't change the priority list immediately. (Thinking through implications...)

If a claim is not contested, then the player making it will be moved to the bottom AFTER any awards of contested teams have been made and associated priority changes--or after the team has been officially awarded, which is about the same thing. (The case of the player at the very top of the list making a claim is pretty much an automatic award/move to bottom.)

EricH

01-12-2014, 22:40

I figure a schedule reminder for the next week and a half might be in order. We do have a bunch of holes in the lineup--if you want to try your hand at the organized chaos of running a draft, I'd greatly appreciate it if you signed up for one of the open spots.

2-Dec Greater Pittsburgh EricH
2-Dec Greater Toronto Central PVCPirate
3-Dec Central Valley EricH
3-Dec Mexico City
4-Dec Arkansas Rock City EricH
4-Dec Israel PVCPirate
5-Dec Los Angeles EricH
5-Dec Utah
6-Dec New York City EricH
6-Dec Orlando Mars_James
7-Dec Greater Kansas City EricH
7-Dec Greater Toronto East
8-Dec Alamo
8-Dec Australia EricH
9-Dec Montreal PVCPirate
10-Dec Bayou
10-Dec Waterloo EricH
11-Dec St. Louis
11-Dec Tech Valley EricH

PVCpirate

02-12-2014, 15:02

For GTR Central, I have lists from Falcon and The Breakfast Company.
Randoms for Greater Toronto Central:
1547
3705
2994
4946
907
4001
5519
1114
4777
4939
5581
2609
1310
886
3949
4069
3541
919
5032
5076
5092
5680
771
746
865
4951
2634
5598
854
610
1285
5699
4914
3360
1325
5580
4343
5631
1241
188
5759

Maldridge422

02-12-2014, 15:18

Lake Superior Regional 3122 3751 4986
Northern Lights Regional 3926 877 2532
Georgia Southern Classic Tier 2 1912 3091 1369
Palmetto Regional 4902 5020 4748
Dallas Regional Tier 1 4499 3037 4076
South Florida Regional 5196 2658 5329
Inland Empire Tier 2 1836 3128 4574

I'm interested in 4499 in Dallas.

I'm still a little confused on how this process works, but if we can submit multiple claims I'd like to put claims in for 3926 at Northern Lights and 3128 at Inland Empire, in that order.

ks68

02-12-2014, 18:20

SHARP Cheddar would like to claim 877 from Northern Lights.

EricH

02-12-2014, 19:08

I'm interested in 4499 in Dallas.

I'm still a little confused on how this process works, but if we can submit multiple claims I'd like to put claims in for 3926 at Northern Lights and 3128 at Inland Empire, in that order.

Consider them all in. You can submit for as many teams as you're interested in.

And now, a very quick note: Central Valley will be a little later than most drafts to be put up. I'm can take lists for it effective immediately, though. BUT... I'm still looking for someone to run Mexico City. I'll forward lists for that if someone opts to step up.

EricH

03-12-2014, 00:57

CVR randoms:
3501
254
2465
751
2839
4953
4973
3255
5134
8
581
1662
3925
256
2761
1671
2073
2543
3482
2429
3495
3315
701
840
1351
3303
4183
4711
1678
2637
3120
670
2102
1967
649
692
4470
5760

Brandon_L

03-12-2014, 19:21

2-Dec Greater Pittsburgh EricH
2-Dec Greater Toronto Central PVCPirate
3-Dec Central Valley EricH
3-Dec Mexico City
4-Dec Arkansas Rock City EricH
4-Dec Israel PVCPirate
5-Dec Los Angeles EricH
5-Dec Utah Brandon (most likely but not 100% yet)
6-Dec New York City EricH
6-Dec Orlando Mars_James
7-Dec Greater Kansas City EricH
7-Dec Greater Toronto East
8-Dec Alamo
8-Dec Australia EricH
9-Dec Montreal PVCPirate
10-Dec Bayou
10-Dec Waterloo EricH
11-Dec St. Louis Brandon
11-Dec Tech Valley EricH

P.s. I don't have a tab button on mobile lol

EricH

03-12-2014, 19:53

Your attention, please. Due to NOBODY volunteering to run Mexico City tonight, the draft has been moved to 12/9, with Montreal. I'll be running it via early opening, same way I did with Pittsburgh.

We only have one more open spot to move a draft into. I really don't want to have to use any other tricks to stay on schedule.

Also note: The Los Angeles draft will start somewhat later than might be anticipated. Real robotics > fantasy robotics. For a little while.

3-Dec Central Valley EricH
3-Dec Mexico City
4-Dec Arkansas Rock City EricH
4-Dec Israel PVCPirate
5-Dec Los Angeles EricH 8:00 start time
5-Dec Utah Bryce Paputa
6-Dec New York City EricH
6-Dec Orlando Mars_James 8:00 PM start time
7-Dec Greater Kansas City EricH
7-Dec Greater Toronto East orangemoore
8-Dec Alamo
8-Dec Australia EricH
9-Dec Montreal PVCPirate
9-Dec Mexico City EricH
10-Dec Bayou
10-Dec Waterloo EricH
11-Dec St. Louis Brandon
11-Dec Tech Valley EricH

EricH

03-12-2014, 20:23

Rock City Randoms
1706
4490
1939
4090
5409
3847
5721
2451
4329
1625
4849
4745
5437
5195
2352
3179
935
1209
5656
2040
3937
1785
2386
931
2395
4256
5568
2481
3061
4522
3284
5178
1208
1986
5040
3337
401
3160

MARS_James

04-12-2014, 01:03

Just so everyone knows the Orlando draft will be starting at 8 on the 6th as I work till 7 :D

orangemoore

04-12-2014, 01:06

I can run Greater Toronto East

PVCpirate

04-12-2014, 15:18

I'm running Israel, have lists from Daedalite InVAders and Breakfast Company.
Israel Randoms:
3083
4319
5038
1944
2630
4320
2231
3388
3065
1577
3835
5670
5636
5747
5273
5715
1954
1943
4649
1574
1662
2213
3034
2216
2679
4712
4586
5654
3339
1946
4744
5635
4590
5614
2212
4757
4338
5291
1657
1580
3316
4406
1937
4784
1576
2230
3075
1942
1952
5135
4661
4416
1690
3211
5554
1573

Bryce Paputa

04-12-2014, 16:56

I'm running Utah, Friday at 7. So far I have a list from Daedalite InVAders. Here are randoms:
2993
4334
1332
4550
4251
1339
3225
4792
4348
3166
5489
1410
5461
3245
3374
3239
3405
4153
2594
2813
4585
624
5159
2484
4178
2486
3251
1619
662
4175
3289
1569
3191
3216
192
3006
4106
2437
2122
1566
5346
3288
3243
3009
3241
4310
1891
115
2029
3230
4598
4268
5071

EricH

04-12-2014, 21:19

Los Angeles Randoms. Reminder, draft starts later than usual (8 PM start time).

4276
2443
4415
589
4913
4501
2839
696
973
1388
4964
330
3328
5089
5634
4322
5512
5432
2404
687
5540
1717
207
702
3309
606
1148
4201
5124
848
5510
1515
4960
968
4019
1661
5285
3863
5521
1138
1452
4
4619
5100
2439
597
1438
1197
3882
980
5647
4079
3759
5102
867
599
2637
1160
4574
691
294
3752
5669
2576
3512
5513

BrennanB

05-12-2014, 18:51

I can run Bayou it seems.

EricH

05-12-2014, 22:15

Your attention please. Team Guh... has missed the last 5 drafts in a row, and will be getting a warning PM tonight.

Also, with the end of the Los Angeles Regional draft, the boot waiver is now closed for taking claims. And... at this time, no contested claims, so...
--SHARP Cheddar, 877 in Northern Lights, please drop your drop team.
--Daedalite InVAders have 3 awards: 4499 (Dallas), 3926 (Northern Lights), and 3128 (Inland Empire). Please drop all your drop teams.

All teams not noted as a waiver award are now free agents.

Be advised, there are some waiver claims up in threads as of today. On 12/10, the challenge period for those is over. They are 2059 (Palmetto, Daedalite InVAders) and 1648 (Georgia Southern Classic, Rotten Peach Alliance).

And the current priority list:
Orange Juice
Team Guh…
Brolliance Beta
Team SuperPowerMatic
Ltown Throwdown
Koko's X-Cats
Falcon
The Yellow Alliance
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Rotten Peach Alliance
Frog Farce
SHARP Cheddar
Daedalite InVAders

EricH

05-12-2014, 23:16

New York City is up. Note: There has been a time change, sliding to 6:30 PM, as I realized I had an overlapping commitment.
NYC Randoms:
5308
421
5123
4122
694
334
2579
4263
335
271
5453
640
5298
1884
1155
4640
5202
806
1600
5289
1860
3419
514
5452
1396
1660
4012
4528
5558
810
4773
4684
1796
395
3171
371
2265
743
354
3204
2601
4830
1880
5599
375
4383
4571
358
3760
369
3059
5151
4856
1635
2895
2344
1546
1230
4299
5649
5421
333
3053
229

EricH

05-12-2014, 23:53

Your attention please. Team Guh... has missed the last 5 drafts in a row, and will be getting a warning PM tonight.

And has responded with a request to drop out, which is granted. Hopefully we'll see them some other year.

That being said, it's rather late, so I'm going to hold off on posting/opening the waiver list for this round until tomorrow.

MARS_James

06-12-2014, 09:28

Orlando Randoms:
744
1557
4901
4024
2916
3646
1382
79
1523
5628
103
180
4091
5283
3659
3011
5145
2905
4622
116
3653
3164
4451
2797
5722
801
4065
4118
945
2425
386
3932
456
1872
3998
3627
4769
5616
1251
4471
4352
2383
2152
3242
2974
1876
846
5646
1649
4064
5753
1592
5472
86
4288
2556
4013
1065
3556
1902
4191
5276
21
1369

EricH

06-12-2014, 17:24

OK, finally got around to getting the waiver list up.
Superior 4511 5253 4217
Northern Lights 2509 2491 3633
Georgia Southern Tier 1 1319 2080 5579
Palmetto 3824 281 2815
Dallas Tier 1 647 5431 932
South Florida 1592 (contested--InVAders, Falcon) 4471 4953
Inland Empire Tier 1 3476 4574 3128
Greater Pittsburgh Tier 2 128 4991 4467
GTR Central Tier 2 1547 3705 5519
Central Valley Tier 2 3501 2839 8
Arkansas Rock City 1939 4090 5195
Israel 5038 5636 2213
Los Angeles 4276 589 4913
Utah 4550 4251 4585

So far, I've got a list from the InVAders for claims. Let's see... 12/11 at the end of drafts is the deadline for getting the claim lists in, if I'm not mistaken.

Edit: And at least one team will be contested. We'll see how the rest go.

EricH

06-12-2014, 17:26

Falcon's waiver claims:

1547 GTR-C 2
1939 Rock City
2815 Palmetto
1592 South Florida (contested)
932 Dallas 1

EricH

07-12-2014, 01:21

I'll have Kansas City up sometime between 11 AM EST and draft start time... Taking lists now, though. orangemoore has GTR East.

By the way, I'd appreciate someone stepping up to run Alamo on Monday, as well as North Carolina on Friday. If we get those, we'll only have 2 holes to fill the rest of the season, not counting the multi-day block drafts--but they're both on 12/16. (I think. Rumors have not been confirmed, but I might be available to fill the third hole we have, San Diego on 12/23.)

Bryce Paputa

07-12-2014, 10:40

I can run Alamo. Might be able to do North Carolina too, but I won't know until closer to the day.

orangemoore

07-12-2014, 11:38

I'm taking lists for GTR currently I only have one list from Frog Farce.
Randoms For GTR East:
4627
5094
2013
781
3710
4476
4252
5428
1241
1325
4015
1305
886
4783
4825
5652
5051
5036
5596
2852
2056
4732
4704
1246
1815
2185
2198
2935
4718
5031
5719
746
4248
3550
3386
3387
3530
3988
3990
3117
3986
578
2228
378
2340
3173

EricH

07-12-2014, 22:20

Australia is up, and so are the randoms.
4613
5663
3132
3008
5601
4801
5087
4253
3880
4537
5592
5128
5331
5593
5600
4802
5606
5565
1772
4817
4729
5731
5584
4739
5573
4788
5127
5648
5029
4529
4614
4774
5602
5605
5604
5564
5333
359
5761

EricH

07-12-2014, 22:37

Just a couple of notes:
I've released an update to the drafting program (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/3042) (again!). Just some minor bug fixes in hidden places, and a slight piece of new functionality that does, in fact, work. (It'll now sort the team list before scrambling it.)

And here's the schedule for the next week or so:
8-Dec Alamo Bryce Paputa
8-Dec Australia EricH
9-Dec Montreal PVCPirate
9-Dec Mexico City EricH
10-Dec Bayou BrennanB
10-Dec Waterloo EricH
11-Dec St. Louis Brandon_L
11-Dec Tech Valley EricH
12-Dec Central Illinois EricH
12-Dec North Carolina orangemoore
13-Dec Sacramento EricH
13-Dec Virginia PVCPirate
14-Dec Phoenix East EricH
14-Dec Wisconsin PVCPirate
15-Dec Hub City BrennanB
15-Dec Oklahoma EricH
16-Dec Buckeye BrennanB
16-Dec Hawaii

You'll notice that Buckeye and Hawaii are both open spots--I can't cover either one to my knowledge. I'll be releasing Mexico City near the start of tomorrow's drafts, and would appreciate some quick picking there as I'll be in a minor time crunch on Tuesday when it's supposed to be run. (Thankfully... I already have about half of the lists for that one.)

BrennanB

07-12-2014, 23:53

Can't do the 12th, right before an exam, but I should be able to do buckeye/hawaii

EricH

07-12-2014, 23:57

Can't do the 12th, right before an exam, but I should be able to do buckeye/hawaii

Buckeye it is. Now all we need is someone to cover Hawaii. (And North Carolina.)

orangemoore

08-12-2014, 00:04

I should be able to cover North Carolina.

EricH

08-12-2014, 00:09

I should be able to cover North Carolina.

We didn't scare you away? :p Don't worry, it should be a little easier this time around.

orangemoore

08-12-2014, 00:11

We didn't scare you away? :p Don't worry, it should be a little easier this time around.

Nope. Not yet.:D

Bryce Paputa

08-12-2014, 15:40

Alamo randoms:
3029
4696
233
4747
4610
499
3335
5052
4721
3240
5741
5726
3700
4063
3481
4219
4335
2881
2969
4989
3999
5754
5639
2805
4597
2833
3743
1726
5755
4412
4734
3305
3320
2468
3043
4332
2721
2583
1296
3366
5241
3345
3997
3961
3679
3103
653
3561
2415
5681
4670
2789
2158
231
4378
457
3035
1868
5047
5103
4641

I can't start the draft until 8, but I'll take lists now.

PVCpirate

08-12-2014, 19:28

LTown Throwdown Waiver claims:
1592 for 3502 at South Florida
3824 for 4847 at Palmetto
1939 for 401 at Rock City
125 for 3502 at South Florida(If the 1592 claim goes through, 125 for 2152)

MARS_James

08-12-2014, 22:34

South Florida 125 for 5410

PVCpirate

09-12-2014, 15:44

I've been informed by my teammates on how the timing of the draft slots works, so I'll be doing that correctly from now on. I'm running Montreal Tonight, and I have lists from my team, Breakfast Company, Brolliance Beta, Frog Farce and Swamp Life.

Randoms:
3544
5095
1075
4957
5179
4952
1511
3981
5441
3975
5553
2590
3996
4491
3988
4594
4942
3532
3533
5439
5570
5444
3387
4950
3530
4007
3117
5618
4947
4167
3979
3379
3550
3386
2626
3986
3985
3990
3969
5528
3360
296
3382
5440
4526
5443
4955

ks68

09-12-2014, 16:17

SHARP Cheddar Waiver Claims

Inland Empire: 3476 for 1197
Palmetto: 3824 for 1539

BrennanB

09-12-2014, 23:52

Bayou Randoms:

2190
4297
179
4209
4336
4107
364
2992
4553
4316
2587
5168
441
4978
2383
3606
3847
3310
3946
3959
2080
2183
4353
5325
4635
1927
4087
2078
590
5469
4053
3753
538
2973
1622
2221
1912
1818
456
3240
4805
3039
3616
3468
3337
1477
3991
3937
2242
1421
34
4516
4592
4179

EricH

10-12-2014, 01:40

Waterloo randoms:
1305
4807
216
4907
4618
244
2056
4917
1676
5158
4943
288
3161
4039
2935
4083
1285
5406
5039
1241
329
4308
865
1334
1114
2702
3683
4678

EricH

10-12-2014, 20:24

FYI: All draft runners.

Apparently Excel released an update recently, my computer picked it up last night, and this update managed to disable ALL of the buttons in the draft running spreadsheet. (They were all ActiveX controls, FWIW.) At least for me that's what happened, the ones that were still there.

A temporary "patch" release--V3.1.8--will be cropping up shortly; I think I've managed to port all the macros over to rebuilt buttons properly, and tested what I could (though it'll currently only work on the first two tiers). (Now they're all "Form" controls.) When I catch some time (say, in a couple of weeks), I'll be going through and doing some cleanup/re-writing some things to deal with stuff that's a minor nuisance right now, so hopefully I can fix it up nicely again.

EricH

10-12-2014, 21:18

Be advised, there are some waiver claims up in threads as of today. On 12/10, the challenge period for those is over. They are 2059 (Palmetto, Daedalite InVAders) and 1648 (Georgia Southern Classic, Rotten Peach Alliance).
No challenges to these, so both are awarded. RPA joins Daedalite at the bottom of the list.

Just a friendly reminder that we've got another round of waivers ending after drafts tomorrow night--I'll probably need a little time to sort through all the claims, so awards might get pushed back a day or so.

And the current priority list:
Orange Juice
Team Guh…
Brolliance Beta
Team SuperPowerMatic
Ltown Throwdown
Koko's X-Cats
Falcon
The Yellow Alliance
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Frog Farce
SHARP Cheddar
Rotten Peach Alliance
Daedalite InVAders

EricH

10-12-2014, 21:54

Tech Valley randoms:
3044
333
5254
4203
3003
1493
250
5030
2791
4930
3687
5149
145
527
191
229
810
20
340
1111
4266
2852
3624
639
5236
533
771
3844
1665
5585
5240
5764
5202
4508

Brandon_L

11-12-2014, 15:53

St. Louis will be up shortly, please send me lists

ST LOUIS RANDOS:
2838
4600
1178
4500
4931
4356
1208
3868
5147
3330
5492
5176
4231
4246
4154
4329
4330
2783
5060
5583
5326
1986
4331
2408
1329
5758
3397
1706
2978
1985
1288
5479
3885
4232
4196
3284
4187
1658
1444
1094
4256
4404

EricH

11-12-2014, 21:30

Central Illinois is up.
2039
4143
111
4096
4156
4009
171
2358
4213
2220
5537
5442
2081
2704
3201
2481
3507
3528
2022
4212
4646
1739
1756
2856
876
5665
3928
3067
1701
2040
1736
648
2457
2512
938
63
4028
4314

orangemoore

11-12-2014, 21:42

I am still running this draft even though I am really busy tomorrow with an FTC event (I really need to remember my schedule). If someone has the time it may be better for someone else to run the draft.

North Carolina Randoms:

2682
5679
1413
1225
5160
3459
3737
2059
2641
4816
3845
3971
2890
4828
4829
3661
5543
1533
4533
587
3680
3229
5727
4795
3402
5607
2528
4534
2642
3796
3506
3822
3701
4767
2640
3336
4996
4561
5511
5446
5518
3331
3196
4291
4290
5544
3215
435
5323
5190
4073
5762
3270
900
3763

MARS_James

12-12-2014, 13:08

I am taking over North Carolina for Orange, oh and quite a few of you still have your old Fantasy First Team on your profile please change it if you can, it is confusing lol

EricH

12-12-2014, 20:57

Sacramento Randoms
1678
4543
114
4498
4669
4135
118
2144
5023
4643
2135
5458
253
5430
2085
3013
3250
2489
3257
3598
1458
1671
4904
5496
5250
1280
3859
1422
668
5507
3669
3189
568
2141
766
2035
1072
971
295
2473
5274
2204
3045
2643
2551
701
3615
3256
2073
692
100
4973
5026
4159

EricH

12-12-2014, 21:25

OK, let's see here... Waivers ended, but I did allow one late claim (somebody--not in the league--announced a "new" team late, when they were already on waivers, and I hadn't started yet).

Broke out the uncontested claims, dropped those claimants. Ran through the contested teams--surprisingly, there was no need for a second round. And... We have some winners.

Orange Juice: 125, South Florida (5557 requested as the drop team)
LTown Throwdown: 1592, South Florida (3502 out)
SHARP Cheddar: 3476, Inland Empire (1197 out)
Frog Farce: 3824, Palmetto; 2531, Northern Lights; 5038, Israel; 3128, Inland Empire; 4090, Rock City (sorry, folks, forgot to note your drop teams--you'll have to take care of the updates)
Falcon: 1939, Rock City (4745); 1547, GTR-Central (4777); 2815, Palmetto (4074); 932, Dallas (1296)

And we have an updated priority list:
Brolliance Beta
Team SuperPowerMatic
Koko's X-Cats
The Yellow Alliance
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Rotten Peach Alliance
Daedalite InVAders
Orange Juice
Ltown Throwdown
SHARP Cheddar
Frog Farce
Falcon

PVCpirate

13-12-2014, 16:24

1262
3709
339
3489
3939
3361
346
1758
4481
3872
1598
5545
4538
5425
2107
2998
1908
1156
3136
3168
1095
1137
4286
5546
4969
1033
3359
1086
401
5724
3274
2988
388
1599
1610
540
1287
619
617
384
1895
5279
1793
2402
4466
2363
2053
2106
1541
383
2028
5412
3258
1522
422
122
539
611
342
3072
3373
4714
3455

I have Frog Farce's list.

EricH

13-12-2014, 22:20

I know you're all looking at this post for the random team list... but before you get that far, we're still looking for someone to run the Hawaii Regional draft on Tuesday, 12/16.

Arizona East Randoms:
2486
1290
2662
5475
4146
2449
3019
3785
498
3187
4841
2375
1011
2403
2478
4111
3944
2840
1700
842
3158
1828
4496
4160
2647
3133
4183
3048
3853
1633
1165
1492
996
698
4565
5465
1538
60
5539
5207

PVCpirate

14-12-2014, 14:46

2062
4021
93
4296
3692
269
2470
4655
4174
2202
5552
4786
5148
2194
2883
3206
2709
3298
3352
1732
1781
5586
4818
1714
3596
1716
3081
706
5595
3418
3197
4247
2338
1091
2077
1675
1259
537
2506
3102
4531
2830
2826
3381
4011
279
2169
930
81
1306
2530
967
5096
167
4804
3278
3734

EricH

14-12-2014, 21:00

Oklahoma randoms
2382
4005
932
3931
4522
3593
1296
2723
4933
4298
2424
5611
5001
5578
2398
3152
3172
2795
2373
3247
3465
2354
2359
4523
5621
5548
2341
3507
2352
3160
1742
5730
3498
3169
2461
1806
2388
3457
2333
2165
1561
2765
3163
2986
1448
2950
5550
3179
1750
31
2773
2004
1209
2395
1775
4612
3660
3798
5098

EricH

14-12-2014, 22:09

Just so everybody's aware, here's the schedule for the upcoming week. We do still need someone to handle Hawaii, or we'll have to bump it to the 18th and find someone to run it then. I'm assuming I'm tied up on the 16th. All the other drafts are covered (with the exception of a couple of block drafts, see end of this post).
15-Dec Hub City BrennanB
15-Dec Oklahoma EricH
16-Dec Buckeye BrennanB
16-Dec Hawaii
17-Dec Greater DC EricH
17-Dec Peachtree Mars_James
18-Dec Colorado EricH
19-Dec Finger Lakes BrennanB
19-Dec Ventura EricH
20-Dec Las Vegas EricH
20-Dec North Bay orangemoore
21-Dec Long Island BrennanB
21-Dec Windsor-Essex EricH

Also on the radar: The district block drafts (between Christmas and Kickoff). The way those will work: The entire district will be up for grabs, in as many rounds as it takes (but no more than 6). I'll be trying to split 'em between two days if it'll take more than 3-4 rounds. You'll only need one list, if it's long enough; the plan currently is to run 3 rounds, stop and re-scramble everybody and the remaining teams, and run 3 more rounds the next night. (This is so all you live-drafters, and the draft runners, can sleep at some point.) I could probably use some help running a couple of those--specifically MAR and PNW--but we'll see how it goes the first night.

Bryce Paputa

14-12-2014, 22:43

I think I can do Hawaii if it is on the 18th. I can also probably help with districts.

BrennanB

15-12-2014, 13:01

Anupam Goli

15-12-2014, 19:05

Not sure what time I can get the draft up as I am moving back home for the holidays. Will get it up as soon as I can.

EDIT

Looks like I won't be able to swing this one unless we want to start at 9 PM ish.

As long as you have lists from everyone and/or everyone is fine live drafting at that time, I don't see an issue.

EricH

15-12-2014, 19:06

As long as you have lists from everyone and/or everyone is fine live drafting at that time, I don't see an issue.

I dropped all the lists I had to Brennan (Brolliance and PureMI); knowing most folks here, there should be a pretty good pile of lists in. I'm fine with a 9 PM start, but I am on the West Coast, so for me it'll only be 6 PM.

BrennanB

15-12-2014, 20:07

Traffic isn't co-operating and not likely to meet said time, really sorry guys :/ will have to push it back :S 2 hrs away so fancy GPS says

EricH

15-12-2014, 20:18

Traffic isn't co-operating and not likely to meet said time, really sorry guys :/ will have to push it back :S 2 hrs away so fancy GPS says

I'm not busy. Got any lists that you can send?

EricH

15-12-2014, 20:45

Moving Hawaii and
Hub City BrennanB --Draft to be held at date/time TBA (Brennan... don't try to run two at a time. Trust me.)

16-Dec Buckeye BrennanB
17-Dec Greater DC EricH
17-Dec Peachtree Mars_James
18-Dec Colorado EricH
18-Dec Hawaii Bryce Paputa
19-Dec Finger Lakes BrennanB
19-Dec Ventura EricH
20-Dec Las Vegas EricH
20-Dec North Bay orangemoore
21-Dec Long Island BrennanB
21-Dec Windsor-Essex EricH

BrennanB

15-12-2014, 23:14

Yeah sorry about that mixup tonight all. Buckeye is up for tomorrow. As for a Hub City Resched, as there are no gaps we will have to put 3 in one night. I'm game to run it on the 17th/18th.

Randoms:

1317
4165
63
4145
4283
4119
156
2051
4780
4269
1787
5413
4940
5249
2655
3356
2399
3484
3591
1248
1308
4601
5418
5077
910
930
306
5667
4085
3260
1987
2010
639
4121
1592
3504
695
694
291
2252
3193
4611
3010
2172
2641
1708
2603
5146
234
379
48
677
3814
120
1590
4991
4142
451

MARS_James

17-12-2014, 09:06

Peachtree will officially be starting at 8:00 as I have work till 7 lol

Randoms:
4020
3318
5074
5536
5336
1746
1398
283
1683
3861
1771
5717
5482
4459
5045
1648
3139
343
5132
5293
3653
4080
4195
2415
3815
3694
4189
832
4193
5651
5608
5767
5405
4013
5332
3265
4924
3410
3573
5034
4749
5632
4707
4149
2973
5582
4910
5109
4509
5410
1319
1261
5005
4148
4468
1127
4026
4112
2974
5594
4701
1414
4092
3976
108

EricH

17-12-2014, 21:29

Scheduling item:

At this time, we have two drafts that didn't run on schedule--I'm guessing traffic is bad in Florida too. The problem is that we don't have any open slots, officially--Hawaii (tomorrow night, Bryce Paputa running at last word) took the last one when it moved from last Tuesday.

UNofficially, however, I anticipate the last week of drafts having some "open time" due to many of the lists for the districts only needing to be sent once.

So, here's the proposal:
Hub City (12/15, draft runner stuck in traffic) moves to a date TBD. 3/night might be a bit much, but it wouldn't be the first time. Or bump it to between Christmas and Kickoff.
Peachtree (12/17) is UP, but "inactive" as of this post. I propose that we treat that one as though it was opened early--pick if the slots ahead of you have picked, if James has a list he can put in the right teams--with a "run date" of 12/18. (As I was writing this, Ed did just that...)

EricH

17-12-2014, 21:36

Colorado Randoms
1730
4388
662
4499
4206
801
2240
4944
4418
2083
5493
1011
2036
2996
3354
2874
3648
3729
1619
1723
4550
5657
5485
1584
1157
5763
4068
3288
1339
1799
1583
1410
1138
2259
3200
2972
2945
1303
5489
3807
4386
1977
1245
159
2261
4593
4293
5318

MARS_James

17-12-2014, 23:14

Bryce Paputa

18-12-2014, 11:42

Hawaii Randoms:
2439
3933
11
3882
4158
3880
359
2459
4253
2444
5701
4774
368
5625
2504
3008
2465
3132
2438
2896
5749
5307
2348
2437
2853
1378
3721
610
2445
1972
3881
2443
2090
2477

BrennanB

18-12-2014, 13:50

Hub City Randoms

3043
4799
647
4798
4852
4717
1164
3545
5320
4842
3417
5771
4153
4364
3735
4400
4570
3005
5212
5780
5454
2815
2848
2158
5783
4694
4301
1817
3481
2410
4471
3310
2657
2468
3666
3626
4300
4063
1745
5613
3366
2164
418
4734
5437

EricH

18-12-2014, 21:26

Couple of quick announcements, and then I'll be putting up Ventura.

1) Tonight set a record for the MOST FF event drafts in one night, at 4 drafts. Drafts are still going, too, but we seem to be back on schedule. (James, if I catch you running a draft from your phone while driving, I'll have to see if I can swipe a -infinity from Billfred for ya.)

2) We've got some waiver claims. I strongly suspect that there are more teams out there, but the policy is you see 'em, you claim 'em. If nobody wants a team, we'll let them go.

Also to be noted with the waivers is that one of the teams is claimed to fill a hole. Filling a hole in the draft (either a team dropped out, or somehow was picked twice) is an automatic bump to the top of the waiver list if you make a claim to fill that hole, automatic award of the claim, and automatic drop to the bottom of the waiver list. (Or you can just claim a pool team, but sometimes those waiver teams are too good to pass up.)

The claims, in no particular order:
303 (Tech Valley)
5076 (Greater Toronto East)
2996 (Utah)
604, 1323 (Central Valley)
3250 (Sacramento)
3314 (Alamo)
5416 (Bayou)
1622, 4026 (South Florida)

The hole to be filled: The Daedalite InVAders inadvertently got 3959 twice in Bayou, and have claimed (and been awarded) 5778 to fill the hole in their third pick.

The list:
Brolliance Beta
Team SuperPowerMatic
Koko's X-Cats
The Yellow Alliance
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Rotten Peach Alliance
Orange Juice
Ltown Throwdown
SHARP Cheddar
Frog Farce
Falcon
Daedalite InVAders

Oh, right, the deadline. I know it's normally 5 days, but... I'm in a giving mood. Christmas Eve at end of drafts is the deadline(6 days), sneak one in before I manage to get around to cycling and it goes in the hopper too.

EricH

18-12-2014, 21:32

Ventura randoms:
1388
4413
330
4276
4619
3993
399
1836
4964
1717
5529
5136
3120
3512
2429
3925
3953
1323
4711
5678
5209
1159
3970
1266
599
5772
1759
980
1458
981
589
5500
2339
3501
3027
1515
2761
696
691
4
3863
4201

Anupam Goli

18-12-2014, 23:26

Sorry about that I wish it was traffic, i can run a draft from my phone then, it was work not realizing you back up 6 months of work on a project on an external drive so that if your system goes down the night before the project is presented you still have everything available but yes I am running it as if tomorrow was the effective draft date

If something like this happens again, can we make it so that draft runners have to post this in their draft threads? I didn't find this post til after the draft happened, and missed the draft. (I was hoping to live draft). That way it makes it more convenient and we don't have to dig through posts of randomizings.

MARS_James

19-12-2014, 00:44

If something like this happens again, can we make it so that draft runners have to post this in their draft threads? I didn't find this post til after the draft happened, and missed the draft. (I was hoping to live draft). That way it makes it more convenient and we don't have to dig through posts of randomizings.

I did post it in the thread

Anupam Goli

19-12-2014, 15:50

I did post it in the thread

I don't see it in the draft thread. If you did post it, I must've missed it. I just think that if we encounter a situation like that again, the draft runner should have a separate post in the thread saying that the draft will resume again tomorrow.

BrennanB

19-12-2014, 16:29

FLR randoms:

1450
3799
73
3181
3951
3157
174
1559
4039
3838
1518
5349
2228
2791
1660
2809
3015
1405
4023
5433
4505
1126
1155
340
5590
3044
2340
250
1551
395
3003
1507
806
578
1591
1585
2265
1765
191
5254
1511
378
20
3173
4093

EricH

19-12-2014, 20:30

The hole to be filled: The Daedalite InVAders inadvertently got 3959 twice in Bayou, and have claimed (and been awarded) 5778 to fill the hole in their third pick.

On further review--I didn't notice that 5778 was already taken. Claim DENIED, InVAders will need to make another claim (or transfer an existing claim to that position). InVAders revert to slot #9 on the priority list--for now.

EricH

19-12-2014, 20:46

And the schedule for the next week or so:
20-Dec Las Vegas EricH
20-Dec North Bay orangemoore
21-Dec Long Island BrennanB
21-Dec Windsor-Essex EricH
22-Dec Arizona West EricH
22-Dec Silicon Valley orangemoore
23-Dec Lone Star BrennanB
23-Dec San Diego EricH
24-Dec 10,000 Lakes EricH
24-Dec North Star orangemoore
26-Dec Chesapeake EricH
26-Dec Midwest orangemoore

For reference, there will only be 3 regionals left after this one runs out, with a bunch of block drafts over the following week. And then... Kickoff.

orangemoore

19-12-2014, 20:59

North Bay Regional Randoms:
2994
4976
188
5035
4951
781
3710
5157
4992
3571
5409
5164
5324
4476
4902
4069
2609
4914
4917
2386
5672
5191
2200
4946
4595
1310
772
4678
2013
2185
1305
4001
3543
4152
1334
4968

I would love to have lists. I currently have 1. This is the first time I will be running a draft with more than one tier. Please be patient with me.:D

EricH

19-12-2014, 23:02

Las Vegas randoms:
1828
5012
148
4800
5134
4501
207
3011
5306
5049
2984
5463
341
2478
3408
3577
3245
1661
4056
4141
1251
5466
5445
991
4415
1160
687
5480
4322
3495
3009
842
2034
988
987
585
3473
5199
3309
3295
5451
812
60
3019
5429
4792

EricH

20-12-2014, 22:59

Windsor-Essex Randoms:
3598
4940
244
4992
4932
288
4357
5039
4976
4343
5483
772
3756
4716
4907
4595
4917
4920
3181
3571
5024
5589
5408
3175
1285
5689
4923
4903
2601
3683
2959
2852
1114
4519
4814
4618
4617
2056
5426
4921
4938
3739
1325
216
4525
5033
4936
5288

Could use some lists--I've got Frog Farce and PureMI.

Speaking of lists/attendance, can I get an absentee report from the draft runners for the last 2-3 days, say back to the 18th, on who missed? Got one or two players that I think are cutting it a little close, just want to get some confirmation or denial.

orangemoore

20-12-2014, 23:02

Missing From North Bay (12/20):
Team SuperPowerMatic
Swamp Life
Koko's X-Cats
Brolliance Beta

EricH

20-12-2014, 23:07

Brolliance Beta
Made a change after the draft--close enough. ;)

orangemoore

21-12-2014, 13:48

Silicon Valley Regional
This Draft is for 12/22 I'm just getting it up early.

Randoms:
5737
5311
4186
766
2144
5499
5026
3482
2035
115
670
2473
852
1280
1678
3021
2489
4904
4990
1662
114
4765
5760
1868
4255
5171
971
2367
4047
5104
8
192
1700
5677
751
4159
5700
254
256
581
604
668
846
1072
1351
1967
2135
2643
2854
3256
5027
840
5728
649
2813
4171
2085
368
3880

orangemoore

21-12-2014, 17:39

Due to the game hint Live stream tomorrow I would really like to run as much of Silicon Valley Regional draft tonight as possible. Please send in your pick lists and make your picks when it is your turn.
*You still have until your time-slot tomorrow to make your pick but it would be nice to make them tonight*:)

BrennanB

21-12-2014, 17:42

Long Island Randoms

569
3171
263
3137
3624
2869
271
1468
4006
3460
884
5099
4122
287
5016
871
1751
2161
1554
2347
2487
545
564
2027
5659
4567
514
527
1796
329
5736
2638
1156
353
2872
601
496
358
296
4458
1803
3950
1537
1690
1601
2601
870
334
28
352
2875

EricH

21-12-2014, 21:38

Arizona West Randoms:
2403
4841
498
4962
4565
991
3187
5059
3133
5200
1165
5101
2844
3321
3669
3309
3785
4018
2375
4985
5218
5075
2122
3577
1212
4146
1492
2493
1726
3230
4629
1290

I have lists from PureMichigan, Frog Farce, and The Breakfast Company.

EricH

21-12-2014, 22:19

Your attention please.

Team SuperPowerMatic has missed 5 drafts in a row, and been sent a warning PM. If that team doesn't make a pick tomorrow, the boot will go into effect.

EricH

22-12-2014, 21:46

Confirming that there will be no boot applied, as a pick was made.

Now, the San Diego random list:
2984
5025
702
5199
4738
841
3476
5430
5124
3453
5765
5432
5627
3341
3965
4139
3704
4470
4486
2658
2827
5768
5477
2496
4616
2543
3967
1572
5770
4583
4078
5137
3470
2029
3128
2485
2102
1538
3491
4014
5209
3952
3749
4498
4984
1266
3255
1622
399
2339
3647
1772
5514
812
5474
4160
4919

BrennanB

23-12-2014, 17:51

Lone star randoms

3028
4610
231
4589
4721
4328
441
3516
5261
4639
3468
5503
5414
653
3741
3961
3612
3997
3999
2966
3016
5070
5566
5427
2881
4295
2882
1255
5769
4155
3834
3478
5469
2585
3103
2817
2587
701
3593
5416
3556
3753
3735
3335
3728
1642
57
2582
3991
4587

orangemoore

23-12-2014, 21:01

North Star Randoms:
5449
5297
5522
3928
967
5576
3633
2957
2225
2667
3042
3055
4607
4663
4626
3134
3275
4778
2531
2472
3883
2220
3023
3293
4665
5339
4648
3848
4244
4687
2177
2129
2549
3610
5340
5637
2239
4632
4277
5275
3691
5626
2525
2989
2654
2606
3018
3699
3690
2450
2491
3765
2207
4239
3090
2175
3130
3206
3871
2143
2826

EricH

23-12-2014, 21:26

I have lists from Frog Farce, Daedalite InVAders, Brolliance Beta, and PureMichigan. Seeing as it is Christmas Eve, I'd love it if we could finish a little bit on the early side, and would like quite a few more lists.

10K Lakes randoms:
2538
3839
525
3745
4225
3407
2052
2861
4536
4198
2825
5434
4539
5278
3081
3202
3007
2529
3278
3292
2515
2518
4229
5515
4993
2511
3313
2513
2470
5516
3300
3184
2232
2846
2855
2500
2545
2509
2508
2227
2987
5041
2879
3100
4360
3082
3038
3058
2823
2181
3026
5271
3299
2705
2480
167
2498
2502
1816
3244
3454
4549
3630

EricH

24-12-2014, 21:19

Enjoy the break, folks. There will be no drafts until 12/26.

That said, here's the remaining schedule, along with some announcements:
26-Dec Chesapeake EricH
26-Dec Midwest orangemoore
27-Dec Queen City EricH
27-Dec Smoky Mountain BrennanB
28-Dec Alberta orangemoore
28-Dec MI District Block: Day 1 EricH
29-Dec MI District Block: Day 2 EricH
29-Dec MAR District Block: Day 1
30-Dec MAR District Block: Day 2
30-Dec PNW District Block: Day 1
1-Jan PNW District Block: Day 2
1-Jan New England District Block: Day 1 EricH
2-Jan New England District Block: Day 2 EricH
2-Jan Indiana District Block orangemoore

I'll be making an announcement on how exactly the block drafts are expected to work shortly; I'm still churning over a few ideas. The most likely scenario is that one list covers both days unless revised, but the draft order will change up a bit between days in some undeclared fashion.

Draft runners: There's a new version of the running spreadsheet out, V3.1.9, fixing a couple of button issues. Also, I anticipate another version coming out in a few days with what should be added functionality. (Or added headache.)

And finally... Swamp Life needs to show some life on the 26th, after missing the last 5 drafts, or get the boot.

Waivers: Eh, I'll get to the claims when I get to the claims. Probably sometime tomorrow or the next day. We'll call 'em open until I announce the start of running.

EricH

26-12-2014, 01:37

Chesapeake randoms:
1719
3793
79
4137
3389
449
2377
4514
3941
2199
4949
4547
4945
1915
2642
2900
2537
2914
2961
1629
1690
5106
4821
1547
3283
1610
2682
836
5115
2964
2849
4067
2363
1111
1829
1446
1195
686
2528
2819
4464
2638
2546
2963
3748
615
1849
888
53
1389
2534
1086
4928
375
4638
2912
3650

orangemoore

26-12-2014, 01:53

Midwest Randoms:

5455
2630
3390
648
2704
3352
2781
4096
101
1739
1781
1850
2136
2709
2725
3110
3135
3177
4302
4645
4702
4787
5125
5350
2151
3067
4296
4979
4241
2358
4292
4143
2115
3061
3488
2338
4676
1736
1756
2039
4655
2451
111
1625
3695
2194
1675
2830
2022

I have 1 list from Swamp Life

EricH

26-12-2014, 21:29

Due to a commitment popping up on short notice, the Queen City draft will start at 6:30 EST.

I have lists from Frog Farce, Breakfast Company, PureMichigan, Brolliance Beta, Swamp Life, and The Yellow Alliance.

Queen City Randoms:
1249
4283
120
4371
4115
141
2081
4521
4284
1985
5644
4575
144
1764
3193
3591
2665
3777
3814
1038
4467
5667
4930
706
4085
781
3266
337
5671
4028
1986
537
1559
620
554
233
4753
2172
3324
3138
533
3000
4935
4275
3692
346
48
1450
4213

BrennanB

27-12-2014, 18:28

Getting the draft up now, sorry for being a bit slow :P

Smoky Mountain Randoms:

3227
4740
281
4630
4989
4504
442
3821
5186
3675
5571
547
5508
3966
4264
3844
4306
4396
3196
3201
5691
5423
3140
4462
1311
5744
4452
4025
4965
3783
2393
3319
3116
2614
1002
3843
5492
3824
5002
3984
3959
3492
3856
4576
2010
279
2783
3259
1466
4524
5338
4265

EricH

27-12-2014, 20:06

A note on the district block drafts:
Yes, they will start tomorrow, with Michigan. I can't guarantee a posting time, but I'll try for tonight.

So, here's how this will work:
We'll run through one day's drafts. And then we'll pause, make sure all the picks are recorded, and re-randomize all the remaining teams (and players) for the next day. Got a list in for the first day? It'll transfer over to the second day. Which means that the second day should run very quickly. I don't plan to make a second thread for the second day.

As far as running PNW and MAR: I think I'll be able to do it, concurrently with the second rounds of any unfinished drafts.

ChrisH

28-12-2014, 00:30

This is EricH posting from ChrisH's account.

Due to some Internet issues, I will be unable to run drafts until further notice--this includes all the 2-day block drafts unless something changes.

I need someone to step up and run those drafts, especially Michigan. I have lists, but may or may not be able to get them over to whoever steps up in time--Brolliance, Frog Farce, TYA, you might want to resend to whoever volunteers.

Plan B if nobody steps up: We're drafting after Kickoff.

Bryce Paputa

28-12-2014, 00:33

I can do Michigan, but it'll have to start at 8.

Very long list of randoms:
5194
4983
4408
4337
548
4130
5213
217
5560
5238
4967
5017
5714
4390
3632
3667
216
862
1188
5698
5562
2620
1250
123
4995
3539
3322
5603
4776
5155
5530
1528
3414
5231
4507
5447
201
313
5561
2959
815
5660
2676
3096
5226
1684
4237
5673
5436
5524
3547
3098
5260
2960
308
830
3668
3357
5008
1896
5173
2048
5697
5712
5263
5235
503
5150
5478
5619
70
1677
5713
4819
5612
3604
3535
2673
3620
1711
4327
107
5702
5641
5610
2337
67
5424
5156
5257
5223
5214
2474
4768
85
4737
5282
5066
4325
4994
2054
4398
3619
4409
1718
5084
314
5486
5501
5175
1940
3234
27
247
4376
1506
4715
5504
5251
5246
5233
5073
5538
468
4851
5527
5448
2246
5252
5505
573
5056
5692
5247
3875
3302
4003
4382
3617
5217
5708
3534
3546
5225
5144
5675
2832
2591
3572
904
74
3886
5704
5161
5547
5531
1189
2767
2224
5256
5201
5559
4395
2145
4380
5709
94
5642
2405
5534
4988
4362
5167
1025
5509
2604
2611
4004
245
858
141
5068
3452
4779
5650
5462
3618
5224
4384
33
3707
470
3542
5014
5230
5498
5204
4956
5517
4482
3658
5470
4680
2137
2612
5661
4568
857
5114
5110
5532
5162
240
5535
5255
5046
5577
5674
1481
4377
1941
469
66
244
5048
5222
4961
68
5314
5203
5662
1502
3641
5487
5193
4840
5460
4810
5205
4375
3175
2771
4811
5182
4970
4381
1254
2586
2619
5694
5248
1023
2834
5467
5711
5229
5216
5081
5575
3538
4368
4835
5050
4758
894
5502
4998
5152
5166
5183
5664
4855
1322
818
51
703
5072
5239
5067
288
5065
1243
1596
5695
5090
297
5676
5623
1918
5069
4405
3773
4391
3639
5574
5710
1504
4392
3688
5086
302
3398
2075
5473
5685
1
3655
910
494
4854
1701
5533
3568
5525
3656
322
453
5745
3767
5215
5234
4483
1076
4815
5757
5053
4453
3770
2851
835
3537
3602
5707
5622
5706
5523
5316
5567
5756
5227
4827
226
4216
5688
3458
280
3570
5555
3603
3536
3548
5703

Koko Ed

28-12-2014, 05:32

orangemoore

28-12-2014, 11:24

This is the last regional to be drafted right?
I'm a little confused by the naming system of Canadian Regionals
Western Canada Regional Randoms:
5015
3513
5645
5118
4733
4627
3145
5615
4634
5597
5078
5617
1695
4010
2013
2130
4604
1482
3562
4625
5140
4719
5064
4497
5629
4334
4591
5117
4633
5725
5630
5742
5620
5296

Bryce Paputa

28-12-2014, 14:10

Is this supposed to be MSC?

No, this draft is for all of the Michigan district events other than MSC. MSC will be drafted later once we know who is going.

Koko Ed

28-12-2014, 14:20

No, this draft is for all of the Michigan district events other than MSC. MSC will be drafted later once we know who is going.

What?

Bryce Paputa

28-12-2014, 14:28

What?

Instead of doing a draft for each district event, we're doing one draft for all of each district. Everyone gets 6 teams, 3 tonight and 3 tomorrow, and you get whatever any of your teams score at any district event they go to. To eliminate any advantage from teams going to 3 district events (or even 4) I think that the scores will be averaged from each competition. This won't affect MSC, that draft will be later.

Koko Ed

28-12-2014, 14:31

Instead of doing a draft for each district event, we're doing one draft for all of each district. Everyone gets 6 teams, 3 tonight and 3 tomorrow, and you get whatever any of your teams score at any district event they go to. To eliminate any advantage from teams going to 3 district events (or even 4) I think that the scores will be averaged from each competition. This won't affect MSC, that draft will be later.

Why are you guys doing that?
Why weren't you doing all the districts individually?

Bryce Paputa

28-12-2014, 14:35

Why are you guys doing that?
Why weren't you doing all the districts individually?

The biggest change is that there are no drafts for individual districts. Those took up half of the drafts last year, and the number was projected to rise. That, plus the tendency to plunk new districts in halfway through drafting season, drove this change. The new format for districts is that there will be a single draft of up to 6 rounds for each district area (FiM, MAR, NE, PNW, and IN), with any draft of over 4 rounds being spread over two days. Each team will get its average FF score from all districts it competes in. Still being considered: shuffling the random drafting order between days, and how to deal with timing of list locks and competition-season trades inside the district system.

Takes too long

Koko Ed

28-12-2014, 15:00

Takes too long

Do. Not. Like.

Brandon_L

28-12-2014, 15:46

Do. Not. Like.

I don't think its the best solution, but I think its better then doing all the drafts individually again. It was too much.

Brandon Zalinsky

28-12-2014, 20:12

It's way better to do all of a district in one large draft rather than many smaller ones. I would not enjoy having to do 8+ more drafts at the district event level.

EricH

28-12-2014, 21:34

OK, I'm back online, I think. (crosses fingers).

Which means that I'll be putting up MAR as soon as I can get a team list put together.

For Ed: The options we really had were to run every single district (all 48 or so of them) or group them in some way. Now, 48 drafts is about 24 days of drafting, at 2/day, which puts us either with a November 1st start or with a finish around Week 3 of build. So, I'm utilizing a block system to try to give everybody a fair(ish) shot at putting together a powerful alliance. The attempt is to give everybody as many teams as reasonable (in MI's case, we could probably be doing 10 rounds if we wanted to) in each district. Scores will be averaged (mean score) across all district events played in. Unless... Any of the scorers want to try to normalize to two district events?

I intend to implement one trade rule for the block drafts: Can't trade a team with >1 play in or out. Gotta have only one play, or zero. (Translation: draft a clunker, you got one shot to drop 'em. Notice everybody missed a dark horse, got one shot to grab 'em.)

EricH

28-12-2014, 22:42

MAR randoms:
To save y'all's screens, I'm only puttin' up the top 50. Suffice it to say, there's a lot more where those came from.
834
4373
41
4342
4575
3637
87
1403
5080
4460
1257
5624
5113
103
5490
1228
2070
4361
102
2554
1712
816
2590
2729
708
714
4637
2539
5684
5407
433
3515
555
2095
222
5733
3314
2495
219
4475
1279
1391
303
304
896
2607
365
341
203
1672

orangemoore

28-12-2014, 22:48

You post the teams as Code.

EricH

29-12-2014, 22:28

One final call for a draft runner in the regular season:

The Pacific Northwest is supposed to start tomorrow, running across New Year's Eve (off night, folks) and onto New Year's. That being said, I've had some family stuff come up that's going to throw my running of New England into question for starting on time, or at all, on 1/1/15 if I run it.

So...

Here's what I'm thinkin'. I've got two lists (Frog Farce and PureMI if they've updated their stuff) for both drafts. I will forward list or link no later than 15 minutes before draft start if someone is running either of those.

Plan A is that someone steps up for one or the other. Plan B is that I take PNW with a late start tomorrow, say about half an hour, and/or New England (with a draft opening on 12/31 if I do run it, rather than 1/1).

I have been working on some updates to the draft runner, and will be testing them out tomorrow--expect an updated version to be released if they work.

orangemoore

29-12-2014, 23:22

PNW Draft Day 1 Randoms:
4173
3238
2412
949
1258
2906
3237
492
3831
3192
2927
2635
4980
1571
3681
4579
3220
5468
4127
2555
4469
4057
3673
4682
4082
4918
1294
2411
5497
5085
3221
4180
4104
1899
5588
2733
3575
2929
957
2915
847
5450
360
2550
948
3131
4125
1510
3636
1432
4681
3781
4726
1425
5683
2903
3049
3223
4110
3968
4061
1359
5748
4461
2471
2976
4304
997
4030
2930
2660
1540
2923
2928
3711
2910
955
3588
2907
3219
3663
2517
4495
4513
4488
5779
3693
2557
4683
4662
3576
2374
4131
4911
2002
3393
3070
4542
2192
3574
3876
2093
4608
1595
4089
4450
3786
2811
2521
4120
3826
4132
2944
2148
4205
3586
2046
4692
3789
4915
3787
2605
1778
2147
4051
4309
3268
4654
4060
3812
4043
1318
1983
956
3024
488
2980
3218
5495
3674
3712
5295
753
2522
5198
2149
4077
5111
4512
2942
3684
2990

EricH

29-12-2014, 23:32

Given that development...

I'll go ahead and open New England on 12/31, for drafting 1/1 and 1/2. Family schedule is still being worked out.

Thinking ahead: I'll try to work out the schedule for District Championship drafts before Kickoff, with a "subject to change" notice attached. They'll be between the last week of the district events and the district championship.

Thinking farther ahead: Championship draft will be by division again, but exact schedule--other than "between District Championships and Championship"--is TBD.

IKE

30-12-2014, 10:03

...

I intend to implement one trade rule for the block drafts: Can't trade a team with >1 play in or out. Gotta have only one play, or zero. (Translation: draft a clunker, you got one shot to drop 'em. Notice everybody missed a dark horse, got one shot to grab 'em.)

I don't understand this. So, when can you swap out a team? before teams have played? After 2 plays?

orangemoore

30-12-2014, 10:26

I don't understand this. So, when can you swap out a team? before teams have played? After 2 plays?

You can swap teams out/in up until their second play.

EricH

30-12-2014, 18:51

You can swap teams out/in up until their second play.

Correct. This allows for some of the flexibility of the older district drafts--draft the same team 3 times, they clunk their first time you can drop them for someone else--while still maintaining a more fair playfield, as you don't know what the team's score will be for their next event.

So, I have 217. If they lay an egg at their first event, I can trade them for any team that hasn't played yet, or has played once. But if I trade them after their second event, or if the team I trade for has played twice, it's an invalid trade.

IKE

30-12-2014, 19:40

If I trade a team that has played once with a team that has notyet played, do I get points for both events?

-IKE

EricH

30-12-2014, 19:45

If I trade a team that has played once with a team that has notyet played, do I get points for both events?

-IKE

The way we'll work it is this: Whatever teams you have at the END of the season are the ones that will give you points. So, to go with the above example: If I trade 217 for 201 (yeah, I know I have both of them, just making a point), I'll get the points for 201 but not 217. Unless I add 217 back in for another team before they've played a second time...

That being said, you'll hopefully know the pointage for the teams each week.

IKE

30-12-2014, 19:53

So, if 217 lays and egg week 1, and 201 gets CA or is the magic 3rd winner, and you switch, do you get those winner points from 201 week 1?

-IKE

EricH

30-12-2014, 19:55

So, if 217 lays and egg week 1, and 201 gets CA or is the magic 3rd winner, and you switch, do you get those winner points from 201 week 1?

-IKE
Correct.

BUT... remember that the points are averaged (or normalized, if the scorers want to do it that way), so if 201 lays an egg in Week X and 217 does the whole "dominate at more than one event" thing after Week 1, then you might actually be worse off. Your choice, of course.

EricH

30-12-2014, 21:29

I have been working on some updates to the draft runner, and will be testing them out tomorrow--expect an updated version to be released if they work.

They didn't. Not fully, at any rate. I was a little late on some updates--that would be because I was trying the old "fix it on the fly" routine. *goes back into programming cave*

On the other hand, I now have a VERY good idea why some of the runners have seen crashes when trying to do some actions, having just about crashed myself. And it's a really sneaky little bug, one that wouldn't be obvious at all.

Enjoy the off-day tomorrow; New England will go up a day early.

MARS_James

31-12-2014, 12:21

So what is the drafting schedule for NE and Indiana?

orangemoore

31-12-2014, 12:24

So what is the drafting schedule for NE and Indiana?

I'm running Indiana on Jan 2nd at 7pm est

It will be run as a normal draft (1-8,8-1,1-8)

EricH

31-12-2014, 20:01

New England goes up tonight, runs tomorrow (Day 1, officially) and Friday. I still need to set it up, though.

EricH

31-12-2014, 22:53

New England goes up tonight, runs tomorrow (Day 1, officially) and Friday. I still need to set it up, though.

It's up now.

Due to a family commitment (and a couple of other items), there's a fair chance of the draft being suspended, late starting, or other similar items happening. I'm going to ask for a lot of lists for tomorrow (Friday should be normal), and a lot of early picks. I'd LOVE to get through the draft before it's supposed to start (unrealistic as that may be...).

Should I need to suspend/late start the draft, I will naturally make an announcement to that effect in the thread, and I'll try to give my best estimate of a restart time. Worst-case scenario, Friday's scheduled rounds start late to allow the previous rounds to finish.

MARS_James

01-01-2015, 12:26

Whats going on with the rest of PNW?

EricH

01-01-2015, 13:20

Whats going on with the rest of PNW?

Should be later today. Yesterday was an off day.

orangemoore

01-01-2015, 13:22

Whats going on with the rest of PNW?

That is happening tonight. I will put that up soon.

Navid Shafa

01-01-2015, 21:05

With PNW finished for the night, Rotten Peach Alliance should be set for the rest of the drafts:

- Full 84 team pick list for NE sent to EricH earlier
- Indiana List sent to orangemoore

orangemoore

02-01-2015, 14:55

Indiana Randoms:
4211
3487
234
1024
2360
3947
5010
1501
5188
4791
3559
3940
4234
1741
4580
5402
1747
4103
3494
1760
135
4272
1646
45
3180
2867
1529
868
71
2197
4008
447
4485
3147
3936
461
5403
4824
3865
829
5484
2171
3176
4926
4846
1018
292
4982
1720

EricH

02-01-2015, 21:14

Looks like we're done drafting the regular season, and in time for Kickoff! I'd like to thank all the folks that stepped up to run drafts this year, as well as all the players that showed up to play.

A couple of minor notes:
--I still have some waivers to get to. Probably during some "down" time this weekend.
--I still need to figure out the draft schedule for the DCMP events.
--And the CMP, given 8 divisions at 75 teams/division.
--And there IS a warning in somebody's future (actually, it's sent). But... at this point, the only drafts that will be affected will be the DCMP events. No point in announcing who at this point.

Edit:
--I will also be working on upgrading the drafting program. I have a list of bugs, and a list of upgrades. I may also be monkeying with some other stuff. (Famous last words: I know what I'm doing, it's just a minor change...)

EricH

02-01-2015, 22:43

OK, folks, we have an approximate schedule for drafting your District Championships. These are +- a day or so in any given direction right now, depending on how fast they fill up.

30-Mar IN DCMP
1-Apr PNW DCMP
5-Apr NE DCMP
6-Apr MI DCMP
6-Apr MAR DCMP

Indiana and the Pacific Northwest will be playing a week earlier than the others; New England ends a week earlier than MI and MAR and thus hopefully has enough time to fill faster.

EricH

03-01-2015, 12:15

Well, that was a doozy.

Now that W-L-T is out of the rankings (for this year), we need to re-evaluate how we do the W-L-T part of points.

We could go to TBA for the W-L-T.
We could just use the QA--we did something similar in 2010.

Or we could do something different.

Looking for some input from scorers and players here. I'll make the final decision shortly.

PVCpirate

03-01-2015, 12:22

I think we should just use whatever score they use to rank the teams in the standings, it would probably take too long to go through and compare scores for every match. Maybe divide it by some number that keeps the value similar to previous years so it doesn't dominate the scoring.

EricH

03-01-2015, 12:25

Maybe divide it by some number that keeps the value similar to previous years so it doesn't dominate the scoring.

We've never really worried about that. Worth considering, though.

JosephC

03-01-2015, 12:35

I think QA divided by X number would be a good system.

It's hard to figure out what X should be before we start seeing posted scores though, anything we decide now is just guess work.

Pros : Easy to score, doesn't change much, keeps the QA from dominating the scoring.

Cons : Teams that have most of their events towards the end of the season will naturally be skewed with more QA, later events = more score.

AGPapa

03-01-2015, 18:05

FIRST is still working on a way to give district teams points for this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=131965). Maybe we could just copy their system?

EricH

03-01-2015, 18:07

FIRST is still working on a way to give district teams points for this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=131965). Maybe we could just copy their system?

I was thinking that we should wait and see what they do, and have some discussion while we wait.

What is the "normal" district point system for W-L-T, by the way?

AGPapa

03-01-2015, 18:17

I was thinking that we should wait and see what they do, and have some discussion while we wait.

What is the "normal" district point system for W-L-T, by the way?

2 pts for a win, 1 for a tie.

Koko Ed

03-01-2015, 20:23

I was thinking that we should wait and see what they do, and have some discussion while we wait.

What is the "normal" district point system for W-L-T, by the way?

Well that's gonna hafta change. Maybe take the teams cumulative score at the event or something.

IKE

03-01-2015, 20:30

For districts, typically #1 has a 11-1 record and thus earn about 22 pts. If you did (# of teams - rank)/2=score, this would be a decent approximation.

PVCpirate

04-01-2015, 22:59

This blog post:
FIRST is still working on a way to give district teams points for this (http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=131965). Maybe we could just copy their system?
says the points gained from qualification round performance will be based on rank. Maybe we can just use
(1-(rank/total teams))*(2*#matches) and round to an integer? This would make the top ranked team essentially 12-0, and the bottom ranked team is 0-12.

EDIT: I guess this is similar to IKE's idea

ghostmachine360

09-01-2015, 13:15

Rotten Peach Alliance claims:
16 at the Midwest Regional, and trades for 3695.
604 at Central Valley Regional, and trades for 2543.
1323 at Central Valley Regional, and trades for 3255.

AGPapa

13-01-2015, 21:30

Brolliance Beta claims 11 in New England, and drops 5422.

PVCpirate

13-01-2015, 23:06

Brolliance Beta claims 11 in New England, and drops 5422.

I don't think that's how it works, pretty sure we are only picking teams in their home district, but you still get points for their out of district events.

AGPapa

14-01-2015, 10:52

I don't think that's how it works, pretty sure we are only picking teams in their home district, but you still get points for their out of district events.

Hmm, the rules seem a little ambiguous on this; but I like your interpretation better. Inter-District registration opens after the FF drafting season is over so it wouldn't make sense to do it this way.

EricH

14-01-2015, 20:55

I don't think that's how it works, pretty sure we are only picking teams in their home district, but you still get points for their out of district events.

Correct interpretation.

NOTICE!
All Waiver Claims are currently Locked! (Finally!)

I will be processing the waivers to the best of my ability. However...

A redraft has been requested, and approved, for Midwest, due to a submitted list not being used. The redraft will be run using the existing teams at the time of the draft, with the exception of any teams that happened to drop out. That being stated, I will run waivers with Midwest claims, and without Midwest claims, to see what effect said claims have, and will announce any non-affected claims immediately.

I do not know when Midwest will re-draft; I have suggested using a weekend and giving plenty of notice. I have also requested that a list of added teams be made available; I will re-evaluate Midwest waivers, and any waivers affected by the hold, after the redraft.

EricH

14-01-2015, 21:43

That being stated, I will run waivers with Midwest claims, and without Midwest claims, to see what effect said claims have, and will announce any non-affected claims immediately.

Guess what? The only difference at all is one Midwest claim being given (which it won't be... YET).

The awards:
The Yellow Alliance: 2996 (Utah, for 1568); 3314 (Alamo, for 4641); 604 (Central Valley 1, for 4183)
Rotten Peach Alliance: 604 and 1323 (Central Valley 2, for 2543 and 3255 respectively)
Daedalite InVAders: 303 (Tech Valley, for 250); 5076 (GTRE, for 2340); 3250 (Sacramento, for 2551); 5416 (Bayou, for 3539x1); 1622 and 4026 (South Florida, for 4592 and 3992)
Falcon: 1323 (Central Valley 1 for 256)

The current priority list:
Brolliance Beta
Team SuperPowerMatic
Koko's X-Cats
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
The Breakfast Company
Orange Juice
Ltown Throwdown
SHARP Cheddar
Frog Farce
Falcon
The Yellow Alliance
Rotten Peach Alliance
Daedalite InVAders

Players, please make your edits; I'll update the master sheet (it's way overdue).

orangemoore

14-01-2015, 22:26

Right now I am looking at running the Midwest Re-draft on Sunday January 25 at 7:00pm est.

This is not a finalized date but, it seems to be the best option at the moment.

So watch this thread for updates.

ghostmachine360

14-01-2015, 22:38

Will the re-draft be in the same order as before?

EricH

14-01-2015, 23:19

Will the re-draft be in the same order as before?

Standard practice for redrafts: They get run from the point where the error happened, so same order, same times, just making sure that the list in question is used.

orangemoore

14-01-2015, 23:45

NOTICE

This is an official announcement that the Midwest Regional Redraft will happen on Sunday January 25th Beginning at 8pm est

I have lists from:
Rotten Peach Alliance
SHARP Cheddar
Brolliance Beta
The Yellow Alliance
Daedalite InVAders
Frog Farce
PureMichigan
Swamp Life
Live Pickers:
Koko's X-Cats
Falcon
LTown Throwdown
Missing from draft:
The Breakfast Company
Team SuperPowerMatic

For those who didn't pick or send a list please do so or just notify me that you will be missing.

Also I will update the Midwest thread in a second.

orangemoore

23-01-2015, 18:18

Midwest:
Don't forget this draft!
It will begin at 8:00pm est on Sunday January 25

orangemoore

25-01-2015, 21:44

Midwest:
Don't forget this draft!
It will begin at 8:00pm est on Sunday January 25

Since I wasn't thinking, I forgot this draft due to studying for finals.

This draft is being rescheduled for Saturday January 31st at 8:00pm est

I won't forget this time.

Sorry.

If anyone is live picking has a different day/time in mind tell me.
[Koko's X-Cats , Falcon, LTown Throwdown, The Breakfast Company, Team SuperPowerMatic]

PVCpirate

03-02-2015, 16:15

FIRST has posted the District point format for this season here http://goo.gl/YbUFQV. Looks like the points for qualifying are awarded based on rank and event size as a number between about 3 and 22. I think it would be reasonable to just use this or a simplified version for FF. Only issue might be that we already give points for ranking, so it would be double points.

EricH

19-02-2015, 20:34

Let's see here. I've got a couple items of business.

First, waivers, specifically Midwest.
--We've got several waivers out, one challenged. I figure Saturday timeframe for those, giving three days total. [Edit: Or so. Lone Star has one awarded due to list position, one challenged.]
--Midwest has taken way too long, that's on me. The team in question: 16. When I announced the hold, I forgot to say which order would be used to award the claim, so for this instance I will be using the original order. (No awards affected--I checked before running that batch of waivers.) Rotten Peach Alliance takes 16 (and goes to the bottom of the list). (In future, I'll try to remember to announce "previous" or "next" order if a similar situation happens.)

Second, SCORING. I know this is kind of hanging on us, and we need to finish getting all squared away. So...

--First question for y'all, are you thinking you'll be OK with the FIRST district point system, or do we want to try something else? I've seen cumulative score, some equations giving +- the "right" amount of points for the guesstimated wins, and there's FIRST's system which is basically ranking, which we already give points for. I will say that if we go with FIRST's system for this year, we would probably not give ranking points for top 15 like normal.
--Second item, we're probably going to need some bodies on this. I think Brandon_L had something with an automatic scoring going, but I'm not entirely sure on where it's at (and I'm willing to bet it needs tweaking). Even then, we'll need some help to score players' alliances. I'll re-post the link to the alliance document once I'm sure it's up to date.

Draft Lock: Week 1 events lock at midnight on 2/25 (Wednesday night, in other words).

EricH

19-02-2015, 21:13

For anybody interested:

The current alliance sheet is up at https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1L82EHqb_K-APfLNFMptayvpqhp6kerIbiWwurkQrEwM/edit#gid=0. I update this whenever a change is confirmed; it should be up to date (pending waiver runs from the next round, of course).

This is just the alliances, in drafted order by event.

ghostmachine360

19-02-2015, 23:56

EricH

20-02-2015, 19:48

Hey, would it work to create a Google sheet of hyperlinks to link to each event? Just something I was thinking about......

Curious what you're thinking--as in to the event page, or to the event's draft thread, or to each team in the event... So many possibilities, so little time.

I'm pretty sure it's possible to embed a link into a Google sheet.

BrennanB

20-02-2015, 21:42

I'm pretty sure it's possible to embed a link into a Google sheet.

Yes it is. Could possibly link to both. But if it is autoscored not sure why we need it linked to the events page.

EricH

20-02-2015, 22:57

Yes it is. Could possibly link to both. But if it is autoscored not sure why we need it linked to the events page.

Which is kind of why I was wondering what the question was about...

ghostmachine360

22-02-2015, 12:19

EricH

22-02-2015, 12:22

The idea was a separate sheet tab to link to the specific regional on the sheet you created, Eric; that way, we don't have to search around the entire sheet to find the regional that we want to review our roster for.
Ah. That might be a *bit* harder. I might be able to break it up by competition weeks later today when I get home from being out-and-about, should make it a smidgen easier.

If anybody's wondering about waivers--last call, but right now only Lone Star has a challenge. (624 has two challenges on them, for three claims overall.)

EricH

22-02-2015, 21:13

If anybody's wondering about waivers--last call, but right now only Lone Star has a challenge. (624 has two challenges on them, for three claims overall.)

Rotten Peach, please wait for waiver claims to be CONFIRMED before editing the spreadsheet. Someone edited all your claims into the spreadsheet last night (except for the challenged one). If that wasn't you guys, I apologize.

Breakfast Company gets 624 in Lone Star, giving up 5503. I've already updated the spreadsheet, someone want to update the thread?

Current waiver priority list:

Team SuperPowerMatic
Koko's X-Cats
Swamp Life
PureMichigan
Orange Juice
Ltown Throwdown
SHARP Cheddar
Frog Farce
Falcon
The Yellow Alliance
Daedalite InVAders
Rotten Peach Alliance
Brolliance Beta
The Breakfast Company

And I will be editing the sheet to separate out each week of events, starting now. Sorted by week, then draft order. Should be all correct.

EricH

25-02-2015, 19:47

As a reminder, all Week 1 rosters will lock at midnight tonight (eh, let's call it midnight PST this time--doesn't make a whole lot of difference, we'll probably all be sleepin' anyways.)

All District Draft rosters will remain available for change after that point; however, all players are reminded that changing a team with > 1 event either onto or off of a District Draft roster is not allowed.

Maldridge422

26-02-2015, 13:16

On further review--I didn't notice that 5778 was already taken. Claim DENIED, InVAders will need to make another claim (or transfer an existing claim to that position). InVAders revert to slot #9 on the priority list--for now.

Its been a while, but we're finally submitting a claim for 4587 to fill that hole.

EricH

26-02-2015, 19:43

Its been a while, but we're finally submitting a claim for 4587 to fill that hole.

Claim confirmed.

orangemoore

02-03-2015, 17:45

So now that week one is over how does scoring get done?

PVCpirate

02-03-2015, 20:19

Well right now I don't think complete match data is available for all the events, so right now we wait. Once that happens, some of us have to go through and score all the teams, although there might be some stuff to automate some of the process. Then the scores for each FF player get totaled up and the event score is added to the standings.

Also, I vote for either using the district points and not giving our usual ranking points or using our usual ranking points and not having anything in place of win/loss points.

EricH

02-03-2015, 22:38

Once that happens, some of us have to go through and score all the teams, although there might be some stuff to automate some of the process. Then the scores for each FF player get totaled up and the event score is added to the standings.

Also, I vote for either using the district points and not giving our usual ranking points or using our usual ranking points and not having anything in place of win/loss points.

Using our usual ranking points and not having anything else isn't gonna work past #15 or #16--everybody gets zero beyond that unless they're picked or pick up hardware. That would be... rather bad for a lot of folks in single-tier events.

Everybody OK with using FIRST's system for the year, with no separate FF ranking points? Unless I suddenly hear a lot of negativity on this, I think that's about the way to go. Awards points and elims finishes won't change, BTW.

Navid Shafa

02-03-2015, 22:52

Everybody OK with using FIRST's system for the year, with no separate FF ranking points? Unless I suddenly hear a lot of negativity on this, I think that's about the way to go. Awards points and elims finishes won't change, BTW.

It would certainly make things a lot easier. If everyone is OK with it, my bet is that I can ask Alex at HQ to spit out all district point equivalent data (not just districts) for teams at all events for us. He was doing some of this last year with the original District Ranking System which is now FIRST's main Database source. He's likely a little preoccupied right now though considering...

*Edit: Alex said these values will be available for non-district teams that compete in districts, but not exposed for non-district events :(

Maldridge422

02-03-2015, 23:01

Maldridge422

03-03-2015, 20:14

I've been working on some of the scoring, using FIRST's district ranking points system. It looks like the Northern Lights data is complete. Can someone confirm these scores look right?

Scores for Northern Lights Regional:

Falcon 122
Koko's X-Cats 118
Team SuperPowerMatic 110
Rotten Peach Alliance 108
The Yellow Alliance 92
Swamp Life 70
Daedalite InVAders 66
SHARP Cheddar 54
Brolliance Beta 53
Orange Juice 49
The Breakfast Company 49
Frog Farce 44
PureMichigan 43
LTown Throwdown 38

PureMichigan:
2169 won the Industrial Design Award sponsored by General Motors (15 points)
2169 was rank 30 (12 points)
2169 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
4226 was rank 59 (4 points)
2518 was rank 48 (8 points)
Total points: 43

Orange Juice:
5148 was rank 17 (15 points)
4624 was rank 6 (19 points)
4624 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
3381 was rank 35 (11 points)
Total points: 49

SHARP Cheddar:
27 won the Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers (2 points)
27 was rank 9 (17 points)
27 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
5232 was rank 12 (16 points)
5232 were semifinalists (10 points)
877 was rank 57 (5 points)
Total points: 54

The Breakfast Company:
3883 was rank 14 (16 points)
3883 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
4623 was rank 4 (20 points)
4623 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
4671 was rank 56 (5 points)
Total points: 49

Swamp Life:
3055 won the Excellence in Engineering Award sponsored by Delphi (15 points)
3055 was rank 13 (16 points)
3055 were semifinalists (10 points)
5720 was rank 44 (9 points)
3750 won the Judges' Award (5 points)
3750 was rank 18 (15 points)
Total points: 70

LTown Throwdown:
2502 was rank 36 (11 points)
2502 were semifinalists (10 points)
3054 was rank 52 (7 points)
2847 won the Gracious Professionalism Award sponsored by Johnson & Johnson (2 points)
2847 was rank 49 (8 points)
Total points: 38

Frog Farce:
4656 won the FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (4 points)
4656 was rank 43 (9 points)
4656 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
2705 was rank 20 (14 points)
3723 was rank 26 (13 points)
Total points: 44

Koko's X-Cats:
2512 won the Team Spirit Award sponsored by Chrysler (2 points)
2512 won the FIRST Dean's List Finalist Award (4 points)
2512 won the Woodie Flowers Finalist Award (8 points)
2512 won the Regional Finalists (20 points)
2512 won the Regional Chairman's Award (42 points)
2512 was rank 7 (18 points)
2479 was rank 47 (8 points)
2574 was rank 31 (12 points)
2574 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
Total points: 118

Rotten Peach Alliance:
3130 won the Innovation in Control Award sponsored by Rockwell Automation (15 points)
3130 won the Regional Winners (30 points)
3130 was rank 1 (22 points)
3130 got the high score (5 points)
876 was rank 11 (17 points)
876 were semifinalists (10 points)
2491 was rank 46 (9 points)
Total points: 108

Falcon:
525 won the Imagery Award in honor of Jack Kamen (2 points)
525 won the Regional Winners (30 points)
525 was rank 2 (21 points)
525 got the high score (5 points)
5638 won the Highest Rookie Seed (5 points)
5638 won the Rookie Inspiration Award (15 points)
5638 was rank 8 (18 points)
5638 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
2846 was rank 29 (12 points)
2846 were semifinalists (10 points)
Total points: 122

The Yellow Alliance:
5172 won the Quality Award sponsored by Motorola (15 points)
5172 won the Regional Finalists (20 points)
5172 was rank 3 (20 points)
5290 was rank 15 (16 points)
2501 was rank 10 (17 points)
2501 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
Total points: 92

Team SuperPowerMatic:
4215 won the Regional Winners (30 points)
4215 was rank 21 (14 points)
4215 got the high score (5 points)
5464 won the Rookie All Star Award (20 points)
5464 was rank 51 (7 points)
4786 won the Industrial Safety Award sponsored by Underwriters Laboratories (2 points)
4786 won the Regional Finalists (20 points)
4786 was rank 33 (12 points)
Total points: 110

Brolliance Beta:
2175 was rank 27 (13 points)
2175 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
4207 won the Creativity Award sponsored by Xerox (15 points)
4207 was rank 58 (4 points)
4207 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
4238 was rank 25 (13 points)
Total points: 53

Daedalite InVAders:
4531 was rank 60 (3 points)
2500 won the Regional Engineering Inspiration Award (36 points)
2500 was rank 22 (14 points)
2500 were quarterfinalists (4 points)
3926 was rank 45 (9 points)
Total points: 66

orangemoore

07-03-2015, 20:35

I just realized that one of my picks (4101) in the PNW District draft doesn't exist as a PNW team. I assume I need to change that right?

EricH

07-03-2015, 20:47

I just realized that one of my picks (4101) in the PNW District draft doesn't exist as a PNW team. I assume I need to change that right?

Yup. Just don't pick a team that's played more than once.

With the data back online, is any scoring happening?

orangemoore

07-03-2015, 20:55

With the data back online, is any scoring happening?

I can do some scoring I just need to have an updated sheet/document laying out what everything(Awards/Ranking/Playoffs) is worth.

EricH

07-03-2015, 21:10

I can do some scoring I just need to have an updated sheet/document laying out what everything(Awards/Ranking/Playoffs) is worth.Relevant items (from the SLFF rules document, W-L-T and ranking removed, and from FIRST's published method):

Ranking is using the District Ranking system (which is a formula based on number of teams at event, ranking of team in question, and a normalization factor). I'm going to have a hard time reproducing it here, but I'll try--see spoiler.

Winner, 30 points
Finalist, 20 points
Semifinalist, 10 points
Quarterfinalist, 4 points

Woodie Flowers Finalist Award, 8 points
Regional Chairman’s Award, 42 points
Engineering Inspiration, 36 points
Rookie All-Star, 20 points
Rookie Inspiration, 15 points

Highest Rookie Seed, 5 points
High score, 5 points
Judges Award, 5 points
Robot-based award (Delphi, Xerox, GM, Rockwell, Motorola), 15 points
Dean’s List, 4 points
Any award not previously mentioned, 2 points

QP(R,N,a)=(Inverse Error((N-2R+2)/aN)(10/Inverse Error(1/a))+12), round up to the nearest point.

R is the Rank, N is the Number of teams at the event, a is 1.07 (normalization).