Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

The scoring for district teams will be the average of their internal district event scores excluding culture award (DCA/DEI/DRAS) points plus their total culture award points, right?

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Correct.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Brennan is running North Carolina for me tonight since I'm pretty sick, I've forwarded him the lists I received from QD, FP, and NEWYWI.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

F3 and The Breakfast Company have agreed to the following trade.

F3 receives:
2338 - at the Central Illinois Regional
3418 - at the Seven Rivers Regional
3277 - at the Lake Superior Regional

The Breakfast Company receives:
2481 - at the Central Illinois Regional
269 - at the Seven Rivers Regional
3293 - at the Lake Superior Regional

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Confirmed, will apply changes in main spreadsheet (once I finish updating it).

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Some of you might notice that New England, MAR, and Chesapeake are all up. I'm looking at a possibly very busy weekend around Kickoff (for reasons unrelated to Kickoff), so I'd like to get through those relatively quickly. Officially, the drafts aren't until Monday or later. OTOH, they're open.

For NE and MAR, there will be a minor pause once the first day is done to allow for the reset to the next day (reverse order and clean up the available-teams list).

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

First trade of the New Year (for us east coasters, that is. Last trade of 2016 for you Central, Mountain, and West Coasters)!

Falcon Receives:
4590 @ Israel
2158 @ Colorado
3250 @ Sacramento

QD Receives:
2212 @ Israel
662 @ Colorado
1678 @ Sacramento

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

So, one thing we noticed while looking at the MAR, Ontario, and Chesapeake team lists is that both Ontario (146 teams) and Chesapeake (129 teams) have more teams than MAR (120 teams). However, MAR is the only district of these three to have a six-round draft. That seems a little odd to me, especially since Chesapeake had a round 2 last year.

We understand that we're probably a little late to schedule a second round for Ontario and Chesapeake, especially considering we're less than a week from kickoff. That's just something odd we noticed that doesn't make sense. We think it wouldn't be a bad idea to run a second Chesapeake round and a second Ontario round starting around 8:30 pm on 1/6/17 (or earlier for Ontario), but we also understand if that's too short notice.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

TBC would be fine with this.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

TRF also agrees with this.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Swamp Life has some concerns. Despite having less teams MAR has a much deeper field than Chesapeake which was dominated by a select few teams last year.

I personally feel that Ontario as a new district, that under the regional system was dominated by a small amount of teams will be the same.

All that creating double drafts for them will accomplish is increasing the likely hood of someone picking a team who has a fluke good year and getting a point bonus. That isnt skill its luck.

Basically in my opinion Chesapeake showed a shallow field and until a new district shows otherwise it should be treated as such as well.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Something I think we've done once or twice is to run a 4th round for an extra team. That's something that could be worked in fairly quickly, if we thought it was worth it.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

That's probably a bad attitude for if/when Minnesota arrives to districts, but to each his own.

I'm fine with this. There are plenty of good teams left to draft at both, even if not everyone wants to do the full extra three. But we'd still prefer a full set.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

Something has come up, and I'm going to have to push NE back a day (or so).

That being said, I don't have any problems at all with keeping NE up until the 6th, advancing as time and picks allow. So what I'm thinking is that the first round of NE will be "through" probably Thursday unless picks come in (they have been, TBC is on what clock I'm keeping for their 2nd pick), and the second round will take the second slot on Friday (if we get lucky, Chesapeake will be through most of its rounds too).


As far as extra roundage... Ontario is currently complete, so I don't think it's worth re-opening and running another draft round there. For Chesapeake, I think we can add 1 more runthrough with no issues--it'd be 9-1 order, 1-minute timing.

Re: [FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST
 

So looking at the last 3 years of Minnesota Regionals, the number of slots for veterans they can produce (3 Winners, Chairman's, EI, our 3 largest point scorers) is 60. Of those 60, 17 went to out of state teams, bringing it down to 43. Those 43 slots were won by 24 teams. In a state that had 208 teams last year that is horrible.