Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

Teams:
1. 191 X-Cats (Koko Ed)
2. Falcon (EricH)
3. Team Awesome. PM to join (Duke461, O'sancheski)
4. Team Flippin' The Greatest (Akash, Chris is me, XaulZan11)
5. Looking for teammates. PM to join (JackN)
6. ProgramLuke (ProgramLuke)
7. Dodar (Dodar)
8. B.O.T. (Cody Burd)
9. Nemesis (Dr Theta)
10. Frenchie (Frenchie461)
11. Team Shoelace (Basel A, Nikeairmancurry)
12. Untouchables (Tyler Olds, ????)

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

Teams:
1. 191 X-Cats (Koko Ed)
2. Falcon (EricH)
3. Team Awesome. PM to join (Duke461, O'sancheski)
4. Team Flippin' The Greatest (Akash, Chris is me, XaulZan11)
5. Looking for teammates. PM to join (JackN)
6. ProgramLuke (ProgramLuke)
7. Dodar (Dodar)
8. B.O.T. (Cody Burd)
9. Nemesis (Dr Theta)
10. Frenchie (Frenchie461)
11. Team Shoelace (Basel A, Nikeairmancurry)
12. Untouchables (Tyler Olds, EricLeifermann)

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

1. 191 X-Cats (Koko Ed)
2. Falcon (EricH)
3. Team Awesome. PM to join (Duke461, O'sancheski)
4. Team Flippin' The Greatest (Akash, Chris is me, XaulZan11)
5. Looking for teammates. PM to join (JackN)
6. ProgramLuke (ProgramLuke)
7. Dodar (Dodar)
8. B.O.T. (Cody Burd)
9. Nemesis (Dr Theta)
10. Frenchie (Frenchie461)
11. Team Shoelace (Basel A, Nikeairmancurry)
12. Untouchables (Tyler Olds, EricLeifermann)
13. CircuitRunners (ghostmachine360, Wing, & james7132)

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

This is the 2-week, 3-day warning that the drafts will begin Nov. 25 as scheduled. If anybody's still interested and hasn't signed up, Nov. 24 would be the last day to do so.

And, if anybody is finding out that this isn't going to work with their schedule, it's usually best to drop before events start running. It gets really "fun" after about the first week of drafts if people start dropping (or getting the boot) then. Remember, if you can't make at least one draft every three days or so (5 drafts), you're given a warning (and missing the draft after that means you're out of the league).

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

Can somebody go over how the drafting process works? What happens if we miss a draft?

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

If you miss a draft you are assigned randomly ranked teams. If you miss five CONSECUTIVE drafts (not five days!) you are given a warning pm with 24 hours to respond. If you miss the draft after that you are booted from the league. If you do respond but show the same behavior again the process will repeat itself. If you do it a third time you are gone without a PM.
You can do what Basel did last year and send a big list with every team you actually want from each draft (which was anywhere from 3 to 15 teams) and live with random selections the rest of the way. Or say you just want random teams selected (what's the fun in that?).

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

If you're concerned about missing a draft, submit lists ahead of time to the draft runner(s) for the day.

A quick note on the lists: For any draft runner that uses the program found at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2307 (I use it, but I don't know who else uses it), there is a preferred format that goes something like:

1114 2056 330 1731 2826 191

Oh, and speaking of draft runners...

I'm available at least partially through 12/15 on any day that has 2 drafts. After then, or on certain days during that time, I will not be available, so someone will need to step up (our normal crew has mostly withdrawn from the league for a variety of reasons, leaving Ed, myself, and I think one other runner). The program (above) really makes your life easier for some reason--it takes seconds to set up a given draft, and if everyone has lists in, seconds to run the draft.

Some other notes: See http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=88479 for some other tips.

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

I can run drafts as needed, with the exception of 12/23-1/3.

Am I really the only one who's ever done this? It seemed the obvious choice. :ahh:

2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST Waiver
 

It's just about time to get the waiver process ready to roll.

What is the waiver process? If teams become available after drafts but before Week 1 events, they go to a waiver pool. Highest on the priority list claims them and goes to the bottom. Usually, the waiver pool is cleared once per week, and teams have a minimum of 48 hours in the pool. (If we get really swamped, the frequency can increase.) Another thread will be started about the time drafts begin to handle waiver business

Waiver priority: Veterans start at the bottom, with whoever had the most total points last season at the very bottom (and fewest total points is at the top of the veteran stack); everyone else starts in semi-random order. Due to the advent of teams, a multi-player team's position will be determined by their lowest-scoring veteran (highlighted), should they have one.

B.O.T. (Cody Burd)
Untouchables (Tyler Olds, EricLeifermann)
Frenchie (Frenchie461)
Team Awesome. PM to join (Duke461, O'sancheski)
CircuitRunners (ghostmachine360, Wing, & james7132)
Nemesis (Dr Theta)
ProgramLuke (ProgramLuke)
Looking for teammates. PM to join (JackN)
Shoelace (Basel A, nikeairmancurry)
Dodar (Dodar)
191 X-Cats (Koko Ed)
Flippin' the Greatest (Chris is me, Akash, XaulZan11)
Falcon (EricH)

Now, I'm not looking forwards to managing both the waiver and the scoring. (The fellas that were running those last year are not competing this year.) So, if someone were to want to step up a bit for one or the other, I can point them in the direction of who to talk to, or what was used.

P.S. Basel, I sent in lists with every single team from every single draft; Barry did something similar. They weren't in one file, though. (Artifact of my secret list making machine, it doesn't do one file for all the lists very well.)

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

Who should we PM lists to?

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

PM the lists to whoever is running the drafts that day. 90% of the time, that will be Koko Ed or myself.

Draft runners, it is advisable to contact Ed or myself to see if there are lists for a given draft.

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

I do about 10 an event.

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

I have a couple things I want to say.

First, Basel, I forgot that one of the players a couple years back sent a link to a spreadsheet to the draft runners. I don't remember if he ranked every team or just the ones he wanted--I think it was the latter.

Second, and a little bit more important:

When the drafts come out starting on Friday, some of them may look like "Magnolia Regional Tier #1" and "Magnolia Regional Tier #2". This is because on occasion, there aren't enough teams for everyone to get 3. So, we split the drafting pool randomly into two tiers, everyone gets 3 teams, everyone's happy. The next time that happens, say the Redwood Regional, the tiers change. They have no bearing on performance; we just number them to keep them separate.

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

I mentioned the waivers a couple days back. Waivers will be dealt with at http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...threadid=98420

Re: [FF]: 2012 Season Long Fantasy FIRST!
 

If it's not too late to sign up, I would like to register as a solo as 1676.
I'm new at this, so I might be a little shakey/confused at first. I'm spending all my free time reading and understanding the rules though ::rtm::