[FF]: 2014 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

I think Eric is planning on taking your place tomorrow, Ed.
Also, If Brandon takes Mt. Olive, I can take Auburn Mountainview tomorrow.

Doing 3 in one night won't be too bad because it seems like most teams are sending in lists

[Pault]

Normally I would try to wait until I had at least a year of FF experience before I tried to run a draft, but seeing that you guys are pretty desperate...

I just need someone to give me a briefing on the details of how to do it.

[Akash Rastogi]

I haven't run a draft before, but if someone sends me info on how to properly run a draft over the weekend, I'd be happy to volunteer later on. I just don't want to mess any up.

[Littleboy]

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[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

I think Eric is planning on taking your place tomorrow, Ed.
Also, If Brandon takes Mt. Olive, I can take Auburn Mountainview tomorrow.

I was planning on personally picking in Mt Olive for my team, so I'd feel more comfortable running whatever it was Ed was supposed to run. If Eric wants to switch, I'll gladly run one as long as someone sends me info. (Mainly - the link for the randomization website and howintheworld are the number of tiers decided)

[MARS_James]

I am also free tomorrow night, sorry new team meets on Tuesdays so little hectic.

[EricH]

I'll swap with Brandon--Mt. Olive should be up shortly. Note: It'll be on a 10 minute delay from any other drafts. Just my schedule.

Brandon--nothin' stopping the draft runner from making his/her own team's picks in his/her own tier. Just sayin'.

Akash, Pault: I'll drop you guys the rundown when I get a chance, probably Thursday--I've got a document somewheres. Brandon, any randomizer would work, but I think Ed put a link somewhere in this thread; I find that # of tiers is best done as #teams/#players>3, 1 tier; otherwise try 2*#teams/#players (2 tiers), and if that fails, just keep going up until X*#teams/#players>3, and let X be the number of tiers you need.

[EricH]

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Draft starts at 7:10 EST.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by EricH

Brandon--nothin' stopping the draft runner from making his/her own team's picks in his/her own tier. Just sayin'.

Yeah, just didn't want to do it.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Yeah, just didn't want to do it.

Not a problem. (I, on the other hand, have no choice... )

[Brandon_L]

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[Akash Rastogi]

Reminder to FF players - keep your team name somewhere in your post, especially for new draft runners.

[Alpha Beta]

Originally Posted by Basel A

Doing 3 in one night won't be too bad because it seems like most teams are sending in lists

What's the advantage of doing it live instead of sending in a list?

• Is it to avoid making a list? (That's half the fun.)
• Are people looking at other tiers for an idea of who to pick?
• Is there a concern that the moderator will misread a list?
• Is it the opportunity for social chatter by following it live?

We are not forming actual alliances that have to play together, so who you get in an early round has little/no bearing on who you draft later on IMO. A list is simply a ranking of which teams you feel will garner the most points under the following criteria.

Win, 2 points
Tie, 1 point
Loss, 0 points [Note: this may also be -2 points. Scorer’s discretion.]

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

1st seed, 20 points
2nd-3rd seed, 12 points
4th-8th seed, 6 points
9th-12th seed, 3 points
13th-16th seed, 2 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
Coopertition Award, 10 points (if in play)

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

[Littleboy]

There are several reasons why I normally don't send in a list.
1. Good excuse to procrastinate from homework.
2. I enjoy following the draft more closely and and checking at the end.
3. I use my list more of as a guide. Shortly before my pick, I look on TBA for more information about a few teams that are ranked higher on my list to make sure that I am picking the right teams. (The team I pick is often not the next highest team on my list.)

Because Ed can't make it to the draft tonight, should I just give him randoms?

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

What's the advantage of doing it live instead of sending in a list?

• Is it to avoid making a list? (That's half the fun.)
• Are people looking at other tiers for an idea of who to pick?
• Is there a concern that the moderator will misread a list?
• Is it the opportunity for social chatter by following it live?

We are not forming actual alliances that have to play together, so who you get in an early round has little/no bearing on who you draft later on IMO. A list is simply a ranking of which teams you feel will garner the most points under the following criteria.

I've always preferred to make lists, but there's an argument to be made for drafting live. Thoroughly making a list requires comparing every team to every other team. When drafting live, it's about as effective to use a list based on some objective criteria (say, fantasy points scored per event the previous year) and comparing the top few teams on that list. This takes significantly less time without losing a large amount of effectiveness.

The four reasons you point out are also contributing factors.