[FF]: 2014 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

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

Ed generally takes randoms if he's not running the draft. Unless he says otherwise, of course.

[EricH]

I have lists from everybody except Peach Alliance, LTown Throwdown, Schrodinger's Cat, Prestige Taco, and the Sour Patch Nerds. If one or more of those teams could drop a list my way, that would be appreciated.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by EricH

I have lists from everybody except Peach Alliance, LTown Throwdown, Schrodinger's Cat, Prestige Taco, and the Sour Patch Nerds. If one or more of those teams could drop a list my way, that would be appreciated.

I'll be doing Taco's live

[bam-bam]

Aside from the announcements, I honestly prefer doing live over lists. I feel that was a large reason why my team last year was able to finish 2nd at the championship drafts.

The problem is, though, I'm in college. College does not equal to free time at exactly 7:00 pm... I see that a lot of participants here also have similar problems.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ed generally takes randoms if he's not running the draft. Unless he says otherwise, of course.

Always go with randoms.
I'd rather the customers get a shot at good teams instead of me.

[Littleboy]

A couple quick things.
Please make sure the teams in your list are attending the event. I had it 3 times tonight (and this isn't the first time it has happened) that people request teams not attending the event. It helps the draft runners out alot if they don't have to worry about making sure your picks are attending the event.

It also helps that when you send in a list, it is vertically and not horizontally.

Thanks.

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

A couple quick things.
Please make sure the teams in your list are attending the event. I had it 3 times tonight (and this isn't the first time it has happened) that people request teams not attending the event. It helps the draft runners out alot if they don't have to worry about making sure your picks are attending the event.

It also helps that when you send in a list, it is vertically and not horizontally.

Thanks.

I had one list where one out of the five teams listed were attending. That is no help to me at all. You might as well just send a list that says random instead.

[Akash Rastogi]

Originally Posted by Akash Rastogi

We finally got around to deciding our 5th member.

Thanks again for allowing another player, Ed!

EricDrost let our team know he won't be able to fully participate this season, so we decided to bring in Connor Worley as our 5th member for Flippin The Greatest.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by 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.

Originally Posted by 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.

Looks like I was just a little faster than I counted on. Just uploaded the document I've got to CD-Media.

http://www.chiefdelphi.com/media/papers/2880

I will note that I'm actively working on another version of the drafting program, this one based in Excel and its macro codes. So far, though, I really only have the randomization functions (players and teams) working; teamlist pulling is available but I don't know how to get it fully functional (AKA automatic given an event code); and I'm working on splitting tiers up based on # of teams and # of players (the code isn't really crashing yet, but I still actually have to do the split). Means I have a bit of a todo list--if you think you know more Excel VBA than I do, I might be needing some help before long. (I do have some loose algorithms; let's just say I used similar ones on the C++ version about 3-4 years ago.)

[Koko Ed]

November 21 Arkansas, Hatboro-Horsham
November 22 GTR East, GTR West
November 23 San Diego, Groton
November 24 Crossroads, UNH-Durham
November 25 Northern Lights, Lake Superior
November 26 Central Valley, Kettering
November 27 Hub City, Gull Lake
November 29 Orlando, Oregon City
November 30 North Carolina, Glacier Peak
December 1 Mexico City, WPI
December 2 Dallas, Escanaba
December 3 Utah, Howell
December 4 Kansas City, Springside
December 5 St. Louis, Eastern Washington
December 6 Tech Valley, Mount Vernon
December 7 Wisconsin, Clifton
December 8 Boilermaker, West Michigan
December 9 Montreal, Waterloo
December 10 Arizona, Wilsonville
December 11 Los Angeles, Rhode Island
December 12 Virginia, Shorewood
December 13 Hawaii, Seneca
December 14 Greater Pittsburgh, Northeastern
December 15 FLR, Long Island
December 16 Washington DC, Livona
December 17 North Bay, Traverse City
December 18 North Star, 10000 Lakes
December 19 Peachtree, St. Joseph
December 20 Queen City, Auburn
December 21 Oklahoma, Central Washington
December 22 Smoky Mountains, Hartford
December 23 SVR, Bridgewater-Raritan
December 24 Israel, Troy
December 26 South Florida, Bedford
December 27 Colorado, Pine Tree
December 28 Bayou, Southington
December 29 Chesepeake, Oregon State University
December 30 NYC, Buckeye
January 1 Lone Star, Sacramento
January 2 Western Canadian
January 3 Windsor Essex
January 4 Las Vegas

[ttldomination]

Originally Posted by EricH

I will note that I'm actively working on another version of the drafting program, this one based in Excel and its macro codes. So far, though, I really only have the randomization functions (players and teams) working; teamlist pulling is available but I don't know how to get it fully functional (AKA automatic given an event code); and I'm working on splitting tiers up based on # of teams and # of players (the code isn't really crashing yet, but I still actually have to do the split). Means I have a bit of a todo list--if you think you know more Excel VBA than I do, I might be needing some help before long. (I do have some loose algorithms; let's just say I used similar ones on the C++ version about 3-4 years ago.)

Adding a datasource in Excel with VBA is a little tricky. I've been trying to do it for a while, but I haven't had time to get deep into it. I know it has something to do with creating a Connection and adding it to the QueryTable.

- Sunny G.

[MARS_James]

Hatboro-Horsham Randoms:

486
1168
1647
2590
4342
25
708
1807
4637
4954
5113
3151
834
1712
87
2234
304
3167
1791
709
2729
433
1640
3974
1391
2539
341
2607
1218
2016
103
303
816
1495
357
4750
272
5181

I NEED lists from:
Falcon
LTownThrowdown
Prestige Tacos
Schrodinger's Cats
Sour Patch Nerds

So if you are not listed I have a list for you

[Koko Ed]

935
3783
2359
2352
2992
4522
3593
4092
3991
3350
1209
1706
4843
4490
5153
1466
3937
4535
3961
1939
3179
4090
1810
3160
4745
3666
3516
4532
4849
5120
3784
2388
5006
16
5259
5037
45
832
418
5178
1985
5206
5195

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

I NEED lists from:

Breakfast Company (I have a link for your list but it is currently empty)

It will be coming soon... Just getting it up now.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

Hatboro-Horsham Randoms:
I NEED lists from:
Falcon
LTownThrowdown
Prestige Tacos
Schrodinger's Cats
Sour Patch Nerds

So if you are not listed I have a list for you

Will be selecting live