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

[EricH]

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. (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]

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

[Cody Burd]

I need to drop out

[EricH]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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]

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)
17) The Yellow Alliance (Littleboy)

[Brandon_L]

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

[mlantry]

Sorry things have come up and have to drop out

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by mlantry

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]

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]

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 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]

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