[FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[Dave McLaughlin]

Thanks for the lulz, we had a good run boys.

[TDav540]

Any idea when we'll see the drafting schedule and/or rule changes and waiver updates?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Any idea when we'll see the drafting schedule and/or rule changes and waiver updates?

Working on the schedule now. Pretty much it's Thanksgiving to Kickoff, with a couple days off around Christmas, another couple around New Year's, and some off days built in (better known as "make-up" days if we miss a draft somewhere).

Rules changes that have been announced are: https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...7&postcount=15 Once events start, every pickup is a waiver pickup, AND the draft order will be shaken up a bit (see linked post).

Rules changes under discussion are at https://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/s...d.php?t=146725. The gist of the discussion so far is that we're undecided on waiver submission method, and we'll be excluding culture-change awards from district averaging, we think.

[MARS_James]

1) Falcon (EricH)

2) Questionable Decisionmakers (TDav540, Pratik Kunapuli, Kellen Hill, BMSOTM)

3) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, JosephC, jlmcmchl, Golfer4646, Wired_Mike)


4) FIRST Pick (tindleroot, thatprogrammer, Jeremy Germita)

5) Owning-Rex (Poseidon5817, Hitchhiker 42, frcguy, Gravity) - If you want to join send me a PM

6) NE Way You Want It (Drew4564, Aidan Cox, Jay O'Donnell, EmileH, Justin2648)

7) The Regal Falcons (sperkowsky, roboshant, harrison.smith, Niklas674, fishing_cat)

8) Enemy's Gate is Down (Ben Martin)

9) Swamp Life (MARS_James)

[EricH]

We have a schedule!

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets...it?usp=sharing

Just for awareness... We're going to need draft runners. All drafts start 7 PM Eastern, unless otherwise announced. Due to the fact that signups are still open, I can't say for sure which drafts will be the randomization drafts (as opposed to the order-rotation drafts) yet, but when I can I'll mark those in blue. Example, see South Florida and Israel--as the first draft overall, and the first district draft, they're randomized.

I've also put a space to track attendance: due to the "miss six" rule, if whoever is running the draft would be so kind as to make a note if someone attends 0, 1, or 2 events, that'd be really great.


I plan to have any updated documents out before drafting begins, but it may take a bit of time.

[Poseidon5817]

1) Falcon (EricH)

2) Questionable Decisionmakers (TDav540, Pratik Kunapuli, Kellen Hill, BMSOTM)

3) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, JosephC, jlmcmchl, Golfer4646, Wired_Mike)


4) FIRST Pick (tindleroot, thatprogrammer, Jeremy Germita)

5) NE Way You Want It (Drew4564, Aidan Cox, Jay O'Donnell, EmileH, Justin2648)

6) The Regal Falcons (sperkowsky, roboshant, harrison.smith, Niklas674, fishing_cat)

7) Enemy's Gate is Down (Ben Martin)

8) Swamp Life (MARS_James)

Dissolved Owning-Rex

[MARS_James]

Originally Posted by EricH

Just for awareness... We're going to need draft runners. All drafts start 7 PM Eastern, unless otherwise announced. Due to the fact that signups are still open, I can't say for sure which drafts will be the randomization drafts (as opposed to the order-rotation drafts) yet, but when I can I'll mark those in blue. Example, see South Florida and Israel--as the first draft overall, and the first district draft, they're randomized.
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So Palmetto is the same night as South Florida. So lets say we "randomly" get the draft order as how we currently signed up. So Falcon would be first pick South Florida and last pick Palmetto correct?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

So Palmetto is the same night as South Florida. So lets say we "randomly" get the draft order as how we currently signed up. So Falcon would be first pick South Florida and last pick Palmetto correct?

Direction of rotation hasn't been determined, but that sounds like as good a direction as any, so we'll go ahead and determine it. "The first shall be last"--that is, if you just had the first pick, you'll be the last pick in the next draft.

Speaking of which, the drafts in the left column will be considered to be before the drafts in the right column if they fall on the same day. Redrafts will use the original draft order even if they happen on a different day.


One other note on the rotations: In the event of an event having tiers, the rotation will happen before the tiers are split.

[Ben Martin]

Dropping, because going back to school is far more time consuming than I thought it would be


1) Falcon (EricH)

2) Questionable Decisionmakers (TDav540, Pratik Kunapuli, Kellen Hill, BMSOTM)

3) The Breakfast Company (BrennanB, JosephC, jlmcmchl, Golfer4646, Wired_Mike)


4) FIRST Pick (tindleroot, thatprogrammer, Jeremy Germita)

5) NE Way You Want It (Drew4564, Aidan Cox, Jay O'Donnell, EmileH, Justin2648)

6) The Regal Falcons (sperkowsky, roboshant, harrison.smith, Niklas674, fishing_cat)

7) Swamp Life (MARS_James)

[snoman]

Never played before, but another mentor and I maybe interested. What kind of time commitment are we looking at? Hrs per week. Can you give me a example week on how it works during season? Thanks

[ctt956]

Originally Posted by snoman

Never played before, but another mentor and I maybe interested. What kind of time commitment are we looking at? Hrs per week. Can you give me a example week on how it works during season? Thanks

+1. I haven't played before, but I'm interested. This information would be helpful.

[Rangel(kf7fdb)]

Originally Posted by snoman

Never played before, but another mentor and I maybe interested. What kind of time commitment are we looking at? Hrs per week. Can you give me a example week on how it works during season? Thanks

Not playing this season but you basically need to be able to figure out some way to make a pick list of teams based on whatever categories you see fit for every event/district area. If only doing this, time commitment can be kept to a minimum. If data gathering can be automated, even less time can be used to do well. If you don't have a system for doing this, it's probably going to be overwhelming and either quality of your picks will decrease or time commitment has to be increased. More time can be spent after generating a list for more informed decisions that your system might have missed.

For example of a system, what we did to start our first year was was take the team list for each event and then in a spreadsheet, assign each team their previous year's opr, awards won in past two years, chairmen's wins, and engineering inspiration wins. From there we gave each category a weight and outputted the sum of all the weights to give each team their fantasy first score based on our metrics. At first we did everything manually but soon realized it was going to be too much work and figured out a way to generate oprs for a list of teams using other opr spreadsheets on chief delphi so it was only awards we had to do manually. Eventually we did the same for generating awards data per a list of teams and everything was pretty smooth after that. After everything was calculated, the person on our FF team with the most familiarity of a region would modify our list for things the system couldn't account for(such as if a team is going to win chairmens at a previous event)

This is a basic system that got did a decent job and I think we did fairly well for our first year. Overall, I think the more time you spend upfront, the less time required throughout the season. One thing our system could very much improve upon was being able to analyze how the system was doing week per week and using new data acquired throughout the season to do a better job trading.

[EricH]

Time commitment is as much as you want to put in, and you can split the time up between your team members.


A typical drafting week is two drafts per night, at the same time (evenings). Drafts will generally last two hours, but you need not be there the whole time.

As noted, you can send in a list of your picks ahead of time, and whoever is running the draft will use that to pick your teams for you. The setup time for a draft can take a while, but it'll be worth it.

Personally, I take almost no time on setup, but I do run a lot of drafts.

[TDav540]

I might be missing something.....but on the drafting schedule, there isn't a Chesapeake draft.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by TDav540

I might be missing something.....but on the drafting schedule, there isn't a Chesapeake draft.

Fixed, will be the last draft of the season (other than the DCMP drafts). I've also fixed the name of Mexico City to Toluca.