[FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[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.

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by EricH

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.

Awesome.

When will South Florida open to the first pick (and we'll know the start of the rotation order)?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Awesome.

When will South Florida open to the first pick (and we'll know the start of the rotation order)?

Registration closes on Thanksgiving; South Florida should open fairly early (Pacific time, where I'm at) the next day.

[Bkeeneykid]

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)

8) F3 (bkeeneykid,adisai1)

[TDav540]

Draft Schedule looks almost full, but we still have open spots in places. Looks like we'll need someone to help run Northern Lights this Saturday (11/26). After that, Southern Cross is the next open draft runner slot (12/3), then South Pacific (12/8), and then Iowa (12/10).

[EricH]

I'm going to do a slight adjustment on signup/draft posting times.

Signup deadline will be NOON PST on Thanksgiving (3 PM EST), with the first draft being posted sometime before midnight that day to allow time for other drafts to fill rotations. I expect to be able to mark the next planned randomization that day as well. (If you're a little late... well, we might be able to sneak ya in. But once that first draft is posted, time's up!)


I may be able to fill some Saturday draft running slots, but there's a decent chance those run earlier than standard due to other commitments.

Also, for anybody paying attention, there will be another FF draft at some point, covering MI. To avoid crosstalk, we should be using [SLFF], particularly when running district drafts. (I suspect they'll be using [FFIM].)

[ctt956]

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)

8) F3 (bkeeneykid,adisai1)

9) Untitled Team (ctt956)

(yes, "Untitled Team" is actually the name of my team. )

[EricH]

South Florida is now open for picking. I have a list from F3.

Draft order for South Florida (will need to be rotated for following drafts):
The Regal Falcons
FIRST Pick
Swamp Life
F3
Falcon
Untitled Team
Questionable Decisionmakers
NE Way You Want It
The Breakfast Company

Next randomization will be St. Louis unless something changes.

[MARS_James]

As an FYI i can't run Orlando like i planned to because ironically I was surprised with a trip to said city by my family, sorry for the inconvenience. Palmetto will proceed as normal

[BrennanB]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Draft Schedule looks almost full, but we still have open spots in places. Looks like we'll need someone to help run Northern Lights this Saturday (11/26). After that, Southern Cross is the next open draft runner slot (12/3), then South Pacific (12/8), and then Iowa (12/10).

Quoted for awareness. Sheet is here. Sign up if you can!

[EricH]

Originally Posted by BrennanB

Quoted for awareness. Sheet is here. Sign up if you can!

Slight issue, I had something come up and will be unable to run Rock City as I planned to. Looks like we'll need a runner there too.

[EricH]

As a heads-up (and for some future reference--Brennan, I think one of these is one you'll need to pay attention to), a couple of teams have traded draft slots.

F3 Receives
QD 1st Round, Lake Superior - #5
QD 2nd Round, Orlando - #10
QD 2nd Round, Northern Lights - #15

QD Received
F3 1st Round, Lake Superior - #2
F3 2nd Round, Orlando - #13
F3 3rd Round, Northern Lights - #19


Just a couple of notes:
If you agree to a trade of draft spots, it's a really good idea to notify the draft runners (found here) and myself immediately, not an hour before the draft. PM, posting in the draft threads, or posting in this thread will all work--just bear in mind that I might not be present at any given draft.

And if individual picks are traded, you might not see a slot move--the standard format isn't conducive to moving teams around in draft slots--but the times will probably change in the traded positions.