[FF]: 2017 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[JosephC]

Generally speaking, districts have been dominated by fewer teams during their first one or two years, as the benefits gained by having a district system have yet to be fruitful for the majority of teams. Ya can't benefit from districts til you go through at least a year of em. There are exceptions of course, but they are far and in between. Anyways, it's probably a discussion for a different place

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by MARS_James

So looking at the last 3 years of Minnesota Regionals, the number of slots for veterans they can produce (3 Winners, Chairman's, EI, our 3 largest point scorers) is 60. Of those 60, 17 went to out of state teams, bringing it down to 43. Those 43 slots were won by 24 teams. In a state that had 208 teams last year that is horrible.

Okay. Cool? They have four regionals per year. With 60+ teams at each. I suspect that when they expand to the 11+ district events they'll have to have, there will be a little more diversity in the success of teams.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Okay. Cool? They have four regionals per year. With 60+ teams at each. I suspect that when they expand to the 11+ district events they'll have to have, there will be a little more diversity in the success of teams.

As Joseph pointed out, it might take a year or two to get much beyond that. Chesapeake is barely at that point; MAR has been there for a few years.

Obviously I'll be taking at least some of that into consideration for next year's drafting schedule (as well as TX going district--that one's a known factor!).

[JosephC]

Originally Posted by TDav540

Okay. Cool? They have four regionals per year. With 60+ teams at each. I suspect that when they expand to the 11+ district events they'll have to have, there will be a little more diversity in the success of teams.

Yes, there will be more success if diversity. More events = more points to be earned. However that does not mean that the actual quality of those teams will instantly increase due to the adaptation of the district system, it should take minimum a year until you see an increase in team performance due to the district, anything else outside of extreme outliers is due to other factors.

Personally, I think the only district that warrants a double draft is FIM with its 400+ teams, but thats just me.

[Brian Maher]

So, to confirm, we will not be held to the times on the NE draft tomorrow, correct?

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Brian Maher

So, to confirm, we will not be held to the times on the NE draft tomorrow, correct?

Correct. They'll be for Thursday instead. However, I would encourage anybody looking at NE to go ahead if they are the next pick--I'll update whenever I can.

[niklas674]

What was the deal with the fim and pnw drafts today?

[TDav540]

Originally Posted by niklas674

What was the deal with the fim and pnw drafts today?

FiM isn't drafting today. It starts 1/4.

No comment on PNW.

[JosephC]

Due to Comcast once again being unreliable as all hell and having "technical downtime in my area" with no prior warning, PNW will be suspended a day. PNW #1 - 1/3 7pm, PNW #2 - 1/4 7pm.

That, or we can magically finish PNW #1 up before 7pm tomorrow, but I have no problem running PNW #2 and FIM #1 at the same time.

[Jay O'Donnell]

Can someone post a quick list of when all of the drafts are that are left?

[EricH]

NE: Open, 1st "day" ends Thursday, 2nd day on Friday (1/6).
PNW: Open, pushed back to tomorrow (1/3) and Wednesday (1/4).
MAR: Open, 1/4 and 1/5.
MI: Open, 1/4 and 1/5.
Chesapeake: Open, 1/6.

DCMPs draft in March and April.

[JosephC]

1/3 - PNW #1
1/4 - MAR #1, FIM #1, PNW #2
1/5 - MAR #2, FIM #2, NE #1
1/6 - NE #2, CHS

Pretty sure that's right.