[FF]: Taking Fantasy FIRST To the Next Level

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Barry Bonzack

Would you have to be a Chiefdelphi user to access the site?

Yes, it will be integrated with CD-Events and other things on chiefdelphi, so an account is required to play.

[Cory]

Originally Posted by Lil' Lavery

A truly skilled player factors in where the points come from, and the teams most likely to win the most Fantasy points in that league, not the team who has the best robot.

Unless said player does not like the scoring system, and wants to pick teams purely on competitive prowess and not on off the field events.

[Corey Balint]

Brandon basically has the idea of it all. The integration looks as if it will be smooth and efficient. I gotta applaud Brandon on it. It should be pretty kick-gluteusmaximus. I'm just trying to make a more standardized system that will be able to govern over it better. And a system that could make it much more exciting and fun for dedicated members. Also a few other pet project ideas that I've had for a while.

[Corey Balint]

Check the white papers

[Dave McLaughlin]

looks really fun, when do leagues/drafts start

[Brandon Martus]

Originally Posted by Dave McLaughlin

looks really fun, when do leagues/drafts start

I'm hoping to have something working for a test run during Championships?

If not for then .. then possibly for IRI.

[Alex Cormier]

PIMP!!!

[Corey Balint]

Anyone have any questions or criticisms of it?

[Alex Cormier]

One thing i would highly reccomend is a lock system for regionals. The league can only start at a certian date, so we don't have ot deal with what happneeded this year. a huge explosion of FF leagues and a lot of people joining. then the draft comes along and most forget what league thier in and the draft times are very close to each other and such. so i say, if possible have a system where you can't do a FF for like a last week regional before ship date.

[Tom Bottiglieri]

I figured I couldn't make judgment on this until I participated/ran a league. Now that I'm doing both, I think its safe to say the system as it stands is BROKEN!

We NEED these improvements!

[SamC]

Here is another "edge" I just thought of for later in the life of Fantasy FIRST. Silent/open auction drafting. I'm not sure if anyone else has ever seen this in other "fantasy" games, but pretty much here is how it works:

Each player is alloted a certain amount of money/coins/whatever (100 for example). Then drafting goes on for 1 week (or another set time.) then, people place bids on teams they want on their team. The only different in a silent auction draft from an open auction draft is that in the silent you do not see what others are biding, so you must decide how much a certain team is worth to you. Each player can have up to 4 teams with a minimum of 1. And if at the end of the auction you end up with no teams because you did not win any of the "auctions" then you can pick a team(s) from the open pool (the left-overs) for free.

[Koko Ed]

What about just simply approaching Yahoo and see if they can design a Fantasy FIRST app to their Fantasy Sports pages.
The worst thing they can say is no.