[FF]: 2014 Season Long Fantasy FIRST

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

Because Ed can't make it to the draft tonight, should I just give him randoms?

Ed generally takes randoms if he's not running the draft. Unless he says otherwise, of course.

[EricH]

I have lists from everybody except Peach Alliance, LTown Throwdown, Schrodinger's Cat, Prestige Taco, and the Sour Patch Nerds. If one or more of those teams could drop a list my way, that would be appreciated.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by EricH

I have lists from everybody except Peach Alliance, LTown Throwdown, Schrodinger's Cat, Prestige Taco, and the Sour Patch Nerds. If one or more of those teams could drop a list my way, that would be appreciated.

I'll be doing Taco's live

[Koko Ed]

Originally Posted by EricH

Ed generally takes randoms if he's not running the draft. Unless he says otherwise, of course.

Always go with randoms.
I'd rather the customers get a shot at good teams instead of me.

[Littleboy]

A couple quick things.
Please make sure the teams in your list are attending the event. I had it 3 times tonight (and this isn't the first time it has happened) that people request teams not attending the event. It helps the draft runners out alot if they don't have to worry about making sure your picks are attending the event.

It also helps that when you send in a list, it is vertically and not horizontally.

Thanks.

[Basel A]

Originally Posted by Alpha Beta

What's the advantage of doing it live instead of sending in a list?

• Is it to avoid making a list? (That's half the fun.)
• Are people looking at other tiers for an idea of who to pick?
• Is there a concern that the moderator will misread a list?
• Is it the opportunity for social chatter by following it live?

We are not forming actual alliances that have to play together, so who you get in an early round has little/no bearing on who you draft later on IMO. A list is simply a ranking of which teams you feel will garner the most points under the following criteria.

I've always preferred to make lists, but there's an argument to be made for drafting live. Thoroughly making a list requires comparing every team to every other team. When drafting live, it's about as effective to use a list based on some objective criteria (say, fantasy points scored per event the previous year) and comparing the top few teams on that list. This takes significantly less time without losing a large amount of effectiveness.

The four reasons you point out are also contributing factors.

[Littleboy]

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[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by Littleboy

I think Eric is planning on taking your place tomorrow, Ed.
Also, If Brandon takes Mt. Olive, I can take Auburn Mountainview tomorrow.

I was planning on personally picking in Mt Olive for my team, so I'd feel more comfortable running whatever it was Ed was supposed to run. If Eric wants to switch, I'll gladly run one as long as someone sends me info. (Mainly - the link for the randomization website and howintheworld are the number of tiers decided)

[MARS_James]

I am also free tomorrow night, sorry new team meets on Tuesdays so little hectic.

[EricH]

I'll swap with Brandon--Mt. Olive should be up shortly. Note: It'll be on a 10 minute delay from any other drafts. Just my schedule.

Brandon--nothin' stopping the draft runner from making his/her own team's picks in his/her own tier. Just sayin'.

Akash, Pault: I'll drop you guys the rundown when I get a chance, probably Thursday--I've got a document somewheres. Brandon, any randomizer would work, but I think Ed put a link somewhere in this thread; I find that # of tiers is best done as #teams/#players>3, 1 tier; otherwise try 2*#teams/#players (2 tiers), and if that fails, just keep going up until X*#teams/#players>3, and let X be the number of tiers you need.

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Draft starts at 7:10 EST.

[Brandon_L]

Originally Posted by EricH

Brandon--nothin' stopping the draft runner from making his/her own team's picks in his/her own tier. Just sayin'.

Yeah, just didn't want to do it.

[EricH]

Originally Posted by Brandon_L

Yeah, just didn't want to do it.

Not a problem. (I, on the other hand, have no choice... )

[Brandon_L]

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[Koko Ed]

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