I’ve got a hunch that might not work. You’d have to have N of the teams you have playing on that weekend. Roughly a total rethink of the FF system, not that that’s a bad thing.
What would be better would be Brandon having more free time (or some help) to get the automated system working. (Yes, there is at least one automated system in the works. No, I don’t know when it’ll be done.)
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You know, i was actually thinking this idea last night… in Fantasy Football or any other sports, teams have bye weeks or some teams play more games than the othen other teams.
I don’t see why this can’t be done, it might be complicated at first as to how to deturmine how we are going to do this, but im willing to come up with a system that can make it work; ie
for week 3
Lineups must be PM’ed to Koko and Eric by 7PM EST Wednesday night. same with add/drops (those can be posted or PMed but have to be done before 7PM Wednesday)… I can see something like this working
one huge draft would be awesome
Or, for a more practical version: You draft a total of x teams (where x is less than or equal to the number of events times 3) for a given week. 6 drafts. Any team competing that week is up for grabs. 'Cause trust me, you DON’T want to have to make sure a certain number of teams in a given list are in fact competing that week. I had enough headaches last year with the normal “shuffle” of teams not showing up or managing a last-minute event switch.
In every major sport all teams play the same number of games over the course of a season. A bye week in Fantasy Football is quite different than the situation that would occur here because a bye week is only one week. Making lists for such a format would be pretty much impossible, you would have to have a live draft. A live draft of this magnitude would be nightmarish without an automated system to keep track of the teams and allow players to search the teams remaining.
Eric’s idea would be quite a bit more manageable.
When the season long fantasy first idea was first created, it was similar to what you are suggesting. We picked 4 teams and had their scores average based on the number of regionals they attended. The only problem with this is that it took forever to score and there was faulty data for some regionals.
2007, run by Koko Ed (won by yours truly)
I loved the way these drafts were run and I would love to see a return to this system, I would help someone run it if they would do the scoring.
I was already thinking about doing this, but…
After the season (or maybe after Kickoff), I was thinking of putting a poll out to see how the drafting process was and if there were any improvements that could be made. In hindsight, we can always think better, can’t we? So at that time, a thread is put out with some questions and the more answers come in, the better. Or you could ask why something was done the way it was and get a straight answer.
Also, after all the drafts are over and the dust has settled, I plan to publish the Excel spreadsheet with everyone’s picks. It’s a big one, but I think that having 30 pairs of eyes looking for errors/double picks instead of just one or two will virtually eliminate scoring-time random picks. It will certainly be published again after all regionals are complete for score-checking and draft-positioning purposes.
You know, i was actually thinking this idea last night… in Fantasy Football or any other sports, teams have bye weeks or some teams play more games than the othen other teams.
I don’t see why this can’t be done, it might be complicated at first as to how to deturmine how we are going to do this, but im willing to come up with a system that can make it work; ie
for week 3
Lineups must be PM’ed to Koko and Eric by 7PM EST Wednesday night. same with add/drops (those can be posted or PMed but have to be done before 7PM Wednesday)… I can see something like this working
one huge draft would be awesome
When the season long fantasy first idea was first created, it was similar to what you are suggesting. We picked 4 teams and had their scores average based on the number of regionals they attended. The only problem with this is that it took forever to score and there was faulty data for some regionals.
2006, run by Billfred
2007, run by Koko Ed (won by yours truly)
I loved the way these drafts were run and I would love to see a return to this system, I would help someone run it if they would do the scoring.
If you guys want to start up a league like that feel free. This is the kind of league I want to do.This the kind of league I am doing right now. I’m not interested in doing any other kind of league.
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I got annoyed trying to remember which page the draft schedule was on, hope you don’t mind me reposting it so it’s easier to find.
SDec 13Peachtree Regional , Pittsburgh Regional
SDec 14Silicon Valley Regional , Wisconsin Regional , Israel Regional
MDec 15Arizona Regional , Cass Tech District Competition
TDec 16Bayou Regional , Boilermaker Regional
WDec 17Chesapeake Regional , Lansing FIRST Robotics District Competition
TDec 18NASA VCU Regional , Detroit FIRST Robotics District Competition
FDec 19Philadelphia Regional, St. Louis Rgional
SDec 20 Waterloo Regional
SDec 21 Colorado Regional
MDec 22 Connecticut Regional
TDec 23 Greater Toronto Regional
WDec 24 Hawaii Regional
FDec 26Las Vegas Regional , West Michigan FIRST Robotics District Competition
SDec 27Lone Star Regional ,Troy FIRST Robotics District Competition
SDec 28Microsoft Seattle Regional , Palmetto Regional
MDec 29Sacramento Regional
TDec 30SBPLI Long Island Regional
WDec 31Minnesota 10000 Lakes Regional
FJan 2Minnesota North Star Regional
You weren’t the only one that didn’t like looking it up every day/night.
I was lucky #7! Someone had it in a quote. As a side note, I’m out of town all of next week and will only have internet for the 2nd half of it – is it ok if I send all of next week’s lists in this weekend?
I usually send all my lists 3-4 days before the draft, so you can do that…
Send as many lists as you want. There’s at least two people who have all their lists in already (as in, before the season).
The following player will receive a warning PM tonight if they don’t show up for the draft:
Stephi Rae
Again, if there is no list or pick in response to the PM, the player will be booted from the league and all teams that the player has will be up for grabs.
(Leading off both drafts–there’s a really good reason to show up!)
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I don’t mean to knock those running FF this year, but think a new system would be really nice.
I was originally signed up, but decided to back up because it was simply too much work. I want to do a FF, but having a draft every night is simply too much work. Also, I know on average 15 teams per regional so ranking every team, for me atleast, seemed kinda like a waste. I may get one team I know, but after that it would basically be random and thus my chances of winning would be almost based on chance. I know it was touched on earlier, but I find the way it is run now very confusing and unorganized. I still haven’t found the rules and how points are decided. I think this may be a good system, but there are just too many regionals. With the amount of regionals increasing, I think this system will eventually be nearly impossible.
My proposal:
I like the idea of drafting a set number of teams at the beggining of the year and then ‘playing’ only a couple each week. One problem of this would be one massive draft. So, instead of having one huge league, have a couple smaller leagues (10 or 20 people). You could run them like soccer and have teams move up or down the leagues based on how they did the past year (the first year would be random, but the next year the top 10 teams would be in league 1, the next 10 in league 2…and new teams placed in the last league).
It would work something like this (the numbers probably will have to be slightly altered): If you had 50 people that want to play, you split them up into 5 leagues of 10. Each team would draft 20 teams. You could have 1 round per night for 20 days in december. 200 teams would be drafted (so people shouldn’t be stuck with some random rookie team that they know nothing about). Each week at 7 pm on Wednesday, each owner will pick 3 teams to play that week (to make it easier, you could make it impossible for owners to drop/pickup teams). At the end of each week and at the end of the year, points will be tallied and after the championship event, a winner is announced. As the end of the 2nd year, the top 2 teams move up a league, while the bottom two teams move down. (so the best play the best and the owner that wins the top league, is the true FF champion). Since it appears there are several people that are interested in helping, one person could be in charge of each league.