sheeadog wrote:There are currently 7 teams signed up.  It would be good if at least one more team signs up so that we don't have an odd number of teams...

Done and Done... I'm always happy to make up the numbers. The Gelatinous Cubes are ready to roll (well, ooze I guess).

Regards

Mike

I like live draft better, but it is hard to get everyone together at once.  If we do the auto pick, when will that be so that I can get my auto pick line up in order before hand?

Aneoth wrote:Yeah me too. I much prefer a live draft.

You can pre set your picks in YOUR preferred order for drafting. Although dont count on the computer exactly following your list.

The main thing that I hate about "AutoDraft" is that the computer program running the draft will automatically SKIP over some of your picks to fill out empty positional slots (It will automatically fill your starting roster first) and IF (A big if there) your earlier listed choices are still available, then it will go back to your earlier picks for your backup positional slots, Even if you would have chosen those backups earlier in a live draft.

I MUCH prefer live drafts so I can make my own STUPID choices instead of some computer making them for me.  

If I want to draft Kickers and defenses as my first 6 picks then that SHOULD be MY choice......

I have never liked Autodraft, but we must deal with little setbacks as we come to them…. One good thing is that there are only 8 Teams, so as BadMike said above our teams should all be loaded with first tier players at most spots anyway.

That means the manager who plays the right studs each week will likely rise to the top.

Guys;

I doubt we can get together for live draft before tomorrow night. So autodraft it is. It really doesn't take much time to rank your own players, I don't like some of the rankings they give, and also to exclude players you don't like (no, Trent Green will never play QB for my team....!).  Hell if you hate the Cowboys you can exclude the entire team!    

Hint:  Make your own lineup. Leave out all Kickers and Defenses, putting them in the "don not pick" area, or include just one of each.  Then, since there are only eight teams, you can just pick one of each up on waivers the day after the draft, probably getting a very good pick ( only eight teams...and each team is allowed to have 17 players IIRC).  Remember, with 8 teams, everyone is going to have a powerhouse, your starting lineup might have LT and Reggie Bush in the backfield with Carson Palmer at QB.....!

Mike B.

When will the autodraft happen, Mike? The first game is 6am Friday local time, so I'll need to see the draft results, add/drop as needed and set the lineup tonight - say a minimum 8 hours before the game kicks off.

Will the draft happen within the next 10 hours or so?

Regards

Mike

Dateline:  Freeport, City of Adventure

Wednesday, September 5, 2007

MASSIVE RALLY ROCKS FREEPORT

    Freeport Gargoyle fans thundered into D20 Stadium last night for what can only be described as a pre-season rally/riot.  Waves of fans with eyepatches, parrots, peglegs and cutlases forced their way onto the stadium grounds to kick off the 2007 Freeport Gargoyles season.

    The roaring and swilling fans packed the field in front of a podium improvised from the city gallows.  The sweltering stadium rocked to repeated chants of "Arr! Arr! Arr! Garrrrrgoyles!," the unofficial Gargoyles fight song, amidst volleys of muskets, dragoons and improvised grenades.

    Members of the Captain's Council begged team officials to address the crowd in order to avoid a city-wide melee.  Gargoyles Coach Arlan McQueeg stumped up to the podium to rally fan support and prevent a greater-than-usual bloodbath.

    "Fine and now ye be listenin'," said McQueeg as the stadium mob grew quiet.  "This here be the start o' somethin' larger than all o' ye tuhgether.  So pay yer attention well, me lads."

  "We be startin' a campaign o' plunder an' rapine that'll fair stun the fantasy world!  This be the year we show all the ancient an' wise ones that D20 pirates be the finest football rogues in all the Seven Seas o' Fantasy."

    The crowd cheered and a general pouring of spirits into bearded mouths followed, but McQueeg was not finished.

    "We be seekin' the only treasure worthy o' a fantasy pirate's gizzard.  We be fifteen men on a deadman's chest an' we won't be givin' in 'till we has the prize sought by all fantasy footballers across the foamin' main.  If ye be not sotted scullions, then ye know there be only one treasure to warm the hearts o' true scallywags...we be seekin' the Acaeum Crown!"

    "Aye!  There be only one goal o' all our adventures.  We seek to show the world tha' D20 ain't dead.  One more campaign o' mayhem and we take the prize and make 'em come to us to win it back!"

    "I say, let the pyres be lighted an' the bans be read.  Let the Gargoyles begin to swoopin'!  Before this season be done we'll hang the world from our highest mast an' make 'em walk the spiney plank o' victory!"

    McQueeg may have had more to say but his speech was interrupted  as hordes of pirates, half-orcs and scallywags bullrushed the hangman's podium.  The Gargoyles coach was quickly grappled and carried about the stadium atop a crowd of shoulders as pandemonium swept the arena.  

    The rally swept out the main gates as crowds of drunken varlets carried the coach through the Freeport streets.  Although McQueeg escaped the crowd's grasp after 30 minutes of repeated escape artist checks, incidents of rioting, drinking, pillaging and public urination continued thoughout the night.

    City Watch officials were pleased by the general orderliness and cooperation of the mob.  The rally was considered a relatively mild and well organized affair compared to last season's opening ceremonies in which more than 700 pigeons were killed by flying corks and half a dozen hobbits were trampled.

    D20 Stadium event staff counted over 6,650 empty bottles of Captain Morgan's Rum left behind on the AgroTurf, in addition to 825 weapons of various descriptions, apparently dropped due to failed saves versus stun.

    Many Gargoyles fans anticipate a championship season as the team appears loaded with top imaginary talent.  Expectations run high and betting has reached a fever pitch in Freeport's temple district.  

    The Freeport Gargoyles open their drive for the 2007 Acaeum Fantasy Football Crown on Thursday night, September 6, in D20 stadium.  Admission to the game is free for any fan who brings a donation of alcoholic beverages.  Gargoyles officials ask that fans refrain from entering the stadium by swinging on ropes or climbing the outer walls with daggers in their teeth.  Team officials also remind fans to bring seat cushions, blankets and adequate supplies of concealed weapons.

well mike, you will just have to use SHREWd tactics to make the team better    

I hate autodrafts

The damndable program drafted my starting roster first.... Fine Im ok with that and in fact I fully expected it. See my post above.

However ALL but one of the remaining picks it made for me were WR's.
There are only 16 spots on the entire team!!

EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

I shall now have to hit the waiver wire hard to make up for the automatic drafting programs stupidity. At least we have unlimited free agent pickups available, since im gonna be using them all year long.

I suspect my team is the worst in the league. How could it not be with NO backups at ANY spot except WR?

Ida done better not making ANY choices and letting it do its own thing. Obviously I dont know how to setup an autodraft.

SHEESE..................

Aneoth wrote:
EIGHT WR's were drafted for my team. What kind of IDIOT running a team during a live draft would draft 8 WR's for a 16 spot team?

.....

In our face to face league this year, one team took FOUR Tight End spots.....and none of them are very good....in a 20 spot team (one fifth of their team)!  And it wasnt' even the team owned by the stoner, it was the team owned by last year's champions...go figure!

Mike B.

JohnGaunt wrote:Mark, do you realize how high you have raised the bar for reporting game results?  

I can't help myself.  It seems to be a compulsion.