Who's up for an all-time draft?

vct33 · Post #61 » by **vct33** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 6:45 pm

Just chiming in on a few things that have been mentioned along the way.

1. 14 or 16 is a really good number of players.

2. I think a true snake style draft would be best.

3. I don't care how it's judged because I won't agree with anything the judges say anyways.

Post #62 » by **CellarDoor** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:36 pm

With regard to pick order, I think, at minimum, you need to look at ABBA sort of format.

Post #63 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:47 pm

^Yeah, the ABBBA thing is standard for drafts like this, thats definitely what should be used.

The OP suggested making the 3rd round reverse order as well. (in other words the one with the first pick picks last in rounds 2, 3, 4 and then every other one thereafter. I think that overcompensates and gives the people with the last few picks WAY too big an advantage.

Finger Roll · Post #64 » by **Finger Roll** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 7:49 pm

How about ABBABBABABAB?

Post #65 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:02 pm

^That has the "B's" picking more than the A's. :lol:

And what you basically end up doing with any of these is completely screwing over the people right outside the top 5 or 6.

Johnson · Post #66 » by **Johnson** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:03 pm

when are we doing this

Finger Roll · Post #67 » by **Finger Roll** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:07 pm

Well, we still need 2 more people, but it should start very soon after that.

Finger Roll · Post #68 » by **Finger Roll** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:09 pm

Pistons#1 wrote:^That has the "B's" picking more than the A's.

And what you basically end up doing with any of these is completely screwing over the people right outside the top 5 or 6.

Fair point. There's lots of different ways we could go with this. Maybe ABBABABBABAA? ABBAABBAABBA?

calderon13 · Post #69 » by **calderon13** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:13 pm

One more suggestion about the entire drafting process, however you guys plan on making the draft order to work out, I dont know how many rounds there will be and how we are working out the entire game? I mean are we just drafting for starters or a 12-16 man roster cz if we are doing that then we need to have 12-16 rounds and my suggestion is that we do one round completely everyday so the drafting process isnt too slow or boring. Cz there will be trading and then match-ups involved in this game so rather then lengthening the entire draft process, all i m saying is that we dont make the drafting too slow that by the time we get to trading and match-ups, people are already bored of it.

Post #70 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:19 pm

^I would suggest a 12 man roster with the competitors we have.

That is about the limit of how many picks you wanna have in this thing.

Obviously we will try to do one round every day. I'll be honest, and no offense to anyone, but the number of very low post people who have signed up for this and than never come back to the thread feels like a bad sign.

Johnson · Post #71 » by **Johnson** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:23 pm

Pistons#1 wrote:^I would suggest a 12 man roster with the competitors we have.

That is about the limit of how many picks you wanna have in this thing.

Obviously we will try to do one round every day. I'll be honest, and no offense to anyone, but the number of very low post people who have signed up for this and than never come back to the thread feels like a bad sign.

I have a low post amount but I have more posts then anyone in this thread

Post #72 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:27 pm

^Lol, why do you assume I was talking about you?

Very egocentric.

I'd be down with starting right now. If you are going to modify the draft order, I would suggest:

ABBBAA for the first 3 rounds. In other words, the second round is exclusively for the second half of drafters and the 3rd round is ONLY for the first half.

This results in the fewest modified rounds (only 2).

After that, continue exactly as you would with a normal snake:

BAABBAAB etc.

In other words:

1-14, 14-8, 8-14, 7-1, 1-7 then proceed with 14-1, 1-14 etc....

Although that definitely hurts people in the middle.

calderon13 · Post #73 » by **calderon13** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:35 pm

I prefer a 12 man roster as well. And it would be great if we could finalize everything tonight and start this game tomorrow.

Post #74 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:37 pm

I don't see any reason why the ball can't get rolling tonight.

poopdamoop · Post #75 » by **poopdamoop** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:57 pm

I'll be busy this weekend, so internet access might be a bit of a problem, but otherwise I'd be down for starting this thing as soon as possible. And if we're actually choosing coaches, I'll take Pop

calderon13 · Post #76 » by **calderon13** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:57 pm

We got 14 participants. Thats good enough.

Finger Roll · Post #77 » by **Finger Roll** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 8:59 pm

Very interesting draft idea. I like it. I'm also fine with starting tonight. But 16 seems to be a better number than 14, simply because it would allow for a 4 round tournament. How would you suggest the judging with 14 teams? Have everyone rank the top 14 teams, top 8 advance to the playoffs, 3 round tournament?

Post #78 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:02 pm

^I would propose that everyone rank every team but their own.

Outsiders can also come in and rank all 14.

Its a much less drawn out voting process and reduces the risk of people just losing interest.

Johnson · Post #79 » by **Johnson** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:15 pm

14 sounds good man lets start this

Post #80 » by **Snakebites** » Wed Jul 22, 2009 9:20 pm

We still have to resolve the drafting issue thing.

My vote is still for a plain snake ABBA. My last format hurts people in the middle too much.