Mini FFL - a league with a live auction draft

sabonis · Post #1 » by **sabonis** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 12:00 am

I asked a few of you guys from FFL and you were warm to the idea. So here it is.

This league will feature a live auction draft and run with the same rules as FFL. I'm thinking about at least 10-12 managers, though open to the idea of 14 or 16 as well. If you are not familiar with it, auction takes around 3-3.5 hours to finish (depends on the number of total picks as well). So if you don't think you can spare 3 hours of your time for a whole season of enjoyment, then this is not for you.

There will probably be both Europeans and Americans in the league, so the draft time could be a bit tricky to determine. What I have in mind is probably around 3 PM for Eastern Time US on a Sunday, which would mean 9-10 PM for us Europeans. Though nothing is set in stone. We will probably use one of those where multiple people can select their "available periods" on a calendar.

Anyway if you are interested, just say I'm in. And when we reach at least 10 people, we'll know we have a league in our hands.

fraanciiscoo · Post #2 » by **fraanciiscoo** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 5:16 am

I´m in

hamncheese · Post #3 » by **hamncheese** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 9:27 am

writersblock · Post #4 » by **writersblock** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 12:14 pm

If one cannot make the live draft, will there be an auto-auction set up? (i.e. are we using Yahoo?)

sabonis · Post #5 » by **sabonis** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 12:22 pm

yes we will be using Yahoo. Though even if you setup a queue at an auction, it's incredibly hard for you to get a good team. So I'd strongly recommend you make the draft. In fact if your schedules are sporadic and there is somewhat of a reasonable chance that you'll miss the draft regardless of its time, then I'd suggest to not join the league.

writersblock · Post #6 » by **writersblock** » Sat Sep 1, 2018 2:58 pm

I'm out then.