So between our Yahoo! RealGM A League posts and our RealGM posts, we already have 10 confirmations already. Impressive! I personally don't even mind late starts to the draft if we're going to be patiently filling out the league, as it's always been fun/informative to have some NBA pre-season action running at the same time as the draft.
- I think there's a chance Yahoo! has revamped the waiver wire system across the whole platform, to some sort of fun cash bidding system. Might have to keep an eye out on that, if it really affects everyone and is the only option for handling Waiver Wire players.
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In terms of past changes, I really liked the 'immediate adding of free agents' made last season, instead of adding and waiting one extra day to "really" have them.
Other past changes I really liked:
- Clicking the truly randomized schedule feature in Yahoo! League settings. - 8 seed playoffs instead of 6 was very fun, with 4-5 teams battling really hard for those last 2-3 playoffs spots. - Waiver Wire depends on number of draft thread pics/vids a person posts in the thread. Ppl with the same number of pics/vids enter a randomly rolled dice game/tie-breaker for waiver order. - Still really love the two IR spots change that I think Skin introduced 2-3 years ago, and we've kept ever since.
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In terms of new changes, I'm rolling with any new ones that we do, no questions asked (from me, at least). I'm just here for fun and to enjoy it all. And I had only three as potential new changes this year:
1. Maybe shorten the waiver wire period by a little bit. But I don't want to people to feel forced into checking waiver wire players every day before it's too late or anything like that. So I'm really 50/50 on this change idea in the first place. I think we were waiting 3 days for waiver wires? Something like 2 days instead would be too fast already though?
2. Maybe shorten the in-season trade review period by a little bit. Same explanation as the waiver wire shortening. 50/50 on the idea, but this time the trade review/acquisition process is like 4-5 days long, so shortening it just 1 day seems may actually seem like a nice little idea for everyone.
3. I had been playing around with an idea revolving around a 3rd Utility slot for Orlando Magic players ONLY! So, basically, you have three UTI spots, but you're only allowed to fill two of them every game day, UNLESS you are putting an ORL player in the 3rd UTI spot, then you're good and taking advantage of a new free'd up spot, as well as taking advantage of your in-depth knowledge of the ORL roster players from 1 to 15. Biggest problems: - Automatic Lineup setter is not usable anymore. It'll fill up all three of your UTI slots with no ORL player. - Do you trust your opponent during that week to follow the rules and not use any non-ORL player for the 3rd UTI slot? - I was trying to add excitement with adding more ORL players intl our league, especially those in the range of 7-13 deep into our roster that are just on the edge of consistent Fantasy relevance. Well, now with the 3rd ORL UTI slot, they surely are a relevant addition! BUT, there might be an issue around if you pick a top tier ORL player like Vooch and take advantage of him in your 3rd UTI slot. You could, say, Idk maybe overload Centers and Bigs unfairly or something. I think that might be the only major loophole; so maybe Vooch, Fournier, Gordon are sort of 'not-3rd-UTI-slot allowed'? You're gonna have to do it with a deeper 4-15 ORL player.
It'd be really fun to see a B League (and C League) again! I think they'd even have more fun with 10-team and 12-team leagues too (copy/paste A League threads & Yahoo! A League settings), assuming they recognize how much better your roster is going to look compared to a bigger 12/14/16-team A League with legit fantasy pro's as every opponent (Top 2 finishers move up to higher RealGM Leagues!)
This is the draft order. Based on last season and also in order of the new guys joining.
1. EA7 Milan/dsg - dsg8783 at Gmail 2. Magicfan4life05 - crazywhite111 at Yahoo 3. Horace Grant - KevinWaldbieser at Yahoo 4. BAMBA5/SHAQ32 - prolifc.scorer at Yahoo 5. U.R.Average - Jtalexander at Gmail 6. Your Mom!/Edrock - Edrock624 at Gmail 7. TBbucmagicORL - slimsammy55 at Msn.com 8. Sons of Disaster/Stick - brianroberts2526 9. Blue_and_whte - blue_and_whte at Yahoo 10. Hoopslife - allensb @ gmail.com 11. shaolin_monks_style at yahoo 12. SOUL
dsg, would you mind making the draft thread? I'm busy enough with trying to recruit and get this started, lol.
Edit: also if anyone has time to check out the league settings. If there are any changes you'd like to see made just bring them up and we can review. Thanks - GM.
This is the draft order. Based on last season and also in order of the new guys joining.
1. EA7 Milan/dsg - dsg8783 at Gmail 2. Magicfan4life05 - crazywhite111 at Yahoo 3. Horace Grant - KevinWaldbieser at Yahoo 4. BAMBA5/SHAQ32 - prolifc.scorer at Yahoo 5. U.R.Average - Jtalexander at Gmail 6. Your Mom!/Edrock - Edrock624 at Gmail 7. TBbucmagicORL - slimsammy55 at Msn.com 8. Sons of Disaster/Stick - brianroberts2526 9. Blue_and_whte - blue_and_whte at Yahoo 10. Hoopslife - allensb @ gmail.com 11. shaolin_monks_style at yahoo 12. SOUL
dsg, would you mind making the draft thread? I'm busy enough with trying to recruit and get this started, lol.
Edit: also if anyone has time to check out the league settings. If there are any changes you'd like to see made just bring them up and we can review. Thanks - GM.
Yeah, I just kinda dropped the 'dead weight' from last season. No offense to those guys, i'm sure they have busy schedules or w/e. But they just weren't really active throughout the season. I'm aiming to have a very active, all year, league.
SHAQ32 wrote:Yeah, I just kinda dropped the 'dead weight' from last season. No offense to those guys, i'm sure they have busy schedules or w/e. But they just weren't really active throughout the season. I'm aiming to have a very active, all year, league.
SHAQ32 wrote:Yeah, I just kinda dropped the 'dead weight' from last season. No offense to those guys, i'm sure they have busy schedules or w/e. But they just weren't really active throughout the season. I'm aiming to have a very active, all year, league.
Your league ORL A-League 2020 has been deleted
apparently I was just plain ol kicked out???
OOPS. I deleted that league because dsg brought back the league from last season with the invites attached. I will send you an invite now!
SHAQ32 wrote:Yeah, I just kinda dropped the 'dead weight' from last season. No offense to those guys, i'm sure they have busy schedules or w/e. But they just weren't really active throughout the season. I'm aiming to have a very active, all year, league.
Your league ORL A-League 2020 has been deleted
apparently I was just plain ol kicked out???
OOPS. I deleted that league because dsg brought back the league from last season with the invites attached. I will send you an invite now!
Edit: sent
Maybe I am missing it but I didn't get the new invite.
SHAQ32 wrote:Yeah, I just kinda dropped the 'dead weight' from last season. No offense to those guys, i'm sure they have busy schedules or w/e. But they just weren't really active throughout the season. I'm aiming to have a very active, all year, league.
Your league ORL A-League 2020 has been deleted
apparently I was just plain ol kicked out???
OOPS. I deleted that league because dsg brought back the league from last season with the invites attached. I will send you an invite now!
Or should someone recruit in the offseason thread? Shouldn't be hard to get one more person.
Would love to have BMP back. He was actually quite active in truth. For instance, I threw some in-season trades ideas at him throughout the whole year, and he always answered back within 2 days or so. That's way more than active enough.
