Bogley

[jimflint1]

Okay, my team is the "Blood Spillers" at least until I can think of a better name. By the way, does anyone know how to get to the help page or the FAQ page? I know there's a Java download if we're doing a live draft that we need, but I had to stop in the middle of the download and can't find my way back to that page.

Cheers,

Shane

[icthys]

Come on!!! We need 1 more player. Step up and show us what you're made of people! We've only got a few weeks till kick off left.

[accadacca]

jimflint1 wrote: Okay, my team is the "Blood Spillers" at least until I can think of a better name. By the way, does anyone know how to get to the help page or the FAQ page? I know there's a Java download if we're doing a live draft that we need, but I had to stop in the middle of the download and can't find my way back to that page.

Cheers,

Shane
Sweet! Good to have you in the league Shane. You can look at the settings link for some league info. It shows that we are doing an auto draft. So we wont need the java deal. You should set your "Pre-Draft Player rankings" list the way that you would want it for the draft. It is currently set up as the default.

As mentioned we now need one more team. So someone pony up and join. It would be cool to have a female in there. It is really easy and the people that are the least interested or know the least sometimes do the best. :ne_nau: It is all about the numbers........ :nod:

[icthys]

As a warning to settings your pre-rankings, it's not as black and white as it seems.

For instance, the first year I pre-ranked I thought it would draft your team as follows.

1. RB Holmes
2. DEF Ravens
3. QB Manning
4. WR Owens

I picked my first choice in each postion and used them as my first 1-10 ranked picks. When the draft started the guy with the first pick got Holmes, I then picked 2nd. This is where it got screwed up, instead of next picking a running back after Holmes I drafted the Ravens defense as my #1 pick!!! Big mistake!!! You don't want to draft a defense in the first 10 rounds! Then by the time my second pick came up Manning and Owens were gone, thus picking a low running back as my 2nd pick. My roster was all screwed up.

I finally figured out how the auto-draft works. Even though I've figured it out you can only figure it out for the first 1-3 rounds, the reason is you never know how the other managers are going to draft. The auto is not an ideal draft system, but in a league where we have begginers the auto is best (not to mention I don't want to take the time to have a 4 hour live draft). The very best thing to do is keep the rankings the way yahoo has set them, unless you're confident you've figured it out.

I doubt any of that made sense?

[icthys]

I'm tossing around an idea.

I work for a high end home theater company. We have a sweet showroom in Sugar House. I think it may be cool to have a kick off party. We can watch the game in HD on a 100" screen. The problem is I'll be in Indy that opening weekend, though we could do it for the Monday night game.

What ya'll think?

[accadacca]

I would be game for that........cool!!! :five: :popcorn:

[jimflint1]

icthys wrote: I'm tossing around an idea.

I work for a high end home theater company. We have a sweet showroom in Sugar House. I think it may be cool to have a kick off party. We can watch the game in HD on a 100" screen. The problem is I'll be in Indy that opening weekend, though we could do it for the Monday night game.

What ya'll think?

Ah, man! I'm pretty much tied up every evening--and Sundays too. But I'll be with you in spirit! Get ready for some smack!

Shane

[icthys]

Alrighty, I found another player, a good friend of mine.

We've now got 10 players. Should I close it up and get the draft going? or wait and see if others want to play? I say get it going.

[accadacca]

Lets get it ON!!! :wallbash: I say give a date when you are going to do the draft. Just to give people a few days to change players if they want. Not like they have not had enough time already. My $.02 :blahblah: You ARE the long arm of the law......commish.

[icthys]

It's time to get this thing going.

I've sent emails to those who responded to me.

I am going to change our status to "ready to draft" tomorrow/tues/Aug 30.

After I've set it it will only take a couple days to draft.

Good luck to you and pull your panties up and get ready to play.

[icthys]

I almost forgot to set the draft order. This was done totally at random. I wrote down the #'s 1-10 on pieces of paper. I then blindly drew a # for each player in the order that they registered. This draft order could help with your pre-rankings. Here is the order in which each team registered and the position they will draft in.

1. Wasatch Wasps #10
2. Big Balls #6
3. Live2ride #2
4. Savage Injuns #5
5. lurpy beasts #8
6. Sons of Beaches #9
7. Cunning Cowboy #3
8. Krum katchers #7
9. Blood Spillers #4
10. Lumberjacks #1

Keep in mind that the 1st round will draft in order 1-10, the second round will draft 10-1, and so on alternating the order from 1-10 and 10-1.

If anyone needs extra time to set pre-ranking let me know, otherwise I will set the pre-draft to ready tomorrow evening at 5:00.

Good luck

[icthys]

We've had 2 more sign up making a total of 12 teams!

I've reassigned the draft order. Sorry for the inconvienence, I hope it doesn't add any problems.

To give people a little more time in case they don't get the update until later tonight the draft will now be tomorrow (Wed) at 5:00 pm.

Wasps 11
Big Balls 5
Live2Ride 10
Savage injuns 4
Lurpy Beasts 3
Sons of Beaches 6
cunning cowboy 7
Krum Catchers 2
Blood Spillers 12
Lumberjacks 8
Ice 9
crickets 1

[rockgremlin]

We ARE doing this for $$$ are we not? (at least that was my impression). Should we say a minimum $5 bid -- putting the pot at $60? I would be willing to go higher if others don't mind - say $10 or so. ($120 pot aint bad).

Let me know the amount and where to send the $$$. :2thumbs:

[icthys]

I'm ok with a little wager. We need to check with everyone. If you don't want in on the pot then we can figure it out with those that do.

Lets go with $10.

Do you want it to be winner takes all, or divide it up for the top 3?

[rockgremlin]

Hmmm. I'm leaning more towards winner takes all - or maybe the top two split the winnings down the middle?

What does everybody think?