Expansion Discussion Thread

[LT]

This makes perfect sense to me.

[fhomess]

As long as people don't hold up the draft for a trade.  This offseason is going to be long enough as it is.  Having said that... it will probably be me that does it.

[peteg9699]

I certainly won't hold up the draft because of a potential trade. That being said, check my trade block....

[LT]

I don't see why there would be a hold up. Any owner of an existing franchise can approach and expansion team and say if player x is on the board at your pick would you trade him for player y/draft pick z.

[mstreeter06]

That's my one hesitation but yeah that shouldn't be an issue assuming a trade is discussed on the side and in advance if necessary.

I'm thinking of a 4-8 hour draft slot window with the timer resetting after each pick.

Thoughts?

[LT]

The tricky thing is since each existing team can only lose 1 player per round you can't be sure a guy will be available unless the team is on the clock and that guy is there and that players team has not lost a player in that round.

I think 4 hours should suffice - providing the clock stops at say 11pm eastern time...

[mstreeter06]

I'd have the clock run likely from 8am-8pm CT like we did for the Ammy Draft

[LT]

OK, 8-8 CT makes sense. You guys knocked out the Ammy draft quickly and as long as the 4 expansion owners are in North America and have access to a computer during the day, we should be able to hammer through this thing in good time.

The each team losing 1 player per round makes setting up the picks a bit easier too (on a per round basis) for auto picking...

[fhomess]

I'm thinking of a 4-8 hour draft slot window with the timer resetting after each pick.

The each team losing 1 player per round makes setting up the picks a bit easier too (on a per round basis) for auto picking...

Auto picks off a draft list will likely not work very well since the auto list feature won't enforce the one player lost per team rule.  I still suggest setting up the timer so that we keep the thing moving and give people time limits, but we should use the setting to disable auto picks.  Maybe if a team is overdue and you are online, you can review the team's draft list and pick the next guy from a team that's appropriate.

[LT]

The each team losing 1 player per round makes setting up the picks a bit easier too (on a per round basis) for auto picking...

Auto picks off a draft list will likely not work very well since the auto list feature won't enforce the one player lost per team rule.  I still suggest setting up the timer so that we keep the thing moving and give people time limits, but we should use the setting to disable auto picks.  Maybe if a team is overdue and you are online, you can review the team's draft list and pick the next guy from a team that's appropriate.
[/quote]

Fair enough. I was not sure if there was any built in logic to account for this...

[peteg9699]

The each team losing 1 player per round makes setting up the picks a bit easier too (on a per round basis) for auto picking...

Couldn't disagree more with this statement. Each team being limited to 1 lost player per round limits how much we can set up lists for autodrafting.

That being said, with a 4 hour window it should move fairly quickly.

[LT]

The each team losing 1 player per round makes setting up the picks a bit easier too (on a per round basis) for auto picking...

Couldn't disagree more with this statement. Each team being limited to 1 lost player per round limits how much we can set up lists for autodrafting.

That being said, with a 4 hour window it should move fairly quickly.

If the auto draft could understand only 1 player per team picked per round, it would be easy. I did not know that was not a possibility.

[mikezone13]

Highly recommend setting up lists, if your timer countdown expires commish can look at your list and choose the highest listed player that meets the '1 pick per team' rule.

Or seeing as there is only 4 guys involved scheduling a live draft period of 2-3 hours on one day will really help move this along and will get through a round or two I would expect.

[mstreeter06]

Yeah lists set up in Statslab or in an email to myself would be great if you know you'll be away from your computer to draft when you would be up.

With just 4 teams drafting we should be alright as long as the expansion teams are checking in at least daily to the site or via an email.

I'll be keeping tabs of teams that lose players each round to be sure current teams only lose 1 player per round.

[mstreeter06]

I'm coordinating with the expansion teams to get together for a live draft at least 1 night this week to help us finish the draft this week.