Ammy Draft Date

[LT]

I am on board with moving the draft.

Do not see any real value in adding rounds though.

[claphamsa]

i say auto the whole thing

[JKGuy16]

I'm just curious if anything came from this.  Are we closer to getting draft in season?

[mstreeter06]

I'm just curious if anything came from this.  Are we closer to getting draft in season?

I'll do some more research. I'd like to move forward with moving the draft for the 2030 draft if it will work out.

[mstreeter06]

I still think this would be a great thing for us to keep things moving each offseason.

Any new thoughts or opinions?

[LT]

I am with you - I like the idea of the draft during the season.

[JKGuy16]

The draft takes longer and longer every off-season and becomes painfully slow.  This needs to be moved to during the season, somehow, some way.

[Qdog915]

Agree, it needs to be during season.

[mstreeter06]

I'm going to be working on a plan to get our Amateur Draft moved to mid-season. Nothing will be changed for the 2030 draft but I strongly believe that we need to make this adjustment to avoid 2-3 week periods of downtime each offseason.

[mstreeter06]

Revisiting this as well..

I think we can keep drafting at the end of the Regular Season if we can get the draft done within 7-10 days. In order for this to happen, all teams need to be alert of where the draft is and be prepared to either make their pick in a timely matter, have enough players in their list to cover until their pick plus 1 more, or set themselves to auto pick.

I would be open to finding a way to draft during the season if that is something we want to look into again as we did awhile back but didn't.

[JKGuy16]

Still down for this in the regular season.  We could use that extra week to play games as there is such a lull during the offseason. 

[mstreeter06]

Any thoughts to work on a solution to accomplish this? This could decrease the Offseason time from 7-10 days to just a few. I'm fine with either keeping things as is or moving it to during the following season from right after the current season.

[LT]

Yep, I am good to move the draft during the regular season...

[Ohio GM]

I think we should just leave it alone.  Change the timer to 3-6 hours in the early rounds and 1 hour in the later rounds.  If you are that interested in picking, make a list, it is not that hard, or just auto it.

In another league, if you missed your turn on the clock , you were skipped until you got back on. That really forced folks into getting a list or auto.

[mikezone13]

Hopefully the use of statsplus will help push the draft faster given the slack updates.

I'm all for reduced clock time too, however being in a different time zone I'd appreciate a clock no shorter than 8hrs

However, something which might work well in this league is 'wave' drafting. Kind of as follows:

While in the playoffs we draft as far as possible, then set specific times to process 4 or 5 picks e.g.

6pm: 5 picks
7pm: 5 picks
8pm: 5 picks
9pm: 5 picks

Then after those 4hrs we just keep drafting until the same time the next day when more picks are processed if we haven't reached those picks during the downtime.