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Sorry oleg, this is strictly American Fantasy Football, NFL style. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Oh, is this that poncy game where a bunch of steroid enhanced morons wear about 15 tons of armour padding, go 'hut hut hut' all the time, the game just stops-starts-stops-starts and all the stopping and bloody commercials make a 1 hour game Last 4 hours?

Sheesh, please do not call this football.

Re: Inter Galactic Couch Potato Football League Update!
 

Guys, I am all for having some kind of manual draft, but we have a bit of a time constraint here. The season starts Thursday sept 5th, fourteen days away. We are going to need a few more days to fill the league. Drafting 210 players via some kind of email or forum draft would be difficult. We'd have to average about a pick an hour, evey 24 hours, right up till kickoff. I am not sure that wouldn't be just as difficult as getting everybody together Online for a couple of hours between now and then to do it.

I am not saying no, but if we are going to pull it off we are going to have to get motivated, and maybe a little creative. Ideas?

Geoschmo

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I'm in!

Oh, and GT, my steriod enhanced morons can beat up your steroid enhanced morons any day of the week. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/tongue.gif

Re: Inter Galactic Couch Potato Football League Update!
 

With such a time constraint, I like the auto draft with trades afterwards.

Cheers!
Trajan

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Ok, here's an idea I had for a manual draft that may work. We get a Yahoo group set up for the draft. We work out a draft order, and we have a 14hr window each day to draft. Assuming everybody is in the continental US, that means we could run from 10AM to 12mid EST (7AM to 9PM PST).

We have two rounds a day for the first 6 rounds, and 3 rounds a day for the Last 9 rounds. That would give you a half an hour per pick at first, and 20 minutes later. We could do the draft in 6 days.

I would post the schedule, so you would know ahead of time what time you need to be on to make your pick. If you are late, you can still pick as soon as you can get Online, but you could lose the guy you want if somebody after you grabs him during their pick window.

Yahoo Groups can be setup to email every time someone makes a pick, but the email part is a little unreliable, so you should go Online to the group at your alloted time and make your pick.

I would also give anyone the option of making a "list pick" where they can list the next bunch of players they want. This way if you know you won't be able to get Online during your window you could make a list pick early and get the first player on your list that is still available when your window opens up. If you don't want to announce your strategy to the group you can just email it to me. I will promise not to base my own strategy on your picks. In fact you can send me the list as an attachment and I won't even open it until it is your time. This could be done for whoever gets the early morning draw. They could send me there picks the night before as I can be Online at that time.

Ok, that seems like a complicated scheme, but if you think about it it's pretty simple. Any opinions? I would be willing to set it up if you guys want.

Re: Inter Galactic Couch Potato Football League Update!
 

Geo, the first rounds should go pretty dang fast...but if it's easiest to do an autopick, I'm all for it. Just be sure that everyone knows that it is imperative that they RANK THEIR PLAYERS! Otherwise, there will be some upset owners!

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Geo, you're a genius! Of course I have less time constraints than most http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif so I can participate at almost any time.

Anyway, your idea sounds good to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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Ok, we have seven now. I have the league setup for 14. I don't mind if we don't get that many. ten would be ok. We got to get at least one more though to have an even number.

Geoschmo

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<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Damn, I was going to bring up Zits! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Inter Galactic Couch Potato Football League Update!
 

It appears we have stuck at 7 here. If any of you know some people that would join that aren't SEIV fans, give them the ID and password and get 'em in there. We'll go with 8, or 10, or 12 if we can't get 14. We just need an even number. And we need to get started soon.

Geoschmo