bostonfred
Footballguy
A few things I've noticed and a few suggestions:
- If people complain about the draft being slow, it gets slower. Maybe everyone feels like, hey, it's not just me, this thing really is slow. But it happens. Whining doesn't help.
- If people complain that people aren't making picks, it doesn't change anything. But if someone on the far end of the draft offers to accept PMs for the next few hours, it happens.
- I'd bet a big reason people near the ends don't PM is because they're worried that someone's going to steal "their guy". So if you're going to PM your picks to someone, PM the person who picked right before you this round, because they'll pick right after you next round. And if you want to speed things up, tell them to send you a list for their next pick, so they don't forget.
- If you're the 15th or 16th pick and you're going to be around for a bit to make your pick, say so. That way the person with the 14th pick knows they'll be right back up again.
- Don't worry about clogging up the draft threads with extraneous posts. Guys with iPhones can suck it up. Keep the picks moving and feel free to make commentary along with it.
- Stop putting picks in team colors. If everybody bolds their picks, nobody puts anything else in bold in the thread, and the drafters with mod powers update the occasional posts that didn't follow the standards, it will be easier to find guys.
- Stop putting nicknames in the first post. Don't put "ADP" instead of Adrian Peterson, and don't put Chris Wells or Beanie Wells - put Chris "Beanie" Wells.
- Similarly, when you're searching for your guy, assume that the guy writing the first post may have made a typo. So search for Chris, Beanie, and Wells. Or when searching for Laveaneus Coles, search for "Lav" and "Coles", NOT "Laveraneus". The chances that someone (like me) screwed up typing his name are way too high.
Those things will go a long way towards improving these drafts and don't require any rule changes.
- If people complain about the draft being slow, it gets slower. Maybe everyone feels like, hey, it's not just me, this thing really is slow. But it happens. Whining doesn't help.
- If people complain that people aren't making picks, it doesn't change anything. But if someone on the far end of the draft offers to accept PMs for the next few hours, it happens.
- I'd bet a big reason people near the ends don't PM is because they're worried that someone's going to steal "their guy". So if you're going to PM your picks to someone, PM the person who picked right before you this round, because they'll pick right after you next round. And if you want to speed things up, tell them to send you a list for their next pick, so they don't forget.
- If you're the 15th or 16th pick and you're going to be around for a bit to make your pick, say so. That way the person with the 14th pick knows they'll be right back up again.
- Don't worry about clogging up the draft threads with extraneous posts. Guys with iPhones can suck it up. Keep the picks moving and feel free to make commentary along with it.
- Stop putting picks in team colors. If everybody bolds their picks, nobody puts anything else in bold in the thread, and the drafters with mod powers update the occasional posts that didn't follow the standards, it will be easier to find guys.
- Stop putting nicknames in the first post. Don't put "ADP" instead of Adrian Peterson, and don't put Chris Wells or Beanie Wells - put Chris "Beanie" Wells.
- Similarly, when you're searching for your guy, assume that the guy writing the first post may have made a typo. So search for Chris, Beanie, and Wells. Or when searching for Laveaneus Coles, search for "Lav" and "Coles", NOT "Laveraneus". The chances that someone (like me) screwed up typing his name are way too high.
Those things will go a long way towards improving these drafts and don't require any rule changes.
It appears that from the poll results and the responses, that the community is not inclined to change the rules at this time. However, pending the developments of future drafts, I may bump this thread and/or create a similar poll and discussion in the future. One thing this thread has shown is how much we care about these drafts. It makes me feel good about what we are doing even though I still feel like we have conceded to the status quo by not implementing a rule change.
