As stated many times in many places, the problem with having a timer is that in the past it made things worse and not better. All hell would break loose when someone missed a pick.If they got an auto pick, that guy was normally someone already out for the season. If they didn't get an auto pick, they got a player instead, but usually someone they didn't want (or someone that made tham have an illegal roster). Invariable, if they wanted to substitute another player, one of the teams that already made a pick after that pick wanted the player the first team threw back.Several times, someone missed a pick and screwed with the pre-draft function, meaning other teams didn't get someone because it changed who was available for the pre draft picks.In short, historically missing picks has been a nightmare. I've had guys drop out of drafts altogether that missed picks at the turn and got stuck with two auto picks for guys that were never going to be on the field at all the whole season.With some leagues in the past having these types of issues, it messed with the competitive balance of the leagues. For example, last year a team ended up with 3 TEs (which is legal) but before they took the last TE they had already taken a RB or a WR as a flex (which would be illegal). So the last TE had to be dropped. Well, that TE was Pettigrew and it was three rounds after he was picked. Well, almost every team wanted to pick him. But I wasn't going to let him get picked up at that point, and the only fair think to do was ask every team since he was picked if they wanted to drop the guy they did pick for Pettigrew and essentially reset the draft for 3 rounds when the draft was almost done. That made no sense, so I basically ground ruled out any team from drafting Pettigrew.At this point, I don't see why people can't just set a predraft pick in the morning and that would get us at least through a round a day no matter what happens. If each league did that, they all would be done before the first game of the season. There are no uber stard left to pick from anyway and the core of each team's points are already on the roster.I don't see the big issue if the drafts run slightly beyond opening day. All 5 drafts are at a pace to finish before the first Sunday game even without a timer. Maybe/maybe not will they finish by Thursday night. If we did run up against the first game of the year, we could also make a provision that no one from the teams on the field could be drafted past kickoff. That would still give us two more full days to wrap up the drafts.If people are insisting that timers go on, I will do it, but then people are going to get even more peeved if they miss a pick. I'm not sure too many people are going to want to be the one stuck with Leshore.