commish proposing new draft order rule (1 Viewer)

[Deadzone21]

3rd year in this money league and the commish is proposing a change in the draft rule. It's a redraft with snaking draft. What do you think?

Before we waited until a week before draft and simply drew random numbers for the draft order. He is proposing that we draw the order of choosing your slot. For example, #1 gets to pick which draft position he wants, then #2 gets to choose, etc. I assume his strategy is that if he is #6-#9, he'd prefer to move down to #11-12. I would imagine that #1-5 who keep their order in the draft.

As first I thought is was better to keep it simple and let the draft order be simply random, but his argument is that this would add another factor for strategy when given the option to move down the snaking draft order. What do you guys think?

 

[AcousticNut]

3rd year in this money league and the commish is proposing a change in the draft rule. It's a redraft with snaking draft. What do you think?Before we waited until a week before draft and simply drew random numbers for the draft order. He is proposing that we draw the order of choosing your slot. For example, #1 gets to pick which draft position he wants, then #2 gets to choose, etc. I assume his strategy is that if he is #6-#9, he'd prefer to move down to #11-12. I would imagine that #1-5 who keep their order in the draft.As first I thought is was better to keep it simple and let the draft order be simply random, but his argument is that this would add another factor for strategy when given the option to move down the snaking draft order. What do you guys think?

I personally like this idea. I was thinking of proposing the same thing to my league, but I'm throwing enough rule-change proposals at them for 1 year already.Give it a shot.

 

[bentley]

There shouldn't be anything wrong with it, as long as the initial draw is random. My guess is that nobody will really figure out any useful strategy based on where they end up.

 

[barndog]

This year it can actually make sense to move down to #3 if you feel like there are no big diffs between the Big Three. That spot would pick before #s 2 and 1 in the even rds. So you may get an equivalent RB and a better WR in the first two rds, perhaps.

 

[Deadzone21]

This year it can actually make sense to move down to #3 if you feel like there are no big diffs between the Big Three. That spot would pick before #s 2 and 1 in the even rds. So you may get an equivalent RB and a better WR in the first two rds, perhaps.

Good point. I didn't consider that. I'm going to keep that in mind if this thing passes.

 

[thayman]

I've had a redraft league like this for the past couple years. I was a little leary of it at first but it's a ton of fun.

 

[dslaw]

We've been doing it for a while. Not much movement as the top guys stay there but the guys going 8-11 are likely to move down.

 

[Cixelsyd]

we've done this 2 years in a row and it's cool...

But we don't random draw, we have a loser bowl for the non playoff teams, the winner of the loser bowl gets the #1 pick down to the #6 pick for the last team in the loser bracket...

The teams in the playoffs get picks 7-12 with the 6th place team getting 7 and the superbowl winner getting 12.

A MONTH before the draft the teams select their actual draft spot, we do this so people can work on trades and mocks....

This year nobody moved, though it was considered...

Last year the first 6 picks stayed, 7 started the shuffle by moving to 12....

Needless to say, I was the superbowl winner that year and ended up at 8...

Don't give the commish a hard time, it's a good rule and adds a new element to the league...

 

[Sonny Lubick Blowup Doll]

3rd year in this money league and the commish is proposing a change in the draft rule. It's a redraft with snaking draft. What do you think?Before we waited until a week before draft and simply drew random numbers for the draft order. He is proposing that we draw the order of choosing your slot. For example, #1 gets to pick which draft position he wants, then #2 gets to choose, etc. I assume his strategy is that if he is #6-#9, he'd prefer to move down to #11-12. I would imagine that #1-5 who keep their order in the draft.As first I thought is was better to keep it simple and let the draft order be simply random, but his argument is that this would add another factor for strategy when given the option to move down the snaking draft order. What do you guys think?

Have done this in two leagues for awhile now. It's way better...just adds another element, which isn't difficult at all, and simply makes it more fun. It's like they do for the Kentucky Derby nowadays...good way to hype things up a bit, too.I drew #4 and guess what, I moved to #10.

 

[BL Titans]

if the league agrees - cool

I could go either way ....... I'd probably go with the drawing for choice of draft slot just for the added demension

BTW there is a dice roller web site that can be used to draw numbers for those slots if you didn't now .......

 

[AIKENS BACON]

It is alot of fun to do it this way! We have 16 teams, & the way we work it is the last place finisher gets to choose first which slot to draft in the following year, down to the 15th, 14th..etc. There is always someone who moves back to the 14, 15 or 16 positions. Usually they are looking for the QB/WR combination. Last year an owner did that & picked up Mcnabb/Owens. It worked for a little while! It gives us another reason to get together & talk football & see our fellow owners! We have been doing this for 8 years! Good Luck!

 

[CrossEyed]

if the league agrees - coolI could go either way ....... I'd probably go with the drawing for choice of draft slot just for the added demensionBTW there is a dice roller web site that can be used to draw numbers for those slots if you didn't now .......

 

[Keith R]

I guess more people would be satisfied with it, since there are differing opinions as to better draft spots. It also lets you choose (to a degree) WHOM you draft next to, which can be a significant part of the draft strategy.

The downside is efficiency - are you sure everyone will announce their desired positions timely, or will some delay in hopes of messing with others' draft plans/strategies? You need an earlier start to the process, like 20 days before the draft. You then need a time limit in place, like 24 hours. After 24 hours, the team will be assigned the highest remaining spot. At worst, teams still have 8 days to prepare for the draft specifically from that draft position.

 

[Keith R]

if the league agrees - coolI could go either way ....... I'd probably go with the drawing for choice of draft slot just for the added demensionBTW there is a dice roller web site that can be used to draw numbers for those slots if you didn't now .......

www.irony.com

 

[Jayrok]

We've done this the last couple of years and it works well. If I can't get top 5, I'd rather go last then get two RBs at the turn.

 

[Tom Servo]

We're doing again this year (2nd time) and I loved it. Gets the juices going for the season.

I guess more people would be satisfied with it, since there are differing opinions as to better draft spots. It also lets you choose (to a degree) WHOM you draft next to, which can be a significant part of the draft strategy.

With our league, it also determines your division rivals and schedule, so you can try to position yourself in a division with newbies or bad players.

The downside is efficiency - are you sure everyone will announce their desired positions timely, or will some delay in hopes of messing with others' draft plans/strategies? You need an earlier start to the process, like 20 days before the draft. You then need a time limit in place, like 24 hours. After 24 hours, the team will be assigned the highest remaining spot. At worst, teams still have 8 days to prepare for the draft specifically from that draft position.

My league has a lot of people who work in the same office and they typically give them 1/2 a business day to decide. If the next pick falls toward the end of the day, the next up usually gets until around 9-10 am the next day. For 16 teams last year, it took about a week.Overall, I like it.

 

[Marc Levin]

3rd year in this money league and the commish is proposing a change in the draft rule. It's a redraft with snaking draft. What do you think?Before we waited until a week before draft and simply drew random numbers for the draft order. He is proposing that we draw the order of choosing your slot. For example, #1 gets to pick which draft position he wants, then #2 gets to choose, etc. I assume his strategy is that if he is #6-#9, he'd prefer to move down to #11-12. I would imagine that #1-5 who keep their order in the draft.As first I thought is was better to keep it simple and let the draft order be simply random, but his argument is that this would add another factor for strategy when given the option to move down the snaking draft order. What do you guys think?

WAY better than random.You "randomly" get to choose your dcraft position, right?#1 supposedly would ask for the #1 overall - but he doesn't HAVE TO.That's the nice thing about it - the assumption is that you want to be higher in the first round - but giving owners a modicum of choice makes more sense to me.We have a random draft - whatever number you draw is the number you get. If I draw 6-8 this year, I am going to ask the #9-#12 guys if any of them want to switch.