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I never use a laptop, but a guy in my league has for 3-4 years and he consistently is the worst drafter out of the group, in my opinion. If there are 6 WRs that are similar and only one RB left in the same tier in round 7, he will draft a kicker...usually Robbie Gould!
In the end, if you rely on a laptop to do the work for you, you are only as good as your program and projections that are in there. If you can think for yourself or only use it to supplement the work you've already put into the prep like DD, then you can be flexible and make decisions based on what is going on in the draft.
Exactly what I do. I'm also using DD for the 1st time in an auction league and it appears like it's going to keep track of everyone's salary cap, how much they have available to spend and the max they can spend. Seems like a valuable tool for an auction league.Wow, is your draft really only 6 rounds long?
30 rounds/30 man roster (no wavier picks allowed during the season -- all other drafts online).... start drinking after round 8-10 .... used to bring a 12 pack & start drinking round 1, but i found i lost interest in the draft early that way - that and im usually still a little hungover from the night before, so a sixer it is for me.
Well, yes, there are all sorts of advantages to using a laptop. Whether you take advantage of them or not is up to you.For example, I find it easier to look at a list that only shows me available players compared to reading through a list that has lines drawn through names. It's quicker to find a player in a list by typing his last name and hitting search than it is by scanning down the list.It's quicker for me to see how much each position is likely to drop off between now and my next pick by clicking on 1 button in Draft Dominator, than to look over the ADPs for the players at each position and check their fantasy points manually.If you actually have an internet connection, you can quickly confirm what the latest news is on a player so you don't have to rely on memory for it all.If you're doing an auction you can keep player prices updated constantly as the auction progresses. You can get counts of how many players are gone at each position. You can have displays that show you at a glance how many at each position each team in the league has.You can have displays of what the draft tendencies of teams in your league were in previous years, and tendencies league wide like how many players went from each position in each round. Granted you can do the same in advance and print it out on paper... but a laptop is a lot better way to keep your information organized and flip to what you want quickly than is dealing with a lot of loose sheets of paper.You can use software to make all of your decisions for you, or you can use the laptop as a tool to give you more information in a timely manner to help you make your decisions. What you're looking for it to do is of course up to you.
Typing with talons just slows you down anyway.
