Drinks and Fantasy Drafts - where do you stand? (1 Viewer)

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Everybody drinks during the draft in my league. There is one guy that usually gets hammered but that is well after the last player is selected.I laugh at guys that don't drink while drafting because they're worried it will affect their team. I guess if there was a lot of money involved I could understand but for most of us it is a hobby.If you don't want to drink that is fine but this is fantasy football. Relax, open a cold one and enjoy yourself.

I appreciate your position, but not everyone has to "open a cold one" to enjoy themselves. Also, alcohol affects different people differently. Three beers could have an affect on a larger person, depending on their medical condition, family history, etc. It could affect their judgment, which would affect their draft.If you spend months playing fantasy football with a team you drafted, why not draft the best team you can? To the degree that alcohol impairs your judgment...it's stupid to do it at a draft. But anything before that is personal preference.Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Seriously? We're comparing fantasy football to job interviews now? If you did your research you should need nothing more than a printout from the VBD Excel sheet, and a sharpie. No reasonable amount of beer is going to cause you to suddenly think Ricky Williams is going to outperform ADP. When you know what you need to know the draft is pretty much common sense.

I think alcohol will always have *some* effect, depending on how much you drink, your alcohol tolerance, etc. Since I don't see alcohol as being important in any way to have fun, I'd discard it if it had any effect at all. I guess for others it's a balance. That's cool. Maybe I'm a lightweight, too.

 

[tonydead]

Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Equating a Fantasy Football draft with going for a job interview? Now I have heard everything!Certainly we could "survive" not drinking for a few hours. The point I was trying to make is that our FF league is for fun. When the guys in my league get together at other times we all have a couple of beers together. If one of them took it so serious we probably wouldn't want them in the league. It's Fantasy Football, not life and death.

I guess I'm not explaining myself well (not drunk, I promise). I don't mean it has to be super-serious. But if you're devoting a third of a year to a game, why do anything to mess it up in the most critical two hours? Maybe drinking just isn't a big deal to me. I can have a couple of beers when I go out...or not. Doesn't really matter. I don't look for ways to factor it in, and I don't do anything to accommodate it. It's not that I take fantasy football so seriously that I hold back on the fun of drinking. It's that drinking is so unimportant and unrelated to having fun (for me) that keeping it in when it can have a negative impact seems silly. That's all.

And the microscopically small chance that alcohol will affect my fantasy football draft is so unimportant and unrelated to the amount of beer I drink that being concerned about it and having it affect my fun seems silly. To each their own I guess.

I need about a beer a round just to take the edge off and help me calm down from all the excitement. Make less mistakes and have a better draft that way (for me). Need to factor that in when staying sober might have a negative impact.

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

 

[tonydead]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

 

[Dodge]

People who don't drink, or have never drunk, or have never been exposed to drinking on a casual basis usually think of extremes. So home alone drinking on the computer equates to them as alcoholism and depression automatically. Not saying that's the case here, but I've known people to think that way.

 

[tombonneau]

There needs to be an option between 3-4 beers and My Only Chance to Get Totally Wasted. I usually end up drinking a 6-8 beers during the entire draft, enough to be good and drunk but not enough to draft a defense in the third.

Even if I do get too drunk, I use the Draft Dominator, which can function as a very reliable Designated Drafter.

 

[oddball]

Drinking and live drafts.

It's just meant to be.

 

[[icon]]

Even if I do get too drunk, I use the Draft Dominator, which can function as a very reliable Designated Drafter.

If you're sober enough to read the screen you're sober enough to draft a winning team with that thing

 

[FantasyTrader]

Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Equating a Fantasy Football draft with going for a job interview? Now I have heard everything!Certainly we could "survive" not drinking for a few hours. The point I was trying to make is that our FF league is for fun. When the guys in my league get together at other times we all have a couple of beers together. If one of them took it so serious we probably wouldn't want them in the league. It's Fantasy Football, not life and death.

I guess I'm not explaining myself well (not drunk, I promise). I don't mean it has to be super-serious. But if you're devoting a third of a year to a game, why do anything to mess it up in the most critical two hours? Maybe drinking just isn't a big deal to me. I can have a couple of beers when I go out...or not. Doesn't really matter. I don't look for ways to factor it in, and I don't do anything to accommodate it. It's not that I take fantasy football so seriously that I hold back on the fun of drinking. It's that drinking is so unimportant and unrelated to having fun (for me) that keeping it in when it can have a negative impact seems silly. That's all.

No you're not wrong. Your's is a healthy point of view. But to each his own.

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Maybe we're differing on "drinking" versus "drunk." Being on the computer while you're drinking sounds like an adult pasttime. Surfing while sitting at home drunk sounds sad.

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

People who don't drink, or have never drunk, or have never been exposed to drinking on a casual basis usually think of extremes. So home alone drinking on the computer equates to them as alcoholism and depression automatically. Not saying that's the case here, but I've known people to think that way.

I agree. I meant being drunk, not just drinking. Maybe I wasn't being clear enough.

 

[tonydead]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Maybe we're differing on "drinking" versus "drunk." Being on the computer while you're drinking sounds like an adult pasttime. Surfing while sitting at home drunk sounds sad.

Sorry, let me rephrase that:I love messing around on the computer while DRUNK. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Maybe we're differing on "drinking" versus "drunk." Being on the computer while you're drinking sounds like an adult pasttime. Surfing while sitting at home drunk sounds sad.

Sorry, let me rephrase that:I love messing around on the computer while DRUNK. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

 

[Mr.Blonde]

Everybody drinks during the draft in my league. There is one guy that usually gets hammered but that is well after the last player is selected.I laugh at guys that don't drink while drafting because they're worried it will affect their team. I guess if there was a lot of money involved I could understand but for most of us it is a hobby.If you don't want to drink that is fine but this is fantasy football. Relax, open a cold one and enjoy yourself.

I appreciate your position, but not everyone has to "open a cold one" to enjoy themselves. Also, alcohol affects different people differently. Three beers could have an affect on a larger person, depending on their medical condition, family history, etc. It could affect their judgment, which would affect their draft.If you spend months playing fantasy football with a team you drafted, why not draft the best team you can? To the degree that alcohol impairs your judgment...it's stupid to do it at a draft. But anything before that is personal preference.Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Funny that the OP was worried about sounding like a tight-###.

 

[tonydead]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Maybe we're differing on "drinking" versus "drunk." Being on the computer while you're drinking sounds like an adult pasttime. Surfing while sitting at home drunk sounds sad.

Sorry, let me rephrase that:I love messing around on the computer while DRUNK. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Have you seen the results of the pole? The vast majority of the people on this message board plan to drink at their draft, and, I would bet that better than half have had a few before or while on the computer reading this board. Maybe even, dare I say, drunk.What is more troubling to me is why someone, who is so against being drunk, would feel the need to post multiple times in the thread about drinking going so far as calling some of the drinking activities discussed as troublesome. Most non-drinking people would just simply skip over those posts. There must be some underlying issues here.

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Everybody drinks during the draft in my league. There is one guy that usually gets hammered but that is well after the last player is selected.I laugh at guys that don't drink while drafting because they're worried it will affect their team. I guess if there was a lot of money involved I could understand but for most of us it is a hobby.If you don't want to drink that is fine but this is fantasy football. Relax, open a cold one and enjoy yourself.

I appreciate your position, but not everyone has to "open a cold one" to enjoy themselves. Also, alcohol affects different people differently. Three beers could have an affect on a larger person, depending on their medical condition, family history, etc. It could affect their judgment, which would affect their draft.If you spend months playing fantasy football with a team you drafted, why not draft the best team you can? To the degree that alcohol impairs your judgment...it's stupid to do it at a draft. But anything before that is personal preference.Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Funny that the OP was worried about sounding like a tight-###.

That is funny. Why would anyone care how they "sound" to other people?

 

[Neil Beaufort Zod]

Imagine being drunk at home on your computer. Sad.

Yeah, I'm sure no one ever does that...

I guess I'm sheltered, then. That seems really weird to me.

Hint: We all have completely different lives, in every sense possible.

That's true, but sitting at home drunk on the computer seems troubling to me. I'm not breaking down doors trying to stop anyone, though. Just sayin'.

I love messing around on the computer while drinking. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Maybe we're differing on "drinking" versus "drunk." Being on the computer while you're drinking sounds like an adult pasttime. Surfing while sitting at home drunk sounds sad.

Sorry, let me rephrase that:I love messing around on the computer while DRUNK. You should try it sometime. Why do you think that is troubling?

Have you seen the results of the pole? The vast majority of the people on this message board plan to drink at their draft, and, I would bet that better than half have had a few before or while on the computer reading this board. Maybe even, dare I say, drunk.What is more troubling to me is why someone, who is so against being drunk, would feel the need to post multiple times in the thread about drinking going so far as calling some of the drinking activities discussed as troublesome. Most non-drinking people would just simply skip over those posts. There must be some underlying issues here.

I'm a drinking person. I'm not even against being drunk in some situations. I'm a non-drinking person at the draft, and I think surfing at home drunk is kind of a sad scene. To be fair, I'm thinking more about a person being home alone doing that, so that could be a difference.I think this thread and the draft chicks thread are interesting because I'm sick of Brett Favre and preseason games where the important fantasy players barely get in for a series. This is a little different.

 

[Garrett]

I think something that is universally understood is a group of guys getting together and drinking a few beers while playing poker. What is the difference?

 

[habsfan]

People can drink as much as they like provided the draft stays on track, on schedule and no one throws a football through my bigscreen.

 

[CapnJB]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

 

[oddball]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Thats it. I found where I'm going for this years draft.Please PM me your address.

 

[Nemesis Enforcer]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

care to adopt a beer drinking 30 year old ff junkie?

 

[tonydead]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Is that an Onkyo receiver?

 

[tonydead]

I'm a drinking person. I'm not even against being drunk in some situations. I'm a non-drinking person at the draft, and I think surfing at home drunk is kind of a sad scene. To be fair, I'm thinking more about a person being home alone doing that, so that could be a difference.

I think this thread and the draft chicks thread are interesting because I'm sick of Brett Favre and preseason games where the important fantasy players barely get in for a series. This is a little different.

I guess we have different ideas on what is boring and troublesome.

I doubt I'll get bored of the preseason games, but, if I do I guess I can always get drunk and go to the strip club.

 

[Pittsburgh United]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Sir, you are the winner!

 

[CapnJB]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Sir, you are the winner!

Just lucky to have a wife that lets me punch holes in perfectly good walls in the name of beer... when she was five months pregnant! And on the other side of that screen is where magical online drafts happen. And yes that is an Onkyo receiver.

Did I mention my wife likes to play Madden?

 

[NoFBinLA]

What a horrible poll. Clearly made by a non drinker. I would wager 60%+ of the folks in here fall between the "3-4 Beers with lots of food" and "My only Time - There to Get Plowed" option... it's bad when you leave most of the folks with no valid optionI have 3 live drafts every year:OFFICE LEAGUE - $50 Entry- We draft at Harrah's Casino - The Clubhouse at Cottonwoods Golf Course. Have a gorgeous wood paneled room with a large balcony overlooking the 18th fairway. Few beers at a Golf Scramble in the AM. File into the room at 2pm to set up with coolers in tow. Draft at 3 till 5pm. Food catered by the course. We may kill 6-12 beers each over this time. Then we head over to the casino for a private poker game (4/8 limit). Everyone gets comped rooms at the casino and we play cards and drink beer till the wee hours. MONEY LEAGUE - $250 Entry - 16 Teams- The next day I rush back from Tunica to Memphis by noon. Draft starts at 1. I may drink 6 beers or so during this draft. I enjoy myself but typically don't want to get plowed after the night before. Some guys do pound em like it's going out of style... others don't drunk. FRIENDS & FAMILY LEAGUE - FREEWe get a keg and do our best to kill it.In NONE Of these leagues do I fell alcohol does more harm than good. It's part of the fun.

Seldom right and wrong again, thanks for playing though - I do drink. Thanks for the input!

 

[NoFBinLA]

Everybody drinks during the draft in my league. There is one guy that usually gets hammered but that is well after the last player is selected.I laugh at guys that don't drink while drafting because they're worried it will affect their team. I guess if there was a lot of money involved I could understand but for most of us it is a hobby.If you don't want to drink that is fine but this is fantasy football. Relax, open a cold one and enjoy yourself.

I appreciate your position, but not everyone has to "open a cold one" to enjoy themselves. Also, alcohol affects different people differently. Three beers could have an affect on a larger person, depending on their medical condition, family history, etc. It could affect their judgment, which would affect their draft.If you spend months playing fantasy football with a team you drafted, why not draft the best team you can? To the degree that alcohol impairs your judgment...it's stupid to do it at a draft. But anything before that is personal preference.Not sure why you would laugh at someone who doesn't want to hurt their team. I doubt drinking before job interviews or tests is a good idea, either. It's only a couple of hours out of their lives. They can probably survive not drinking for that period of time.

Funny that the OP was worried about sounding like a tight-###.

That is funny. Why would anyone care how they "sound" to other people?

I don't.

 

[NoFBinLA]

BTW - the 5 kickers in a row thing was hyperbole, since someone asked if that ever really happened. I was just overstating for a point.

I wanted to thank everyone for taking part in the the conversation. As I had read many posts over the years here about drinking during the drafts, strategies involving distracting or befuddling owners with alcohol and stuff like that, I was curious what the overall take on drinking at a draft would be.

Overall I think the poll fell where I thought it was, even if as some pointed out, there probably should have been another choice or two in the 'how much you drink' category. Still, I felt the 3-4 beers represented the slightly more than casual drinking - not looking to drink heavily but not sipping one beer for three hours either - and didn't really feel the need to have too many categories in what already had a ton of polls.

For the most part, it seems as though everyone has a good time and the impact is minimal, save for the good times had by all. And that's great.

I'm glad people took the time to respond and give their take - as was pointed out, it's not rocket science or brain surgery here. But I think it was an interesting topic nonetheless.

Feel free to keep going with it, I just wanted to say thanks.

 

[tonydead]

BTW - the 5 kickers in a row thing was hyperbole, since someone asked if that ever really happened. I was just overstating for a point.I wanted to thank everyone for taking part in the the conversation. As I had read many posts over the years here about drinking during the drafts, strategies involving distracting or befuddling owners with alcohol and stuff like that, I was curious what the overall take on drinking at a draft would be. Overall I think the poll fell where I thought it was, even if as some pointed out, there probably should have been another choice or two in the 'how much you drink' category. Still, I felt the 3-4 beers represented the slightly more than casual drinking - not looking to drink heavily but not sipping one beer for three hours either - and didn't really feel the need to have too many categories in what already had a ton of polls. For the most part, it seems as though everyone has a good time and the impact is minimal, save for the good times had by all. And that's great.I'm glad people took the time to respond and give their take - as was pointed out, it's not rocket science or brain surgery here. But I think it was an interesting topic nonetheless.Feel free to keep going with it, I just wanted to say thanks.

And thank you for the pole, this was fun discussion.The choices in the pole were misleading and hard to understand because I don't think most people would think that sipping a beer for 3 hours is casual drinking like you do. I would classify that as non-drinking because the beer would be warm and undrinkable after about 45 minutes. Similarly, most wouldn't think 3-4 beers is more than casual drinking in three hours time. I would consider that as exactly casual drinking. I think that is why icon and others would classify your thinking as coming from a non-drinker.Anyway, now we have 90% plus planning to drink at their drafts, a better pole might be how much.

 

[NoFBinLA]

BTW - the 5 kickers in a row thing was hyperbole, since someone asked if that ever really happened. I was just overstating for a point.I wanted to thank everyone for taking part in the the conversation. As I had read many posts over the years here about drinking during the drafts, strategies involving distracting or befuddling owners with alcohol and stuff like that, I was curious what the overall take on drinking at a draft would be. Overall I think the poll fell where I thought it was, even if as some pointed out, there probably should have been another choice or two in the 'how much you drink' category. Still, I felt the 3-4 beers represented the slightly more than casual drinking - not looking to drink heavily but not sipping one beer for three hours either - and didn't really feel the need to have too many categories in what already had a ton of polls. For the most part, it seems as though everyone has a good time and the impact is minimal, save for the good times had by all. And that's great.I'm glad people took the time to respond and give their take - as was pointed out, it's not rocket science or brain surgery here. But I think it was an interesting topic nonetheless.Feel free to keep going with it, I just wanted to say thanks.

And thank you for the pole, this was fun discussion.The choices in the pole were misleading and hard to understand because I don't think most people would think that sipping a beer for 3 hours is casual drinking like you do. I would classify that as non-drinking because the beer would be warm and undrinkable after about 45 minutes. Similarly, most wouldn't think 3-4 beers is more than casual drinking in three hours time. I would consider that as exactly casual drinking. I think that is why icon and others would classify your thinking as coming from a non-drinker.Anyway, now we have 90% plus planning to drink at their drafts, a better pole might be how much.

Well yeah, again I fall for hyperbole. My browser does spellcheck but not over-bearing wordage checks so that's hurting the polls. LOLOne thing we HAVE figured out is that I should have someone else word my polls and I can word the initial reasonign for them.

 

[oddball]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Sir, you are the winner!

Just lucky to have a wife that lets me punch holes in perfectly good walls in the name of beer... when she was five months pregnant! And on the other side of that screen is where magical online drafts happen. And yes that is an Onkyo receiver.

Did I mention my wife likes to play Madden?

I think I'm gonna cry.btw, is that drunk smurf? Party smurf? Beer smurf? Stumble smurf?

 

[NoFBinLA]

I have walls that freely give beer so it's a little difficult not to drink. You just need to pay attention to the number of trips to the well.

Sir, you are the winner!

Just lucky to have a wife that lets me punch holes in perfectly good walls in the name of beer... when she was five months pregnant! And on the other side of that screen is where magical online drafts happen. And yes that is an Onkyo receiver.

Did I mention my wife likes to play Madden?

You sir, have a helluva house.Nice set-up - will steal the design when I am able to afford it.

Love the taps in the wall.

 

[PublicEnemy#1]

we have a group that has been playing for some time together. We do drink alot of beer and some more than others but we bring in about 300 hot wings and also hot soft pretzels for everyone. We have a few of us that do a few flaming Dr Peppers before the draft to toast the new draft but over the years people are a little more in control of things. We also play cards after the draft so people don't want to be overly toasted to lose more money right away. Also we usually play golf the day before so it that is a heavy day of drinking the draft drinking is a bit lighter. We are all very competitive people but we don't let alcohol get in the way

 

[cjack]

BTW - the 5 kickers in a row thing was hyperbole, since someone asked if that ever really happened. I was just overstating for a point.I wanted to thank everyone for taking part in the the conversation. As I had read many posts over the years here about drinking during the drafts, strategies involving distracting or befuddling owners with alcohol and stuff like that, I was curious what the overall take on drinking at a draft would be. Overall I think the poll fell where I thought it was, even if as some pointed out, there probably should have been another choice or two in the 'how much you drink' category. Still, I felt the 3-4 beers represented the slightly more than casual drinking - not looking to drink heavily but not sipping one beer for three hours either - and didn't really feel the need to have too many categories in what already had a ton of polls. For the most part, it seems as though everyone has a good time and the impact is minimal, save for the good times had by all. And that's great.I'm glad people took the time to respond and give their take - as was pointed out, it's not rocket science or brain surgery here. But I think it was an interesting topic nonetheless.Feel free to keep going with it, I just wanted to say thanks.

And thank you for the pole, this was fun discussion.The choices in the pole were misleading and hard to understand because I don't think most people would think that sipping a beer for 3 hours is casual drinking like you do. I would classify that as non-drinking because the beer would be warm and undrinkable after about 45 minutes. Similarly, most wouldn't think 3-4 beers is more than casual drinking in three hours time. I would consider that as exactly casual drinking. I think that is why icon and others would classify your thinking as coming from a non-drinker.Anyway, now we have 90% plus planning to drink at their drafts, a better pole might be how much.

When you say 3-4 beers in three hours is casual drinking, are you referring to 3-4 40's? 3-4 12oz. beers in 3 hours is my grandmother's drinking.

 

[moderated]

I get completely loaded at my drafts. Usually i don't even know who i have on my team until the next day but always have basically the same team i woulda sober.

FF drafting isn't hard, you don't need to use much of your brain once you have your tiers set up.

Honestly with all the info/ff websites/rankings out there a monkey could draft as well as a human in a re-draft league.

I could see some problems in an auction draft, but not a straight re-draft.

 

[moleculo]

I usually have two beers gone in three rounds (maybe two). After that, I pace myself by alternating beer with N/A beer - that way I can keep pounding like I want to, but remain in control.

Yes, I usually bring a 6er of N/A to the draft. I'm that guy.

 

[CapnJB]

btw, is that drunk smurf? Party smurf? Beer smurf? Stumble smurf?

That's Beer Smurf. He was responsible for the Seahawks going 8-0 at home in 2005 and also a big part of creating Budweiser Chelada. We don't talk about that one so much

 

[NoFBinLA]

btw, is that drunk smurf? Party smurf? Beer smurf? Stumble smurf?

That's Beer Smurf. He was responsible for the Seahawks going 8-0 at home in 2005 and also a big part of creating Budweiser Chelada. We don't talk about that one so much

Beer Smurf is a friend of mine as well - he met with a terrible accident quite some time ago, so I haven't seen him in a while.Glad the plastic surgery took and he is fine and living on your desk.

 

[Godsbrother]

I usually have two beers gone in three rounds (maybe two). After that, I pace myself by alternating beer with N/A beer - that way I can keep pounding like I want to, but remain in control.Yes, I usually bring a 6er of N/A to the draft. I'm that guy.

While I applaud your pacing, every NA beer I've ever had either tastes or has no taste at all. I would rather alternate with bottled water. At least you're hydrating yourself.

 

[Pittsburgh United]

I get completely loaded at my drafts. Usually i don't even know who i have on my team until the next day but always have basically the same team i woulda sober.FF drafting isn't hard, you don't need to use much of your brain once you have your tiers set up.Honestly with all the info/ff websites/rankings out there a monkey could draft as well as a human in a re-draft league.I could see some problems in an auction draft, but not a straight re-draft.

 

[SuperAwesomeDude]

i get completely ####ty faced during our drafts. its fun.