Sholdich - I hear what you are saying on both fronts. But I need to reply as I feel very differently.
I can see no reason for what we joined as a mock draft to take over several months of our lives. Encouraging people to check in once a day and draft is encouraging every couple of picks to take a full day and the draft to stretch well into October. I did not take this draft on as a lifestyle. If people don't care enough to check in every few hours, or every couple of hours when its close to their turn (or are legitimately too busy or for work reasons are unable to do so), why not submit lists covering players through their next pick every morning or evening, instead of doing nothing and leaving everyone else to wait another whole day, or two, or 5 to make their next pick? If people pay attention when they can and leave lists when the won't be checking in, the whole thing takes a fun week or ten days. That just seems a lot more exciting and interesting to me than a slow death march where days pass with nothing to do but wait a next turn. I realize this is my individual perspective and that others may feel completely differently - and everyone can do whatever they want. I am just asking people to try and not be impediments to the draft moving forward. Each owner who takes their full 8 hours per pick (plus the overnight gap) extends the draft two full weeks all by themselves!!! If seven owners adopt the one glance per day approach suggested, we really are talking October completion ...
As to IDP, I didn't sign up for it. That was never mentioned, and in fact team defenses were specifically stated. If you wanted an IDP league, you should have said so up front so that those of us with no time or interest in studying defensive players and defensive player scoring wouldn't have joined. I doubt the majority favor IDP, but even if they do, those of us who didn't sign up to play it and who don't want to learn it shouldn't be forced to compete in an arena of no interest in a game they didn't agree to play. I suspect making it IDP will result in several people pulling out completely and ending the draft. You say those who don't care about IDP can use the FBG Did lists, but then what is the point. Either it becomes blind luck, or those who regularly play IDP pick better than the FBG lists and those who don't are disadvantaged. I sure don't want to lose games because my defensive players are worse than yours - and that is the only reason to include them, no? I don't think you can add IDPs after we have started, any more than I can make it a 2 QB league now (even though I think that is a far better game).
And I submit this with apologies to everyone for ranting! Couldn't help it. I'll shut now and completely about both issues. And I will live patiently with whatever the group will suggests.
) And FWIW, I'm not an IDP guy and don't know how it works, never played with it and would like to not attempt it with this league because I know I wouldn't be able to compete in that area with the others who are more well versed. As somebody else said, I wouldn't be able to do an IDP draft justice at all.
