E-Mail/Slow Draft (1 Viewer)

[ahill84006]

Has anyone here ever done a slow/e-mail type draft? We have people in our league that work so many different schedules that it is hard to get together to draft. We do not want to do away with the league, and we are looking for ways to still draft.

Any info or suggestions??

Thanks...

 

[TheWick]

they are wonderful...what site do you use for your league?

 

[lyon812]

I've done it numerous times in baseball/football in 12-team leagues. We usually alot 12-24 hours per pick, which admittedly seems long. However, it's never been a problem; everyone usually picks in a very timely manner and the long limit is mostly protection in case of life emergencies. I think in my 10+ years of doing email draft we've only had a handful of people go over the limit, in which case we skip them until they notify the commissioner they're back and ready to make a pick. Then, after the person currently on the clock picks, the original person is reinserted into the queue.

Anyway, it normally only takes a month or so to do the draft. If you have motivated owners, it can go quicker, but you always want to leave time. It really just depends on how much of the preseason/spring training you're willing to forego. That's the single downside, though the benefit is that you can end up with some nice late round pickups.

Lemme know if you have any questions, though, more than willing to share my experiences.

 

[Ministry of Pain]

A lot of leagues do it that way. In most of my leagues we ahve 12 owners in 12 states, not gonna get them all together very often.

It will get drawn out over 2-3 weeks and can take awhile so plan ahead. If it is a redraft league, you might want to start it in mid to late July even before the preseason games.

 

[Mark Wimer]

The Footballguys.com IDP staff league is slow drafted, and it works just fine. You can also combine slow draft with live draft (my longtime redraft league does it this way), with a start date and an end date/time. Then you live draft however many rounds/picks you have left to get through.

Slow drafting is a boon to many professional people with hectic/unpredictable work schedules - one of our redraft owners is an anesthesiologist, 2 more are stock brokers, another is a lawyer and municipal judge with long hours.

Try it, I think you'll like it.

 

[ahill84006]

they are wonderful...what site do you use for your league?

We use My Fantasy League.It is a 12 team 3 keeper league.

 

[ahill84006]

Thanks for all of the replies!!! What do you guys do if a person uses up their allotted time?? Skip them? Pick for them??

 

[Mark Wimer]

Thanks for all of the replies!!! What do you guys do if a person uses up their allotted time?? Skip them? Pick for them??

Skip them until they make a pick. If 4 or more picks get made while they don't pick, then we ruthlessly tease that owner for the rest of the season for giving away whichever of the picks made while he was snoozing that have a good season. "Coulda had player "X", but oh, no, you had to play the back 9 on Saturday and didn't take along your blackberry" etc. etc.Teasing other owners for missing slow draft picks is part of the fun of a slow draft, IMO.

 

[puckalicious]

The downside to this type of draft is how long it takes (I'm impatient and can't stand it), and it gives an unfair advantage of later picks having more information at their disposal than earlier draft picks. It may not seem like a big deal but if news breaks about a trade or injury in the middle of the draft it creates an unfair information advantage.

 

[fsufan]

slow drafts are great for rookie drafts

 

[Aycharaych]

We are using those kind of draft for several leagues.

You can force a better speed if you specify a person - the commish for example - who saves predraft lists if you won´t use the engine. You could use a forum instead of the engine.

Usually you skip the pick if someone isn´t in time with his pick. And you can additionally force him to mail a predraft list to the commish to avoid the problem in the next round.

You can have a lot of fun with that kind of draft ongoing over weeks. And you´ll have more time for trades!

 

[Follows Closely]

they are wonderful...what site do you use for your league?

We use My Fantasy League.It is a 12 team 3 keeper league.

mlf's off line is great! We have used it for years, it is my favorite format.

 

[ahill84006]

bump for more opinions..........i have quite a few, but gonna use this as a motivational device for the ones in my league who do not like the idea..........

 

[Anthony Borbely]

bump for more opinions..........i have quite a few, but gonna use this as a motivational device for the ones in my league who do not like the idea..........

The absolute best thing about slow drafts is more trades happen.