Hosting Fantasy Draft Party at Buffalo Wild Wings? (1 Viewer)

[TheMathNinja]

So this guy in my league suggested we host our draft party at Buffalo Wild Wings this year. I tried looking around online for what this really entails. It seems like they give you some kind of coupons for free food later during the year, but other than that, doesn't seem like there's a huge benefit to it. Have any of you guys done this? What are the perks, and is it worth it? We run a 12-team online auction through ESPN, 21-player rosters, so it takes a decent amount of time to draft.

 

[JHuber77]

It used to be good as you could get all you can eat wings for about $10. I switched mine over to Twin Peaks. Lots of free stuff from Hooters if your interested in that place. As long as you are drinking they will take care of you as they make the most money on alcohol, especially beer.

 

[jon_mx]

Why not go to someplace with good food and good beer?

 

[JHuber77]

That's why I do mine at twin peaks. If I switched anywhere else it would be a craft brewery that serves food.

 

[Bob Sacamano]

I've been reading REALLY good things about this place on the innerwebs lately.

 

[Apple Jack]

I've been dragged to two by a coworker. Great place if you're into horrid beer, dirty tap lines, terrible food, obnoxiously loud noise and vag repellant.

 

[Freelove]

Meh. I don't think it's as bad as some are making it out to be. I don't want anyplace Zagat rated for my FF draft. Mediocre beer, lots of college-aged waitresses to make an ### of myself flirting with, and a whole bunch of TV's to gawk at while I wait an hour for mother ####### Steve to just for the love of God make a pick already.

Still, I'd rather get a keg and fire up the grill or order in some pizzas.

 

[Zow]

So this guy in my league suggested we host our draft party at Buffalo Wild Wings this year. I tried looking around online for what this really entails. It seems like they give you some kind of coupons for free food later during the year, but other than that, doesn't seem like there's a huge benefit to it. Have any of you guys done this? What are the perks, and is it worth it? We run a 12-team online auction through ESPN, 21-player rosters, so it takes a decent amount of time to draft.

We've done it. There's no real financial perks. Benefit was they set up a table for us, had beer on tap so nobody had to host, and the service was actually quite good (because I imagine a table full of 12 or so drunk dudes are going to be good tippers compared to the average patron).

 

[Dan Lambskin]

:rollseyes:

Each location is different but usually adequate to good wings (I personally like them a lot) Multiple microbrews in addition to the usual suspect

BUT ITS A CHAIN SO IT MUST BE TERRIBLE AND YOU SHOULD ONLY GO TO PLACES WITH FREE RANGE WINGS AND ARTISAN SAUCES

Seriously if you like chicken wings and beer you'll have fun...unless you're some douchey hipster

 

[Courtjester]

I would look at local establishments as well. We usually go to this little pizza place for our draft. They charge us like $25.00 for a table and all the soft drinks we can drink, because they know they will make it up on beer and pizza orders. Look for a place like that with pitcher deals.

Though I have never done a FFL draft there, I have eaten there and my experience with Buffalo is that it tends to be expensive.

 

[wadegarrett]

Why not go to someplace with good food and good beer?

Huh??...the wings are great and they have a ton of beers.

(The rest of the food does suck though.)

 

[Tony Jabroni]

We like it. They give us a $100 gift card we spend at our year end party. The card + $1 roster moves equals a ton of beer and wings. We just get wrecked.

 

[Tony Jabroni]

We like it. They give us a $100 gift card we spend at our year end party. The card + $1 roster moves equals a ton of beer and wings. We just get wrecked.

 

[eoMMan]

I'd roll with McDonald's. Chicken nuggets for everyone!

 

[Dexter]

:rollseyes:

Each location is different but usually adequate to good wings (I personally like them a lot) Multiple microbrews in addition to the usual suspect

BUT ITS A CHAIN SO IT MUST BE TERRIBLE AND YOU SHOULD ONLY GO TO PLACES WITH FREE RANGE WINGS AND ARTISAN SAUCES

Seriously if you like chicken wings and beer you'll have fun...unless you're some douchey hipster

Dude this is FBGs. Didn't you know all of us fly to vegas and do a fantasy draft there? Of course we rent out a 3000sqft hall for 12 people and have show girls and OchoCinco turning over names.

 

[Maelstrom]

I've hosted a draft party there, it can be loud but they let us connect to one of their smaller bigscreen TVs to project our draft board for everyone to see. Financially the draft party coupons are not going to make you any $$, and the anti-chain snobbery is laughable, you know what you're getting and you aren't going to get kicked out for being too loud either.

 

[RBM]

Nobody's backyard available? Coolers of beer and meat on the gril, pretty simple.

 

[joffer]

Buffalo Wild Wings sucks

 

[bostonfred]

We like it. They give us a $100 gift card we spend at our year end party. The card + $1 roster moves equals a ton of beer and wings. We just get wrecked.

Wait, what? How does this happen?

 

[Tony Jabroni]

They give a $100 gift card for future use if you have your draft there. We did it last year and are lined up for the draft next month.

 

[The Big Guy]

Whenever I Went there, The Place Blew And I Thought It Was Way Too Loud To Host A Draft.

No clue why my phone capitalized every word in first sentence.

 

[Chemical X]

in order to really opine, I need to know your league scoring rules.

also, is it Buffalo Wild Wings or Buffalo Brothers or Wild Wing Cafe or Hurricane Grill and Wings?

 

[TheMathNinja]

If it's an ESPN online live auction, can they put anything on the screen worth showing? There isn't really a "draft board" we can make, and every player/bid is timed, so it's a little more intensive than "drink some beers and wait on a guy to put a name up on the board". Would B-Dubs make sense for this kind of thing? I feel like I get the reasoning if we're just using our own board and throwing stuff up there, but I'm less certain when it's laptops and a time crunch on the auction clock.

 

[Freelove]

We going with B-Dubs, here?

 

[George Jefferson Airplane]

local bar backroom usually works better.

 

[Leroy Hoard]

You need a good place to show off your roosters.

 

[belljr]

So all you nerds take your laptops to the bar?

 

[Slapdash]

So all you nerds take your laptops to the bar?

Draft Dominator is key

 

[belljr]

So all you nerds take your laptops to the bar?

Draft Dominator is key

i still just print out a cheatsheet

 

[Slapdash]

So all you nerds take your laptops to the bar?

Draft Dominator is key

i still just print out a cheatsheet

Probably works for most drafts, prefer to use the application for auctions to get dynamic values and call BS on others.

 

[Freelove]

So all you nerds take your laptops to the bar?

I go off memory and hope I don't do anything too stupid.

 

[George Jefferson Airplane]

gb dynamic valuing, especially as it applies to lunch menus and loose women

 

[jon_mx]

I find strip clubs work well.

 

[Freelove]

gb dynamic valuing, especially as it applies to lunch menus and loose women

I have no idea what this means, but I just wasted ten minutes on Google trying to subscribe to your newsletter.

 

[Wrigley]

:freedraftboard:

 

[Tchula]

Did it once. It was so loud you practically had to yell out your draft picks. That was on a weeknight and they put us in a back room.