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Live and Virtual draft help (1 Viewer)
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Ilov80s
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Galileo
Footballguy
Galileo
Footballguy
You can pay if you want to impress your league mates, but the free version will do more than you need it to.
Craig_MiamiFL
Footballguy
Ugh at these memories. The reason I quit hosting live drafts. Every year it happened 2-3 owners couldn't make it last minute (when I was at venue or on way to).
Hopefully you got a little bit of an advance. This was many years ago but I had to sit on phone/chat room with the owners. And just made things just drag on forever for hours and hours. Just killed all the fun out of the experience. Hopefully bit easier now with Zoom, Skype...
Hopefully you got a little bit of an advance. This was many years ago but I had to sit on phone/chat room with the owners. And just made things just drag on forever for hours and hours. Just killed all the fun out of the experience. Hopefully bit easier now with Zoom, Skype...
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James Bond
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Back in the day (pre-internet, pre-cell phones, and even pre-magazines), we had one guy who always said he would attend our live draft but then ended up with some conflict that kept him away. This one year, we had decided to do the draft at our workplace because it had a conference room with enough room for twelve people around the table. So we decided to order some pizza, bring in some beverages, and hold the draft there. Sure enough, this same guy then told us that he would be out of state on draft day.
The conference room did have a phone in it so the missing owner's best friend decides to call him from the conference room phone. Now at that time we were required to check our office phone logs monthly and account for any long distance calls. If they weren't attributable to a particular client (aka personal calls) we had to reimburse the company for any and all calls. This guy stayed on that same phone call for the entire three hour draft.
No one had actually reserved the conference room since it was after hours. No one else was around because we scheduled the draft to start around 7:00. Everyone else had gone home. I have no idea what that call must have cost the company. At the time, long distance calls were pretty pricey. None of us ever admitted to that call for fear of getting fired.
The conference room did have a phone in it so the missing owner's best friend decides to call him from the conference room phone. Now at that time we were required to check our office phone logs monthly and account for any long distance calls. If they weren't attributable to a particular client (aka personal calls) we had to reimburse the company for any and all calls. This guy stayed on that same phone call for the entire three hour draft.
No one had actually reserved the conference room since it was after hours. No one else was around because we scheduled the draft to start around 7:00. Everyone else had gone home. I have no idea what that call must have cost the company. At the time, long distance calls were pretty pricey. None of us ever admitted to that call for fear of getting fired.
simsarge
Footballguy
I should have made it clearer that by "laptop" i didn't mean a FBG-esque $2500 macbook pro with a $500 ultra 4K webcam mounted on it. I meant my POS $250 Acer with a POS webcam. Everything went smooth as butter until they couldn't see anything other than the fuzzy wuzzy resemblance of a draft board.
Ended up doing the phone thing and it suuuuuucked. I knew it would, and I never allow it. Either you show up, your proxy shows up, or fuhgetabout it. But I caved because I thought I had the tech problem fixed and I'd committed to having them virtually there.
Live and learn
