Live Drafts with some people present, some online (1 Viewer)

[OneEastRiver]

We have a draft coming up where 10 people will be attending live, and we have 2 out of town people that have to draft online.

1. Will this work if we have a couple laptops at the location of the live draft so we can enter picks using the online draft format? The Commish (me) puts the picks in for those in attendance, while the absent folks enter their picks at their home computer during their turn?

1a. I'm assuming the Commish can enter picks for other teams (on CBS), so that we don't have to have 10 laptops with us at the live location. Is this true?

2. Or should I give up on having a live draft, and we all just stay at home and use our own computers?

The bottom line is that we have 1 person in L.A., 1 in Boston, and 10 in New York. Please advise.

 

[Gr00vus]

We have a draft coming up where 10 people will be attending live, and we have 2 out of town people that have to draft online.1. Will this work if we have a couple laptops at the location of the live draft so we can enter picks using the online draft format? The Commish (me) puts the picks in for those in attendance, while the absent folks enter their picks at their home computer during their turn?1a. I'm assuming the Commish can enter picks for other teams (on CBS), so that we don't have to have 10 laptops with us at the live location. Is this true?2. Or should I give up on having a live draft, and we all just stay at home and use our own computers?The bottom line is that we have 1 person in L.A., 1 in Boston, and 10 in New York. Please advise.

Option 1 works, we've done it in a couple of leagues I've been in for a few years now and it works. It's not as much fun, and it can get tedious if someone's having connectivity problems, but it works. Make sure you've got your chat room (or whatever conferencing application you'll be using) set up well ahead of when you'll actually start drafting - it always takes longer than you think it should.

 

[shamrock84]

This is what we did in 2 drafts this year and it worked great with MFL. It's much more fun to get together even if it's just a few guys. IMO the draft doesn't have the same effect with everyone sitting at home on the computer.

 

[SFBayDuck]

We have two groups (one in Portland, one in San Francisco), and then a few other folks spread around the country. We just use a chat room (AOL IM), all picks are entered there. Works pretty well, although for those sitting in a room by themselves it sucks. But at least the rest of us can get together, so it's the best we can do considering we have 18 owners in 6 places around the country.

 

[OneEastRiver]

Thanks for the good info

We're going to give it a shot.

 

[OneEastRiver]

We have a draft coming up where 10 people will be attending live, and we have 2 out of town people that have to draft online.1. Will this work if we have a couple laptops at the location of the live draft so we can enter picks using the online draft format? The Commish (me) puts the picks in for those in attendance, while the absent folks enter their picks at their home computer during their turn?1a. I'm assuming the Commish can enter picks for other teams (on CBS), so that we don't have to have 10 laptops with us at the live location. Is this true?2. Or should I give up on having a live draft, and we all just stay at home and use our own computers?The bottom line is that we have 1 person in L.A., 1 in Boston, and 10 in New York. Please advise.

Option 1 works, we've done it in a couple of leagues I've been in for a few years now and it works. It's not as much fun, and it can get tedious if someone's having connectivity problems, but it works. Make sure you've got your chat room (or whatever conferencing application you'll be using) set up well ahead of when you'll actually start drafting - it always takes longer than you think it should.

Do you find that a simple chat room (through AOL IM, etc.) works better than using the draft room at sportsline, yahoo, mfl, etc.?

 

[2Young2BBald]

We have a draft coming up where 10 people will be attending live, and we have 2 out of town people that have to draft online.1. Will this work if we have a couple laptops at the location of the live draft so we can enter picks using the online draft format? The Commish (me) puts the picks in for those in attendance, while the absent folks enter their picks at their home computer during their turn?1a. I'm assuming the Commish can enter picks for other teams (on CBS), so that we don't have to have 10 laptops with us at the live location. Is this true?2. Or should I give up on having a live draft, and we all just stay at home and use our own computers?The bottom line is that we have 1 person in L.A., 1 in Boston, and 10 in New York. Please advise.

Option 1 works, we've done it in a couple of leagues I've been in for a few years now and it works. It's not as much fun, and it can get tedious if someone's having connectivity problems, but it works. Make sure you've got your chat room (or whatever conferencing application you'll be using) set up well ahead of when you'll actually start drafting - it always takes longer than you think it should.

Do you find that a simple chat room (through AOL IM, etc.) works better than using the draft room at sportsline, yahoo, mfl, etc.?

Use the online draft!!! I do two this way. One with CBS Sportsline and one with FANBALL. We draft late, on Monday and one Tuesday of next week. We have done the same late thing the last few years and never crashed. Each has a chat or message function to be used as needed. The commish has the numbers of those drafting online and can call if no response in short order. We use a 3 minute clock on FANBALL. No clock on CBS, but the commish keeps it rolling.

 

[WisWolvrns]

it will make for a long day for the commish if you try and input the picks for everyone. my suggestion would be to atleast pair up owners to laptops and they can enter their picks on the online site.

another suggestion, use multiple browsers (like an AOL, IE, Firefox) since you should be able to login as different owners that way and just bounce round the browsers to enter picks instead of having to logout and log back in for each owner pick.

Also, make sure you have phone numbers for the out of town owners, just in case network issue arise and have a backup internet method at your place with some UPS's if necessary. As you don't want to loose your connection and have a room of owners all off line.

 

[shredhead]

IM and/or cell phones! Worked for us one year. A little bit slower waiting for the IM or dialing the phone, but all in all it worked well.

 

[Gr00vus]

We have a draft coming up where 10 people will be attending live, and we have 2 out of town people that have to draft online.1. Will this work if we have a couple laptops at the location of the live draft so we can enter picks using the online draft format? The Commish (me) puts the picks in for those in attendance, while the absent folks enter their picks at their home computer during their turn?1a. I'm assuming the Commish can enter picks for other teams (on CBS), so that we don't have to have 10 laptops with us at the live location. Is this true?2. Or should I give up on having a live draft, and we all just stay at home and use our own computers?The bottom line is that we have 1 person in L.A., 1 in Boston, and 10 in New York. Please advise.

Option 1 works, we've done it in a couple of leagues I've been in for a few years now and it works. It's not as much fun, and it can get tedious if someone's having connectivity problems, but it works. Make sure you've got your chat room (or whatever conferencing application you'll be using) set up well ahead of when you'll actually start drafting - it always takes longer than you think it should.

Do you find that a simple chat room (through AOL IM, etc.) works better than using the draft room at sportsline, yahoo, mfl, etc.?

We just use a regular chat client - MiRC or something like- that on one of the public chat circuits (DALnet, etc.). It works fine, the comissioner runs the draft, other owners present take turns entering in selections.