Myfantasyleague.com Drafting Issues (1 Viewer)

[RedskinsFan1]

Hey guys, I recently moved my league to myfantasyleague.com from ESPN, I wanted to be able to use some of the features (18 game schedule, future draft pick trades, etc.) but it became a complete debacle when we had an Live on-line draft Monday night. People were ending up with people that they weren't drafting, time was expiring not forcing anyone to make picks, and just an overall disaster. I really thought it was bc the interface was new and people werent used to it, but we re-started the draft 3 times and kept having problems. Now, I had to reschedule my draft for this Sunday morning to accommodate everyone and were doing it on ESPN. I just have 2 questions

1.) Is this a known problem with myfantasyleague.com and their live online draft system?

2.) Is MFL.com's everyday function (live scoring, waiver wire moves, etc.) as bad as their draft system?

I kind of want to just let people draft on ESPN and then load up the rosters on mfl.com to use those features I mentioned, but I am worried it will go awry like the draft

Anyways any help/advice would be appreciated

 

[comfortably numb]

Hey guys, I recently moved my league to myfantasyleague.com from ESPN, I wanted to be able to use some of the features (18 game schedule, future draft pick trades, etc.) but it became a complete debacle when we had an Live on-line draft Monday night. People were ending up with people that they weren't drafting, time was expiring not forcing anyone to make picks, and just an overall disaster. I really thought it was bc the interface was new and people werent used to it, but we re-started the draft 3 times and kept having problems. Now, I had to reschedule my draft for this Sunday morning to accommodate everyone and were doing it on ESPN. I just have 2 questions

1.) Is this a known problem with myfantasyleague.com and their live online draft system?

2.) Is MFL.com's everyday function (live scoring, waiver wire moves, etc.) as bad as their draft system?

I kind of want to just let people draft on ESPN and then load up the rosters on mfl.com to use those features I mentioned, but I am worried it will go awry like the draft

Anyways any help/advice would be appreciated

No problems here.Im going to guess something was not set up properly?

Those things seems so wacky.

People ending up with players they were not drafting?

Was someone selecting Arian Foster and John Hanson would be added to their roster?

 

[RedskinsFan1]

Hey guys, I recently moved my league to myfantasyleague.com from ESPN, I wanted to be able to use some of the features (18 game schedule, future draft pick trades, etc.) but it became a complete debacle when we had an Live on-line draft Monday night. People were ending up with people that they weren't drafting, time was expiring not forcing anyone to make picks, and just an overall disaster. I really thought it was bc the interface was new and people werent used to it, but we re-started the draft 3 times and kept having problems. Now, I had to reschedule my draft for this Sunday morning to accommodate everyone and were doing it on ESPN. I just have 2 questions

1.) Is this a known problem with myfantasyleague.com and their live online draft system?

2.) Is MFL.com's everyday function (live scoring, waiver wire moves, etc.) as bad as their draft system?

I kind of want to just let people draft on ESPN and then load up the rosters on mfl.com to use those features I mentioned, but I am worried it will go awry like the draft

Anyways any help/advice would be appreciated

No problems here.Im going to guess something was not set up properly?

Those things seems so wacky.

People ending up with players they were not drafting?

Was someone selecting Arian Foster and John Hanson would be added to their roster?

I drafted Philip Rivers and endedup with Jamaal Charles, another tried to draft Peyton Manning and got Greg Jennings, another person drafted Fitzgerald and ended up with Chris Johnson...it was a complete debacle

 

[B-Deep]

Never had a single problem with their draft

 

[dagwood]

Never had a problem as well.

I have a feeling is was more a problem with people tapping the wrong keys than with the software.

Do you all drink while you draft?

 

[footballnerd]

Had people draft wrong players on human error, was easy to pause the draft and make the change. Commish has complete control. Resetting the draft is unnecessary. One thing we noticed is if you do redo a pick, everyone should back out and come back into the room so the player wont be at the bottom of the list. MFL is the best custom site.

 

[footballnerd]

Have a feeling people were drafting from their phones. I def wouldnt risk that

 

[CurlyDumps]

Only weird thing that happened in my draft was Fred Jackson staying on the board after he was taken. Not sure if that was an issue for anyone else. One thing our commish did was turn off the draft timer, because normally the draft is in-person, but we had more guys drafting remotely this year. He did it just in case we had issues.

 

[comfortably numb]

Hey guys, I recently moved my league to myfantasyleague.com from ESPN, I wanted to be able to use some of the features (18 game schedule, future draft pick trades, etc.) but it became a complete debacle when we had an Live on-line draft Monday night. People were ending up with people that they weren't drafting, time was expiring not forcing anyone to make picks, and just an overall disaster. I really thought it was bc the interface was new and people werent used to it, but we re-started the draft 3 times and kept having problems. Now, I had to reschedule my draft for this Sunday morning to accommodate everyone and were doing it on ESPN. I just have 2 questions

1.) Is this a known problem with myfantasyleague.com and their live online draft system?

2.) Is MFL.com's everyday function (live scoring, waiver wire moves, etc.) as bad as their draft system?

I kind of want to just let people draft on ESPN and then load up the rosters on mfl.com to use those features I mentioned, but I am worried it will go awry like the draft

Anyways any help/advice would be appreciated

No problems here.Im going to guess something was not set up properly?

Those things seems so wacky.

People ending up with players they were not drafting?

Was someone selecting Arian Foster and John Hanson would be added to their roster?

I drafted Philip Rivers and endedup with Jamaal Charles, another tried to draft Peyton Manning and got Greg Jennings, another person drafted Fitzgerald and ended up with Chris Johnson...it was a complete debacle

That sounds too crazy. Almost unbelievable.To further answer your questions.

1. No

2. No

 

[GregR]

Haven't ever heard of this before. Only 2 things I can think of.

1) If you were letting your timer expire in these cases, there are 2 options the commish could have had set for how the software is supposed to handle it. One of them would be to give you the highest ADP player available, the other is to skip your pick (and the commish has to go replace the pick with a player).

2) The other thing would be... the list of players refreshed each time a player is taken, and in doing so it loses any previously selected player and defaults to the top of the list. So let's say you planned to draft Peyton Manning. Before it is actually your pick, you click on his name in advance. The team ahead of you drafts, and the list refreshes and it puts the highlight on the top player on the list (like possibly Jennings). If you just hit "Draft" you'd be drafting Jennings. So people have to remember to wait to highlight the player they want until it is their actual turn to draft.

Edit to add: The combination of players you mentioned this happening with, an owner was trying to draft a later ADP player and they ended up with an earlier ADP player. Which is what you'd expect if #2 was happening, so that might have been it?

 

[MarcO]

had similar issues but mine was an auction draft and apparently it is still in Beta. It got to a point where I had to stop the draft 3/4 of the way through (down to mostly $1 players) and have teams submit their picks by email. Some of the issues:

-software would say SOLD to ... yet it was still accepting bids.

-when one team )just this team)submitted their pick it would show up as submitted by me (commish) - not a problem until you get down to $1 players.

-2 people had Macs - one had no problem with firefox - the other had lots of lost session issues with Safari

-on a couple of occasions the auction ended before the 15 second run off - ergo Titus Young went for $6

none of the issues were deal breakers but it made for a LONG draft.

 

[RedskinsFan1]

1.) No one was drinking

2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer

3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round

4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave up

It might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

 

[GregR]

1.) No one was drinking2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave upIt might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

Well, I would definitely contact MFL support about it. They send actual replies to people not form letters.

 

[RedskinsFan1]

1.) No one was drinking2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave upIt might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

Well, I would definitely contact MFL support about it. They send actual replies to people not form letters.

I did they apologized..that was about it

 

[Fantasy Benchwarmer]

MFL is the best. I think draft was set up wrong and there was some human errors too. I had a draft a few years ago on yahoo and one owner complained in the 3rd round about their earlier picks and the other ones did too after he did. I later learned it was human error and guys didn't like their picks. Check with MFL help and try to redo the draft if all owners agree.

 

[MCguidance]

Without reading anything, I had a problem year one with the drafts until I realized people needed to make their picks with about 15 second left, not 2 or 3. We cured this by just turning off the timer and everyone was fine. People should also refresh every once in a while. Other than the antiquated interface, it was fine.

 

[Beau Tocks]

Longtime MFL'er here but never did an online draft with them. I too heard snafu's happened on the their site regarding drafts. We do our league auction drafts on ESPN and I load rosters after draft. NEVER A PROBLEM. In season MFL is very reliable,no issue's to speak of and I have used them 10+ seasons. Everyone is comfortable with the ESPN draft site so this way has worked best for us.

 

[Pipes]

Haven't ever heard of this before. Only 2 things I can think of.

2) The other thing would be... the list of players refreshed each time a player is taken, and in doing so it loses any previously selected player and defaults to the top of the list. So let's say you planned to draft Peyton Manning. Before it is actually your pick, you click on his name in advance. The team ahead of you drafts, and the list refreshes and it puts the highlight on the top player on the list (like possibly Jennings). If you just hit "Draft" you'd be drafting Jennings. So people have to remember to wait to highlight the player they want until it is their actual turn to draft.



I'd guess this is what happened. I did a draft on MFL and had this happen. I had a guy queued up 1 spot before my turn to pick and even though my queued up guy wasn't taken the highest ranked player was highlighted and I twice almost drafted the wrong guy.

 

[Squintz82]

Had similar problems last season after moving to MFL, and it was an absolute disaster. Turned out that the live online draft had major script conflicts with certain browsers which caused all kinds of problems with IE users.

Some of the teams were saying that they never saw it was their to pick, while others were trying to pick certain players when incorrect players were automatically added to their roster after a time-out. Couldn't even make it through round 1 without a team not being able to draft a player. We ended up canceling the draft and starting where we left off on Yahoo the next day, then adding the rosters manually in MFL.

I won't use the MFL live online draft ever again.

 

[CokeZero]

Had similar problems last season after moving to MFL, and it was an absolute disaster. Turned out that the live online draft had major script conflicts with certain browsers which caused all kinds of problems with IE users.

Some of the teams were saying that they never saw it was their to pick, while others were trying to pick certain players when incorrect players were automatically added to their roster after a time-out. Couldn't even make it through round 1 without a team not being able to draft a player. We ended up canceling the draft and starting where we left off on Yahoo the next day, then adding the rosters manually in MFL.

I won't use the MFL live online draft ever again.

Seems a little drastic, IMO. We just had a live draft on MFL Monday evening with no issues. Been using MFL for over 10 yrs and they are by far the best in the business. If there are any kinks in their system I'm sure they'll have it all ironed out before next season.

 

[Addai's Adidas]

We've used MFL for a while now. 16 teams drafting from the same room and around the country. All different kinds of browsers and computers.

I am the commish, I have the draft timer turned off completely because something is always coming up with that many people. I can stop the draft, take back picks, whatever, Very easy this way.

 

[MarcO]

We've used MFL for a while now. 16 teams drafting from the same room and around the country. All different kinds of browsers and computers.I am the commish, I have the draft timer turned off completely because something is always coming up with that many people. I can stop the draft, take back picks, whatever, Very easy this way.

can you roll back picks in an auction draft? - I could not figure out how to do this at the time. Had to go to the commish setup and unload the player that was the last pick. But it kept the amount that was paid for the player decremented off the teams' salary cap. Had to go and adjust salary cap dollars during the draft. - not fun. I'm sure there has to be an easier way but I couldn't figure it out at the time.

 

[GregR]

We've used MFL for a while now. 16 teams drafting from the same room and around the country. All different kinds of browsers and computers.I am the commish, I have the draft timer turned off completely because something is always coming up with that many people. I can stop the draft, take back picks, whatever, Very easy this way.

can you roll back picks in an auction draft? - I could not figure out how to do this at the time. Had to go to the commish setup and unload the player that was the last pick. But it kept the amount that was paid for the player decremented off the teams' salary cap. Had to go and adjust salary cap dollars during the draft. - not fun. I'm sure there has to be an easier way but I couldn't figure it out at the time.

Commish -> Setup -> Delete Auctions

 

[WisWolvrns]

I've been doing online drafts with MFL for over a decade and never had the issues you had. The closest we had was IE browser type stuff because some guys tried to use old versions of IE (like 6.0 and earlier), I think everyone now just uses Firefox. Try that and/or have people refresh before making their pick when they are on the clock and probably don't have anyone wait till the last seconds if using a timer. (we never used a timer on MFL, just the draft dominator timer as a way of just keeping people moving, but with some people in other locations of the world, I didn't want auto picks or auto skipping happening)

Have not had issues with MFL in the other questions either. Lots of customization is available though and whatever problems we ever did have was do to not setting something up right and was easily fixed. MFL support has been good in the past, but I haven't had to contact them for the past 4+ years, so can't attest to their current customer service.

 

[swirvenirvin]

Completely believable to me. I had had several different problems in the past, such as people would make their pick, and then it wouldn'tt show up for 15-20 seconds later, then the closk would be 15-20 seconds in for the next player. Have also had it where someone was drafted and the draft board still showed this player available. This ended up being OK since for that draft we were doing it live and I was just entering the picks in, but I am sure if everyone was online it could have screwed up more things.

Also at the team roster page that is on the draft page, it said I took Drew Brees as my 1st round pick, but actually drafted Forte.

Last year they gave me $30 back their draft was so bad

 

[swirvenirvin]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

 

[hutchins929]

No, I haven't had any problems with them in the past.

I'd be pissed though if I was on that team. Especially, because all the teams now know who is planning on taking so-n-so in the first round.

 

[Addai's Adidas]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

Go away. No one said he was stupid, but I'm about to say you are!

 

[footballnerd]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

like i said earlier, commish has complete control, can start/stop/reset the clock for every pick, retract picks and make picks for everyone. restarting a draft is unnecessary.

 

[doeseatplace]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

Go away. No one said he was stupid, but I'm about to say you are!

Yeah, I really don't understand AA's post. The OP came here for help; no one in the pool was at his draft as far as I know. So these responses are actually trying to provide assistance. I didn't read any poster calling OP leaguemates stupid; they were simply trying to throw ideas against the wall to help him figure the very bizarre situation out

 

[SmoovySmoov]

Commish who's been using MFL for years. Never had any of those problems. If I had to guess, I would say the clock wasn't set right, and the picks were expiring, to which autodraft picks were made. You should be able to tell on the Draft Report if it was an autopick.

 

[Bobcat10]

We had some weird issues like that this year.

Our league is really two drafts going at once (24 people in two 12 team leagues), so that could lead to some glitches though. You can toggle back and forth from our AFC to NFC if you wanted to view what was happening in the other draft.

But if the timer ran out, and the commish paused and went back, it seemed like sometimes a refresh was needed of the draft room from certain individuals. There is even a link near the bottom right on the page that says it will refresh for you. It happened to me once, and even when I left the draft room and came back in it said the draft was still paused, but people were saying the timer was running.

I'm fine with the site though. Although that is a crappy draft interface imo.

 

[Squintz82]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

like i said earlier, commish has complete control, can start/stop/reset the clock for every pick, retract picks and make picks for everyone. restarting a draft is unnecessary.

Commish who's been using MFL for years. Never had any of those problems. If I had to guess, I would say the clock wasn't set right, and the picks were expiring, to which autodraft picks were made. You should be able to tell on the Draft Report if it was an autopick.

We had a timed draft with 60 seconds per pick. On the first attempt, several teams didn't see the clock start at all and ended up auto drafting. This happened 3 more times before I checked all of the settings and ensured them to be correct. No one was on auto pick, and the clock was set correctly. I had everyone log out and log back in, which seemed to fix the problem temporarily. We reached the 7th pick this time when it happened again, and next 4 teams auto-drafted without warning. All 12 owners were either using IE 8.0+, Firefox, or Chrome. I didn't feel like dealing with 18 rounds of these issues, so we decided to draft from Yahoo instead. When you have to stop several times per round to fix an issue, it defeats the purpose of a timed draft IMO. But honestly, judging from the posts in this thread with similar issues, it seems the problem is with the MFL draft clock and not so much the platform as a whole. I did debug the draft platform in IE and noticed tons of java-script conflicts, however.Besides the live online draft though, I love the MFL platform.

 

[kinghill]

I've used MFL's draft room for 6 years and haven't had any problems like that, BUT I as Commish enter all the picks. The entire league is in one room (some with laptops, some without) and I just enter all the picks. And I haven't used the draft timer.

 

[swirvenirvin]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

Go away. No one said he was stupid, but I'm about to say you are!

Easy internet tough guy, please don't call me stupid and hurt my feelings Read the posts above some were insinuating it was user error or he set it up wrong or they were all drunk

 

[swirvenirvin]

Also I love how everyone else who hasn't had problems think your league is full or morons who drafted from their phones and hit the wrong button when drafting a player, or you set it up wrong and are basically calling you out. Because their drafts have gone good, everyone's must have or they are stupid!

like i said earlier, commish has complete control, can start/stop/reset the clock for every pick, retract picks and make picks for everyone. restarting a draft is unnecessary.

Obviously this has not happened to you before, as commish you lose control because everything is delayed 30 seconds. Then you hit the button over and over because it is not responding to you and then it reverts the last 4 picks and makes even a bigger mess.

 

[MarcO]

We've used MFL for a while now. 16 teams drafting from the same room and around the country. All different kinds of browsers and computers.I am the commish, I have the draft timer turned off completely because something is always coming up with that many people. I can stop the draft, take back picks, whatever, Very easy this way.

can you roll back picks in an auction draft? - I could not figure out how to do this at the time. Had to go to the commish setup and unload the player that was the last pick. But it kept the amount that was paid for the player decremented off the teams' salary cap. Had to go and adjust salary cap dollars during the draft. - not fun. I'm sure there has to be an easier way but I couldn't figure it out at the time.

Commish -> Setup -> Delete Auctions

thanks - saw that but it looked pretty ominous. they should probably rename the button - delete last auction pick

 

[TheCommish]

Run the draft yourself (i.e. you, the commissioner, are the only one logged on to the live draft screen). Set the time allowed per pick to zero minutes and zero seconds. That way, the clock doesn't expire and do something you don't want it to do. Everyone announces their picks, and you just enter them as they occur. That's what my league does. One of our owners has a son that has handled the draft input for a couple of years now, so I don't even have to do anything except draft my team. It's awesome.

 

[Toomuchnv]

MFL's online auction draft system is a joke...I used it for my league last year and it was horrendous....they really need to upgrade to a flash or java based draft room so the timers for bidding are more accurate. Until they do my suggestion would be to draft on ESPN(free) and then transfer the rosters over to mfl. That is what I did this year and it was much better.

 

[BuddyKnuckles]

So, everyone realizes that OP joined 2 days ago and this is his only thread right?

 

[Sweet Love]

Without reading anything, I had a problem year one with the drafts until I realized people needed to make their picks with about 15 second left, not 2 or 3. We cured this by just turning off the timer and everyone was fine. People should also refresh every once in a while. Other than the antiquated interface, it was fine.

The timer thing is a good point. I was looking for Keller at one point on MFL, it got down 2-3 seconds when I had him highlighted, hit "draft" a couple of times and ended up with Best (who I forgot to pull from my list and had to live with). A couple of days later in another league, I swear I hit the draft button on Yahoo with under one second and got the guy I wanted.We also had a quirky thing last year in our Keep 3 on MFL that would not allow the guy with the first pick to select Peyton Manning...knowing he was questionable to play, at first, no one said anything (the system kept selecting Forte for him) and after 20 minutes we were literally screaming at him in the chat room that even the system knows better than he does and doesn't want him to have Manning...he was stubborn and finally got Manning, and now is the butt of drafting jokes going forward.

 

[Agent575]

1.) No one was drinking

2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer

3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round

4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave up

It might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

Well, I would definitely contact MFL support about it. They send actual replies to people not form letters.

I did they apologized..that was about it

That does not sound like MFL's support at all. With all of the options that they provide, it is fairly easy for someone who is relatively new to their system to to have a setting or two that needs to be tweaked. If you go to their forums (and possibly here) you could always get someone who has been using it for years to log in as commish and check everything out for you.

 

[BuddyKnuckles]

1.) No one was drinking

2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer

3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round

4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave up

It might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

Well, I would definitely contact MFL support about it. They send actual replies to people not form letters.

I did they apologized..that was about it

That does not sound like MFL's support at all. With all of the options that they provide, it is fairly easy for someone who is relatively new to their system to to have a setting or two that needs to be tweaked. If you go to their forums (and possibly here) you could always get someone who has been using it for years to log in as commish and check everything out for you.

It's slash and burn campaign by one of their competitors. Username = Generic "RedskinsFan1", joined the day of the OP, no other posts, vastly different experience than anyone else has had with MFL.it's a pretty common tactic online, but they're not very good at it

 

[RedskinsFan1]

1.) No one was drinking

2.) No one was on their phone, everyone was at home on their computer

3.) We re-started the draft 3 times, each time I told everyone be careful when you draft yet it was still continuing...we never even got out of the 1st round

4.) Final Straw was in during the 3rd attempt someone kept trying to draft Peyton Manning, but endedup with Greg Jennings. I stopped the draft "Un-DId" last pick 2 or 3 times and he kept ending up with Greg Jennings, thats when we gave up

It might sound crazy but these are all really good friends and people who have been playing fantasy football for a while. So I'm not really not sure what happened. I would of suspected user error too but by the 3rd attempt it just seemed to be something else was wrong. I also experienced it when I tried to draft Rivers and got Charles during the 3rd attempt. The first 2 times I got who I wanted so I know I was doing it right the first 2 times but then somehow it didnt work, so that was another reason I started believe it was the system not the users. Regardless, Ill be fine until next year with drafting since were just going to go ESPN to draft but from what I am reading I guess everything else about mfl.com people seem to be satisfied?

Well, I would definitely contact MFL support about it. They send actual replies to people not form letters.

I did they apologized..that was about it

That does not sound like MFL's support at all. With all of the options that they provide, it is fairly easy for someone who is relatively new to their system to to have a setting or two that needs to be tweaked. If you go to their forums (and possibly here) you could always get someone who has been using it for years to log in as commish and check everything out for you.

It's slash and burn campaign by one of their competitors. Username = Generic "RedskinsFan1", joined the day of the OP, no other posts, vastly different experience than anyone else has had with MFL.it's a pretty common tactic online, but they're not very good at it

Dude its not a "slash and burn campaign" I can show you all the ticket submissions Ive sent to mfl.com and all the corresponding emails between us. Also I joined under Redskins Fan 1 because I'm a Redskins Fan that lives in DC, and all my fantasy UN's are Redskins related. Finally, I joined the site to find an unbiased opinion of people who might have had the same problem. Go ahead and search "Myfantasyleague.com drafting issues". You know what you get? You get about the first 20 pages of links to mfl.com. Not exactly easy way to find out if this is common or not. And I PURPOSELY joined the site to have this questions answered because it was the first year I tried mfl.com. Moron...