New Draft Methods (1 Viewer)

[Ryan99]

I was thinking about other ways of drafting players, and I came up with some interesting methods. Has anyone heard of these or things like them?

1) You should be able to draft waiver spots (for those leagues that use the waiver wire). In a snake draft, you just draft a spot like drafting a player (what round pick do you think the top waiver spot is worth?) and in an auction, you can buy a waiver spot ($ for top spot?)

2) Instead of doing a traditional auction where a player is nominated and people bid, the draft spots are put up for auction in order, and the winner of each immediately picks a player. So its kind of a combination of a snake draft and an auction. Since you're bidding on a draft spot, rather than a player, you don't know who the winner will draft with that spot until they've won the spot, so there's risk of someone scooping up a player that you wanted (like in snake).

3) This one is my favorite. Its a snake draft, but instead of the draft slots being set randomly (or by last years' results or whatever), they're set by auction. Since its not an auction draft, you don't bid money (or 'virtual' money), you bid draft picks. In other words, what round (or rounds') draft pick(s) would you be willing to give up to get the first draft slot? 4, 6, 8, none? So everyone bids a round (or none), and the highest bid gets that draft slot and loses the round pick that they bid (if there's a tie, each person in the tie bids an additional round's pick etc. until there's not a tie, if both bid no additional round the winner can be assigned randomly). So its a snake draft but you can get any slot you want if you're willing to give up enough.

Anyway, what do you think? Any other interesting draft method you know of?

 

[RoyGBiv]

Could be interesting if I had enough time figure it all out.

You would need an interface that would make this easy to keep track of.

I think for people who play in multiple leagues, this may be a bit much. But if I played in just one I think I might enjoy something more complex.

 

[Captain Hook]

You almost got it with #2

Not new and not for free leagues, but

Round 1 draft spots are bid for - with REAL money

so 1.01 is auctioned off - winner takes his seat at the table and announces his pick

then 1.02 is auctioned off - winner takes his seat at the table and announces his pic

Each team can only have one pick in the first round

Minimum bid is $1 (if two guys left for 11/12 and they don't bid you flip a coin, winner gets his choice for a dollar - loser gets the last spot for $5)

Then everyone is at their round one draft spots at the table, so now auction off Round 2 in the same manner.

Draft reverts to snake draft at 3.01 with 1.01 on the clock

All the money from the draft slot bidding is divided by 16 and the high score for each week gets the skin - 1/16 of the bid pool

If your league is high stakes this makes it even better.

If your league is not then you will raise a little money (but you will be surprised at how competitive people get even when they said they wouldn't bid) And the number one pick is not a lock to win - I have seen every draft spot win using this method.

If your league is high stakes you can also bid real money each week for free agents (assuming you use FAAB). I would cap that with whatever your league feels comfortable (in the high stakes contests that have/will use this, it is usually $1000 for the season just like their other FAAB). The FA money added to the slot bidding money means you could have the winner each Monday night getting a nice fat check - it really helps people who had a bad week in their other league(s) and invigorates them for the new week.

All teams in the league are eligible to win the Weekly $kin even if they are not in your leagues playoffs - keeps everyone involved and interested all season.