People missing @ draft. (1 Viewer)

[BigRed]

Just found out yesterday that there are going to be some no shows for tonights draft. I think it sucks! It's one night out of the whole year that you have to show up for a couple hours and draft your team. I feel that the integrity of the draft/league is compromised because of this. Am I overreacting?Who else has this happened to?

It really sux when someone else's real life difficulties disrupt your fantasy football experience....

Sorry, I missed the part where the OP mentioned there was a valid reason for the no-shows, and it wasn't clear that the no-shows were going to be available by phone. If they are, it's probably no big deal. However, your response seems harsh when you are ignorant as to the degree of "difficulties" and whether the draft can go on given the absentees. Frankly, the speed at which you defended absolute strangers makes you sound like the sort of person who would readily inconvenience 10 people to polish your wife/GF's nails, and then make those 10 people feel like they did something wrong for being upset about it. The OP is right to be upset if the no shows turn the draft into a hassle or even force it to be postponed. I was once delayed by 45 minutes, which was no biggie. In general though, people who can't commit to a couple hour block on a single night, when an entire league is relying upon them, stink.

Exactly.Something "legit" coming up is one thing; agreeing to it then blowing it off at the last minute means you're an inconsiderate ahole. It's the same as blowing off anything else where people were counting on you to be there and not being there throws a big monkey wrench into the whole thing. Hardly the end of the world, and yeah how much of a "thing" it is matters (eg a big money league vs some free league most owners barely pay attention to), but pretty high on the d-bag scale regardless.So do your part to stamp out Brett Favre Syndrome. Make up your mind whether you want to do this or not and stick to it. It isn't hard.

 

[Irish1995]

I've been running my league since 1996, and over the years we've had many times when an owner couldn't make the draft.

Once we had a guy just not show up. No notice, just not there. This was before cell phones were ubiquitous, so I really had no way of contacting him. Luckily I had someone at the draft to help out and she took the no show's place. When he finally showed up during round seven, I told him, "Sorry we had to move on, and the replacement likes the team she has so far and wants to play it."

We also had one owner move to Florida, and when he was unable to come back for the draft he would draft over the phone, and later over instant messenger.

At some point during all that there was another owner who could not attend, he gave me instructions like: Round 1, draft RB from this ranked list, Round 2, draft WR from this ranked list.

Two years ago an owner moved to California, and he drafted via video conference.

All of these worked out fine from my perspective, but when I rewrote the league web site before last year I wanted something better. The current software allows remote drafting with live updates. I basically was trying to anticipate the league's needs and work out the best available solution ahead of time.

So, two days before this year's draft one of my owners tells me he can't attend but will have someone login and draft for him. Fine, I say, that's what the draft module is for (even if I thought the excuse of having to help a friend move was less than great).

One would think, however, that he would brief his designated drafter on the league's roster requirements and his strategy, right?

Not so much.

Some highlight picks: Marshall Faulk, Ron Dayne, Heath Evans

 

[JamesTheScot]

Aiming for labor day weekend just seems to scream "risky" to me. Family should still come first and I'd "save" labor day weekend for my family and schedule a draft for the weekend before.

I'm down to one league now, my hometown league. We are 10 owners who all know each other well and 8 of us are married, 7 with little children. Several of us live out-of-town now and have to travel back for the auction. We also have a 53 man roster auction so it takes all day. We also have owners who are HS coaches and others whose jobs require weekend shifts from time to time.

So we schedule months in advance and our owners are mature and responsible enough to schedule off from work and make sure they provide us with a listof auction dates that do not conflict with vacations, baby-due dates, etc..

It works because all of us love fantasy football, love our league, respect the investment of time we all put into it and understand what a big deal it is to miss our auction. But we also have resigned ourselves to scheduling for very early August so if there is an emergency cancellation, we can still find another weekend day before the start of the season as a fallback.

Thrice in our league's history we've had an owner bail on our draft/auction. Once it was early during the draft and once it was very late in the auction!

It sucks to miss a draft or auction. It's pretty much ######tery if you miss for something other than an actual emergency. Anyone who missed a draft/auction by no-showing or without a good excuse should be kicked out. We've had to do it before when our league was less settled and less mature.

 

[NinerK]

I've been running my league since 1996, and over the years we've had many times when an owner couldn't make the draft.

Once we had a guy just not show up. No notice, just not there. This was before cell phones were ubiquitous, so I really had no way of contacting him. Luckily I had someone at the draft to help out and she took the no show's place. When he finally showed up during round seven, I told him, "Sorry we had to move on, and the replacement likes the team she has so far and wants to play it."

Money. Bonus points for having a chick take his team.

 

[NinerK]

Aiming for labor day weekend just seems to scream "risky" to me. Family should still come first and I'd "save" labor day weekend for my family and schedule a draft for the weekend before.

Agreed, I am officially proposing to move our draft back 1 week from Labor Day Weekend for 2009. Already talked to half the owners informally and they preferred the move. Add them to a list of OG owners from our 1st year in 2001 who will be there no matter when or where and I have to make the call as commish; Labor Day Weekend with 1-3 owners unable to attend live or 1 week earlier with 100% attendance. I prefer 100% attendance for our league as almost all owners are involved in trash talk and managing their rosters even though they are out of it.

 

[ookook]

Reason #7 why I only do slow drafts over the Internet. Gave up on live drafts 10 years ago.

 

[NinerK]

Reason #7 why I only do slow drafts over the Internet. Gave up on live drafts 10 years ago.

Bummer, I should consider myself lucky to have a live draft every year; it's awesome. Heck, we even have 6 for golf in the morning.

 

[Irish1995]

Reason #7 why I only do slow drafts over the Internet. Gave up on live drafts 10 years ago.

Reasons to have a live draft:Number one

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[BigJim®]

Fantasy football isn't important to some people, so chill out, right? Screw that. You made a commitment. Don't waste people's time if you don't plan on acting like an adult and following through with your commitments.