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Picking spots at predraft, need help, best idea gets $20 gift car (1 Viewer)

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stokes344

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I'm the commish in a 10 team PPR, IDP league. We have an annual predraft to go over rules, league changes, etc. Part of the predraft is to have a fun random way to get our draft sports. For example last year we did mini boat races in a pool. The first one across got to pick his spot and so. We used lemons that you could bomb a boat, hence a "bounty" to knock a boat out of the race. The year before a friend and I constructed a life size receiver out of thick cardboard and threw different size footballs through a holde where the receivers hands were. We have throw darts at cards that you couldn't see and that was your pick and so on. You get the idea.

Right now we only have an idea to play a game of beer pong and whatever cup the ball goes into will correspond with the number on the bottom for your draft spot.

I'm looking for any other ideas, better ideas that I can use and if I use someone's idea, I will send a $20 visa gift card. If it's good enough, I will be happy to send it.

Our predraft is next Thursday, Aug 15th.

So I'm putting it out to all the creative football minds for some help.

 
Play holdem. Last one out has first pick. Each time someone drops out the remaining people take a shot of booze. Winner gets first pick but has to take twelve shots or ten whatever you set you league to

 
Base picks on hotness of wife/GF's. Guy with hottest wife/GF picks last. Guy with first pick at least has something...

 
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Everyone in your league writes down something that maybe not everyone would know about them. (There has to be a short definitive answer) compile a list of the questions into a test.

Then you pass out the test to everyone, have them complete it, all the answers except theirs, have them mark it out.

Have them write the answer to their question on another piece of paper, with their name so you can pull it out later and read them off and know which question youre answering

Person who gets the most right wins, ties decided by last years record/pts/whatever tiebreakers you want past that

 
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Chuck e cheese ticket contest. Everyone gets $5 worth of tokens & draft order is set by the number of tickets you can get. Then make the lowest ticket winner reimburse all the other players $5.

 
Throw darts, number you get is number you pick, if you hit too high you move to back of line. Bulls eye gets to pick his slot.

 
length of schlong divided by length of pinky finger multiplied by weight of last girl he slept with. Largest # gets first pick.

ETA: and you have until Aug 15th for the last part.

 
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Remote control helicopter, and ten numbered landing areas of different sizes. A paper plate on the floor, a cardboard box, an end table - anything flat. If you land the helicopter completely inside the circle, you get that pick. If you don't, you move to the back of the line and the next guy gets to try.

 
If you guys have money to throw at it, we do a blind bid to charity for draft position. Person who bids the highest chooses the charity that all tge bid money goes to and his/her draft position. The rest go in descending order of bids. Ties is a coin flip.

Nothing original but it's sustainable and everyone can get on board. You would be surprised how high the pot gets in a $100 league for draft position :P

 
whoever can eat the most hardboiled eggs gets first choice of draft position. when you tap out, you tap out. if two people tie, they have to fight each other with knives.

 
1 mile eat and run. For each lap (1/4 mile), you must eat a cheeseburger before running again. The fatties can handle the food, but can't handle the running. The skinny people struggle with the food. You are out if you barf. 1st across the line gets choice of picks.

 
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1 mile eat and run. For each lap (1/4 mile), you must eat a cheeseburger before running again. The fatties can handle the food, but can't handle the running. The skinny people struggle with the food. You are out if you barf. 1st across the line gets choice of picks.
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This sounds incredibly brutal.

 
Keep it to beer pong, but instead of draft slots, make it players that will be playing in the preseason game that night on ESPN (San Diego at Chicago) - starters and backups from both teams.

Whoever scores most fantasy points according to your league's scoring system gets first choice of where they pick. You have no clue who will score what amount of points because of the randomness of how much each player will play in the game. Jay Cutler could score 2 points and a random wide receiver can get a touchdown. If there's any scoring changes, this will help show the changes.

 
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Wow some awesome ideas and some very funny ones as well. Thanks to you all. I'm leaning towards the mini helicopters or the Thursday night game so far. Don't think the length of schlongs or hottest wives/gf's will go over to well but pretty funny no less. I'm going to run them by one other guy in the league who always helps me put it together and let you know.

Keep them coming. Thanks again!!!

 
What about having each team put together a mock draft and having each member of the league vote 1-10 on who they think drafted the best team.

Could use something like https://www.profootballfocus.com/fantasy-football-mock-drafts/ to do it.

The team with the most votes gets the first pick on draft position, the team with the worst gets the 2nd pick. Team with the 2nd most gets to pick 3rd, 2nd least 4th etc etc.

 
10 player pool. Put names on 10 balls, first ball sunk gets first pick, etc.

Of course you may have to figure out the order players will go in first.

 
Here's a couple:

  1. Football/Baseball throwing accuracy contest. Set up 10 empty bottles/cans of beer in a row. Each bottle/can is of varying distance in a linear fashion. The farthest bottle is draft slot 1, the next farther is draft slot 2, etc..... so the closest is draft slot 10. In reverse order of finish in 2012, that person throws for their draft slot. If they miss, the next person has a chance, etc. You get the draft slot if you hit the bottle.
  2. Game Blitz. Go to local Dave N Buster /Arcade and pick 5 games. Everyone plays each of the 5 games and add up total scores. Player with the highest score overall picks first, etc.
  3. Racing. Go to local go kart place and race each other. Draft is in order of finish.
  4. Mini Golf Tournament. Compete against each other and low score wins the first draft spot.
 
Set up last year's FF teams in Madden, and give them each the same caliber players at each of the positions you don't draft (O line, punter, etc). Then have them play each other, 5 min quarters, and watch the games play out. Encourage side betting on games. Best record/champion/whatever gets first choice of picks.

 
Couple ideas:

I will preface these ideas by saying that running is boring, and games of physical skill are only good for the right bunch of guys.

1) Send a text saying 'respond order' is the order of Draft. The order is time-stamped and documented. Requires no skill, just the luck and speed to respond first. You can do the same, but with a trivia, or league-related question, to test their memory or creativity.

2) have a 'chuck a puck' type contest where there is a lot of randomness and chaos, throwing football closest to a target on the ground. Footballs being the shape they are, this will involve a lot of random bouncing. If you want some skill, use lawn bowling or croquet-type balls. You can do the same with golf, a closest to the pin sort of affair.

3) Do a drinking/partying-type affair where one person is not in on the joke. That person is asked to respond about an innocent question, vaguely related to the League. The first name or team that person says or refers to, gets first pick/choice. If the speaker-person is enticed, led or directed, the offending joker goes to the back of the line/drinks/pays a fine and the gig is off until some other unknowing person is recruited for the same.

4) Have a horseshoe, ping-pong, chess, lawn dart, washers, bean-bag chuck, rib cook off, or other-type tourney, with the order of finish be the order of draft. An excuse to gather, jaw and drink, to be sure.

5) Have each person design/draw a new League logo. An independent judge orders them.

6) Attach the draft order to another sporting event that you all gather to watch. Each person fills in a Oscar-party/SuperBowl pool-type ballot with guesses as to who scores first, final score, half time score, leading scorer, first home run, birdie or whatever etc, and the order of finish in the ballots is the order of the Draft. This should make the thing really fun to watch and not everyone needs to be present. This is probably the best idea of the bunch.

Have fun.

 
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Kick, pass, punt.

Kick field goals for distance, throw passes for accuracy (set up barrels) and kick punts for distance and accuracy (must go 35 yards and then it's closest to sideline).

Bring ice packs. Everybody is going to be sore.

 
We do ours NBA David Stern style.

14 square envelopes with logos inside. Mix them up, place them in a row on the mantle, then open each from last to first.

 
Milk drinking contest. You get a gallon jug and 30 minutes. Hersheys syrup provided on request. Whoever drinks the most milk gets first choice of pick. FWIW I could still pull off a beer century, but I wouldn't even try this. I'd just take the last choice and make fun of everyone else's stomachaches.

 
Give everyone a pack of football cards. Count the accumulated fantasy points from last year, your scoring system or simpler like tds, per pack. Have a couple extra packs for tie breakers.

 
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Does your league use blind bidding/waiver wire money? If so, auction off draft positions using their WW dollars. Teams can then choose to buy a higher pick, but they'll have less to spend on free agents during the year.

 
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Bob for those plastic eggs you put stuff in at Easter time and each egg has a number in it. That number lets you have the choice of where to pick, so if you get number 1 you can pick any where you want in the draft and the 10th person takes what is left. If you guys are drinkers fill the bowl, tub, or kiddie pool with beer or jungle juice.

Too make it more interesting give each person 10 seconds to get an egg out of the pool and another 10 seconds to transfer the egg into plastic cup without using your hands. If you fail you have to go to the back of the line and wait your turn again. This part is optional and it can take long time, just depends on how crazy you and your friends want to get.

 
play one weekend of pre-season FF

each team gets to pick a QB, RB, RB, WR/RB, WR, WR, TE, K , DEF

top points guy gets first pick - last gets last ..... play FF to play FF !!

 
see how far each players wife/gf can shoot a ping pong. farthest shot gets first pick and so on

dont forget to youtube this event

 
Pre-season nfl pick 'em pool. Score points for each matchup winner guessed correctly - most points gets 1st pick and so on. Might have to start with week 2 at this point.

 
Another idea came to me. Have someone buy or bring over a nerf gun. They have nice ones with batteries. Set up 10 plastic cups at 25 or so feet away. Have each person blind folded and spin them around 5 full times then take off the blind fold and take a shot at the cups. If you are drinkers you can add a step by having the take a shot before they shoot but after they spin

 
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Another idea came to me. Have someone buy or bring over a nerf gun. They have nice ones with batteries. Set up 10 plastic cups at 25 or so feet away. Have each person blind folded and spin them around 5 full times then take off the blind fold and take a shot at the cups. If you are drinkers you can add a step by having the take a shot before they shoot but after they spin
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A friend of mine for some reason has 4 top end Nerf guns, he took a cardboard box that some appliance came in and cut various sized holes in it and the holes are worth varying points. We have made into kind of fun game when we are drinking at his house.

 
We played this card game a few years ago and it was a bigger hit than the hold'em tournament we had simply because it was easier and quicker. The game has a number of names including "chase the ace" and "screw your neighbor".

Set out three stacks of money (one dollar bills, quarters, poker chips, whatever) in front of each player.

Everyone gets one card per deal (deal is passed,or at least the person with first choice is passed each deal)

A king is flipped up immediately and is a blocker. No one can trade cards with a king. (The dealer calls out "King check" and everyone looks at their cards if they haven't already).

After that, the first person is asked if he wants to keep his card or trade with player number two (assuming #2 has no king). #2 then has the option to change with number three, etc the last person can trade with the top of the deck. This is where the "screw your neighbor" part comes in - if you trade a 4 and get a 3 in return, for instance, you're screwed.

If any of the players has the king (like player #3) player #2 can not pass and is stuck with the card he ends up with (and everybody knows it).

Once everyone passes or stays, flip over the cards. the player with the lowest card (or players if there is a tie, and aces are low) puts one of their three units in the pot. This is the key - you don't have to have the best card; just avoid having the worst.

When a player has nothing left to put in the pot they are out of the game and gets the lowest remaining draft position.

The last player with a pile left wins all the money and the #1 pick. This game can be played with any number of people and takes two minutes to learn. It also generates a ton of suspense as the stacks start dwindling.

 
A ghost chili eating contest. Do not participate. Trade a glass of water to the winner for the first pick.

Anything from Fear Factor involving staying in a confined space with rats, snakes, insects, etc. for the longest. Okay - that wouldn't be fun - but it would be funny to mess with your friends by making them think the event was going to be something truly terrible/terrifying and see how they react.

Exactly how much is a first round pick worth?

 
Frisbee throwing contest, either distance or accuracy. Everyone can bring their own frisbee or use the same one. Bringing their own would be interesting as people would be going out to get the highest tech frisbees available.

 
All really good ideas, thanks to you all. Talked with a co manager about all of these and he came up with and idea with frisbees where there are 1-10 numbers sitting on top of cones and each person try's to knock off the pick they want. We'll se if I go with that, which I kind of like or one of these ideas. Thanks.

 
stokes344 said:
All really good ideas, thanks to you all. Talked with a co manager about all of these and he came up with and idea with frisbees where there are 1-10 numbers sitting on top of cones and each person try's to knock off the pick they want. We'll se if I go with that, which I kind of like or one of these ideas. Thanks.
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So who won?

 
msudaisy26 said:
stokes344 said:
All really good ideas, thanks to you all. Talked with a co manager about all of these and he came up with and idea with frisbees where there are 1-10 numbers sitting on top of cones and each person try's to knock off the pick they want. We'll se if I go with that, which I kind of like or one of these ideas. Thanks.
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So who won?
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The post right before his suggests frisbees. Seems pretty obvious.

:Donate the $20 to something good:

 
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