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TheWinz said:
rzrback77 said:
Has anybody in the thread drafted on Sleeper?
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Never. Am just now getting used to the website. I'm old and will probably accidentally go on autodraft and end up with 6 defenses.
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new to sleeper also, plus I go on vacation the day before my draft. we plan on hitting some wineries that day. at least the draft is at 10 am. hopefully the draft will go quickly. we plan to eat lunch at the first winery.
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Scoresman said:
I look forward to my 7 am Pacific Time draft. :coffee:

This will be my only draft where I will not be loaded up with beer, pizza, chili, etc. by the time the first pick hits.
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7am PDT drafter here as well. I plan on setting up Draft Dominator the night before, getting up at 6:55am, making a cup of coffee and drafting from my iPad since I expect the coffee to kick in about 10 minutes into the draft, so I’ll need to do a few picks from the throne. Over share? ;)
 
joey said:
Scoresman said:
I look forward to my 7 am Pacific Time draft. :coffee:

This will be my only draft where I will not be loaded up with beer, pizza, chili, etc. by the time the first pick hits.
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7am PDT drafter here as well. I plan on setting up Draft Dominator the night before, getting up at 6:55am, making a cup of coffee and drafting from my iPad since I expect the coffee to kick in about 10 minutes into the draft, so I’ll need to do a few picks from the throne. Over share? ;)
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One easy way to make sure you didn't have a 0700 am draft was to not select that as an option. Late draft for me....in fact I am in the last possible draft slot so I will get all the mock draft info from all you other drafts and use that to sufficiently screw up my draft. Can't wait.
 
Gally said:
joey said:
Scoresman said:
I look forward to my 7 am Pacific Time draft. :coffee:

This will be my only draft where I will not be loaded up with beer, pizza, chili, etc. by the time the first pick hits.
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7am PDT drafter here as well. I plan on setting up Draft Dominator the night before, getting up at 6:55am, making a cup of coffee and drafting from my iPad since I expect the coffee to kick in about 10 minutes into the draft, so I’ll need to do a few picks from the throne. Over share? ;)
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One easy way to make sure you didn't have a 0700 am draft was to not select that as an option. Late draft for me....in fact I am in the last possible draft slot so I will get all the mock draft info from all you other drafts and use that to sufficiently screw up my draft. Can't wait.
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Sure but you understand we all have lives and lots of variables that make us have to make choices.
The weekend days/times were the only ones that worked for me, for better or worse.
Early wake up and morning draft is the best choice for me of the options provided

And perhaps my wife doesn’t realize til the draft is ending that I’m in Yet Another Fantasy League ;)
 
joey said:
And perhaps my wife doesn’t realize til the draft is ending that I’m in Yet Another Fantasy League ;)
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I just wrote the draft time on our full-length mirror in grease pencil, then took her shopping for a new dress. She was admiring herself when she got the "bad news".
 
I got an email saying I still need to accept my invite to the Sleeper league even though I've already accepted and am in the league.

I also got a request on Sleeper from FBG Commish to verify my email. I assume these two are related.
 
Scoresman said:
I got an email saying I still need to accept my invite to the Sleeper league even though I've already accepted and am in the league.

I also got a request on Sleeper from FBG Commish to verify my email. I assume these two are related.
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Don't you dare sneak out of 0062!
 
League 71, I should probably go read the rules.

Good luck to everyone, and thanks to Joe and team for setting it up.
 
I assume there's a grace period for people to accept their invite? My league still has one spot available according to Sleeper. I assume this is for someone who hasn't accepted the invite yet.
 
Scoresman said:
I assume there's a grace period for people to accept their invite? My league still has one spot available according to Sleeper. I assume this is for someone who hasn't accepted the invite yet.
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I think the period is up today (thus my panic).
 
My league is full as well, but no other Shark Pool regulars. :crying:
I'm new to Sleeper, so have no idea if draft spots have already been assigned. Perhaps I should play around on their site a bit.
 
TheWinz said:
My league is full as well, but no other Shark Pool regulars. :crying:
I'm new to Sleeper, so have no idea if draft spots have already been assigned. Perhaps I should play around on their site a bit.
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I'm new to Sleeper also and have played around at the site a bit. One thing I've found out is that you CAN NOT adjust their rankings of players on the site's draft list to your personal rankings. I did a few mocks there to assess the drafting mechanics and found them pretty easy to adjust to. I'd advise everyone to do a few versus the cpu.
 
It doesn't appear as if Draft Order has been set in my League (Division 0029). The Draft Room has the Teams in the order in which they accepted invite to join the League.

My League has been full for some time, but no activity besides Managers registering, and a most changing their Team names from their sleeper handles to something else.

None of their new Team names appear to be footballguys Forum handles.

We got the same message in League Chat from FBGCommish about a week ago, that every League received, politely suggesting everyone make their Team name identical to their fbg forum or discord handle, but it appears to have been ignored. I followed it up with a message of my own, 3 days ago, with no response.

Discord is not my thing, but I searched Membership here for my Leaguemates, and came up with nothing.

I'm kind of disappointed that there appear to be no recognizable Shark Pool/FFA regulars or fbg Staff Members in my League, because that's the #1 reason I chose to participate in these Leagues - to compete with some of you whom I've interacted with for decades. I get the feeling many of us Board Regulars joined with the same idea in mind.

I'm in a boatload of National High Stakes Contests, and my other Leagues all involve a significant $$$ investment. The only free Leagues I participate in are Scott Fish Bowl, and Draft-and-go best-ball Leagues that require no in-season management. A few years ago, I quit several free Leagues out of respect to the other Managers, due to my prioritizing my $$$ Leagues over them, leading to potentially sloppy Team management. I hadn't planned on ever playing in a free League again, but the idea of a mega-League leading to a Tournament of Board Regulars gave it the juice to compel me to join.

Hindsight being 20/20, maybe the best way for Joe/Joey to have handled the invites would have been to send them in two phases. The first, putting all the Forum Regulars in Leagues together, and the second, inviting all other premium subscribers who either don't use the forums, or are 'read-only' types.

I'm fairly certain the Board software contains a pretty easy way to figure out who's who.

As I type this, it occurs to me that since no League's Draft Orders have been determined, no Managers who have signed up have any 'skin in the game' in any Leagues they've joined, so I'm going to pose the question:

@Joey Wright, with about 3 weeks until drafts begin, and with no Draft Orders set in place yet, would you please consider transferring Board Regulars out of the Leagues they've been arbitrarily assigned to, into Leagues where we can compete with each other?

I think there's enough of a time window, and this would absolutely be a hit-it-out-of-the-park walk off home run with the folks who demonstrably show their passion not only for the footballguys site, but the Forums you've created for our discourse, that many of us have been active in since they were conceived, going on 2 decades.

Thanks for your consideration!
 
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Scoresman said:
My league finally filled up.

Does anyone have draft spots assigned yet? Anxious to get mocking.
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TheWinz said:
My league is full as well, but no other Shark Pool regulars. :crying:
I'm new to Sleeper, so have no idea if draft spots have already been assigned. Perhaps I should play around on their site a bit.
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FBG Commish posted in my league chat (116) that draft order would be randomly set about a week before the draft.
 
nittanylion said:
It doesn't appear as if Draft Order has been set in my League (Division 0029). The Draft Room has the Teams in the order in which they accepted invite to join the League.

My League has been full for some time, but no activity besides Managers registering, and a most changing their Team names from their sleeper handles to something else.

None of their new Team names appear to be footballguys Forum handles.

We got the same message in League Chat from FBGCommish about a week ago, that every League received, politely suggesting everyone make their Team name identical to their fbg forum or discord handle, but it appears to have been ignored. I followed it up with a message of my own, 3 days ago, with no response.

Discord is not my thing, but I searched Membership here for my Leaguemates, and came up with nothing.

I'm kind of disappointed that there appear to be no recognizable Shark Pool/FFA regulars in my League, because that's the #1 reason I chose to participate in these Leagues - to compete with some of you whom I've interacted with for decades. I get the feeling many of us Board Regulars joined with the same idea in mind.

I'm in a boatload of National High Stakes Contests, and my other Leagues all involve a significant $$$ investment. The only free Leagues I participate in are Scott Fish Bowl, and Draft-and-go best-ball Leagues that require no in-season management. A few years ago, I quit several free Leagues out of respect to the other Managers, due to my prioritizing my $$$ Leagues over them, leading to potentially sloppy Team management. I hadn't planned on every playing in a free League again, but the idea of a mega-League leading to a Tournament of Board Regulars gave it the juice to compel me to join.

Hindsight being 20/20, maybe the best way for Joe/Joey to have handled the invites would have been to send them in two phases. The first, putting all the Forum Regulars in Leagues together, and the second, inviting all other premium subscribers who either don't use the forums, or are 'read-only' types.

I'm fairly certain the Board software contains a pretty easy way to figure out who's who.

As I type this, it occurs to me that since no League's Draft Orders have been determined, no Managers who have signed up have any 'skin in the game' in any Leagues they've joined, so I'm going to pose the question:

@Joey Wright, with about 3 weeks until drafts begin, and with no Draft Orders set in place yet, would you please consider transferring Board Regulars out of the Leagues they've been arbitrarily assigned to, into Leagues where we can compete with each other?

I think there's enough of a time window, and this would absolutely be a hit-it-out-of-the-park walk off home run with the folks who demonstrably show their passion not only for the footballguys site, but the Forums you've created for our discourse, that many of us have been active in since they were conceived, going on 2 decades.

Thanks for your consideration!
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When I started to crunch the numbers in my head about "number of leagues" the math pushed me to a quick conclusion that the leagues would be 95% or more of people that aren't on the board or are staff. FBG premium subscribers needs to be well into the tens of thousands in order to support the number of staff that work at FBG and the marketing that I've seen.

There's really only a couple hundred board regulars (?) of which only a few dozen express interest. And I don't really go on discord but I checked it out and from what I could gather, only a few active conversations were going on. I also couldn't for the life of me figure out how to register myself correctly and wasn't able to post.

So while my initial excitement was driven by the sentiment you describe above, I realized before the invite hit that the leagues would be mostly randos. I fully support what nittanylion suggests above. I'll enjoy playing with InDitkaWeTrust in 0033 but would enjoy 10X more if I was playing with board regulars and a staff member. A man can dream.
 
greenmountaingoat said:
nittanylion said:
It doesn't appear as if Draft Order has been set in my League (Division 0029). The Draft Room has the Teams in the order in which they accepted invite to join the League.

My League has been full for some time, but no activity besides Managers registering, and a most changing their Team names from their sleeper handles to something else.

None of their new Team names appear to be footballguys Forum handles.

We got the same message in League Chat from FBGCommish about a week ago, that every League received, politely suggesting everyone make their Team name identical to their fbg forum or discord handle, but it appears to have been ignored. I followed it up with a message of my own, 3 days ago, with no response.

Discord is not my thing, but I searched Membership here for my Leaguemates, and came up with nothing.

I'm kind of disappointed that there appear to be no recognizable Shark Pool/FFA regulars in my League, because that's the #1 reason I chose to participate in these Leagues - to compete with some of you whom I've interacted with for decades. I get the feeling many of us Board Regulars joined with the same idea in mind.

I'm in a boatload of National High Stakes Contests, and my other Leagues all involve a significant $$$ investment. The only free Leagues I participate in are Scott Fish Bowl, and Draft-and-go best-ball Leagues that require no in-season management. A few years ago, I quit several free Leagues out of respect to the other Managers, due to my prioritizing my $$$ Leagues over them, leading to potentially sloppy Team management. I hadn't planned on every playing in a free League again, but the idea of a mega-League leading to a Tournament of Board Regulars gave it the juice to compel me to join.

Hindsight being 20/20, maybe the best way for Joe/Joey to have handled the invites would have been to send them in two phases. The first, putting all the Forum Regulars in Leagues together, and the second, inviting all other premium subscribers who either don't use the forums, or are 'read-only' types.

I'm fairly certain the Board software contains a pretty easy way to figure out who's who.

As I type this, it occurs to me that since no League's Draft Orders have been determined, no Managers who have signed up have any 'skin in the game' in any Leagues they've joined, so I'm going to pose the question:

@Joey Wright, with about 3 weeks until drafts begin, and with no Draft Orders set in place yet, would you please consider transferring Board Regulars out of the Leagues they've been arbitrarily assigned to, into Leagues where we can compete with each other?

I think there's enough of a time window, and this would absolutely be a hit-it-out-of-the-park walk off home run with the folks who demonstrably show their passion not only for the footballguys site, but the Forums you've created for our discourse, that many of us have been active in since they were conceived, going on 2 decades.

Thanks for your consideration!
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When I started to crunch the numbers in my head about "number of leagues" the math pushed me to a quick conclusion that the leagues would be 95% or more of people that aren't on the board or are staff. FBG premium subscribers needs to be well into the tens of thousands in order to support the number of staff that work at FBG and the marketing that I've seen.

There's really only a couple hundred board regulars (?) of which only a few dozen express interest. And I don't really go on discord but I checked it out and from what I could gather, only a few active conversations were going on. I also couldn't for the life of me figure out how to register myself correctly and wasn't able to post.

So while my initial excitement was driven by the sentiment you describe above, I realized before the invite hit that the leagues would be mostly randos. I fully support what nittanylion suggests above. I'll enjoy playing with InDitkaWeTrust in 0033 but would enjoy 10X more if I was playing with board regulars and a staff member. A man can dream.
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Samesies
 
^^^ 💯

I want nothing to do with joining a random league. I was under the impression we would be able to set up a league where specific board members could join.
 
LawFitz said:
^^^ 💯

I want nothing to do with joining a random league. I was under the impression we would be able to set up a league where specific board members could join.
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I went back and read this thread from the beginning, and it seems many assumed they would be in a league with Shark Pool regulars. I know I fell into that group. Now my league is full and I don't recognize a soul. I will play out the season and try my best, but will not return for another year. I have no interest in playing against 11 folks I have never chatted with.

I blame myself for not doing the math and realizing I may end up in a league by myself.
 
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