AL and NL league-Draft tonight!! Thanks for your patience!

[thetallguy747]

First time I've been able to access the boards in about a week! Anyway, I prefer the shortest live type draft possible. I live in New Zealand and the time/day difference can cause headaches on such things.

However, I'll do my best to make adjustments if everyone else wants a full(er) live draft.

Kevin A

[ebbets1957]

Can't believe we still have one slot open! The boards being down really slowed things up.

[ROBERTLATORRE]

With the board outages, should be take a roll call of the 11 managers that are in so far since it has been a long time to fill?

[LMBombers]

One spot left. I have the excel spreadsheet supplied by the commish of the player pool for each league so you don't have to do any research. Just send me your email and I can send it to you. C'mon we only need one more AL team to finish this thing out.

Looks like it will be a 2 round live draft here on the boards prior to the autodraft.

[franky35]

1. ggrover15 - AL - TEXAS AND FENWAY l------yes 8 rounds
2. jmc316 - Royals - GA
3. Yellow_Dog - Commiskey - MN
4.

Central: (2 AL and 2 NL)
1. ldanred-nl-Shea Stadium-new jersey
2. LMBombers - AL - Yankee - DC
3. ebbets1957 - NL - Jarry - FL
4. franky35 - AL - Cleveland Municipal, NE

West: NL Only
1. thetallguy747 -Dodger Stadium (pick 3 IL)
2. wryoung - Astrodome pick 3 - Ohio
3. YountFan - Candlestick - WI
4. Latorrer - Fulton County - OK

[ggrover15]

Why would we want to use the boards since they are not stable. Why don't we use som.draft and try and get through 4 or 6 rounds...

[LMBombers]

[quote:8ce65c0789="JJB92"]Regarding the live draft, since that wasn't part of the original rules, I'm hesitant to add that unless all owners agree to it. I'm open to the idea but I also know that vacations/work make things difficult to carve out time to do a live draft. If you haven't already done so, please PM me or post your preference on the board regarding holding a live draft.

If a live draft isn't agreeable to everyone, we will use the boards to post our picks. The original rules indicated we'd do a two round draft using the board so unless we have a unanimous decision to use a live draft, that's what we will follow.[/quote:8ce65c0789]

[quote:8ce65c0789="thetallguy747"]I prefer the shortest live type draft possible. I live in New Zealand and the time/day difference can cause headaches on such things.
Kevin A[/quote:8ce65c0789]

[LMBombers]

JJB, being commish, gets the final say on how long and where to do the draft. I too would like to draft more rounds but I also understand thetallguy's concern being halfway around the world from most of us.

As soon as JJB find this thread again we can run the lotto for the draft order and get this thing moving!

Once again I would like to say that I will be away from the Internet next Thur-Sun Aug 6-9. I am open to leaving proxies and doing the best I can to help the draft move along however.

[JOSEPHBONK]

. ggrover15 - AL - TEXAS AND FENWAY l------yes 8 rounds
2. jmc316 - Royals - GA
3. Yellow_Dog - Commiskey - MN
4. JJB92-Memorial Stadium-NY

Central: (2 AL and 2 NL)
1. ldanred-nl-Shea Stadium-new jersey
2. LMBombers - AL - Yankee - DC
3. ebbets1957 - NL - Jarry - FL
4. franky35 - AL - Cleveland Municipal, NE

West: NL Only
1. thetallguy747 -Dodger Stadium (pick 3 IL)
2. wryoung - Astrodome pick 3 - Ohio
3. YountFan - Candlestick - WI
4. Latorrer - Fulton County - OK

[JOSEPHBONK]

Thanks to everyone for joining. Sorry-the boards were down most of yesterday and this AM when I checked. I'm between meetings so I'll be back with more on the draft later this evening. Franky35-send me your e-mail address and I'll send you the Excel file of players.

Let's go with the lotto results from tonight to establish the draft order. It's 6:30 EST so we can use results-I will use New York's results.

Remember, it's high to low for the draft order. You can trade draft picks if you like.

Be back with more later......