by Sknsfan » Thu Mar 22, 2012 3:13 pm
It's been my experience that a shorter time period doesn't necessarily move faster.
It usually just means more skips, and then stop downs as people scramble to recover.
The most consistent draft I've been in was one where we set the daily times for picks. For example:
9:00 am - 9:30 am - Team 1
9:30 am - 10:00 am - Team 2
10:00 am - 10:30 am - Team3
Etc. We could get more picks in, in a day, but you run the risk of Player A not checking in until about 10 minutes before his pick. which means that you could stall for 4,5, or 6 hours, but at least you were guaranteed 2 rounds a day.
We'd check in in the morning and see when our picks were, and then do periodic checks through out the day. Clock was still off on the weekends.
I think of the course of the draft we gained about a day, so it wasn't a huge adavantage. It was just a consistently paced draft,