Live Draft EVERYONE Theme League - Draft Set Up!!

[MEAT]

just a vote a.t. but the league IS, EVERYONE drafted...so if we're gonna do 74 we might as well do ALL 75 and have EACH AND EVERY rotten player spoken for, and thus have a AAA and a single A team of minor leaguers to pickup and trade from. some of these cards may NEVER have been used, in ANY league, so let's rescue them from the homeless before 2004/5 is joins the ranks of the other 200x's

[Mr Baseball World]

I suspect that 75th round picks won't make the cut anyway so no real competitive disadvantage to an odd # of rounds. No worries either way.

One question: Divisions are listed as "first come first serve" which I would assume means that our divisions are set at the time we load. I can see the possibility though that three people load in the east(with the required NL/AL east stadiums but then noone else loading because they do not want to use an east stadium and being at a stand still. Will there be an earlier time to pick divisions and if so when?

[Mr Baseball World]

Is it true that Woods wanted in but got scared :P when he saw the foggy one in the house????

[Mr Baseball World]

B-U-E-L-H-E-R

[FoggyOne]

woods couldn't handle this. he requires instant gratifcation. Can you imagine? He made tour finals using the one click autodraft feature.

[Cubit]

ArrylTremaine, I only wish I could join your folks, as you know the "live draft" is my way to do these leagues, but I'll be traveling too much to get into a 74 round draft here. Do contact me for the first LiveDrafts of the 2006 season, though.

Great group, wish you the best of luck. I almost took the plunge, but though better of it for your all! :oops:

[AFDickie]

Joined: 29 Sep 2005
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[ArrylT]

Well firstly I will go create the league chat thread.

Secondly we wait for tonights Pick III lottery results. I will post them on the league chat thread sometime after 11am Eastern tomorrow, unless someone else does it for me.

Then I'll create the draft applet on penngrays website - www.fantasysportstools.com
Owners who have [b:5b2e9eff36]NEVER[/b:5b2e9eff36] used this tool before should let me know so that I can create them an acccount & pwd.

All drafting will be done on that website, which also has a decent feature for settign up proxy picks. There was a good post somewhere about how to set up proxies on the draft site, but I'm not too sure where it is.

The draft clock will remain [b:5b2e9eff36]OFF[/b:5b2e9eff36] until the first round has been completed, so as to ensure all owners were able to access the draft site & can make pick(s)/set up proxies. After the first round is complete the 3 hour clock will be turned on.

I believe the 3 hour clock runs from 10am Eastern to 12midnight Eastern Mondays-Fridays ... not sure if it runs on Weekends.

As I will be gone for 95% of Monday, I will give another owner admin rights so that they can turn on the draft clock for me, if need be.

This post will be repeated in the chat thread - which will be called "Draft Everyone 2005".

[FoggyOne]

Proxies.

There are four things that interact when you set proxies.

1. Round
Set this to a number not equal to 1 to have the proxy execute in a specific round. ZERO means any round. I normally leave this zero.

2. Group
A grouping number allow you to group players together. The groups are processed in numerical order. Typically groups are used for positions, like a SS group, but you can make a leadoff hitter group, etc.

3. Group Order
This is the order within the group (#2 above) to pick. I like to number by 10 so I can slide people in between. Note penn only support order between 0 and 99.

4. Delete if group picked flag
This tells penn to delete the group (#2 above) if YOU pick someone from the group. Set this to Yes most of the time so you don't pick 3 SS.

Example

Round Group Order Delete Player
0 1 10 Y O Smith
0 1 20 Y UL Washington
0 1 25 Y I DeJesus
0 2 10 N B Horner
0 2 20 N D Kingman
0 2 30 Y R Kittle



In this example when it is your turn to pick penn will look at group 0 and pick the player with the lowest order that is left. Let's say Ozzie has been picked, so you get Washington. And because the delete flag is Y DeJesus is removed. Your proxies are now

Round Group Order Delete Player
0 2 10 N B Horner
0 2 20 N D Kingman
0 2 30 Y R Kittle



At your next pick group 2 is left and lets assumes Horner, Kingman amd Kittle are all available. Penn will then pick Horner and remove Kittle because the delete flag is Y. Your proxies are now

Round Group Order Delete Player
0 2 20 N D Kingman



Kingman will be your next pick if he is available.


Tips
If you want to re-order yout proxies you do not need to remove the player from the list and re-added them. You can just enter the player id and the new setting and penn will move the player on the proxy list.

If you order your groups by 2's or 5's you can slide groups in between. Also penn support group ZERO so you can slide in a group at the top.

LASTLY, DON'T FORGET TO TURN YOUR PROXIES "ON"