by albert2b » Mon Jul 07, 2008 2:48 pm
[quote:c2850f8ce3="Jeepdriver"]Albert, I'm aware I wasn't going to be popular with the person holding up the process. IMHO,however, just a few more minutes is all it would take to load since we live drafted most of our squads.
I'm OOT beginning Thu. so it does matter (to me anyway) that we finish loading today as not being present at waivers for a Tour League can be a big disadvantage.
I'm not saying load the league just because I'm away Thu. OTOH, it shouldn't take several days simply to load teams.[/quote:c2850f8ce3]
Jeep, your reason for wanting to speed up the draft is basically the same as mine for not loading yesterday. I just about proxied my entire live draft and somehow ended up with $70 mil spent on my first 11 players! Thus, even if I had been in front of a computer yesterday, I wouldn't want to rush and load my team. If I made an error or miscalculatation, then it would put [b:c2850f8ce3]ME[/b:c2850f8ce3] at a big disadvantage.
I agree it shouldn't take several days to load (and I didn't, BTW). But I disagree with your notion that it takes "a few minutes" to load a team after a live draft. We live drafted only 15 players. That leaves 10 more players (or 40% of our team) to be drafted. To me, that's too significant a percentage to just throw into the wind and let the AD sort out. Add in the fact that we need to double check the live draft site to make sure that the players we want weren't already live drafted by someone else. I think that's AT LEAST a half an hour right there. And that's a block of time that I just didn't have yesterday. The truth is that, after a LONG day, I tried to load my team around 1am EST last night but my internet was extremely slow for some reason....so I said screw it and put it off until the morning.
Anyway, I realize now why you want to load in such a hurry. I don't recall you mentioning previously that you were going out of town, but now that I know, I can certainly respect that.