by BDWard » Thu Oct 20, 2011 9:28 pm
After considering people's comments on the draft issue, including several PMs and emails, it seems that there is no strong consensus. Since mostly everyone signed up for an autodraft league, and without a strong consensus for change, let's keep the autodraft format.
As a practical matter, while I wouldn't mind trying a live DD draft, I think a DD draft is too unwieldly for a 24 team league. Teams at either end will go more than 40 picks between choices. How can anyone possibly proxy for that? Plus, not everyone can check the computer every couple of hours to see if their pick has come up. For those who have the luxury of checking their computers often during the day, it's a huge time drain, not to mention that it will take far longer to do a DD draft than the autodraft, even for just a few rounds.
I need a couple of hours to get my team prepared and get the league set up as an autodraft league. Once that's done I'll email the password to teams in the East. If coachgil11 wants to get back in, I'll take my team out of the East once some teams get loaded. I'll stay in the east if Gil doesn't get back in while we search for a replacement, who can take my slot in the Midwest, so that we don't hold up the draft.
Thank you everyone for your patience and input. - Bernie W