Garcia's Blog 1/23/14- Live Drafts Debuting Tomorrow
Posted: Thu Jan 23, 2014 5:06 pmHey guys,
First, thank you to everyone who participated in Monday night's draft and will be in tonight's. Monday's went great and we expect today's to as well. We apologize to those who tried to join but the leagues were already full. Luckily you will not have to wait long! Tomorrow we will be launching Live Draft for everyone!
Our new Live Draft was built from the ground up, specifically designed for Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online, which means that for the first time, it supports whatever salary cap your league is using, you can choose the specific card you want from a given ATG 7 player's multiple available years, and it features the same robust player search and filter options that you're used to in the game. As a bonus, it even works on the iPad and other mobile devices!
When you create a new team, you now have the choice between Auto List Draft - the standard way you've been drafting - and the new Live Draft. You'll choose the salary cap you wish to play under in either case, including a new $999 million (unlimited) option.
If you choose the Live Draft option, you'll be immediately invited to join an existing Live Draft league, or create a new one. If you create a new one, you'll serve as Commissioner of the league, which lets you schedule the start time of your Live Draft and customize the amount of time each turn lasts during the draft, as well as perform a few in-draft administrative functions.
Commissioners have the ability to pause the draft in the case of issues that need to be worked out, and even rewind the draft to any previous pick. If you are the Commissioner of your Live Draft league, you'll be responsible for using your powers to resolve issues fairly (e.g. if someone makes a pick that violates one of your league's custom rules) and accommodating any managers that may have missed a pick due to technical issues.
Note that you may convert any existing undrafted Auto List Draft team you have into a Live Draft team (and vice versa) by first backing out of your incomplete league (if any) and then changing your draft type.
Before anyone participates in a Live Draft, make sure to check the Live Draft info page here. Also, try our free Mock Drafts to ensure you can run Live Draft on your browser and to prepare for a full live draft. Mock drafts can be found here.
We are very excited to launch a Live Draft feature and to have built it from scratch. Even though we are launching it now we do have plans to improve it even further. In the future we should be including giving the Commissioner more customization options, expanding the Queue system, and allowing for more casual drafts.
We hope everyone enjoys Live Drafts. If anyone has any questions please let us know! E-mail us at onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com. Talk to you all next week!
-John
First, thank you to everyone who participated in Monday night's draft and will be in tonight's. Monday's went great and we expect today's to as well. We apologize to those who tried to join but the leagues were already full. Luckily you will not have to wait long! Tomorrow we will be launching Live Draft for everyone!
Our new Live Draft was built from the ground up, specifically designed for Strat-O-Matic Baseball Online, which means that for the first time, it supports whatever salary cap your league is using, you can choose the specific card you want from a given ATG 7 player's multiple available years, and it features the same robust player search and filter options that you're used to in the game. As a bonus, it even works on the iPad and other mobile devices!
When you create a new team, you now have the choice between Auto List Draft - the standard way you've been drafting - and the new Live Draft. You'll choose the salary cap you wish to play under in either case, including a new $999 million (unlimited) option.
If you choose the Live Draft option, you'll be immediately invited to join an existing Live Draft league, or create a new one. If you create a new one, you'll serve as Commissioner of the league, which lets you schedule the start time of your Live Draft and customize the amount of time each turn lasts during the draft, as well as perform a few in-draft administrative functions.
Commissioners have the ability to pause the draft in the case of issues that need to be worked out, and even rewind the draft to any previous pick. If you are the Commissioner of your Live Draft league, you'll be responsible for using your powers to resolve issues fairly (e.g. if someone makes a pick that violates one of your league's custom rules) and accommodating any managers that may have missed a pick due to technical issues.
Note that you may convert any existing undrafted Auto List Draft team you have into a Live Draft team (and vice versa) by first backing out of your incomplete league (if any) and then changing your draft type.
Before anyone participates in a Live Draft, make sure to check the Live Draft info page here. Also, try our free Mock Drafts to ensure you can run Live Draft on your browser and to prepare for a full live draft. Mock drafts can be found here.
We are very excited to launch a Live Draft feature and to have built it from scratch. Even though we are launching it now we do have plans to improve it even further. In the future we should be including giving the Commissioner more customization options, expanding the Queue system, and allowing for more casual drafts.
We hope everyone enjoys Live Drafts. If anyone has any questions please let us know! E-mail us at onlinegamesupport@strat-o-matic.com. Talk to you all next week!
-John