Strat-O-Matic Baseball 365

Why do we have to wait until after 9:00 the next morning to find out who we got in the draft?
It’s not a big deal, but I’m usually up late and would like to see who I got in the draft after the league fills.
I’m sure there is a reason for this but was just wondering what that reason was.

The mice powering their servers have to sleep sometime...

I feel the same way, I would like drafts to go off 10 mins after league fills, regardless the time of day.

However, maybe it's like some family traditions at Christmas where the family gathers together Christmas morning to watch each other opening their presents??

One idea I have heard from others from the old days is that in case a glitch occurs during the draft, someone at the office can intervene and fix it quickly??

However, if that were the case, then auto drafts wouldn't occur on Holidays and weekends when the office is closed.

Maybe it is an antiquated tradition held over from the TSN days that needs to go away?

Maybe Hal just likes us to suffer and complain about nonsensical policies?

Yup. Seems like a throwback. I can't imagine it is due to something like maintenance scripts for that many hours.
From a CBA perspective, and with the league customizations available, not sure what value an overnight delay adds so we must be missing something of interest to the company because that would seem like an obvious oversight.

I always thought it related somehow to their no longer existant hard start dates (every league starting on a Monday).

Maybe it's as simple as saving on utility bills. They dont get any revenue from keeping all their programs running overnight...so why not just shut down?

I believe it has to do with the running of the leagues. They want all their computing power dedicated to playing the games out. So if your league does not fill by the time those games begin to play it will be scheduled to run in the morning. So it is not that your league has drafted and they are waiting to tell you results. They are holding off on the actual running of the draft.

Of course I m going from memory here and did take an extended vacation so I may be totally out in left field on this one.

Leagues begin running at 10:30pm Eastern, 30 minutes before the 11:00pm draft deadline. So the 30 minutes of overlap there doesn’t appear to be affecting anything. Why should it affect anything for the next hour or so? Also, if that were the case, why not just run the draft when the league games are complete? It would be later, but the Left Coasters and night owls wouldn’t mind.

I imagine the whole 11 pm deadline thing is simply a legacy holdover from the days when every new league ran at 11 in a FRENZY. One the default became waivers a couple of days later, those leagues ran as soon as they were filled, and the remaining frenzy leagues still had their same reserved window starting at 11 pm ET.