Mon Jan 27, 2014 6:19 pm
It should be a maximum of 90 seconds. 60 is better.
If you can't come to a decision in 30 seconds, you are caught wasting your time doing things you shouldn't need to be doing. 60 seconds is an eternity if you focus on using it for decision making. If you trying to research players,... well no time is enough.
Some tips:
(1) Don't do player research during the draft. Focus on decisions.
(2) Don't dwell on the mistakes. If they happen, they happen. Forget your last pick and work on your next pick.
(3) If you get weaseled out of a player you were really hoping for, and its round 6+, consider the best reliever available.
Its better to have a list of players with a fallback plan if your top choice goes. But absent that, there are relievers that are high value picks in any round after the 5th or so.
I just did a draft Saturday where 75% of the picks were made in 10 seconds. It finished in an hour and 5 minutes.
IMHO, if after 45 seconds time to decide you don't know who to take, you might just consider a coin flip. Your choices aren't gong to get any better.
