NLD35 - The NLD Lives on!

Yeah....we might be better off picking from a select few or maybe throwing out private invites rather than just posting an opening. We might get the guy who just happens to be on the boards that day and isn't really a regular.

I would agree

Spider 67 is a fun gamer, who is very good. He and I have stayed in contact regularly over the last few years, in various leagues. He's in the TKL and NTKL keeper leagues with me. Former PC tourney champ, and regularly finishes among the leaders.

Radagast Brown is a fun gamer, who likes to chat during leagues.

There are a number of great owners, who are fun to chat with, in a great 13 keeper league that Jeep and I are in together. Here's a few of them:

GERARDGOEDHART * especially active and fun to chat with
The Mahoots * especially active and fun to chat with
MarlinGene * especially active and fun to chat with
karphenry (great owner who has done well in leagues, including PC tourney)
salmonbellies
bertolett
maverick38
VilleBowler300 (doing very well in the mystery league tourney)

Really, everyone in the six season league that I'm in would be great:
sphilipp8 (kicking butt in the mystery tourney)
pwootten (commissioner of the six season league - a great guy)
MrKite
RobertLatorre
Delbird (a really terrific gamer and owner, and good to chat with)
gmac94
AllStarInc
FAaron
CATom
carlostevez
carlerik

All of the above are great owners.

More great gamers:
FrankMansueto - Everybody's favorite strat buddy
jflatour99 - great gamer and good to chat with
tcochran
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padrenurgle1
visick
keyzick
tomwistar
ironwill1
andycummings65
bontomn

And of course there's Chasenally (or however he spells it), sort of like FrankMansueto, a great one to chat.

And just about everyone in the TKL and NTKL keepers.

I've tried to indicate the gamers who are great conversationalists in gaming chat - on boards and in emails.

By the way, everyone that's been in our league is in the same category of great owners. Not sure what happens when people go quiet, but, like Ehlekev, I'm sure they have good reasons in their lives, so it's just too bad, that's all.

I realize that's a huge list. I'm not sure what to do next. I could email some of them, but we'll probably get 15 "yes" answers. How should we do this? Any others to add to the list?

What a great "dilemma" to have!

Wow what a great list!! I think we may need only two or three so I'm not sure how to handle it either. First come first serve out of an email to them maybe? They would have to be ok with a board draft for at least the first season though.

Thanks for that post gbrookes!

Does anyone have a person that they'd like to ask, either out of that group, or anyone else, before I start contacting people?

Joe?

Jeep?

Anyone else?

Certainly not the best way to judge maybe but perhaps those with the highest number of posts might be more active here with us in the forum.

GB, I haven't had time to read all you wrote. It's been a busy day at work. I will reply tonight.

GB, read of your list. Thanks so much for putting it together, I guess I would say that, since you seem to know these guys, you should suggest a couple and go for it.

BTW, I heard back from Big M and I guess he really *is* stepping away.

HOWEVER, I heard from Smokey who would like to get back in, BUT he wants to use a third-party draft board. Here's the info he sent me.

I’m in a netplay league that uses straddraft.com and it is easy to use, has set times for picks and an ok proxy system. I checked with them on how it would work for us and here is what they responded with,


1) Is the online player set w/salaries loaded into your draft system?

1a) If not is there an easy way to import?

1b) If we set up the first time can we use the same player pool for a subsequent draft?

2) What is the cost of using the draft system for a year?

The salaries are not loaded but loading them should be easy with the import facility. You’d set the league to use a salary structure, export the standard players, add the salaries and import.



You can use the same player pool multiple times / multiple drafts as long as they’re your leagues that you are a member of.

ere are a few links to help understand the system.

http://www.stratdraft.com/downloads/stratdraft.pdf

http://www.stratdraft.com/importIntro_help.htm

http://www.stratdraft.com/importStratTeam_help.htm

He's checking with someone who has used it for SOMO and he's willing to pay for the cost himself. My personal opinion is that this is a much better option and maybe Big M will come back too!

What do you guys think?

If it works, why not?

Does that mean we have to have the CDROM game?

I have it , but maybe not everyone in the group does.

With all the different foreign currency sitting idle in my kitchen drawers, I could exchange it and help support the funding effort.