2016 Finals - Top 9 and Vote

The draft is setup in the draft order as requested. E-mails have gone out to some of you with your password if you requested it.

The cheat sheet was e-mailed out to all Finalists.

Let the draft begin - any questions let me know. Check in here often to ask questions. Myself and experienced Dope Drafters are here to help.

Thanks

Moose

ok, my name and password worked and I am in. I am still learning but have read the cheat sheet and looked around a bit. No dipping any toes in the water here. Cannonball!

Just to make sure I have the process correct. We do 16 rounds on dope, at which point we do a draft card here with our 16 picks from there transferred over, and adding on last 9 using the standard priority draft system? Is that correct?

Good morning. Received password Moose, thank you. Got in DD fine and dandy, and ready to roll.

As per draft instructions from Moose, I see that the following exists.

The finals live draft will have the clock set for 3 hours, AFTER we get through the first round.  This is just to be sure that all players are in place.  Once I turn the clock on for 3 hours, it will also turn off by itself “EVENINGS and WEEKENDS” – we don’t know the exact times.  What this means to you is this…..

I do have obligations today, and will not be able to check back in until around 5 pm, EST today, but from there on, I should be good to go, and will not hold anyone up, during the entire draft. Unless, of course, Ernie Whitt goes in the first three picks.

Good luck all.

Doug

I was successfully able to log in and kick off my very first live draft. Good luck everyone (I'll need it!).

awesome first pick. you don't see kal daniels going #1 overall many days. buckle up we are in for a ride. i predict luckyman picks pineiro #2 overall...

To reply to Chris - yes 16 rounds here - your stadium must be one of them and you decide when to play it. There are no stadium restrictions in the finals - use any you want as long as you DRAFT it. Your 10 bench players are of YOUR CHOICE and it is highly recommended you place them at the TOP of your rankings as you are still competing for those players. Your must use your drafted stadium.

You must put your 15 drafted players on your INITIAL DRAFT CARD when the league loads. Once waivers passes, I don't care what you do - drop them ALL if you want.

It's easiest for money control to keep a team side by side so you can watch your salaries.

Also TURN ON AND USE PROXIES for the benefit of ALL - We can get this knocked down fast if you do.

If players wind up on the wrong team or your stadium needs to be changed - let me know and I will get SOM to fix every issue before first pitch.

Thanks and good luck.

Question: How are the divisions going to be set up for the league? Is it randomized once we draft or is there a predetermined order based on seeding?

Nice prediction, cristano.

Kal Daniels was my first proxy. though.

So only 1 team can use a Stadium?

Question: How are the divisions going to be set up for the league? Is it randomized once we draft or is there a predetermined order based on seeding?

The new feature of automatically randomizing the league after loading and before waivers works just fine for me. Little known fact, this was my idea to Bernie (anyone remember Bernie ?) way back in the day. We will not try to assign divisions beforehand as there is just too much jockeying trying to strategize against your division mates. It's about YOUR team. Take care of division mates in the preseason.