Topic: 🏈🏈 The American Football Discussion Thread 🏈🏈 - page 39. (Read 49710 times)

7pm Monday was what we discussed in discord, if that works for everyone else?

OK, I think we are going to have to put a timeframe on setting our draft time.

I'm sure most of us need to know at least a few days ahead of time when the draft will be so as to set our schedules not to conflict with other drafts and RL shit.

So I think I will have to give a cutoff time for discussion of Wed and have a last and FINAL vote on thurs if we don't have a consensus before then.

We are currently waiting on nutildah and Hhampuz to figure a out a timeframe they can both make and give that to us to verify we can all make that range.

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RULES CHANGES:
OK, I went back and reread all the posts and started applying peoples votes but found it became unwieldy as some of the discussions changed the questions and I didn't feel the people that voted should be locked in to their votes and rather than make a whole discussion over each change here are the current questions and everyone can vote again.

* denotes last years setting

1) South Park: Should we change the playoff format?
And let 6 teams to move to the playoffs with the top two teams getting a BYE or maybe expand it to 8 teams as some may not like not playing their teams on

the most important part of the season?

Playoff spots:

a)4 *

b)6

c)8


2)DireWolfM14:What do you guys think of having two payouts?  I was thinking the second place team gets double the entry fee, and winner takes the rest.  

Payout places
a)1*

b)2*

c)3

d)MORE

*note 1st place was split last year as the death on the field cancelled a game with league players original was winner take all



3)morvillz7z: replace kicker with a flex spot  

a) yes

b) no*

C) don't care/abstain





4) OK now on the waiver method, due to the choices being multifaceted it can become complicated to vote for one.

So I think what we can do is break it down and vote multiple times on the method to choose.

OK if that was not clear this is an example of what I am saying.

We will vote on whether to use reverse order or continuous rolling or a mix of the two (hybrid). If we choose reverse order then there are 2 different choices of that (I will explain that if that is our choice before the next vote) and if we do hybrid then obviously those 2 choices also come into play. So we will not need a second vote only if continuous rolling is chosen.

Now correct me if i'm wrong but I think 2 years ago we used reverse order and last year we used continuous rolling.

NOW a Hybrid just means that we can use both.

I will change the method depending on what we decide.

For instance my choice would be to use Reverse for the beginning of the league (like first 5 weeks) and then change to continuous rolling for the remainder of the league.

My argument for this is that if you draft horrible then the first 5 weeks you can get good waiver picks and make a decent team BUT after 5 weeks it will not hurt good teams that get injured players by pushing them down to the bottom of the waiver list every week which I believe is unfair.

So the current voting options are.

a)reverse order

b)continuous rolling

c)Hybrid *Yahoo removed this option by making waiver settings changeable only pre draft now

d) don't care/abstain


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My votes:
1)a

I feel more than 4 teams in the playoffs will add to the luck factor as 6 would add 2 buys and 8 is just far to many.

2)c

I think 3 payouts would be decent  as I used to run pool tourneys for years and 3 is a good number when you have over 10 participants and a split of 70%, 20%, 10% is a fair distribution.

3)b

I really don't care to much on kickers but would like to point out that with 12 teams if we add another flex spot then the waiver wire will be brutal. Hmm, now that I think of it I think removing kickers all together would be a better choice then making it a flex spot. So I just changed my vote from abstain to no.

4) not sure atm will have to think on it.

I want to see this league stay fun so I will vote in any way that I think will go to that end therefore I will vote for the hybrid which should help poorly drafted teams in the beginning but keep the league competitive for the rest of the season.



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ALSO a reminder dues must be paid.


And if I made any errors in this let me know guys, i'm getting dumber every year.

I can make most times work, especially if it's on weekend.  This coming Sunday, September 3rd I do have a draft at 6pm central (5pm New York time), so a 3pm time frame would be perfect, but I'm fine it we needed to do it a bit later or earlier in the day. 

I can't believe we are just about one week out from the kick off to the year.  I'm looking forward to opening game of Chiefs vs Lions..should be interesting !!

OK so nutildah can't make that time so I've asked him to see if he and Hhampuz can come up with a time and then we can see if that works for what looks like most of us can be available for.



@yahoo62278 Yeah, we have been using snake draft, I think everyone was happy with that last year.


@bbc.reporter Your number one overall of CMC draft was stellar last year, only you could dodge the consensus number one trap of Jonathan Taylor last year!

@yahoo62278. It was a snake draft order. If you are no.1 in the order like me in our draft last year, I had a good opportunity to draft first, however, I would have to wait from no.2 to no.10 then from no.10 to no.2 before it would be my turn again. It was making me very anxious because much of the players I queued were being drafted by others and I had to wait 18 more turns before my turn hehehehe. I want to be on slot 5-7 this year.

I have yahoo fantasy on my phone and can draft from there I believe. I can view the league for sure. All you have to do is download the app and login to our league or the email associated with your yahoo fantasy.

I think you have the same wait in between every pick wouldn't you?

Yes I am okay with this new schedule.

When do we begin the lottery for the draft order? I am very excited about this. I also have learned that being no.1 in the draft order is not very good. It was very boring for me because I wait for more turns before it becomes my turn hehehee.

In any case, gameboy cluster compute has generated my cheatsheet already, only minor adjustments left.

Yahoo league dude.

Don't know if they have a mobile app or not?

https://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/f1/373233

They are currently at 3 weeks pre with one week off. I cannot claim the Bears are "my team", but I do see Justin Fields making some big headlines this year. Last year they were scoring over 30 points many times the second half, and that was playing from behind after they had traded away the prime defense veterans. If the defense is decent this year, they should make the playoffs. Late-2022 the Bears were one of the most exciting bad teams in human history, very fun to watch.

That shoudl work for me.  It's labor day weekend so we can draft on our phones right?  I don't normally play in the espn games but I'm pretty sure it's mobile ready.  I still have to pay and will get on it tonight.  This is always the hard part, rounding up people who are all open for an hour or 2 to draft. 

Haha, tested it out and Jacobs won!

I think using hashes is the best way to assure a fair order and its worked fine so far.



OK, Lets see if anyone has an issue making it DRAFT DAY SEPT 3RD @ 3:00PM EST.


Speak up if this does not work for you,

I'll pm everyone to make sure they get notified.


Edited with accepted time and date:
Hueristic
Hhampuz          https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62754803
morvillz7z         https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62756063
wheelz1200      https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62757197
DireWolfM14     https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62754447
yahoo62278     https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.62753846

just to say i'm available at any time...


by the way, what are we doing with the draft order, random at the start of the draft or something else? Last year it was hashes...

https://100yardrush.com/

^ pretty fun way to do it as well...

If it's Sunday the 3rd I could probably not do it after 3-4 PM EST. On Monday, and any day after that really, I'd be able to do it more or less at any time. I won't be home on Sept. 2-3 that's why it's a bit tricky.

Ditto, this Sunday is open for me.

Whats the latest EST that you will be able to participate?

We will try to work around that.

Since it had to be set to a time it is currently set to 7pm est, the same as last year.

I can be available at anytime nearly. Since I'm the new guy I can agree to whatever the group decides. Let's just get ready to have some fun and enjoy some regular season football!!!

September 3 may be difficult for me, depending on time. I'm guessing I'm the only European here so whenever there's a draft it'll midnight or later my time. But yeah, figure out a time and I can give a definite answer!

Just a reminder to all, we have elected to have the draft on Sunday, September 3rd, but we have still to determine a time.  Let's pin that down sooner rather than later.

Also, I have received the entry fee from 10 participants, to the other two, please remember to get your payments in before draft day.

I think this was an excellent move by the Cowboys. I first off don’t think that Dak is really all that great. Secondly, we really still don’t know how good (or bad) Trey Lance is. Getting him for a mid-round pick feels like an absolute steal to me. I’ve read it’s a 4th, but not 100% on that.

Jonathan Taylor granted a trade request but time limited, Josh Jacobs signs new deal w Raiders. Some other things going on as well. We are getting close !

This just in:

https://twitter.com/AdamSchefter/status/1695214383729717550


Tutoring behind Dak might be good for him.