Ultimate Footy

[JACKATTACK 17]

I guess we're going to have to.

Uh oh. Clicked the wrong one I guess. And there aren't any other dates available before the season kicks off, except for next Thursday, but the chances of people being available on a Thursday for 2.5-3 hours straight is low (I for one am unlikely to have that time).

I guess I can change it to a 'slow' online draft, but reduce the pick time to try to simulate a live online draft.

I'll set it for Sunday at 10.00, as we were going to do it, but it's not going to technically be 'live'. I've got the minimum pick time, which is 5 minutes. Unfortunate, but that's how it has to be. My management of this whole thing has been shocking, so this is just the cherry on the cake.

Hopefully the 15 of us will be pretty much ready to go on Sunday so we can at least shorten the time taken. But make sure you've put in a pre-set list of rankings.

Draft won't run on uneven numbers, I made that mistake last year.

[JACKATTACK 17]

Good. But don't look at the stats* too much, you'll think negative thoughts (kidding). Take it on face value and essential ranking (= gut feel).

*The stats should assist anyway.

Gut feel probably wouldn't work in your favor, you are asking me to trade away 2 dees after all.

[brunoc 3]

Uh oh. Clicked the wrong one I guess. And there aren't any other dates available before the season kicks off, except for next Thursday, but the chances of people being available on a Thursday for 2.5-3 hours straight is low (I for one am unlikely to have that time).

I guess I can change it to a 'slow' online draft, but reduce the pick time to try to simulate a live online draft.

I'll set it for Sunday at 10.00, as we were going to do it, but it's not going to technically be 'live'. I've got the minimum pick time, which is 5 minutes. Unfortunate, but that's how it has to be. My management of this whole thing has been shocking, so this is just the cherry on the cake.

Hopefully the 15 of us will be pretty much ready to go on Sunday so we can at least shorten the time taken. But make sure you've put in a pre-set list of rankings.

Not sure 9 reserves will be enough to see out the year with all the byes and injuries. 34 is probably the ideal team size this year.

[furious d 472]

Draft won't run on uneven numbers, I made that mistake last year.

We need 1 more, anyone keen?

[titan_uranus 25,052]

We've got less than 2 hours to find a 16th member or we're in serious trouble, as the draft won't run if we have an odd number of teams 2 hour before the draft starts.

I'm going to send out some PMs to people who seemed to be interested last year, but really, if anyone's reading this, and you wouldn't mind being a part, PLEASE JOIN!!!!!!!!!!

[Mega_Watts 70]

We've got less than 2 hours to find a 16th member or we're in serious trouble, as the draft won't run if we have an odd number of teams 2 hour before the draft starts.

I'm going to send out some PMs to people who seemed to be interested last year, but really, if anyone's reading this, and you wouldn't mind being a part, PLEASE JOIN!!!!!!!!!!

Fr anyone who wants to join here are the league details:

League name: Demonland Mk 2

League ID: 351891

Password: demons

www.ultimatefooty.com

Edited March 18, 2011 by Mega_Watts

[Arrow 1,257]

Sorry I joined your league. I'm already im the first one but given someone was leaving their run late i've decided ill take up the last place. If someone desperately wants to play I can give them my password so they can take over the account but at least your league is up and running now.

[titan_uranus 25,052]

OK, well we have 16 now so it's all systems go.

I've changed the time of the draft again (I promise this is it): 11.00 tomorrow morning. 5 minutes between picks. Make sure you've set some pre-draft rankings, or at least are comfortable with the fact that if you don't, or your list is exhausted before the draft finishes, the system will pick for you.

[furious d 472]

OK, well we have 16 now so it's all systems go.

I've changed the time of the draft again (I promise this is it): 11.00 tomorrow morning. 5 minutes between picks. Make sure you've set some pre-draft rankings, or at least are comfortable with the fact that if you don't, or your list is exhausted before the draft finishes, the system will pick for you.

I can only see 15 still. Do you have 16 on your league screen titan?

[furious d 472]

Can anyone else see 16 teams, I've got 15 on my league screen and we've got 45 minutes to even it up.

[furious d 472]

Now showing draft delayed till tomorrow.

[titan_uranus 25,052]

Far out, someone dropped out. We definitely had 16 yesterday.

So once again we need someone to sign up.

If there's anyone who's in the league who doesn't want to take part anymore, the other option is for that person to drop out to bring the number down to 14. Not a preferable solution, but this draft is never going to happen unless we get even numbers, and soon.

[IWAP 170]

i'll give it a go - if there is still a spot

[IWAP 170]

Have signed up - don't think i can do a draft during a weekday, but i'm happy to pre-rank my players.

[titan_uranus 25,052]

Have signed up - don't think i can do a draft during a weekday, but i'm happy to pre-rank my players.

Have you? There are still only 15 teams in the league.

Details are:

League name: Demonland Mk 2

League ID: 351891

Password: demons

If someone joins soon (i.e. in the next hour or so) we can do the draft this afternoon.

Edit: Yes, you have, I can see you. So we still have one more spot open.

Edited March 20, 2011 by titan_uranus

[furious d 472]

Have signed up - don't think i can do a draft during a weekday, but i'm happy to pre-rank my players.

You've signed up but we're still at 15, another must've dropped out. Would love to get this underway today but it's not looking good.

[IWAP 170]

ok, i'll drop out - but will be around online this afternoon if needed.

[furious d 472]

We've got 14 titan, how soon can we get this thing going?

Cheers IWAP, hope it stays at 14 till we get underway.

[titan_uranus 25,052]

DRAFT BEGINS AT 1.00PM TODAY!!!!!!

Thanks to IWAP for falling on his sword, appreciated. To ensure we don't end up with 15 I've made 14 the maximum, so that'll be it now (unless someone else drops out, in which case I will scream and smash this computer into billions of pieces).

I know this is rushed and some (maybe all) of you may not be available today but this league is just not going to happen if we don't do this draft today. Hopefully some/all of us have some pre-draft rankings so if you can't make a pick you will at least get someone decent.

Picks take 5 minutes, so hopefully most of us are online at once and we can speed it up. Otherwise it might take a while. The draft will run until 11.00 tonight, and if need be will re-open at 9.00am tomorrow.

Edited March 20, 2011 by titan_uranus

[titan_uranus 25,052]

Seems like some people aren't online, and picks are being skipped...not entirely sure how to fix that...

Edit: seemed to fix itself.

Edit 2: Also, going last sucks.

Edited March 20, 2011 by titan_uranus

[dees_rule_4eva 22]

Apologies guys, I missed my first 14 picks - I live in London so completely had the times out of whack. Am on it now!

My team so far:

B: R. Shaw S. Fisher B. Johnson

HB: B. Guerra H. O'Brien .......

C: T. Boak L. Montagna J. Lewis

HF: P. Chapman J. Watts A. Didak

F: S. Milne L. Hansen A. Monfries

RR: M. Kreuzer D. Cassisi M. Barlow

INT: D. Hale S. Edwards H. Ballantyne .......

Edited March 20, 2011 by dees_rule_4eva

[titan_uranus 25,052]

I think it should be closed now until 9am tomorrow. We got through quite a few picks so that was good.

[H_T 3,049]

3 days effectively to go (for trading), anymore trading to be done ?? Any proposals ?

[Range Rover 1,935]

3 days effectively to go (for trading), anymore trading to be done ?? Any proposals ?

HT ... I think I accepted your recent Mattner/Reilly trade proposal by accident. Hit the wrong button and you can see from my message that I'd declined it.

Would you mind reversing it somehow?

Cheers,

RR

Edited March 21, 2011 by Range Rover

[H_T 3,049]

HT ... I think I accepted your recent Mattner/Reilly trade proposal by accident. Hit the wrong button and you can see from my message that I'd declined it.

Would you mind reversing it somehow?

Cheers,

RR

I can't reverse it or withdraw it, the site doesn't allow me to do that. I've since replied to your message.

Hit the wrong button ?

edit:

you can vote against it.

Edited March 22, 2011 by High Tower