Last season I ran my own draft and imported the rosters.
This year I want to hold a draft party, but not everyone can attend.
Will the draft software allow me to enter the picks for everyone who is at the party, but let people who are not there enter their own picks over the internet?
No problem. If you use the e-mail draft, players can use their pre-draft rankings. If you go to the players tab, players will see their list of who is ranked where and if they have been chosen or not. The players will then disappear as they are drafted.
So if they can't participate live, and they are logged in at the same time you are choosing for players, all they have to do is go to the players page, sort by "My rankings" and then they will see who was picked when and can just click draft to take the next available person they want.
Unfortunately, even though you can pick for them, if a user is not at the draft, you can't see their automated rankings as commissioner. So if they are unable to attend that day, I would suggest they just e-mail you their list of players and rankings.
What I was hoping is that the computer could automatically pick according to their pre-ranking. Does it do that, at least once their pick times out? Or is there no time limit on these email picks?
If the system would draft according to their pre-rankings then I wouldn't have to mess around with reading their list of players and drafting their team.
If not, we'll manage with the suggestions here. Thanks.
In a live draft, it will draft for them according to their rankings. If they are absent, the pick will go off for them within 5 seconds. So long as you run a live draft (not an e-mail one) it will pick for them. If you run the e-mail draft, it will not pick for them based on the rankings.
McBainSat 5/1/10 2:05 PM
Last season I ran my own draft and imported the rosters.
This year I want to hold a draft party, but not everyone can attend.
Will the draft software allow me to enter the picks for everyone who is at the party, but let people who are not there enter their own picks over the internet?
Or does everyone have to enter their own picks?
McBainSat 5/1/10 9:36 PM
Thank you all for the useful information. It looks like the email draft will give me the control I need, and allow people to participate remotely.
If I use the email draft option for this, can players use pre-ranking and autodraft? That would be useful in case someone can't participate live.
Thanks again.
FleaMod AdminSat 5/1/10 9:50 PM
No problem. If you use the e-mail draft, players can use their pre-draft rankings. If you go to the players tab, players will see their list of who is ranked where and if they have been chosen or not. The players will then disappear as they are drafted.
So if they can't participate live, and they are logged in at the same time you are choosing for players, all they have to do is go to the players page, sort by "My rankings" and then they will see who was picked when and can just click draft to take the next available person they want.
Unfortunately, even though you can pick for them, if a user is not at the draft, you can't see their automated rankings as commissioner. So if they are unable to attend that day, I would suggest they just e-mail you their list of players and rankings.
McBainSat 5/1/10 9:59 PM
Thanks.
What I was hoping is that the computer could automatically pick according to their pre-ranking. Does it do that, at least once their pick times out? Or is there no time limit on these email picks?
If the system would draft according to their pre-rankings then I wouldn't have to mess around with reading their list of players and drafting their team.
If not, we'll manage with the suggestions here. Thanks.
FleaMod AdminSat 5/1/10 11:18 PM
In a live draft, it will draft for them according to their rankings. If they are absent, the pick will go off for them within 5 seconds. So long as you run a live draft (not an e-mail one) it will pick for them. If you run the e-mail draft, it will not pick for them based on the rankings.