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Originally posted by kgrady: I just partook in my first draft on this site. Here are a few observations which may or may not have been mentioned somewhere on the boards. 1) The Default picks are posted every 5 seconds. That's way too fast. It should be about 12-15 seconds, because one still needs ti...

Originally posted by Walla Walla:

Viper, Are you doing a life event this year?? Did one the first three years but not since. I have had 2-4 satellites each year however.

Originally posted by Bama: Im glad someone found a set of rules. Most people signed up Before rules were published and still havent found them. The rules with regard to faab from my standpoint dont come relevent till the contest starts. We change eligibility rules midstream and no one complains. Cha...

Until the lists work, it is hardly worth using after one test drive. I guess I'm with all the others on these points 1. Lists work or do not use it 2. I would like to see a way to see more of the recently selected pick. Catching up when a name is hard to find on your paper lists is not easy. Having ...

Someone made a good point on not changing the rules. Now I'm not sure where you can find the rules from the main site but on the satellite signup thread, the satellite rules are posted. And one say: Conditional Bids: Conditional bids also can be offered. In the event you may lose out on a player, yo...

Originally posted by Gekko: I have a feeling this new type of bidding will be tough to explain and some owners will feel like they got ripped off come FAAB sunday. remember we are only using 2 or 3 owner examples. imagine how complicated it will be when 15 owners are bidding and listing 10 condition...

My thought on this style of FAAB bidding is that it is bad. For every year of the NFBC, bid resolution was based on whoever had the highest primary bid for a player. Suddenly things are changing. Not everyone reads these boards all the time. Maybe they should but they don't. An assumption is that wi...

Originally posted by Gekko:when other owners bid on the same players, it doesn't matter how the bids are listed, it will always revert back to highest bid wins. if however, a player isn't bid on, that is the only way this type of bidding is useful, for instance: Owner 1 bids Jon Lester $1 B.J. Upton...

I read that conditional bids can be higher. Could you let me know who gets who under this scenario: Team 1 bids Pujols 40 Hanley 54 Braun 60 Team 2 bids Hanley 50 Braun 61 Utley 33 Pujols 70 Team 3 bids Braun 52 team 4 bid Hanley 51 Team 5 bids Pujols 41 Team 6 bids Utley 35

For mock drafts, MDC required you to have a legal lineup based on their positional assignments. Live drafts on MDC had that "feature" turned off as the drafter were on their own to end up with legal lineups. I know how mistakes were resolved. What are the corresponding situations on Fanball's mock/l...

I have a live draft on the 14th. I will try my first mock on this site tomorrow. It takes at least four hours to completely set up my lists on MDC. What are the chances that I will have to set up on MDC for my live draft on the 14th? Setting up lists on this site were very easy after I figured out a...

is there a way to print a draft list you have created

is there a sound when a selection is made by others?



is there a warning sound when you are up?



I've been creating lists not mocking.

Oh well. I was hoping. I hope the process isn't as cumbersome as MDC especially when you want to put in a player in the default 300s into slot 125. To set the ranking like I wanted them, it could take 3-4 hours with multiple temporary saves. I group all my hitters first and then group closers and th...

Somewhere in the posts on the new draft site being created, I recall that we will be able to download our personal lists rather than having to create them like we did on MDC. On MDC to create an entire 450+ man list was a lengthy task. Could you post the format for these lists so we can get them pro...

I don't think the idea is to slam teams - at least I won't. Ryan wanted a way for interested rookies to see how the NFBC worked without the commitment of $1350 entry and $500+ in travel & expenses. I'm pretty sure this league will have a slightly higher SP inning requirement [self-imposed] to make i...

when will we see "mock drafts' on the green banner?

not sure if I would want a name but a "beep" would be nice. That would make it less likely to miss a pick

do you need to have purchased a 2010 team to see the site?

vienna virginia here. My previously cleared driveway now has a fresh 9 inches on it. After the weekends 19 inches in my driveway, this is not funny. Our street was only plowed last night and only one lane at that. The all-time seasonal snowfall record is around 48 inches set in the 1890s. After toda...

I too am glad to hear this.

Will the satellite league be run using the Fanball site? If so, will we be able to "test it out" somehow prior to drafts? This would include inputting our personal lists prior to the draft and being able to see how it actually works there. My experience using MDC was that players who did not do this...

based on my reading of the rules - yes



[ January 05, 2010, 10:32 PM: Message edited by: viper ]

I just quickly browsed the rules for the Classic and Satellite leagues. It seems there are some changes. I guess I wonder if my initial readings are true and wonder what else is coming. 1. Fanball will be the location for our teams. Is STATS involved this year or not? Will all the normal options we ...

any update?