Hey TIB,TrustInBill wrote:Glad you liked my post, Lugnuts.
Nevertheless, you made may point as to why we need some kind of time bank and we cannot simply rely on etiquette to make these work. There is such a disparity between your point of view and the comments I have seen from others who I have drafted with. Some people believe that you should only draft in these if you can interrupt your home and work schedule whenever you are on the clock. These owners get ticked off as soon as an hour goes by and someone has not made their pick. Others, believe that they can routinely take 6-8 hours to make their pick without any even giving their fellow drafters a "heads up" that they may not be available for some time. Those owners are routinely harassed in these drafts by the first group, and vice-versa.
You stereotyped me incorrectly. Frankly, I fall in the middle of this group. I prefer the slow drafts because I am not as prepared in baseball as I am in football. I need time to make my picks. I also have a home and work schedule that does not always allow me to make immediate picks, but in some drafts this has gone too far.
My last slow draft just finished in 18 days. That timeframe was fine.
The 15 days was just an example. You could do 33 hours per owner which is 21 days. I would be ok with that as well. My point is I would like to see a little more structure to the format, and eliminate the bickering that I have seen between owners in every draft as to how fast this is supposed to go.
Whether you agree with my point or not, hopefully I have clarified this.
I should have elaborated and not been such a tool...what I should have said was, your suggestion would have been a logistics nightmare and probably impossible for NFBC to install, way too much to be programmed...unfortunatley, I read past the first thing you said "If this can be programmed in..."!
My apologies.While ending a slow draft within 15 days would be desirable, it's not really possible with the 8hr timer and 50 rounds. Now if it was changed to 4hrs and suspended the overnight timer, while still allowing picks to be made, now you might be able to complete within 15 days!
What also would help, as far as complaints go, and I think it was mentioned earlier, is too educate potential signees that everyone has the option to take the full 8-hrs and too be prepared for such. I'm not sure having NFBC set the rules of an 8-hr timer, and then texting and e-mailing people who are on the clock and taking a long time to get there picks in is the best way to go either.
Sorry again TIB, didn't mean to be offensive...GL with your team(s) this year.