Re: How Can We Make Draft Champions Better & Faster?
Posted: Mon Aug 07, 2017 8:22 am
All good points Matt. The one difference between the 8 hour now and the 4 hour now is that there is no pause at night. I think people are leery about joining the 4 hour now because the chances of getting auto-picked at night are greater. With a 7-hour pause at night, there isn't that concern in a 4-hour DC.
We can certainly keep the 8 hour DC to start out, but the concern is that someone will take 8 hours plus the 7 hour Pause at night to make a pick. And let's say they are on the turn and take another 6-7 hours to pick. One person could take almost a day for two picks. But maybe we live through that rather than eliminate the 8 hour option altogether.
The goal isn't just to make these DCs faster, it's to make them more enjoyable. I understand we are all busy during the day, but 4 hours to make a pick during the day when you've been updated with previous picks isn't asking that much. And if you know you're busy, we need to ensure that 1 Round Auto works so that you can comfortably use the Que more. It's on us to make that technology easier and more reassuring, while also allowing the selection of a pick on a phone or other device easier. If you can go to lunch and easily make that pick on your phone these drafts will move more smoothly and that is going to be done for the start of baseball.
2. The reason it always started at 1 pm is because that's the way STATS programmed it and never changed. Now we have more flexibility to change and we'll come to a reasonable solution. Maybe it's not 1 hour after it sells out. Maybe it's a set time that day (11 am ET for any draft that sells out during the Pause or early morning; an hour after a sellout between 11 am-9 pm ET, or something like that). We'll take all input in making this work.
3. We'll ask about inputting draft lists. Not sure about this, but making things more user-friendly in loading and creating draft lists makes a lot of sense. They have to synch up with the Player IDs within the system, so that's why we couldn't do that before, so let me look into that. We are on the right path with the Draft Prep, but the functionality was cumbersome to rank your list initially. Let's see how we can perfect that.
Not sure about the extra credit, but drafting me or Tom would never be a smart move. But we can discuss that down the road. Thanks.
We can certainly keep the 8 hour DC to start out, but the concern is that someone will take 8 hours plus the 7 hour Pause at night to make a pick. And let's say they are on the turn and take another 6-7 hours to pick. One person could take almost a day for two picks. But maybe we live through that rather than eliminate the 8 hour option altogether.
The goal isn't just to make these DCs faster, it's to make them more enjoyable. I understand we are all busy during the day, but 4 hours to make a pick during the day when you've been updated with previous picks isn't asking that much. And if you know you're busy, we need to ensure that 1 Round Auto works so that you can comfortably use the Que more. It's on us to make that technology easier and more reassuring, while also allowing the selection of a pick on a phone or other device easier. If you can go to lunch and easily make that pick on your phone these drafts will move more smoothly and that is going to be done for the start of baseball.
2. The reason it always started at 1 pm is because that's the way STATS programmed it and never changed. Now we have more flexibility to change and we'll come to a reasonable solution. Maybe it's not 1 hour after it sells out. Maybe it's a set time that day (11 am ET for any draft that sells out during the Pause or early morning; an hour after a sellout between 11 am-9 pm ET, or something like that). We'll take all input in making this work.
3. We'll ask about inputting draft lists. Not sure about this, but making things more user-friendly in loading and creating draft lists makes a lot of sense. They have to synch up with the Player IDs within the system, so that's why we couldn't do that before, so let me look into that. We are on the right path with the Draft Prep, but the functionality was cumbersome to rank your list initially. Let's see how we can perfect that.
Not sure about the extra credit, but drafting me or Tom would never be a smart move. But we can discuss that down the road. Thanks.