NEW DRAFT ROOM

[Tom Kessenich]

is there a way to see who is in the room with the new draft room?

Also Yasmany Tomas doesnt appear to be a draft option....ie he is a placeholde

The bolder teams at the top show are the ones who are in the room.

Let me ask about Tomas

[KJ Duke]

Only a few picks in but looks like a big improvement over the old draft room. More stable, easy to navigate, pop-out chat is nice and overall appearance much better.

Would be helpful to add time stamp to chat. Also, how about owner name showing up somewhere ... maybe when you hover over team name or on draft board.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Only a few picks in but looks like a big improvement over the old draft room. More stable, easy to navigate, pop-out chat is nice and overall appearance much better.

Would be helpful to add time stamp to chat. Also, how about owner name showing up somewhere ... maybe when you hover over team name or on draft board.

Good feedback. Keep playing with the online draft room everyone and feel free to make suggestions by the end of the day. Many of the suggestions being made in the Mia League are good ones and I'm listing them all now. At the end of the day we'll put them all together and send them to IT. But it looks like the drafting portion is smooth enough; we still can fine-tune the Chat and make the button stronger to show who is in the draft room, etc. You can email me any suggestions as well if that's easier at [email protected]. Thanks all.

[KJ Duke]

Draft history should show team names next to picks and upcoming picks ... that's much easier to visualize than the long list across the top.

[76erfan]

when someone previously not in room enters the room..i see it tells you that now in chat.....can we get that notated differently...maybe in gray? also when nfbc admin types something...that should be in red.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Draft history should show team names next to picks and upcoming picks ... that's much easier to visualize than the long list across the top.

I've added all of these items to a list of tweaks and sent to IT. There are really two issues that we definitely need to fix before doing more in the new online draft room tomorrow:

1. Make sure all Draft Prep lists flow into your player default lists. We are looking at that now.
2. Getting Yasmany Tomas listed. I think we know what happened there.

There are other tweaks involving the Chat, the clock, sorting ERA and WHIP, the top bar showing more and allowing you to scroll past 15 teams, but for the most part the drafting of players part is working. It definitely takes time to work through the new look and everything else, so don't be afraid to do a DC or a Satellite before your big online drafts. Again, I think this is much better than what we had before, but I'm definitely getting used to it. Hopefully we can get more guys in a league with the new draft room tomorrow and throughout the week. I'll provide an update on those plans shortly.

[Navel Lint]

This has nothing to do with the draft room, but you will have to remember to remove the TEAM Draft from the ADP results.
Mike Trout lasted a little longer than usual.

[Red Sox Nation-]

Greg,

Can we get a sound option when our pick is up? Thanks

[DOUGHBOYS]

I'm reminded each time starting a new draft....
An option as to whether we want e-mails or not would be wonderful.

[Greg Ambrosius]

This has nothing to do with the draft room, but you will have to remember to remove the TEAM Draft from the ADP results.
Mike Trout lasted a little longer than usual.

Yes, this league was listed under the $250 DC Auction and none of those auctions are going into the ADP. But we'll watch tomorrow to make sure. Thanks.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Greg,

Can we get a sound option when our pick is up? Thanks

Oh, good one. I didn't even realize the sound didn't come over from the old draft room. Yes, of course. I'll add that to the list. Thanks.

You guys did a great job with providing small tweaks to the room that will make it better. We are definitely very close.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Okay, we solved the problem involving the player default list. We had a couple of owners who were drafting today who didn't get their Draft Prep lists loaded into the new online draft room. The issue involved the draft rankings page. What we have found is that users will have multiple draft rankings pages up at the same time spanning more than one of their teams. Once they save rankings for one team, others get mixed up. We will put a block in place to prevent this from happening to other users, thus saving that one list for all of your teams. It should be fixed shortly and won't happen going forward. Hope that helps.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Here's an update on the new online Draft Room:

The 15 owners in the Mia League were fantastic and gave us 20 items to change, add or fix. Most of them made picks in the new online draft room, but by the midway point they needed to use the Flash draft room to finish because we initially had a problem loading their default lists into their rooms and the Que was a major problem. These guys are Chatting like crazy and while I know they love this new Chat there are bugs there right now with some guys seeing double and even triple posts. All are on the fix 'em up list.

The player default list malfunction is fixed. Yasmany Tomas not being in the player pool is fixed. And ERA and WHIP will sort from lowest to highest now, not the other way around.

We are fixing the Que now (players weren't leaving the Que after being selected) and should have that done shortly. We'll fix the clock soon and sound should be added to when it's your pick.

Our goal is to allow this HTML draft room shortly when a few more changes can be made. Everyone will ALWAYS have the Flash option if they don't want to try this HTML draft room, so no worries there. But when we do turn this on, it will just replace the old HTML option and anyone currently in a draft will have access to check it out, even if you're in Round 49. Heck, even in any upcoming draft you can easily switch out of Flash for HTML or vice versa. So many of you currently in Draft Champions Leagues -- and we have almost 50 going on now -- should at some point be able to see the new online draft room under the HTML option.

I'll report when we transfer this over, but thanks to the Mia owners for this and again enjoy Flash for the rest of the season if you like, but hopefully this improved HTML online draft room will grow on you if you're working on it in some of these DC leagues. Thanks for your patience everyone and good luck.