New HTML Draft Room Is Now Live

[Greg Ambrosius]

We just activated the new HTML Draft Room for everyone involved in a Draft Champions League. The new HTML Draft Room is the first option on the left when you "Head To The Draft Room", with the Flash option now being on the right. If all goes well this week, we'll unveil the new draft room for Cutlines and Online Championship League drafts as well.

We're looking for feedback as far as functionality is concerned. You can post that feedback here or email me at [email protected]. Hopefully this allows folks to more easily make their DC picks on their iPhones, iPads and other smartphone devices, while still being easily accessible on desktop computers.

Notice that the Chat Room can pop out to its own window if you'd like. You can also now type 200 characters into any post.

The Draft History now shows the last 15 picks. The scroll at the top of the draft room also shows the next 15 teams in the draft.

It's very easy to add players to your Que and you can load in a lot of players there.

Each player has his current ADP listed in the Player Default List and in the Player Details box.

My Roster is easily scrollable to show your current picks.

All of the stat categories are sortable in each of the position listings.

Again, check out the new HTML Draft Room and provide feedback. This is the site design, so I'm really looking at feedback on functionality. Thanks all and good luck.

[KJ Duke]

First impression.

- Easier to pick on mobile.
- Chat is easier to read but doesnt post properly.
- Time stamp is wrong.
- Room loads slow.
- Worked for a couple minutes (on desktop), then stopped updating.
- Showed picks in list on right, but still showed same team as being on the clock 2 min after they picked.

For desktop I had to switch back to flash room. It's pretty much unusable except for picking a player on mobile if you can get it to load.

[KJ Duke]

I went back to the new draft room, on desktop. Three picks have been made, which show in chat, but the clock hasn't reset and none of the picks show along the top banner. The clock is still counting down from the first guy that was on the clock when I loaded the room. The last 3 picks don't show in draft history, either.

[Yah Mule]

I could load up the guy I wanted, but the Draft Player button wouldn't function for me on my desktop. I haven't checked my phone yet, but the discarded room was the only one that worked for me on mobile.

[Greg Ambrosius]

I could load up the guy I wanted, but the Draft Player button wouldn't function for me on my desktop. I haven't checked my phone yet, but the discarded room was the only one that worked for me on mobile.

Again, if we have issues on the phone then send me what is happening, what device you are using and any other pertinent information. We'll switch back to the old draft room if these are issues we can't fix. We're trying to help speed up the DC draft process, not slow it down. So please send detailed emails to me and then we can do something about it. We'll go back if needed, but finding any issues and fixing them is preferred.

[Greg Ambrosius]

We rolled back to the old HTML draft room right now because we had to fix one serious bug. We found the problem, but don't want any further delays in the Draft Champions Leagues while we test this further. When we launch this room again, I think we'll always have a link to the old draft room for our folks using smartphones for these drafts. That's what we did last year.

Sorry for the issues today, but thanks to all who sent screenshots so that we could really find the bug. It was a big help. I'll update when we have this figured out, but we're back to the old HTML draft room. Thanks all.