Things to improve MockDraftCentral

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 11:51 am

Funny...I was under the impression that any company would be interested in how to improve their product.

You can have a "enable/disable ding" option button.

If you are looking to gain an advantage by hoping 4 or 5 players have their selections "qued up" and that will fluster another player and create a bad experience drafting, rather than a good experience...you have your priorities wrong. (repeat customers)

It would help having a minimum 10-20 second runoff...in case the wrong player was in the que, or for whatever reason...and wouldn't hurt the flow of the draft at all. Can I guess many also use computers/laptops to track the draft, and wish to burn the pen and paper drafters...the majority?

Doesn't make much business sense.

~Lance

Geoffrey Stein · Post by **Geoffrey Stein** » Thu Feb 22, 2007 12:07 pm

Originally posted by sportsbettingman:

[QB] Funny...I was under the impression that any company would be interested in how to improve their product.[QB]We're always looking to improve our company and draft software as evidenced by the many changes that we've rolled out throughout the years. However, we can't do every little thing that every users suggests. We do listen to our users, and in my opinion offer A+ customer service, but in the long run, we have to offer what is best for both the majority and our website.

You can have a "enable/disable ding" option button.As I stated earlier, we have something in the works.

If you are looking to gain an advantage by hoping 4 or 5 players have their selections "qued up" and that will fluster another player and create a bad experience drafting, rather than a good experience...you have your priorities wrong. (repeat customers)

It would help having a minimum 10-20 second runoff...in case the wrong player was in the que, or for whatever reason...and wouldn't hurt the flow of the draft at all. Can I guess many also use computers/laptops to track the draft, and wish to burn the pen and paper drafters...the majority?

Doesn't make much business sense.Like Tom stated earlier, if this is the majority opinion, things will change, but we've been running the NFBC/NFFC drafts for years, and we've yet to receive this complaint. We can't go running and changing things the day after a few people have a complaint -- that to quote you: "doesn't make much business sense."

[ February 22, 2007, 06:10 PM: Message edited by: Geoffrey Stein ]

Nutty Scrats · Post by **Nutty Scrats** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 3:32 am

Hi Geoff. I haven't had a chance to read this whole topic yet so this may have been mentioned before. Sorry if it's a duplicate. Some where mentioning about having a ding or sound after a pick was made. I was wondering with the technology today would it be possible instead of hearing a sound how about the actual players name being announced after each pick with "now it's your turn" when your turn to pick comes up. This way if people are looking away at the screen they'll know who was pick. Just a thought. Keep up the good work at Mock Draft.

Geoffrey Stein · Post by **Geoffrey Stein** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 4:03 am

Originally posted by Nutty Scrat:

Hi Geoff. I haven't had a chance to read this whole topic yet so this may have been mentioned before. Sorry if it's a duplicate. Some where mentioning about having a ding or sound after a pick was made. I was wondering with the technology today would it be possible instead of hearing a sound how about the actual players name being announced after each pick with "now it's your turn" when your turn to pick comes up. This way if people are looking away at the screen they'll know who was pick. Just a thought. Keep up the good work at Mock Draft. That is one of the options on the table at this point.

Hangtown · Post by **Hangtown** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 5:25 am

Originally posted by Nutty Scrat:

I was wondering with the technology today would it be possible instead of hearing a sound how about the actual players name being announced after each pick with "now it's your turn" when your turn to pick comes up. This way if people are looking away at the screen they'll know who was picked. Just a thought. Keep up the good work at Mock Draft. That would be a nice addition to an already superb site!!!

sportsbettingman · Post by **sportsbettingman** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 6:08 am

I think it would be awesome to view the draft as it is in Vegas...with a computer simulated draft board...complete with color coded "stickers" going up as the draft unfolds.

Just thoughts.

~Lance

Spyhunter · Post by **Spyhunter** » Fri Feb 23, 2007 10:28 am

Originally posted by sportsbettingman:

I think it would be awesome to view the draft as it is in Vegas...with a computer simulated draft board...complete with color coded "stickers" going up as the draft unfolds.

Just thoughts.

~Lance Well they have pretty close with the grid view (which I like). My only gripe with the grid view is it is slow to open which means something when you are on the clock...

Spy