NFBC To Host Online Drafts and Create Mock Draft Site

RichV · Post by **RichV** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 4:36 pm

Originally posted by Geoffrey Stein:

quote:Originally posted by Spartacus:

Geoff, I know I mentioned this to you while you were still at MDC, but I always thought that a nice feature would be an audio signal after each selection. Many of us have our heads buried in our own hard copy as we draft online and frequently had to play catch up after multiple selections had been made. Does this new program offer that? We've been working on getting the main things working, so we haven't really put much thought into announcing every name.

Once again, if that's something our folks would like, I'll present it to the tech team. [/QUOTE]This gets my vote for a nice additional feature.

MadCow Sez · Post by **MadCow Sez** » Sat Feb 13, 2010 5:35 pm

Originally posted by Potter:

How about:

"Stop the Draft!!!! I can't find my spreadsheets!!!!!"

Sack · Post by **Sack** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 2:01 am

Dan - were you part of that Auction? We didnt realize how much we were up against it that day. ( and it took all day ) The future 2 time defending NL Tout Wars kingpin put on quite the show for us.

Now, for bonus points - what player was called when SHELLS echoed his now infamous line about his sheets?

[ February 14, 2010, 08:02 AM: Message edited by: Sack ]

MadCow Sez · Post by **MadCow Sez** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 5:29 am

Originally posted by Sack:

Dan - were you part of that Auction? We didnt realize how much we were up against it that day. ( and it took all day ) The future 2 time defending NL Tout Wars kingpin put on quite the show for us.

Now, for bonus points - what player was called when SHELLS echoed his now infamous line about his sheets? Ya....about spit my soda when he started flailing after the first player bid. There are times I'd like to meet the human train wreck just out of curiosity, then I think to the bbs comments re: Cooperstown.

If not mistaken, Greg Maddux was player in question

Gekko · Post by **Gekko** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 9:32 am

as far as drafts, what if every owner had ONE chance to add 1 minute to their time limit when they are "on the clock"? can't find your cheatsheets, can't decide which player to take, can't open your magazine quick enough to research a player, don't worry. one 1 minute time extentsion during a 30 round draft.

Geoffrey Stein · Post by **Geoffrey Stein** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:30 am

Originally posted by Gekko:

as far as drafts, what if every owner had ONE chance to add 1 minute to their time limit when they are "on the clock"? can't find your cheatsheets, can't decide which player to take, can't open your magazine quick enough to research a player, don't worry. one 1 minute time extentsion during a 30 round draft. There's a "Call Commish" button, if anyone needs more time, all they have to do is hit that and let me know

RichV · Post by **RichV** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 4:11 pm

Originally posted by MadCow Sez:

There are times I'd like to meet the human train wreck just out of curiosity, then I think to the bbs comments re: Cooperstown.

[/QB]Dan, If you indeed are on the east coast next winter, I'm sure we hook you two up for the ride to Cooperstown. I guarantee you'll never forget it

Don M · Post by **Don M** » Sun Feb 14, 2010 10:08 pm

Geoff, A big help to me would be a way to add some kind of identifing mark to a players name,i.e., a number ,letter or color.

Thanks,

Don

EA Sports · Post by **EA Sports** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:11 am

Hey Geoff,

The one feature that I would like to see is the ability to turn on "auto select" for a round (or two) and having it turn-off after your pick in a certain round. The reason that many owners don't go on auto is the fear that the draft will run through 3 or more rounds while they are gone. This would eliminate the problem and speed up slow drafts quite a bit.

Thanks,

Eric

Quahogs · Post by **Quahogs** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 5:21 am

Originally posted by emalbright:

Hey Geoff,

The one feature that I would like to see is the ability to turn on "auto select" for a round (or two) and having it turn-off after your pick in a certain round. The reason that many owners don't go on auto is the fear that the draft will run through 3 or more rounds while they are gone. This would eliminate the problem and speed up slow drafts quite a bit.

Thanks,

Eric Excellent suggestion !

viper · Post by **viper** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:29 am

when will we see "mock drafts' on the green banner?

JamesH · Post by **JamesH** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 6:58 am

Originally posted by emalbright:

Hey Geoff,

The one feature that I would like to see is the ability to turn on "auto select" for a round (or two) and having it turn-off after your pick in a certain round. The reason that many owners don't go on auto is the fear that the draft will run through 3 or more rounds while they are gone. This would eliminate the problem and speed up slow drafts quite a bit.

Thanks,

Eric Seconded. If I could pick one feature for you to add it would be this.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:05 am

Originally posted by viper:

when will we see "mock drafts' on the green banner? Hopefully by tonight. Hang on, we're finishing up things now.

Geoffrey Stein · Post by **Geoffrey Stein** » Mon Feb 15, 2010 9:48 am

Originally posted by Beezman:

quote:Originally posted by emalbright:

Hey Geoff,

The one feature that I would like to see is the ability to turn on "auto select" for a round (or two) and having it turn-off after your pick in a certain round. The reason that many owners don't go on auto is the fear that the draft will run through 3 or more rounds while they are gone. This would eliminate the problem and speed up slow drafts quite a bit.

Thanks,

Eric Seconded. If I could pick one feature for you to add it would be this. [/QUOTE]I will most definitely bring up this suggestion when we get to work on making the software slow draft compatible.

Thanks, guys.

colorado · Post by **colorado** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:41 am

I'm looking forward to the unveiling. On a side note, I am unable to view any of my completed slow drafts. I seem to remember that rosters were made available and don't want to hold off this inquiry until we enter the home stretch leading up to the ME.

Scott Martin

Geoffrey Stein · Post by **Geoffrey Stein** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 9:54 am

Originally posted by colorado:

I'm looking forward to the unveiling. On a side note, I am unable to view any of my completed slow drafts. I seem to remember that rosters were made available and don't want to hold off this inquiry until we enter the home stretch leading up to the ME.

Scott Martin Scott,

All rosters are available under "My Completed Drafts" at MDC.

We're working on loading the slow drafts into the Fanball software, but there are a few things beyond our control -- dealing mostly with Placeholders and guys in the lower-depth of the minors -- that we need to be resolved before we can get the correct 45-man rosters into the system.

Rest assured, we haven't forgotten about these.

colorado · Post by **colorado** » Tue Feb 16, 2010 2:41 pm

Thanks for the response. Making these available shouldn't be a priority.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:22 pm

Just an update that we are still testing this software and we are still working out some bugs. This week we ran the two pay satellite leagues on MDC.com and we'll announce our plans for next week's satellite leagues very shortly.

While we are eager to get all of you set up on a free mock NFBC site to get your practice runs in, we realize that we can't unveil a product which still needs a few more screws tightened. Our staff ran a test run today and we'll likely do another one tomorrow. The guys are doing a great job of getting everything done and we'll update our default lists shortly with our own generated ADPs.

I wish we could have unveiled this earlier this week, but we're still working on all of this and will have another update tomorrow. Thanks for your patience. We know it has to be fine-tuned for this group or we know what will follow......

Sebadiah23 · Post by **Sebadiah23** » Thu Feb 18, 2010 4:44 pm

I work in the software development field and I second Greg's remark that they'd rather wait a little bit and get it right than rush it out the door with mistakes. Furthermore, when rushed, the first thing a software lead or manager will do is start to peel back features just to make the deadline. That's the last thing we want. We want as many features as possible.

Unless MDC is planning to stonewall us, I'm curious why the emphasis is on the draft software and not the league management, lineup setting, and faab pages. Personally they are more important to me than the draft software. But maybe that part is already done, plus it technically doesn't need to be ready until April, so I get the timing I guess.

If possible, put slow draft #17 on the new software and I'll promise to send you guys 10 QA tickets a day until it's ready for primetime. A slow draft is meant to be slow anyway.

-Craig K.

waiverwire · Post by **waiverwire** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:41 am

If possible, put slow draft #17 on the new software and I'll promise to send you guys 10 QA tickets a day until it's ready for primetime. A slow draft is meant to be slow anyway.I'll second that. I'm also in the software industry and think slow draft #17 would be a perfect chance for you guys to get some free testing out of us.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:07 am

Originally posted by waiverwire:

quote:If possible, put slow draft #17 on the new software and I'll promise to send you guys 10 QA tickets a day until it's ready for primetime. A slow draft is meant to be slow anyway.I'll second that. I'm also in the software industry and think slow draft #17 would be a perfect chance for you guys to get some free testing out of us. [/QUOTE]Thanks for volunteering, but we'll do #17 on MDC.com. We're testing our site again today and with any luck we'll allow the mock site open first for a week and work out the bugs there. NFBC members can then mock fulltime if they'd like and send suggestions to a direct email. You will be our best beta testers for this software in a couple of days.

No need to put a pay league on there to help us test this software. We'll get all of you to do that soon enough.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 2:11 am

Originally posted by Sebadiah23:

I'm curious why the emphasis is on the draft software and not the league management, lineup setting, and faab pages. Personally they are more important to me than the draft software. But maybe that part is already done, plus it technically doesn't need to be ready until April, so I get the timing I guess.Have no fear Craig, nothing is more important than the back-end software of running 5x5 leagues and the FAAB functions. None of that is being short-changed while we fine-tune the draft software. We have a lot of people working on this project right now in St. Louis and all of this is being addressed. We'll need to test that part shortly as well, but from what I've heard things are progressing well with FAAB.

Sebadiah23 · Post by **Sebadiah23** » Fri Feb 19, 2010 1:41 pm

Cool Greg. I'm not trying to armchair quarterback or anything, I was just vibing what came to my mind, since a lot of my work day involves these kinds of dilemmas.

Thanks for the enthusiasm in these endevours. It is very appreciated and respected.

-Craig Kielinski

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Wed Feb 24, 2010 10:24 am

Okay, I know it seems like we've delayed the launch of our draft room long enough and some folks may be getting frustrated, but we definitely wanted to iron out everything before making this available for mock drafts. We had a great mock today with our Fanball staffers and everything is looking great. I think we're on pace to get this out to you folks shortly.

There are some really nice features on our site that you're going to like a lot. I'll explain them once you have a chance to see the site. Stay tuned but this looks really good and I think you'll be mocking soon.