5BTC 2012 Fantasy Football League~!

[eroxors]

Is the auto draft setting set in stone? Because if it was manual draft, I would definitely join.

Not set in stone but scheduling will be a nightmare.

[eroxors]

Darn I'm already in so many leagues is the min. buy-in 10 btc?

10BTC is the buy-in... another league never hurts... the research is already done!

[TTBit]

Still looking for players..

[eroxors]

Draft is one week from today! Invite your friends, put the link in your signature, bitcoin FF 2012 must happen!

[eroxors]

bump....

[OneVillain]

Is the auto draft setting set in stone? Because if it was manual draft, I would definitely join.

Not set in stone but scheduling will be a nightmare.

IMO.. randomly determine a draft time.  It still favors people who are less busy over people who are busy, but it removes the back-and-forth and everyone knows what they're signing up for.

I'd maybe play if it wasn't escrowed by someone running one of those "savings accounts" that pays out a really high %.

[eroxors]

Is the auto draft setting set in stone? Because if it was manual draft, I would definitely join.

Not set in stone but scheduling will be a nightmare.

IMO.. randomly determine a draft time.  It still favors people who are less busy over people who are busy, but it removes the back-and-forth and everyone knows what they're signing up for.

I'd maybe play if it wasn't escrowed by someone running one of those "savings accounts" that pays out a really high %.

if you aren't going to play, don't play, you don't have to crap on my thread... 

[eroxors]

Bump

[KajiMaster]

How does this still look? I'm interested but i'm not so sure about 10BTC. Is the buy set in stone?

-kaji

[eroxors]

How does this still look? I'm interested but i'm not so sure about 10BTC. Is the buy set in stone?

-kaji

I've thought about lowering it to BTC5 or even BTC2 if it meant getting enough players. Is there interest in a lower buy-in?

[Junko]

In general, having auto-draft is/would be a deal breaker for me in any money league with serious stakes.

But if the buy in were to be lowered to 5btc or less, I could stomach an auto-draft and just play for fun/shits and giggles being that auto-drafts can result in some really wonky rosters. As long as everyone has an equal chance at having a wonky roster, its all good I guess. Might make it more fun, idk.

So basically yeah, I would be happy to join if the buy-in were lowered (assuming the prize pool would be lowered proportionally too as well if so).

[Troll Toll]

If I can draft my own players then i'm in. otherwise no way.

I'm in for any price buy in. do you still need people?

[KajiMaster]

BTC5 and I get to draft; I'll sign up.  If you want to do auto draft, it would have to be BTC2 for me to invest.  And at those buy-ins it would make more sense to only have top 3 pay out. Opinions?

-kaji

[TTBit]

Autodraft: I'll do whatever, but I already have 2 other drafts I need to attend. I was looking forward to having a random autodraft league. Also, getting 10 people to agree on a time is going to be a bear this late in the season.

Question on autodraft: How does it work exactly? Will it give me a complete roster before picking up a 3rd RB or 4th WR?

[eroxors]

Draft options:

1. We could do a live draft for those who can attend and as long as your personalized rankings are setup correctly, you should get basically what you intended to get.

2. We could do some sort of offline draft here on the forums (either auction-style or regular), where everyone gets a few minutes before being assigned the next-best player based on ESPN rankings.

3. We could do a "no draft" where an auto-draft takes place, then all players are dropped and everyone picks up their players in FAAB auction-style "draft." I can assign a 1 day window where everyone must place their bids.

In a Free Agents Acquisition Budgets (FAAB) waivers system, each manager receives a dollar amount to place blind bids on waived players. The manager with the highest bid at the end of the waiver period claims that player and that bid amount is deducted from the team's acquisition budget. If multiple managers place an equal bid on a player, tiebreak options are available as described above.

[eroxors]

Here's another option. A "Blind Auction" facilitated on the forums. This is how it works:

1. Everyone get's a $200 budget.
2. A list of players is posted in the auction thread.
3. Everyone submits blind bids based on those players to a 3rd party within ~2 hours.
4. The winners of that round are posted.
5. Repeat.

Round Ideas:

Round 1: The top 5 ranked players.
Round 2: The next 10 highest-ranked players.
Round 3: The next 20 highest-ranked players.
Round 4: The next 40 highest-ranked players.
Round 5: The remaining starting QBs.
Round 6: The next 40 highest-ranked players.
Round 7: Defenses & Kickers

or

Each round is simply the next 20 best players based on an agreed upon list.

Any remaining budget funds will be assigned to the player's FAAB budget to complete their roster.

[fishface]

I want in if this ends up being a live online draft.

[KajiMaster]

I vote for Yahoo fantasy draft.  Used it every year for multiple leagues. They have a fast drafting process.

Also my other league is on Yahoo and this would make it easier on me

Will play on any fantasy draft site tho for sure.

The auction idea sounded cool.  I would be up for that too.

I'm glad I'm not commissioning this

-kaji

[Junko]

My personal vote is option 1 if most people are able to be present for an online draft. Like you said, whoever can’t make it can still submit their ranking list.

If most people can’t make the draft time, then auto-draft seems more fair.

Personally, I would vote against Auction draft/Blind auction draft. One reason being that I’ve never done one before and two, it seems like it would be even more difficult time wise and attendance wise.

I’m in for yahoo online live-draft or auto-draft for 5btc. I’ll go with whatever the consensus is between those two.

edit: I've used yahoo online live draft many times also and agree, it is very good and efficient. bing, bam, boom, done.

[eroxors]

Ok. I would like to hear from ttbit, but a live draft is sounding like our best shot at making this happen. Do we need to get in before the season opener or are we okay with a week 2 start?

If we want in by wed. We're looking at a Tuesday night draft.