Mocksports draft lessons

[jumpngeorge]

I thought I would a few notes after the first Mocksports draft in ages.

I went to the Gibson draft thinking I would track the the draft using Rotolab like I usually do. All of us were using the draft room for the first time. In the draft room all the players are listed in order their estimated value. Estimated using their own system. You have the option of looking at just hitters, or pitchers or any individual position. You can queue up players your interested in taking by clicking on a plus sign next to their names. You can also click on a played name. When you do this, he goes to the top of the page next to the draft button which is only active when it is your turn. If this player gets selected before your turn, he is replaced by either the most valuable free agent or the player at the top of your queue. I learned this when I had Byron Buxton ready to draft and the team before me took him. When draft button turned white, I pressed. Like 20 minutes later, I looked at my roster, no Buxton, but I had Diaz, a player I didn’t recall drafting who must have been the most valuable when Buxton got sniped.

If there is ever another draft, I think I would like reorder the player pool and set up my queue before the draft starts. I started to reorder the players, but at least once, I came back and my work was gone. Would really like to understand how to save that! Could messing with the draft settings reset this? Accept the fact that you are not going to be able to track the draft using your usual software. Things go very quickly. If you pick in 45 seconds, the software picks for you ( most valuable or top of you queue). If you do pick, next guy is on the clock.

We should also have a mock draft so everyone can see how it works. If any of the other Gibson folks want add to this, please do

[tomfool]

You could set your draft rankings manually before the draft in the draft prep or draft central area or whatever it was on the left side menu of the onroto gibson league front page. I put Acuna at the top of my order before the draft so I would get him first no matter what with the first pick. Also, during the draft, in the draft room all you had to do was click on the + sign next to a players name and queue them up in the queue window before your turn in the order you want them so you can actually get who you want out of who's left when its your turn. It seemed easy and self intuitive to me, but I have been in a lot of draft rooms in my time in yahoo and such. I liked the onroto draft room myself.

[joeizzo]

We did do a mock draft last year when we were considering using the draft room for the Berra Auction but those that tried it thought it was hard to work with considering toppers etc.

Before the season started OnRoto had mock drafts that users could participate in though I didn't.

I agree that it was fast moving and nearly impossible to keep up with in OnRoto. I did pre-rank like Tom said using my OnRoto rankings.

Joe

[tomfool]

I agree it was probably too fast, 45 sec picks. Maybe 1min or 1:30 idk

[joeizzo]

We were afraid it would last 5-6 hours with longer pick times if everyone maxed out.

[Dave Graeff]

I was trying to keep up with all the picks for the first few rounds, then gave up. It's probably my fault, but I missed the notification that we were using that method of drafting. Had I known, I would have ranked my players in advance. I've done many Yahoo drafts but have always been prepared, with pre-ranked players. I think I will be better prepared next time we do this.

[Crosley]

I'd say that the biggest challenge was that it was the first time for everyone drafting the OnRoto way. I mostly figured it out within the first 2 rounds and did a passable job (by my standards) of stocking The Phonney Martins. If we do another draft in a Mocksports league, though, I'll have to pre-rank LOTS of players. Adding more time between picks is, I think, a recipe for a 6-hour disaster.

The minor league draft is taking forever, BTW. Some of my preferred guys may be eligible for arbitration in MLB before I can add them to my team!