I don’t see why not… but if you have changed your mind pls update your team roster so someone else doesn’t have to!
Confirm, and my team list has been edited to reflect. Sinclair out, SDK back on board. I like to always have a couple of projects on the go.
If we're doing trades then: farmer coach M players looking for F players. Serious enquiries within (no dickhead pics)
Ok Draft to start Friday night 6pm… same rules as previous- 12 hour clock starts from when previous pick is made, no pausing overnight (no one sleeps 12 hours!). If a pick is not made in time, free agent with highest average from 2021 gets picked. what to do with Hornsy’s absence - do we have someone to stand in for him, preferable to a ghost ship… have tried email and Twitter several times over the last week with no success but he did say he was keen to play on
Hornsy's done his delists, I'm sure he'll be around to draft. Working through the draft discussion I think we ended up at drafting as normal for the "normal" draft, 6 picks for all of us bar Les who has 7(Could set an autopick record). It seemed generally agreed that an autodraft on 2021 averages for the temporary 4 topups would be the way to go, or at least that's where the discussion ended. I am onboard with that but I think we need to refine it for it to be of any use otherwise most would end up with mids. I suggest that once the main draft is done each coach nominates how they would like their autos used based on where they lack depth, Example; Kightriders nominate Fwd DEf Ruck (lol) Mid And we keep it that simple, no DP, no teams etc specified. Once they are all in I'll process them in the listed draft order, choice 1 goes to the relevant highest averaging first pick for that team and so on. Give everyone 12 hours from the last draft pick to nominate their area of need for depth, not fussed if by PM or post, but if its posted please do it in the draft thread. Anyone who hasn't nominated within the 12 hours, using the league active hours to keep it fair, just get pot luck in the same highest average criteria regardless of position.
Good suggestions @Len . Depending on when we finish the "normal" draft, is there room to individualise the other 4 picks? That is to name a specific player(s) rather than autopick? Quite happy to specify a player and position in draft sequence within the 12 hours and if they are gone to accept autopick in that position.
It probably depends on how much time we have tbh 12 hours plus processing of 72 picks even with simple criteria is going to eat a fair bit of time up, I'm open to it, but only if I have enough time to do it properly, I am a fan of keeping things simple where possible
My thoughts were if we got through the draft quick enough, that we could do the additional 4 picks in blocks of 2 which would only add 2 extra rounds… as Len suggested I’ve also been thinking about the positional issues of autocorrect plus several of the highest average players who were not drafted might be that way because of long term injuries and not be ideal top up players to start with!
A couple of things we could consider to speed up the Top Up draft: a) reduce the timing for picks in the top up draft to 6 hours b) as with last years MSD rather than getting a default pick, coaches simply time out and then make their outstanding picks when they return - if they dont return they get default picks
For sure we should remove any LTIs and the like from any kind of autopick in topup, contrary to inent otherwise. I am really not a fan of blocking picks, it means the guy picking 18th is actually picking 36th, etc. If we do have to do it then I'd definitely embrace Graeme's idea of snaking those picks, but again not a fan A and B above would hae to be in play if we do try to draft the topups. Happy for us to assume we will and have a backup plan for when that fails
Yeh two picks at a time, snake order, would be my preference as well, time permitted of course. Autopicks potentially could be really screwy.
@Len - Just looked at the draft picks......I have Warburton's 4th and 5th round picks based on previously posted trades from last season. Thus 56 and 74 should be with the Jackrabbits.