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0 Subject: RIBC 2015: Draft discussion

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 12:10

The draft will be activated this afternoon (Monday, Mar 16), although the clock will not be turned on until the first round is completed. The official start time of the draft is Tuesday morning, but once Draftime is activated, picks can be made, and (more importantly) queues can be set. Here are the ground rules for this year.
Please read carefully, as some standards have changed from prior years.

In general, I discourage you from using a designated picker unless that is the only way to make the proper pick. The software now allows for auto-pick queues (with or without a time delay), and that is the preferred method for making a pick if you are unlikely to be available when your pick is due.

As such, please do not mark any queue as AVAILABLE unless you have specifically provided instructions to your designated picker(s). DP’s should only be used if you need some logic applied to the pick (e.g., don’t take someone at the same position as my pick in the previous round).

If you mark your queue AVAILABLE, this means that designated pickers (and me as commish) can see it when it is your turn to pick. Regardless, even if I can see your queue, I will not pick from it unless you have provided specific instructions. I encourage everyone else to adhere to the same standard.

Please be diligent about the current auto-pick settings for your general and round specific queues. If you do not want auto-picks to be made, then make sure that both queues - general and next pick - have auto-pick set to "No Auto-Pick". Every year, it seems that someone gets stuck with a surprise pick because auto-pick was inadvertently turned on or left on.

Teams at the endpoint of each round will have only one clock period to make their pick. Similarly, anyone who has timed out in any round will have subsequent picks skipped until you show up to make your pick.

I will activate a 4 hour clock beginning at the end of round 1, and this will be on for the duration of the draft, including weekends. Chronic time-out offenders may have their clocks manually shortened. The nightly clock moratorium will run from midnight until 8am EDT. This means that the moratorium will be from 9pm until 5am PDT. If you are on the West Coast and your pick comes due overnight, you will not time-out until 9am PDT. For those of you who live outside of the local US/Canadian time zones, I realize that the clock moratoriums are not ideal, but I appreciate your attempts to make it work.

You should anticipate that we will average at least two rounds completed per day. Early rounds tend to be a little bit slower. Later rounds generally pick up the pace.

The ESPN site will not be updated with draft results until the draft is over. You will need to figure out how to keep track of player availability on your own. (Of course, Draftime will not allow you to pick someone who is already drafted.)

When making your draft pick, please indicate the primary position at which you intend to use him. Do not pick anyone for the UTL slot unless he is not eligible at any other position. It is not necessary to draft a player for every position.

If you want to draft a player who is not available in Draftime, you should use the "Contact" link at the bottom of the Draftime page to request that the player be added to the system. Please anticipate these situations so that we don’t have to wait. If it is you turn to pick and a player is not listed in Draftime, then you may select a player who is unlikely to be drafted at all as a placeholder, to be substituted later on. If a drafted player is not available at the ESPN site, we will also assign a placeholder until that player has been added. Once the draft is over, you may only add players who are listed at ESPN.

You may use this thread to ask questions, comment on your upcoming availability or unavailability. After two rounds have been completed, a separate thread will be set up for the collection of draft pick rationales.
1Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 12:13
Rules recap:

Here are the general parameters of the league:

# Teams: 16
Scoring Type: Rotisserie
Player Universe: All baseball
Max Acquisitions for Entire Season: No maximum
Max Trades for Entire Season: No maximum
Trade End Date: August 28, 2015 12PM ET
Allow Draft Pick Trades: Yes
Waiver Time: 1 days
Waiver Type: Continual rolling list
Can't Cut List Provider: None
Trade Reject Time: 1
Trade Review: Commissioner (four veto votes will trigger a full vote)
Post Draft Players: Follow Waiver Rules
Max Games Played: 162 per slot, enforced by position
Max Innings Pitched: 1350
Lineup changes: Daily - Lock Individually at Scheduled Gametime
Roster Positions: C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, CI, MI, OF, OF, OF, OF, Util, SP, RP, P, P, P, P, P, P, P, BN, BN, BN, BN
Batters Stat Categories: Runs (R), Runs Batted In (RBI), Stolen Bases (SB), On-base Percentage (OBP), Slugging Percentage (SLG)
Pitchers Stat Categories: Wins (W), Saves (SV), Strikeouts (K), Earned Run Average (ERA), (Walks + Hits)/ Innings Pitched (WHIP)
2JeffG
      ID: 15859720
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 13:30
Just a heads up I may be out of commission later in the week. Have enough players pre ranked for 9 rounds (not that I want to draft that way). Will have autopick on when unavailable. Will rank more.
3Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 13:50
For those who want to track all 4 RIBC drafts, here are links (grid appears on top, sequential pick list below that):

RIBC

AAA-Yahoo

AAA-ESPN

AA (ESPN)

4RJ
      ID: 522141614
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 15:14
Going to check on lunch today, forgot drafttime pw.
5RJ
      ID: 522141614
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 17:37
Having trouble accessing drafttime from my cell I know I'm logged in at home so I can pick then but won't be til after 9 cst. sorry if I'm holding things up if someone can autopick for me let me know.
6Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 18:09
I can always force a pick through for any team, if you wish.

Just make sure you get your password situation sorted out tonight. There is a reset password link on the Help page.
7RJ
      ID: 522141614
      Mon, Mar 16, 2015, 20:05
Yeah should be all good tomorrow if it is my pick right now I'll email it to you right now just to not hold things up.
8Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 10:18
Draft rationale collection thread has started:
Draft rationale collection thread

Feel free to include any rationale you may have had for selecting your draft position.

Post them as you can. Don't worry about keeping in pick sequence, as they'll be copied over to the official rational thread in the proper order.

Let's try to keep this updated within two rounds. Thanks.
9holt
      ID: 8251817
      Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 18:05
Hey guys - just a heads up. I see in my email that my picks are up. I'm just leaving work right now. Will look it over when I get home in a few minutes.
10Graydog
      ID: 332341821
      Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 22:34
draftime appears down when I try to access... same for others?
11JeffG
      ID: 41228917
      Wed, Mar 18, 2015, 22:38
I just sent an email to contact.us@draftime.com
12Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Mar 19, 2015, 08:35
Drafttime recovered this morning. Since people may have been unable to properly set up or update queues overnight, I have temporarily suspended the clock. Once it appears that we have regained the flow, I will resume the 4-hour clock.
13Evan
      ID: 5720121
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 18:05
Draftime appears to be down again.
14Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 18:34
Crap. This is getting to be a significant issue.
15Judy
      ID: 54203110
      Fri, Mar 20, 2015, 22:46
I have been printing the grid each night to have the data.
16Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sat, Mar 21, 2015, 20:55
I think JeffG has made a queueing error, probably thinking he was picking Kyle Seager (who was drafted in rnd 4) rather than Corey Seager (who may not even make the majors this year).

JeffG is actually hospitalized during this draft, awaiting surgery, so he's keeping queues set up well in advance to avoid delaying the draft - knowing that when he comes out of surgery, he'll be incapacitated for at least 36 hours.

As such, I emailed him to give him the option to replace the pick.

We can continue forward, but if/when he emails me, I'm giving him the option to change pick 9.09.
17Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Mar 22, 2015, 13:14
[16] Just heard from JeffG. He is taking Brett Gardner for pick 9.09.
18Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 12:09
We're on a good overall pace, which should get us finished by March 31.

Thanks to everyone for keeping relatively current with rationales. That said - Graydog, bmd, and ksoze - you're starting to lag behind a little. Most people should at least be through round 11 rationales by now.

19Graydog
      ID: 2315871
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 17:37
Guru, sorry for the lag on rationals, swamped with work - doing what I can.

Draftime is down right now, I have emailed draftime to make sure they are aware of the situation.
20Graydog
      ID: 2315871
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 17:37
Guru, sorry for the lag on rationals, swamped with work - doing what I can.

Draftime is down right now, I have emailed draftime to make sure they are aware of the situation.
22ksoze
      ID: 271212719
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 19:36
Sorry, got behind due to an earlier than normal alarm this morning, had them caught up through the 10th prior to leaving this morning, should only be behind on the 11th now and will have that posted once the kids are down for the night. Again, my apologies.
23Dave R
      SuperDude
      ID: 3010361110
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 19:44
Anyone know what ESPN's position is about adding positional eligibility? Number of games?
24JeffG
      ID: 41228917
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 20:58
[23] ESPN positional eligibility rules
25Dave R
      SuperDude
      ID: 3010361110
      Tue, Mar 24, 2015, 22:34
Thanks
26Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Mar 25, 2015, 16:55
Just a courtesy alert - I'm on the road through next Monday (wedding in Va.) and while I should be able to stay current via phone and laptop, I may be less able to troubleshoot on the spot.

27beastiemiked
      ID: 262102620
      Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 21:10
Ugh, sorry guys. Had some unexpected things happen today.
28JeffG
      ID: 41228917
      Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 22:00
Strange that Greydog's pick 18.10 is set to queue autopick instant but his clock has been ticking for the last hour.
29holt
      ID: 222581821
      Thu, Mar 26, 2015, 22:28
I emailed him just in case he's around but was expecting his queue to roll for him. Empty queue maybe?
30Graydog
      ID: 2315871
      Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 03:38
I am not sure why that pick wasn't auto, eventually the auto pick went through. It was a pick based queue, maybe I hadn't set it to auto. If that is the case it is strange that it auto picked after 4 hours.
31Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Mar 27, 2015, 11:57
[30] It was a system glitch. I emailed KKB at draftime last night, and he fixed it - which is why the pick went through late.
32fugazi
      ID: 327471223
      Sat, Mar 28, 2015, 22:55
Sorry guys. Was trying to set queues from my computer at home but had some odd internet issues and the website kept timing out on me. Had to come get my picks in from my brother's house. Very sorry for holding things up.
33fugazi
      ID: 327471223
      Sat, Mar 28, 2015, 22:56
oops - this is HOLT btw.
34Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Mar 29, 2015, 23:05
Looks like we should finish the draft by Monday night.

As you make your final picks, please post any remaining rationales in the collection thread.

I'll try to get the draft results entered into ESPN on Tuesday, after which I'll activate the league. All undrafted players will initially be on waivers.
35Uptown Bombers
      ID: 332561418
      Mon, Mar 30, 2015, 08:24
I have a one man queue for round 25. If it doesn't last, I'll be able to check around 11.
36Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 12:36
Great job on rationales. I think everyone is complete except for beastiemiked.

I probably won't get the draft loaded on ESPN until late today.
37Tosh
      Leader
      ID: 057721710
      Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 17:06
Correction Needed -

I have - Pedro Baez

I should have - Javier Baez

Thanks Guru!
38Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 17:06
I just entered the draft results on ESPN.

Due to some strange glitch, I was unable to enter Johnny Giavotella directly, so I subbed in Josh Willingham during the draft entry process, and then swapped him for Giavotella after the draft. So that's all set.

For Youngroman, Odubel Herrera was not yet listed on ESPN. I used Derek Jeter as a placeholder. When Herrera is listed, I'll make the switch. (someone needs to point it out when the time comes.) If YR drops Jeter before Herrera is available, then Herrera is no longer protected after that.
39Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Mar 31, 2015, 17:10
[37] Baez swap done.

Everyone else should review their roster to make sure all players were correctly entered.

Undrafted players are all on waivers now. Looks like they will clear on Thursday. Waiver priority is the reverse of the draft selection round order (which is not the same as the draft order.)
40youngroman
      ID: 57047243
      Wed, Apr 01, 2015, 14:05
Guru - you were too fast. Odubel Herrera is available now. you can do the switch. his position (SS) is odd. on his ESPN player page he is listed as a 2B and the position he will play most is OF. wherever that SS comes from. the last time he started a game at SS was in 2012.
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