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0 Subject: RIHC 2018-19: Getting started

Posted by: Guru
- [330592710] Tue, Sep 11, 2018, 16:23

The following managers have accepted my invitation to compete in the 2018-19 RIHC:

Top 5 RIHC: Swish City, Dave R, Species, Guru, Youngroman
Top 2 AAA#1: s_R, tommyd
Top 2 AAA#2: Philly Busters, TD
3rd place AAA (3 chosen from 6 ties): RSF, Tosh, Twolves

One of the AAA leagues had a 2-way tie for 3rd last year, and the other had a 4-way tie. Only 3 spots were available for 3rd place finishers this year, and I ended up selecting them by random draw. Although other methods had been suggested for breaking the ties, none seemed any “fairer” than a random draw.

The NBA season begins on Tuesday, Oct 16. For each of the last three years, the draft was completed in about 7-8 days. Therefore, I'm thinking that the draft should begin on or about Friday, Oct. 5, hopefully finishing by Saturday, Oct 13.
1Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Sep 20, 2018, 11:09
League invites were just sent out from ESPN. These invitations may have only gone to new teams. Returning teams from last year's RIHC league are automatically carried forward.

When joining the league, new managers should reset their team names to something of their choosing. Since you are filling the slot held by an outgoing manager, the old team name might be carried forward unless you change it.

You'll note that the ESPN interface is new this year. Hopefully, we haven't lost any functionality in the transition.
2Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 13:16
We will be starting the process of selecting our draft position in the next day or so. Please be thinking about this.

I'll crank out a random order for this process later today.

3Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Sep 25, 2018, 22:25
I generated a set of random numbers from 1-12, and aligned that set with an alphabetized list of managers. Youngroman and Tosh received audit copies of the random draw.

Here is the resulting order for our draft selection round:

1 Dave R
2 RSF
3 tommyd
4 Species
5 Twolves
6 Guru
7 s R
8 Youngroman
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City


Remember that our draft is a traditional snake draft for 16 rounds.

Dave R gets his first choice.

Proceed.
4Species
      SuperDude
      ID: 07724916
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 11:14
Wonderful. As an FYI, I will be in Japan during the draft. I guess I will need to be an expert in queues. That will suck.
5Dave R
      SuperDude
      ID: 3010361110
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 11:48
I will pick 7th
6RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 5352110
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 12:23
I plead the 5th. 5th pick please.
7Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 12:30
Running summary:

1
2
3
4
5 RSF
6
7 Dave R
8
9
10
11
12

Up next:
3 tommyd
4 Species
5 Twolves
6 Guru
7 s R
8 Youngroman
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City
8tommyd
      ID: 5082159
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 13:10
I'll go 4th.
9Species
      SuperDude
      ID: 07724916
      Wed, Sep 26, 2018, 13:16
Running summary:

1
2
3
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8
9
10
11
12

Up next:
3
4
5 Twolves
6 Guru
7 s R
8 Youngroman
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City

twolves is up.
10twolves
      ID: 316312520
      Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 20:25
1
2
3
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9
10
11
12
11Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Sep 27, 2018, 21:44
1 Guru
2
3
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9
10
11
12

Up next:
7 s R
8 Youngroman
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City

s R is up.
12s R
      ID: 13841286
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 07:41
1 Guru
2 s R
3
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9
10
11
12

Up next:
8 Youngroman
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City
13youngroman
      ID: 20555612
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 11:39
1 Guru
2 s R
3 youngroman
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9
10
11
12

Up next:
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City
14Tosh
      Dude
      ID: 057721710
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 11:42
Put me at #9 please. Thanks.

(Hard to make the nifty list on the phone)
15Species
      SuperDude
      ID: 07724916
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 13:08
1 Guru
2 s R
3 youngroman
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9 Tosh
10
11
12

Up next:
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City
16wolfer
      ID: 438232812
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 13:23
Sorry guys - brain fart.
17Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 13:29
Wrong thread?

Double brain fart!
18Philly Busters
      ID: 155402112
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 15:26
I'll take #10

1 Guru
2 s R
3 youngroman
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11
12
19TD
      ID: 28812258
      Fri, Sep 28, 2018, 15:34
I'll take #11.

1 Guru
2 s R
3 youngroman
4 tommy d
5 RSF
6 Species
7 Dave R
8 Twolves
9 Tosh
10 Philly Busters
11 TD
12 Swish City
20Swish City
      Dude
      ID: 0931275
      Sat, Sep 29, 2018, 13:43
So does this mean I can pick 12th, on the turn, as expected? Great!
21Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 11:32
I plan to activate the draft sometime on Friday - probably evening. We'll do the first round untimed, and then proceed from round 2 with a 4 hour clock.

I'll be traveling through October 9, so during the first few rounds, I may not be available as quickly as usual to address glitches, or to badger laggards.
22Species
      SuperDude
      ID: 07724916
      Mon, Oct 01, 2018, 14:13
This will be fun:

Time in Japan is +13 hours to EST. So, basically I would expect to be asleep from roughly 10:00am EST to 6:00pm EST on a daily basis.

I should be able to queue up any 1 pick.....and might get aggressive and leave a short queue for my next pick. But if we jam through an entire round / turn in 4 hours, I may be caught asleep.....literally.

I contemplating picking 1st to be at the turn and have a much easier time managing.....but it wasn't strategically the best choice so I didn't do it. I might be regretting that pretty soon. Oh well.

So......please be patient if I end up using clock. While I do not expect preferential treatment I do ask for whatever the normal clock has been historically.

I will contemplate adding someone to make some picks.....just not sure who I can trust with that power that isn't already in RIHC.
23Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 20:42
I just activated the draft. Carry on...
24RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 158151719
      Fri, Oct 05, 2018, 21:38
Damnit! My draft is already blown.
25Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Sun, Oct 07, 2018, 09:29
4 hour clock has been turned on. Only one clock for the turn. Moratorium from midnight-8am ET. If a previous pick is still missing, the commish may skip any subsequent picks until the draft gets current.

Starting last year, I implemented some additional time limits to attempt to coax habitually slow drafters into a better flow. Here is the framework:
We establish a point system. If you timeout (i.e., you don’t make your pick before your allotted time expires), you accumulate 2 points.

If you exceed three hours of clock time but don’t timeout (the clock will initially be set at 4 hours), you accumulate 1 point.

Points will only be assigned after the first round, which is generally an untimed round anyway.

If you accumulate 2 points in total (either one timeout or two close calls), your clock time is reduced to 3 hours per pick for the remainder of the draft. That means your next timeout would be at 3 hours.

If you accumulate 4 points in total, your clock is shortened to two hours. At 6 points, your clock is shortened to one hour. That’s the ultimate limit.

Commissioners will need to monitor this, and will have the discretion to waive or defer penalties if they believe the draft is moving OK and the time delays haven’t been too aggravating (or if the offending drafter has a good story - e.g., significant time zone difference, pre-announced conflict, etc .) Commissioners will also need to enforce the shorter clocks, since the system won’t be able to handle different time limits for each manager.

We zipped through the first two rounds in good order, so I'm hoping that the point system won't come into play. Because we have several members drafting from overseas, I'll be lenient in enforcement as long as we are making good progress overall.
26Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 10:42
I won't get the first rationales organized and posted until Wednesday. I'm traveling until then. Please keep posting them in the collection thread.
27tommyd
      ID: 5082159
      Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 22:29
ESPN's positions are a lot different than Yahoo's , not as much flexibility at all
28RecycledSpinalFluid
      ID: 5352110
      Mon, Oct 08, 2018, 22:32
Ha..Guru just plucked my two man queue clean.
29Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Tue, Oct 09, 2018, 21:46
Sorry for delay this evening. I was on the road/in the air for the past 11 hours. Finally home, and made the picks.

Will work on getting the rationale thread all set up tomorrow.
30Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Thu, Oct 11, 2018, 13:01
We are proceeding at an excellent pace. Current forecast is to finish on Saturday morning.

Keep those rationales coming! Thanks to those of you who are staying relatively current.
31Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 12:34
The draft will end today. Great pace - just under 7 days!

Please complete your rationale submissions, if you haven't already. Thanks to most of you who have been good about keeping up without my nagging.

I'll plan to get all players loaded into ESPN no later than Saturday.
32Guru
      ID: 330592710
      Fri, Oct 12, 2018, 17:31
Rosters have been loaded into ESPN. All undrafted players are on waivers, which will clear early Sunday.

Please review your rosters to be sure I have accurately entered your draft.

Initial waiver priorities are the reverse of the order in which we selected draft position. (i.e., Swish is first, Dave R is last)

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