Keeper League?

[thebillfella]

I may have the answer for you all.......

http://www.fantrax.com/fantasy/home.go? ... szibwkt14m

Fantrax.com Full draft league that I've set up. I use it all the time for Baseball and Golf. Really good website. I've set us a league up wih a draft date of Sunday August 2nd at 9.00pm provisionally, but that can change with debate! We all attend draft, pick players live and its all done in an hour. Really easy. I've set up points to mirror FPL by and large, but again that can be tinkered with. I can even assign points for goalkeeper smothers!!!

After you draft, unpicked players are available as free agents to pick. You can trade players with each other. All good stuff

I have to invite you to a slot by email, so if anyone wants to give it a whirl, send me your email address.

And honestly, its a super website, really functional with live scoring

There's the link, but people need to send me their email so I can in invite them to a slot

have you pencilled me in?

[Sport Billy]

If Ctibbits joins, league is full! We draft next Sunday (2nd August) at 9.00pm. Just go to the site and there'll be an 'enter the draft' tab. I propose we play for fun this year, to get folk used to it, let word spread, and go for a cash league next year alongside a fun one. Let everyone bed in and get used to the game?

Thoughts from everyone else?

[ctibbits]

If Ctibbits joins, league is full! We draft next Sunday (2nd August) at 9.00pm. Just go to the site and there'll be an 'enter the draft' tab. I propose we play for fun this year, to get folk used to it, let word spread, and go for a cash league next year alongside a fun one. Let everyone bed in and get used to the game?

Thoughts from everyone else?

Ok I am good with that but that means the "keeper" part of the league cant begin until next year.

[ctibbits]

And it wont let me enter the league without a league ID number and password.

[Sport Billy]

I've emailed you an invite.....follow the link in that. It's worked for everyone else...

[Sport Billy]

If Ctibbits joins, league is full! We draft next Sunday (2nd August) at 9.00pm. Just go to the site and there'll be an 'enter the draft' tab. I propose we play for fun this year, to get folk used to it, let word spread, and go for a cash league next year alongside a fun one. Let everyone bed in and get used to the game?

Thoughts from everyone else?

Ok I am good with that but that means the "keeper" part of the league cant begin until next year.

We can still have keepers for next year. If anyone drops out, new players will inherit the squad.

[Deppy]

Name change now sorted.
Looked through the rules and point scoring I seen the draft order is currently manual Is this how you will keep it?

[Sport Billy]

No, I'll randomise it on the day. Future years will be based on standings the previous season

[Sport Billy]

Draft now set to random. Unpicked players go to the waiver wire...

[Sport Billy]

A reminder.....League is full now. Just need Ctibbits to change his team name. Draft will be 9.00pm on Sunday...

[ctibbits]

Name changed and all ready as best I can tell. Draft starts Sunday at 3:00pm for me so looks like I get a nice afternoon of drinking beer Hope it goes smooth, quick and efficiently. Good luck all.

[thebillfella]

What time is it for the rest of us again?

[Sport Billy]

9.00pm BST

[MoSe]

Hi, I had almost forgotten about this...
I've browsed again thru the rules, and I have a few Qs
- I see that the only playing formation is 4-4-2, but nowhere I saw it stated that the roster allocation by position is 2-5-5-3 like in FPL
could I for instance have a 2-4-5-4 roster instead? I'd risk having no D sub, but one more F to choose from... as long as I field the required 4-4-2
- I see team limit is set to 17 players with 6 reserves and 2 in inj list. But draft rounds are 15. Does that mean we have 6 res INCLUDING 2 INJ, not 6 res PLUS 2 inj???
- I see no mention of max 3 players per PL club, does that apply or can we draft more from same club?

- I don't exactly know what Claim/Drop and Waiver Wire mean (only a vague idea, dont follow US sports in such detail...). How do them work?

[MoSe]

As for the draft working:
- can I enter called player by typing it too?
or do I HAVE to find it on a list and pick it from there?
- will I see what other teams have already picked?
I presume once picked by others, the players become somehow 'disabled' in the available list...

- I see tbe pick time has bee reduced to 1 mi.ute...
I'll be picking from mobile, and...
- if the list has a scrollbar instead of pages, I'm not able to scroll lists from my obsolete smurfone...
- if I have to navigate thru the list by filtering for instance club and/or position, display & refresh might take more than 60 secs...
besides I'd also need the time to check what has been drafted by others and adjust my priorities to who's left...
- often my connection can get frozen for more than 1 minute...

[MoSe]

Maybe setting up my Watchlist might help me to track and pick my targets...
But if the refresh/connection lag make me miss one or more pf my pick turns, will the auto pick choose for me in that turn, or will I remain with a vacant spot(s) in my roster, to be filled at the end of all 15 rounds?
- I case the autopick works at once in each proper round, would it use my custmised players ranking order if I set it beforehand?

In summary, technological and unclear rules apart, I havent set up my FPL list yet to build my GW1 FPL team,
leave alone set up a picking list for a unique players draft with totally different scoring & rules
I'm sorry, it's truly a very i.teresting idea and should be great fun, but I'l be doing it with my "left hand", I'd have liked to play it more "seriously"
oh, well, I'll do the best of the little I can, and let's see what will come out of it

[Deppy]

I think it's all new to us all.
If you pick your players in preference beforehand then the site will pick your next available player if your timed out, not sure you can do the list on your phone though. Are you using the app?

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[Sport Billy]

Mose,

The scoring is not dissimilar to follow at all. Waiver wire, means any player not picked at draft or subsequently dropped by somebody, sits on a list called the 'waiver wire'. He sits there for a day or 2 whilst everyone can try and pick him up. There is an order for this though. First pick in the draft is last on the waivers queue. Once you pick someone up, you go back to the end of the queue? If no one else wants the player you want, your position in the queue is irrelevant and you get the player. Only applies when 2 or more want the player. You'll pick it up chum. That was the point of fun only for the first year.

[Sport Billy]

Maybe setting up my Watchlist might help me to track and pick my targets...
But if the refresh/connection lag make me miss one or more pf my pick turns, will the auto pick choose for me in that turn, or will I remain with a vacant spot(s) in my roster, to be filled at the end of all 15 rounds? Not necessarily. If you log out, auto pick picks each round for you in turn. If you log back in, you take over at any point
- I case the autopick works at once in each proper round, would it use my custmised players ranking order if I set it beforehand? Yes

In summary, technological and unclear rules apart, I havent set up my FPL list yet to build my GW1 FPL team,
leave alone set up a picking list for a unique players draft with totally different scoring & rules
I'm sorry, it's truly a very i.teresting idea and should be great fun, but I'l be doing it with my "left hand", I'd have liked to play it more "seriously"
oh, well, I'll do the best of the little I can, and let's see what will come out of it

[Sport Billy]

As for the draft working:
- can I enter called player by typing it too? yes, to find the player on a list but your next point is also correct, you have to pick from the list. Search function helps
or do I HAVE to find it on a list and pick it from there?
- will I see what other teams have already picked? yes, each pick is displayed for all to see and the player drops off the list
I presume once picked by others, the players become somehow 'disabled' in the available list...

- I see tbe pick time has bee reduced to 1 mi.ute...
I'll be picking from mobile, and...
- if the list has a scrollbar instead of pages, I'm not able to scroll lists from my obsolete smurfone...
- if I have to navigate thru the list by filtering for instance club and/or position, display & refresh might take more than 60 secs...
besides I'd also need the time to check what has been drafted by others and adjust my priorities to who's left...
- often my connection can get frozen for more than 1 minute...

[Sport Billy]

The PM title should have read depending on your time zone! It looks as if the draft time was up for discussion! It's not! 9.00pm tonight BST

[bspittles]

I'm looking forward to this, it's going to be fun

[ctibbits]

Yes I am too and looking to work out any bugs (hopefully none) in the method. Should be fun way to spend the afternoon for me. The site is not as user friendly as I am used to but hoping it becomes more at ease. Looks like I get 9th pick so not off to a great start

[thebillfella]

Does it say how many of each position we draft anywhere?

[Sport Billy]

Does it say how many of each position we draft anywhere?

You HAVE to pick 1 keeper, 4 defenders, 4 midfielders, 2 'forwards' to fill your roster. Your bench is then up to you, whatever cover or options you want on it. No order either, you can pick any position at any time.

[Sport Billy]

Yes I am too and looking to work out any bugs (hopefully none) in the method. Should be fun way to spend the afternoon for me. The site is not as user friendly as I am used to but hoping it becomes more at ease. Looks like I get 9th pick so not off to a great start

With the snake draft though, you then get another pick 3 rounds later straight away. So 2nd pick in the second round if you like, then 9th then 2nd and so on...1st pick is great, but you don't get another one for 19 rounds!

[Sport Billy]

Out of respect for Mose who mentioned it and because the site is new to everyone but me! I've increased it to 90 seconds per pick from 60......eases the decision pressure a bit...?

[ctibbits]

Out of respect for Mose who mentioned it and because the site is new to everyone but me! I've increased it to 90 seconds per pick from 60......eases the decision pressure a bit...?

Works for me

[MoSe]

Yes I am too and looking to work out any bugs (hopefully none) in the method. Should be fun way to spend the afternoon for me. The site is not as user friendly as I am used to but hoping it becomes more at ease. Looks like I get 9th pick so not off to a great start

With the snake draft though, you then get another pick 3 rounds later straight away. So 2nd pick in the second round if you like, then 9th then 2nd and so on...1st pick is great, but you don't get another one for 19 rounds!

got #10, how lucky
this means best 9 players will be already picked before I can choose mine
true I get 2 b2b, but then sit out for another 18 turns

thanx SB for the 90 secs
as I suspected I cant scroll the Statistics list and can only view the first 14 rows (per Position if I filter it)
Cant filter per club either, which was instead possible in the Rank Players window
I will have to write part of the name, then wait the search function finds it, before picking it
I'll have to work with the personal ranking, and the draft queue, to make things viable
I was thinking to rely on the autopick to avoid holding the draft... But after it fills the active slots, I risk to find 6 F in my reserves!

[ctibbits]

... I risk to find 6 F in my reserves!

Perhaps a viable tactic. Buddy of mine drafted 6 running backs for fantasy NFL before just to prevent others from having a good option. Ended up winning the league quite easily