Would you stay?

[Dave]

Well.....I hate to sound harsh, but tough titty. Everyone knows/knew the draft was happening tonight at 9:15 p.m. EST. If they aren't there than they get the highest OVR rated player on the board if they didn't send a big board in to you.

Everyone who hasn't checked the board since Andrew's "the draft is canceled" post earlier today also thinks the draft is canceled.

[Andrew]

Tie-breakers should be divisional record then head-to-head and so on.

The game doesn't keep track of these that I can find. How about Power Rankings (lower team gets higher pick) or run differential?

[Andrew]

Well.....I hate to sound harsh, but tough titty. Everyone knows/knew the draft was happening tonight at 9:15 p.m. EST. If they aren't there than they get the highest OVR rated player on the board if they didn't send a big board in to you.

I think it's too late now that I've said we're not doing it tonight. I'd prefer a forum based draft, especially where we're not in any rush.

[rubisco43]

Well.....I hate to sound harsh, but tough titty. Everyone knows/knew the draft was happening tonight at 9:15 p.m. EST. If they aren't there than they get the highest OVR rated player on the board if they didn't send a big board in to you.

I think it's too late now that I've said we're not doing it tonight. I'd prefer a forum based draft, especially where we're not in any rush.

i agree

[Squint]

Tie-breakers should be divisional record then head-to-head and so on.

The game doesn't keep track of these that I can find. How about Power Rankings (lower team gets higher pick) or run differential?

I'll go with team power rankings as the tie-breaker. Seems like it is fairly close to the overall standings anyway.

[Sully]

Also, maybe we could do the 1st round in a chat room or something? Who knows, if not it's cool.

Problem with doing it in a chatroom is if people aren't there, we'd have no way of picking for them.

Well.....I hate to sound harsh, but tough titty. Everyone knows/knew the draft was happening tonight at 9:15 p.m. EST. If they aren't there than they get the highest OVR rated player on the board if they didn't send a big board in to you.

Woah! I knew I'd be late to the draft tonight, and had planned on organizing a big board for Andrew today. However, once he posted we weren't drafting, I scrapped that idea. I'm leaving for a softball doubleheader in 15 minutes, and probably won't return until 10pm EST.

[Sully]

Tie-breakers should be divisional record then head-to-head and so on.

The game doesn't keep track of these that I can find. How about Power Rankings (lower team gets higher pick) or run differential?

I'll go with team power rankings as the tie-breaker. Seems like it is fairly close to the overall standings anyway.

That's fine with me also, although the power rankings seem to like my team.

[Andrew]

This is the draft order using power rankings:

1 - Philadelphia
2 - Pawtucket
3 - Maine
4 - Los Alamos
5 - California
6 - Dallas
7 - Sin City
8 - Baltimore
9 - Wilmington
10 - Carolina
11 - Hyundai
12 - Pittsburgh
13 - Davenport
14 - Virginia
15 - Syracuse
16 - Windy City
17 - Hartford
18 - Denver
19 - Washington
20 - Los Lunas

[Sully]

Create the thread, and let's get this party started!

[Squint]

Tie-breakers should be divisional record then head-to-head and so on.

The game doesn't keep track of these that I can find. How about Power Rankings (lower team gets higher pick) or run differential?

I'll go with team power rankings as the tie-breaker. Seems like it is fairly close to the overall standings anyway.

That's fine with me also, although the power rankings seem to like my team.

You'd still pick ahead of the three teams below you with worse power rankings though. You'd only drop to the bottom of the other two 23-26 teams. I don't know what you're run differential is but I think you'd end up drafting close to where you would originally.

[Sully]

Tie-breakers should be divisional record then head-to-head and so on.

The game doesn't keep track of these that I can find. How about Power Rankings (lower team gets higher pick) or run differential?

I'll go with team power rankings as the tie-breaker. Seems like it is fairly close to the overall standings anyway.

That's fine with me also, although the power rankings seem to like my team.

You'd still pick ahead of the three teams below you with worse power rankings though. You'd only drop to the bottom of the other two 23-26 teams. I don't know what you're run differential is but I think you'd end up drafting close to where you would originally.

Yeah, it's no biggie to me. I figured I'd be drafting in the 7-10 range even if we did have a sim tonight.

[Andrew]

Create the thread, and let's get this party started!

I'm going to give people tonight to comment on this then probably create the thread tomorrow. Just so people are clear, the plan is to draft on the forums using the order I posted a few posts above and postpone any sims until the OOTP team can fix the issues with patch 2.

If anybody doesn't want to continue, please tell me now so we can find a replacement.

Here's a quick excel cheat sheet I made for people to cross off players when they get picked.

http://ootp.oldredboat.com/html/Worksheets/draft.xls

[BradleyB]

i'm good to go with the online draft, waiting for the patch, and continuing to be an owner, if that's okay with you guys (no comments from you whale). i would have been okay with starting over as well if that ever becomes the only option.

hey andrew. no offense taken......i still hate you though.

[Dave]

Draft on the forums, wait for the patch, then resume the current season. Sounds great to me! Let's do it!

[mahoney2]

How the hell could they have missed something like this in testing? Do they even do QA??