2018 Draft Utility is now live!

[Lintyfresh85]

Pick Times:
1st Round: 4 hours
Rounds 2-5: 2 hours
Rounds 6-7: 1 hour
The draft clock runs from 8am to 12 midnight ET.


http://www.simgamingnetwork.com/osfl/utilities/draft


IMPORTANT NOTES:


Upon logging into the draft utility for the first time, please register your team by entering the user name (The three letter city code found in the game), a password of your choice and an email account.

Please check the picks you have been assigned to make sure it matches what you think you have. I took the draft order from the latest league file, so if you have traded picks since then you will need to send those picks to the appropriate team via the utility interface as soon as possible.

The rest of the utility is pretty self explanatory and there are a ton of instructions throughout the utility. Let me know if you have any questions.

[Guest]

How long do you have to make a pick when it is your turn? Or do you just need to have someone queued or it autodrafts?

[Aston]

4 hours for the first round, 2 hours for rounds 2-5, 1 hour for rounds 6-7.

You can also choose to have someone queued for an auto draft right away or after 5 minutes I believe. Your choice.

I think if you miss a pick though, you are put on auto for the remainder of the draft until you show up and switch back to manual. Just in fairness to the other owners. Otherwise take all the time you need.

[Guest]

4 hours for the first round, 2 hours for rounds 2-5, 1 hour for rounds 6-7.

You can also choose to have someone queued for an auto draft right away or after 5 minutes I believe. Your choice.

I think if you miss a pick though, you are put on auto for the remainder of the draft until you show up and switch back to manual. Just in fairness to the other owners. Otherwise take all the time you need.

Ahh, it's four hours per pick! I fail at reading comprehension.

[Guest]

Draft utility is not on, when does it come on? Today is the beginning of the draft, isn't it? Why is the draft stopped? Why does hard water make my hair all wangy looking?

These are questions I need answered to achieve peace of mind...

[Sammage]

Yeah...it's a drag that it's not on...but since I'm waiting to hear back on a trade deal for pick #2 it might not be moving much faster if it were on. :)

[Lintyfresh85]

We start the draft at 12!

Starting now!

[Aston]

What does everyone think of the following idea for future years: enable the draft utility a week or even two in advance.

Just so the first round can get rolling earlier at everyone's leisure and some early picks and drama are out of the way by the time anyone is put on the clock. By that time, hopefully we would have taken a good chunk out of the first round.

Also, is there a way to get the "Auto-Pick after ___ minutes" back, where the ___ is greater than 5? 5 is pretty much the same as right away, so it's only different from auto-fire after 0 if you are around the draft room and want to double-check/give it a green light. If you only check in every once in a while though, it could be helpful to set a 20 or 30 minute auto-pick, so that you might have a good chance of catching your pick if it gets to you.

I think that might encourage owners to use turn on auto-pick so that there's less time lost if they completely miss their pick, but they also have a shot at picking manually without having to constantly check the site.

[Ryan]

What does everyone think of the following idea for future years: enable the draft utility a week or even two in advance.

Just so the first round can get rolling earlier at everyone's leisure and some early picks and drama are out of the way by the time anyone is put on the clock. By that time, hopefully we would have taken a good chunk out of the first round.

Also, is there a way to get the "Auto-Pick after ___ minutes" back, where the ___ is greater than 5? 5 is pretty much the same as right away, so it's only different from auto-fire after 0 if you are around the draft room and want to double-check/give it a green light. If you only check in every once in a while though, it could be helpful to set a 20 or 30 minute auto-pick, so that you might have a good chance of catching your pick if it gets to you.

I think that might encourage owners to use turn on auto-pick so that there's less time lost if they completely miss their pick, but they also have a shot at picking manually without having to constantly check the site.

Uhh, yeah. I like this.

[Lintyfresh85]

Clay, you're on the clock.

[Guest]

Clock needs to be set to 1 hour.

[Lintyfresh85]

Done.