Draft Date

SantryRed

I have set up a Doodle poll where you can state your preferences for the draft date and time, we will go with the majority once it is plausible: http://www.doodle.com/pbawaphu8n9iepyt#table

To set out everything for you, after the Super Bowl, there is 5 stages.

Stage 1: Resignings (This is your last chance to resign the players in your team who's contract is up, you only get one shot so if you want to resign the player, you better make sure you offer him something he can't refuse)

Stage 2: FA Week 1 (This is the Free Agent carousel. All players who are free agents are up for grabs and you can make them offers. A player will not accept your offer straight away, he will weigh up his options and look at all offers and may also decide to delay another week to see if anyone else will join in.)

Stage 3: FA Week 2 (Same as week 1, some players may have signed for teams though)

Stage 4: FA Week 3 (Same as week 2)

Stage 5: FA Week 4 (Same as week 2)

And then it is draft time

Pre Season will then be 4 weeks and we will deal with that scheduling closer to the time.

SantryRed

Heli/Dave,

Could one of you PM Everyone to make sure they see this? I would but it's a pain only being able to send to five at a time!!

helimachoptor

Yep will do it in the morning Ben

adrian522

Voted, may need to change my votes though as another fran I'm in is drafting around the same time so hoping they won't clash!!

helimachoptor

Voted, away from the thursday morning for a few days so wednesday or before (apart from when i play football!)
PMs sent apart from to

notalcy and Padraic M,for some reason they are listed as users on the PM system

Big Daddy Cool

This should be fun cos I know absolutely nothing about any players in the draft, scouted i think 2 players when i 1st took over the colts, never really bothered after that.

Berty44

From what I can remember scouting is not available during the Resignings stage or during the 1st round of Free Agency offers. It will be available after that.

Big Daddy Cool

Berty44 wrote: »

From what I can remember scouting is not available during the Resignings stage or during the 1st round of Free Agency offers. It will be available after that.

these will be what i will be concentrating on i think.

adrian522

I'll wait until after Free Agency to do most of my scouting as you then know who you have resigned and who you have picked up in Free agency and know exactly who you need in the draft.

PADRAIC.M

helimachoptor wrote: »

Voted, away from the thursday morning for a few days so wednesday or before (apart from when i play football!)
PMs sent apart from to

notalcy and Padraic M,for some reason they are listed as users on the PM system

That's strange, but no problem as I regular check on here

notyalc666

PADRAIC.M wrote: »

That's strange, but no problem as I regular check on here

Yeah same with me, haven't been able to post due to insane working hours but will vote when I get the chance

helimachoptor

Have we got a date for this Ben?

PerrinV2

I didn't vote in the poll but I'll be fine with whatever the majority decide

SantryRed

helimachoptor wrote: »

Have we got a date for this Ben?

Not as of yet Heli, as it depends on when the Superbowl can finish.

Wednesday at 8:30 would be great and it suits the most, but we may not have enough time for all the advancements.

theoneadlum

Hey guys! Im the unlucky sod who has to rescue the Seahawks next season! Really looking foward to playing and the draft. This is just to say hello and if you can add me to all relevant lists etc that'd be great.

NekoChan

How long are we going to draw other stages out before draft??

helimachoptor

I'm away from Wednesday night to Sunday afternoon

So if the draft is on in that timeframe, I will trade away my picks

helimachoptor

theoneadlum wrote: »

Hey guys! Im the unlucky sod who has to rescue the Seahawks next season! Really looking foward to playing and the draft. This is just to say hello and if you can add me to all relevant lists etc that'd be great.

Welcome mate... Seahawks are a decent team, good luck!

SantryRed

If the Superbowl can be played Friday night, I would offer this timeline to people:

Advance Friday night.

Resignings: Saturday-Sunday 6pm

FA Signings 1: Sunday 6pm-Monday 6pm

FA Signings 2: Monday 6pm-Tuesday 6pm

FA Signings 3: Tuesday 6pm-Wednesday 9am

Advancement to Draft for Scouting Purposes: Wednesday 9am

Draft Begins: Wednesday at 8:30 or 9


Can people let me know if they think these are ok? Thanks.

helimachoptor

Damn you ben :pac:

Yes that works fine Ben apart from me missing the draft ...

Unless.. can you draft on CC?

adrian522

Looks good, planning on doing the preseason or simming it?

Pudsy33

At what point can i set a draft board? I might not be able to do wednesday

adrian522

I think the CPU will just stock up on kickers for you, then you'll have them all, then everyone else will need to come cap in hand if their guy gets injured or retires.

Really looking forward to this off season and getting stuck into season 2.

etloveslsd

Pudsy33 wrote: »

At what point can i set a draft board? I might not be able to do wednesday

Not sure but probably not until the league is advanced to the superbowl. If the superbowl is on Friday, the draft will probably be a week after?

Berty44

From what I can remeber you can't actually set up a draft board as such. You have "Scouted" and "Unscouted" and I don't think you can put potential picks in any particular order like in previous versions.

You cannot draft on CC.

helimachoptor

Can we not just have the Draft on Tuesday!?

etloveslsd

helimachoptor wrote: »

Can we not just have the Draft on Tuesday!?

Yeah if you want to skip FA signings and scouting!!

helimachoptor

If the Superbowl can be played Friday night, I would offer this timeline to people:
Play it thursday people!

Advance Friday Thursday night.

Resignings: thursday night-Saturday 6pm

FA Signings 1: Saturday 6pm-Sunday 6pm

FA Signings 2: Sunday 6pm - Monday 6pm

FA Signings 3: Monday 6pm - Tuesday 6pm

Advancement to Draft for Scouting Purposes: Tuesday 6:30pm!

Draft Begins: Tuesday 9pm

See.. the above is sorted!

PerrinV2

I think the the chiefs/jets game is thursday night so unless they play straight after I don't think they can

helimachoptor

PerrinV2 wrote: »

I think the the chiefs/jets game is thursday night so unless they play straight after I don't think they can

Balls! I love the craic at draft time, the PFL one was awesome

madalig12

helimachoptor wrote: »

Balls! I love the craic at draft time, the PFL one was awesome

There will be two more! Or is it one?

helimachoptor

madalig12 wrote: »

There will be two more! Or is it one?

Just one more

Berty44

helimachoptor wrote: »

Balls! I love the craic at draft time, the PFL one was awesome

I particularly loved the way you distracted Adrian so much that he missed his pick in one of the early rounds !

We cannot play before Thursday night because Dave is heading to the Doctor on Thursday to see if he will even be able to play me that night. If he passes the fitness test he probably will beat me ( I know he is playing better than me, thats a simple fact ). If he can't and I end up playing the CPU I would hope to win in that scenario. if that happens however I am not sure if I can play on Friday night.

The schedule is very tight as it is. Once Superbowl is done there is Scouting available. That disappears once you advance to Resignings stage 1 and effectively is not included in the above ( not actually sure if anyone will be scouting at this stage however ). Scouting is not available again until Stage 2 of Free Agency.

Also its very important that the Resiginings are publicised very well as some people may not have been on here in a few weeks as playoffs have been going on. Not good if they miss that stage.

helimachoptor

Berty44 wrote: »

I particularly loved the way you distracted Adrian so much that he missed his pick in one of the early rounds !

We cannot play before Thursday night because Dave is heading to the Doctor on Thursday to see if he will even be able to play me that night. If he passes the fitness test he probably will beat me ( I know he is playing better than me, thats a simple fact ). If he can't and I end up playing the CPU I would hope to win in that scenario. if that happens however I am not sure if I can play on Friday night.

The schedule is very tight as it is. Once Superbowl is done there is Scouting available. That disappears once you advance to Resignings stage 1 and effectively is not included in the above ( not actually sure if anyone will be scouting at this stage however ). Scouting is not available again until Stage 2 of Free Agency.

Also its very important that the Resiginings are publicised very well as some people may not have been on here in a few weeks as playoffs have been going on. Not good if they miss that stage.

Mission accomplished :cool:

So should the SB-> Draft time be longer?

Big Daddy Cool

i have absolutely no knowledge of any player in the draft, so if anybody would like to trade me their top player/s for a pick, i'm open to offers

adrian522

I think the schedule is fine as it is, people can scout during free agency (except the first round) so they should have their scouting done before the draft if they haven't done it already..

SantryRed

Heli,

Could you send everyone a PM To let them know that resignings will take place Saturday-Sunday 6pm. So they know.

Either that, or to stop a tight schedule occurring, we could have the draft the Wednesday after. Pre Season will probably just be one week per day Thursday-Sunday and the new league starting on the Monday.

Pudsy33

What are the options for someone who isn't around on draft day?

helimachoptor

Pudsy33 wrote: »

What are the options for someone who isn't around on draft day?

Trade your picks!

Im not sure what way the draft logic works.
I mean if you need a MLB as detailed on XBL, will it draft you the highest rated MLB??

adrian522

I think you scout the players you want drafted.

Maybe scout all the MLB for Awareness (or whatever attribute you rate highly) and for the top few scout another attribute and scout more and more of the top players that way.

I have heard that the CPU does a decent job of drafting but I'd scout anyway

Big Daddy Cool

SantryRed wrote: »

Heli,

Could you send everyone a PM To let them know that resignings will take place Saturday-Sunday 6pm.

is that this saturday santry.

Pudsy33

helimachoptor wrote: »

Trade your picks!

Not sure my picks are worth anything tbh.

adrian522

Pudsy33 wrote: »

Not sure my picks are worth anything tbh.

I'll take them all in that case.

helimachoptor

You'd be surprised.
There are a lot of people on 8-8 (i am) ok your in the play offs, but its worth something anyway

helimachoptor

SantryRed wrote: »

Heli,

Could you send everyone a PM To let them know that resignings will take place Saturday-Sunday 6pm. So they know.

Either that, or to stop a tight schedule occurring, we could have the draft the Wednesday after. Pre Season will probably just be one week per day Thursday-Sunday and the new league starting on the Monday.

Ben, let me know what you want me to do.
I would be more than happy to have it the week after tbh but we'd need to see if that suited.
If Berty wins and is not available on Friday that throws your timings off aswell..

guns4all

Hey guys

Whats the final date and time for the Draft?

Guffy

guns4all wrote: »

Hey guys

Whats the final date and time for the Draft?

Tomorrow week at 8.30

PADRAIC.M

Where could one find a list of the draft order?

davetherave

This is as good as you'll get, I believe. You are somewhere between 7 and 11.
Tiebreakers are sorted by strength of schedule but we can't see those, they have to be calculated.
Unless of course, somebody took over all the work I was doing last year.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet/ccc?key=0Amb7i5eokd8bdHcxM3J5MmJzVkVXdjN5ejBoZjluZEE#gid=0

Had started again for Madden 13 but just didn't have the time to fill out all the schedules and keep track of everything.

PADRAIC.M

Thanks Dave, I knew I shouldn't t have beat the 49ers in my last game!

Guffy

Does anyone know the salary applied to each pick. How much does a first rounder get compared to 3rd for example. Or do we need to negotiate contracts wit each individually?