Fantasy Critic 2024

I like the sneaky sneaky, but agree with your point. What if we make it compulsory to announce you've placed a bid, but that you're not obliged to say what game you've bid on? Otherwise we could just use the public bidding system, but apparently that's easy to "game";

• Bidding $0 on a game that you expect to be bad, with the intention of baiting another player into bidding on and winning the game.
• Bidding on more games than you have spots remaining, to disguise your true intentions. For example, you have one slot left, and you bid on 20 games, with the game you actually want at priority 1 with the highest dollar value.

Looking more into the counter pick system - you can only counter pick a game that someone else has drafted. However, the option exists to make it so that once you've counter picked another player's game, that game becomes undroppable for the player that drafted it. In other words, they're stuck with that choice. How do you all feel about that? Adds spice, I think.

How's everyone's list-making going?

And don't forget to sign up/select a publisher name if you're playing this year! We'll want to get going in the next week or so.

I should have said this earlier on, but check your picks on the FC site so that you know they're eligible to be drafted. In fact, you can create a watchlist on the site which makes it all a bit easier.

Feedback Needed!

I think we said we'd allow ourselves to drop two games for this upcoming season? There are four options available for drops… Which combination of the following works best for you guys?

1. Drop a game that will no longer release in 2025 (so any title announced as delayed beyond 2025).
2. Drop a 2025 game prior to its release (so a game releasing on time, but you no longer fancy it, or see a better option to pick up instead).
3. Drop an unreleased game regardless of whether it will release in 2025 or not (so essentially it can be either option 1 or 2).
4. "Super Drop" any game from your roster - it doesn't matter whether it has released or not, already have a review score, been counter picked by another player, or even if it is your own counter pick.

Personally I think Super Drops are OP, and I'd lean towards option 3. That is, we can drop any two games from our roster so long as they're unreleased and haven't been counter picked. What say you all?