When's that then?

 

TODAY @ 1940!

 

Ok, I ballsed up! I didn't set the status of the league to ready so the draft didn't happen! D'oh! Not been a commissioner before!

So, Chris, you can still create a team, but it looks like we'll have to do the auto draft.

 

Ah! I didn't get it wrong - we need more players! Just seen an email from the Yahoo FF team:

Hello iain51,

Unfortunately, we were unable to draft players into your league (Scoobynet). This likely happened because you had less than four teams in your league at the time of the draft. We have changed your league to an Autopick draft and set your status to Not Ready. Once you have fixed the problem, you can either choose a new live draft time or set your status to Ready and have us draft your league. See the rules for more information.

One of my mates has joined in, so if Chris joins in we have the minimum requirement of four people. Come on Chris!

 

So thats a 25% or one in 4 chance of winning

 

Erm, last night just turned into this morning.

I'm wading through the player list now. Gawd it's a tough choice.

 

Ok Chris, let me know when you're done and I'll set the draft to ready.

 

Um, no fecking idea what to do here.

Help.

 

Done and set to ready - can you see my team?

Chelle - it will autopick for you if you set your team status to ready.

 

Chelle, I'll have a go at explaining....

This is slightly different from most FF leagues in that we all take turns to pick from the same pool of players. So, if I picked Ricky Williams, no-one else would be able to have him.

Yahoo has ranked the players based on how good a FF player they (Yahoo) think the player will be. When the draft happens it will take turns in picking a player for each team. Now, if nobody pre-ranked any players then the person with the first pick would get given Priest Holmes as he is ranked number 1. The next team would get given Shaun Alexander (No 2 in the rankings.)

The reason for pre-ranking is (IMHO) to have a strategy. You might want to make sure you get two top class running backs (RBs) with your two first picks, so you would load the pre-rankings with the RBs you were interested in. (BTW - RBs are often considered the most valuable points scorers) Alternatively, you might decide to choose a quarterback (QB) followed by some wide receivers (WRs).

So, how do you do it?

Go into your team page and click on EDIT PRE RANKINGS. Then click on EDIT MY RANKINGS. This will bring up a window with three boxes. Across the top are boxes to control what you're looking at - ie QBs only etc. The middle box show the Yahoo player rankings. If you want to rank Ricky Williams as the highest ranking player, click on him and then click on the arrow to move him to the right hand box. Do this with as many players as you like. You can also exclude players by moving them to the left hand box.

When Yahoo goes to pick you a player, it will pick the player listed first in your pre-rankings. It will do this, filling the available positions on your roster. So if you happened to have 20 QBs ranked ahead of anything else, then it would only pick you one, and then choose the next highest ranked player for another positions.


Phew - hope that makes some sense!

 

Chris, nope! What's your team name??

 

Chris, call yersel a cornerback???

 

Very sad again

 

Mod's Aces

 

So how come it's not in the league???

Did you follow the link from the invite email and enter the password etc????

 

Erm, dunno

I'll join again!

Done and I'm the league now. It drop's ' from your team name though.

 

Hurrah!!! I see you! Do you want time to pre-rank before I set the draft status to ready?

 

I can't seem to get into the pre-ranking. Let me look again.

 

Follow my instructions from page 2 and you can't go wrong!


I will have to set it to ready later today - it's prolly not going to be much after 1700.

 

guys, not going to get chance to do this till sunday/monday ´cause im still on holiday

when´s the deadline?


kev

 

I copied my rankings from my other team. Sorted!

 

Kev - Errr....today in an hour or so....mebbe a lil later! If you've access to a computer it wouldn't take very long to just create a team. you don't *need* to pre-draft.

I suppose I could hold off untill about 1930-2000 if that would help. Let me know if you require the league id / password. Heck - here they are! League id#: 461568 Password: sial


Chris, nice one! Who'd ya put as #1?? Ron "Thunder" Dayne??? LMFAO!!!

 

Dayne? I'm a patriotic Giants fan but not stupid!

 

Can I just let the auto thing get on with it or do I have to do something to mine?

 

She was never one to read the destructions

 

Pah, that requires effort.....so, do I or don't I?

A lucky dip would be more successful than my attempts at picking a team.

 

Dolphin's would probably have more success if they did that too

 

Answer my fecking question you ******.

 

Give me a fecking chance! I had to fecking get fecking home, all-fecking-right??!!

Read my instructions on page 2 () and decide!

I'd say it's worth having a go at pre-drafting a few players, but there's certainly no need to do all 15!

 

LOL, sorry Iain, that was actually directed at Chris the ******.

Can I just be lazy and have everything done for me? I don't want to jeopardise my team's chances you see. (Well, that's my excuse and I am sticking to it ).

Go the Dolphins.