ENWorld Fantasy Basketball IS HERE!!! (league now filled)

[LeapingShark]

Oh that reminds me. Sigil, you sent that message to select the option to allow the commish to alter rosters if the user goes AWOL. But I didn't not see any such option (I even re-registered just to make sure I hadn't missed it), so I've assumed that it was automatically included for everybody. Did anybody else see such an option?

 

[Black Omega]

I didni't see that option, but aside from that, I'm now signed up.

 

[The Sigil]

Not sure where/if they have the option, haven't dug through everything yet.

Also, welcome back, Black Omega... my archnemesis. I tried PMing you when the thread got going, but got the message that you weren't taking PMs.

Fujaiwei, I've sent you the login info. Once I see you signed up, I'll post it publicly on this thread. And I think Mistwell's "roster" of former ENWorld players will help... I'll PM as many of them as can/will receive them, and let them know that the login info is in this thread... first come, first served... whichever three people get signed up first are in.

--The Sigil

 

[The Sigil]

Okay, I've posted the password to the "general public" now that fujaiwei is in. It's in the first post. I'll be PMing those I can off Mistwell's list.

One other note... it doesn't look like Yahoo has a feature to randomly generate the draft order, so we'll have to do it "manually" once we get 12 people. Here's how it will be done... I will use the Openroleplaying.org dieroller ( http://www.openroleplaying.org/tools/dieroller/index.cgi ) to generate the results. We'll simply assign numbers based on alphabetical order of teams, ignoring the words "the" or "a" in the team name (hence, "The Frost Mages" are alphabetized as though they begin with "F").

I will use the die roller to roll 1d12, and e-mail the results to all participants. The team name that is that number in alphabetical order will have the first overall pick in the first round and will be "taken out" of the pool (i.e., if the number is "5" then the 5th team in alphabetical order will get the pick). I will then use the die roller to roll 1d11, with all the remaining teams alphabetized; that team gets the second pick and is take out of the pool. I'll then roll 1d10; that team gets the third pick. Then 1d9 for the fourth pick, and so on, until we roll 1d2 for the eleventh pick, and the team that doesn't get the 11th pick (obviously) will get the 12th pick.

Since this is a snake draft, the draft order will be reversed each round; thus, team that gets the last pick of the first round will get the first pick of the second round and vice versa.

TRADING: Because Yahoo allows me to directly input the teams' picks, you will be allowed to make trades of any stripe you wish during the messageboard pre-draft, including 2-for-1 or 3-for-1 trades. As soon as I can after the league gets filled, I will run the "lottery" as described above to create the draft order, and we can get started as soon as that order is determined. I think it would be best to create a separate thread in Meta for this (and only this), with no editing of posts allowed to avoid arguments... except for the first post, of course, which hold a list of the players picked by each team (IOW, it's not an "I draft so-and-so" post) so everyone can keep track.

Hopefully we'll get this filled shortly and we can get started on building our teams.

--The Sigil

 

[The Sigil]

Wow. Only three people from Mistwell's list (that were not already signed up) could accept Private Messages. Everyone else couldn't/wouldn't. I guess we'll see if all three want in.

--The Sigil

 

[John Crichton]

I'm in.

After the drubbing I took last year after taking first for a few days I'm looking for payback. Or at least a noble showing. As the guy who got the trade-ball rolling last year I expect another flurry to start the season. Boo-ya.

 

[Black Omega]

Wow. Only three people from Mistwell's list (that were not already signed up) could accept Private Messages. Everyone else couldn't/wouldn't. I guess we'll see if all three want in.

--The Sigil

Couldn't would be my guess. Evidently that's the message it gives on PM's if you are not currently a community member.

 

[The Sigil]

I'm guessing "couldn't" as well. Just two spots left... hope they fill soon so we can get this puppy started.

/me hops excitedly up and down in anticipation

--The Sigil

 

[LeapingShark]

Did you check to see if any of the former players had email showing; email linkage doesn't require a community supporter account.

 

[The Sigil]

I didn't, but then, I rarely see e-mail linkage any more and didn't have time this morning... anyone who wants to "volunteer" to do so will get multiple brownie points in my book.

--The Sigil