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Message: <blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1801081" data-attributes="member: 2013">I see some of your points, LeapingShark.  Would you guys prefer to do a live draft or a pre-rank draft (I can manually enter the draft order), with everyone agreeing to rank the players that their team already picked as 1, 2, 3, etc. in their pre-rank order and players other teams picked in their "do not draft" pools?Also, if you have a problem with sending your picks to me for fear I will use that knowledge to "outwit" you, I'm willing to go back to my original suggestion (on October 27th, you submit your pre-rank list for the entire rest of the draft, with me posting my own list on this thread prior to requesting that everyone else send it).  I've tried to keep any potentially problematic portions of this process as open and as transparent as possible (e.g., the lottery) and am willing to do what I can to work around any worries/objections you might have.  Though I feel that I should note that I should note that I would be at a unique disadvantage by using the method I first suggested since MY lists would be public knowledge to all 11 other owners, giving 11 of you a chance to block my "type" of picks, while my knowing your lists is not as much of an advantage, IMO since I can only "block" one pick (remember, I offered to make my lists public to everybody and while I would have the advantage of seeing everyone's lists from the day before, I can't do as much "damage" with one pick as everyone else can with 11).I suppose the third option would be to publish everyone's daily lists after the picks are made... though that gives EVERYONE insight into your super-secret draft strategy, it means I won't have any special advantage.  What do you guys suggest?  If everyone is okay with it, we can "force picks" but if that's going to be a problem, I'll go to the original plan of posting my own list "for the rest of the draft" on October 26th-27th-ish (i'll put it as a password-protected zip file and give the password as soon as the draft is run, so if anyone wants to reverse-engineer the draft, they can)... and then having everyone else submit theirs via e-mail and "manual autodrafting" the rest of the way out (in other words, do as much "messageboard draft" as we can and then do the equivalent of pre-ranking and letting Yahoo automatically fill our rosters).  I think that method would cause the least amount of arguing.  I just figured a daily "force feed" would give you a little more control over your final roster.--The Sigil</blockquote>

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