2016 DATES: Draft
Posted: Sat May 21, 2016 2:20 am
Friday May 27th was the popular choice for the tentative draft start date when we did a poll earlier this off-season. I mentioned in my comments of that poll that initially I forgot that was Memorial Day weekend. There were other choices, but 5/27 still won anyway.
Now that we're getting closer and people have a better idea what they're doing, I was going to check in on draft time again. I'll have the draft queues ready to go this weekend. We also have some pressing matters to attend to for league openings to fill.
Just so some of the people who haven't done one of our drafts know, we typically do round 1 on the first day then two rounds a day for a couple more days. You'll know ahead of time what day and exact time your pick window will be available (such as Saturday at 10am) to plan around. If you can't be there at that time, you'll also be able to pre-rank players into your queue so you'll get the top available player by your own ranking if not there to pick. If you don't have any players left in your queue, you'd get the highest undrafted player by NFL draft order, so still usually a pretty decent pick as highest available selection from NFL draft order.
Had a busy couple of weeks at work, but ready to get the draft stuff going and planning on having everything needed done for a possible 5/27 start. But if a lot of people have other plans and wish to push the draft off, I wanted to get that feedback in terms of numbers. We'll never have a perfect date for 96 teams, but trying to do what works best for most. I can't run the draft in early June as I'll be away on family vacation. I have some stuff on Memorial Day weekend also but can check in every now and then to see if any problems, as well as make my picks when time.
But select what date works best for you, and we'll see if most are ready to go on Friday as initially penciled in or if most now prefer to start after the holiday weekend. Thanks
Now that we're getting closer and people have a better idea what they're doing, I was going to check in on draft time again. I'll have the draft queues ready to go this weekend. We also have some pressing matters to attend to for league openings to fill.
Just so some of the people who haven't done one of our drafts know, we typically do round 1 on the first day then two rounds a day for a couple more days. You'll know ahead of time what day and exact time your pick window will be available (such as Saturday at 10am) to plan around. If you can't be there at that time, you'll also be able to pre-rank players into your queue so you'll get the top available player by your own ranking if not there to pick. If you don't have any players left in your queue, you'd get the highest undrafted player by NFL draft order, so still usually a pretty decent pick as highest available selection from NFL draft order.
Had a busy couple of weeks at work, but ready to get the draft stuff going and planning on having everything needed done for a possible 5/27 start. But if a lot of people have other plans and wish to push the draft off, I wanted to get that feedback in terms of numbers. We'll never have a perfect date for 96 teams, but trying to do what works best for most. I can't run the draft in early June as I'll be away on family vacation. I have some stuff on Memorial Day weekend also but can check in every now and then to see if any problems, as well as make my picks when time.
But select what date works best for you, and we'll see if most are ready to go on Friday as initially penciled in or if most now prefer to start after the holiday weekend. Thanks