24 team Dope Draft - $200 MM cap

24 team $200 MM leagues are a lot of fun, but the AD makes them very discouraging sometimes. If you go 0 for your first 5 picks, you have pretty much no hope of making .500. I'd like to run a draft using Diamond Dope, rules would be:

A. 24 teams, $200 MM, DH, unique stadiums, serpentine draft for 15 players and your stadium.
B. All owners must have a DD account (it's easy to set up at www.diamonddope.com).
C. Random draft order. After we get 24 signups, I will request a randomizer run. The order of the draft will be the order of the sequence of numbers, e.g. if the first number is 7, #7 will get the first pick (not the first guy picks 7th as is common here.)

The draft is going to take a month, I think. Have patience. I will investigate whether I, as commish, will have the capability to force a pick on someone who has been on the clock for more than a certain amount of time. If so, I will do that, simply assigning the highest salaried guy. If that's possible, the first round will be 6 hours between 8 AM and midnight eastern time and the rest of the rounds will be 2 hours.

Gee, I wish SOM would get their draft app fixed to do something like this. I can't imagine a competent programmer would need more than a few hours to tweak their LD code to allow this.

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I'd do this if it were a regular live draft with 30 seconds between picks, but I hate DD drafts, even more so if there were a 2 hour pick limit. Sometimes work just gets in the way...

Yeah, similarly I really don't like the 2-hr format...just kills me at work, I click every half-an-hour and become non-productive...Would love to try the 24-team in the live draft format..I like the idea of reducing the draft to 15 rounds, and go auto-draft for the rest..When you think of it, if we do 300 picks in roughly 2 hours, 360 picks will only add 30 minutes...so I would stick to the Friday format...just announce it 3 weeks in advance maybe...

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Happy to do this on the TSN draft sight with a STADIUM draft off the boards....whatever's easier

Geez, two of our veteran players and they are unable or unwilling to set 4 proxies in the morning before they go to work. Who'd a thunk it?

I'd do it on the boards with time slots but Bonds would get drafted 6 times.

I have some interest, but I've never used Diamond Dope and really don't want to draft there.

The Barnstormers Tour has endorsed the Dope Draft FOREVER for use in it's Final Championship Event. While it has it's flaws, it's better than someone that is somehow delayed in traffic, delayed by all of the other life annoyance (wives come to mind) and who wind up missing their draft completely. And as Craig said, what's so hard about setting proxies in the morning and then checking in on it once or twice a day. Also, the Dope Draft is COAST proof. You can be on the left ocean or the right ocean and you can check in and set proxies on your OWN time.

Once you've tried it, you never go back. The elaborate and creative way you can up set proxies alone is worth the price of admission. (Which is free by the way) - and hey - it's Diamond Dope !!!

Until SOM can give us a longer time (hours) between picks, DD is the true players LD site.

Craig, if this gets off the ground, e-mail me privately, I will give you all kinds of info on how to move the draft along and setting it up. For everyone else, I have developed a list of tips and techniques for setting and using the proxies and dealing with the site overall that is handed out to any players who make the finals who has never used the DD live draft.

Moose,
could you provide here, some basic instructions for using DD?

Thanks in advance

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I am fine with DD, as long as someone teaches me how to use it

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I am fine with DD, as long as someone teaches me how to use it