2024/2025 Suggestions Summary/Discussion

[Cdawg]

Draft
Just to clarify on the draft issue Sean - the scenario you laid out is not one I have an issue with. If something comes up and you can't be there, do as much prep as you can to help the person you asked for assistance, but that's not the source of the issue.

If you want to know the mentality that the complaint is originating from - read what CDawg wrote. I respect the hell out of CDawg as a GM, but the fact of the matter is that his justification is lazy. That reasoning is what I don't like, not the scenario you were arguing. I hope that helps clarify a bit - no one is trying to be a jerk unless the GM just isn't putting in the effort.

Yeah it's that it's becoming a few GMs each year that just hands out their drafting to someone else. For some it seems like they'll draft the first 2 rounds, but then they want to go watch TV or whatever and say, "hey you're good at drafting, you can draft the remaining rounds for me".

For me, I obviously get the real world emergencies. The problem I have in a sim league is that it's easy to make something up. Maybe you got lazy with draft scouting, you can just use the, "a situation came up" card and for what our league has allowed, this would be accepted. Then for someone to truly have a real world emergency and not be able to come online and post, it would likely get treated as forgetting and not doing job as a GM and the selections would get auto-picked.

It's definitely a grey area. But I'd still say under ANY circumstances drafting for other teams shouldn't be allowed. You can submit a list and everyone probably should do that, even if you expect to be there. It gives you a backup plan for if your internet goes out or if a situation does come up. That or trade out, submit to pick the highest scouting score/peak, or other means to cover yourself.

Let's not mix this up. I'm not lazy, the days that everyone chooses to draft, friday, saturday, sunday(also MIA during tuesdays too) are the days that I work from 4 until 10PM EST exactly during the first part of the draft. Even from the TCM I showed up an hour late and they were in the 5th round already(not likely to happen in most other leagues.

TCM, FCM and MoGen all had their drafts this past season in basically the same time frame I made it to 1, draft list for another, and forgot about the 3rd. In FCM I asked...hokey I think what his top 10 draft list looked like just to see what his was compared to mine. In TCM I first asked Incognito to draft for me because my list of the entire draft wasn't saved on the computer, and rather than spend another hour rescouting I asked her to draft for me(because I'd be working). They changed the date to Sunday which I missed the starting time by an hour(they actually started an hour early I think.

I'm not against it b/c it gives a team a knowledgeable pick instead of a blind one that can help out a team. And actually I paid JHC to do my draft for him...so he did me a service there and got his reward.