2024/2025 Suggestions Summary/Discussion

[AndyP]

Andy your just pissed that theres the possibility someone will draft a player you want before you. At the end of the day you draft well regardless of whether the proxy GM drafts the guy you wanted or not. Lets not make the talent distribution skew further to the top teams. We shouldn't punish owners who are not here, mogul does not come first for everyone!

I also spent an entire draft picking 15 some odd players I would have rather had on the Jays for another team on behalf of the league. So no offense - but shove that thinking back where it came from.

It's ridiculous that we allow people to just say "Meh....I'll have someone else do all the work". Send in a list or deal with the autopick.

If you do all the work and something comes up - I completely understand and I have no problem with that. But starting the first sim you have roughly 2 weeks to do your scouting and send someone a list. There is no excuse for knowing you can't make a draft and not being prepared. Relying on someone else to do your drafting and scouting for you just amounts to laziness. Pure and simple. And if you want to be lazy - FINE! Just deal with the consequence of that - an autopick.

I don't even care if someone drafts for you after you give them a list and contingencies for it that they act independently of. But last year we had 4-5 GMs that had done no prep, had given no list to their sub drafter, who just half-assed their way through it. And it has continued to increase like this every season. Things coming up, life interfering - these things I understand, but they aren't the reasons why we had several people asking others to draft for them last year. It's a stupid trend we should nip in the butt now before it becomes rampant.

Not only that, but the people pulling this BS aren't the ones we should be worried about a talent imbalance for. I'll draft every year for the bottom feeders and take my favorite specs. Those aren't the teams doing this. They're generally responsible, active GMs who, for whatever reason, don't do their work on the draft and pass it off to draft gurus to do for them. It's ridiculous.