Long Term Draft

[mattynokes]

The NFL comparison isn't valid because the NFL doesn't do advance picking. They do pass on teams the night of the draft if they don't get their picks in but they don't start picking as soon as the previous season ends. Yes, I can get an e-mail notification but if I'm at work that does me no good as I don't carry Mogul around with me. The early draft thread is a good idea but to force people into that or they don't get to pick on their own - not fair in my opinion.

That's the problem. As I told Andy, we keep telling people, "It's ok to wait", but in reality we expect people to make their picks ASAP. This is like with tanking and how the vast majority hated it, yet without a rule, nothing was looming over people to not tank. Now with a rule, we've seen the culture change on tanking and it can regarding the draft as well.

Matty - I don't like this because some of us have jobs and lives and occasionally we're too tired or beat up at the end of the day to come home and analyze the draft. Selfishly, the nature of my job at the ballpark often leads to 12-14 hour days and sifting through a bunch of previous draft choices after that, just so I don't lose my spot in line before the actual draft, isn't all that appealing after a long day.

Spare me about the job and life things. We've all got that. Personally, I'm up at 4 AM twice a week for work and on those nights, I have nothing left. I've been very open about not scouting until Sim #4. However, that's because I usually have picks in the 20's. When I have picked in the top 10, I know enough of who I'm targeting before Sim #4. Something doesn't add up when someone is too busy to make their pick Thursday night to Sunday evening and then magically when the draft is live, they're ready to roll.

There's no faulting someone for being busy, it's not taking any course of action to get your pick in and allow things to keep moving along when you DO know who you're taking that's the issue. Take Hokey at #1 for example. If the rumors are true and he indeed did have someone in mind for the #1 pick even before Sim #4, then I think he should've PMed Andy instructions with him not being here so far this weekend.

"If 1B Hurley jumps or stays the same, I'll take him. If Hurley drops, then I'll take SP Salas as long as he jumps or stays the same. If both players have dropped, then I'll need more time to look things over."

Something of that nature is not asking too much.