Any advice on running a 17-20 owner draft with owners spread out all over
the United States? We currently draft around 20-25 players and with this
many owners, it is taking FOREVER to do our drafts. We normally try to do a
round a night, but are always running into someone who isn’t around, or has
a slower email service, etc, etc….Just wondering if there are any proven
methods that you have heard of for running such a large and spread out
draft.
Chat – RaiderSoft Java Chat Solutions
I would check out using a chat room and do more than one round per night, thereby avoiding some conflicts.
For the Tout Wars Trade Deadline FAAB extravaganza last year we used a discussion board from Boardhost. Owners started a thread with a player’s name and price as the subject and anyone who wanted to raise the stakes could by posting an increased bid. There was a frenzy at the deadline and some people were shut out because of it, but I don’t think anyone had a bad time.
Since you won’t be bidding you’ll avoid that problem. Another advantage is that while most chat rooms rely on java, there are a lot of straight html discussion boards, which means they’re accessible by all browsers.
Boardhost don’t seem to be offering discussion boards right now, but boards2go.com is and their boards seem to work well. And, of course, they’re free.
If anyone else has any suggestions, post ’em in the comments area just below.