ChiefsPlanet - Your Chance To Participate In A New Football Phenomenon (Sandbox Simulations)

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Originally Posted by Red 5 (Post 7816739)

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You have an HOUR to make a pick, so as long as you check in every hour, you'll be fine. And the way the draft is going you don't even need to do that.

If you're not a hardcore football geek you have no business drafting 50+ players. It's not going to appeal to a casual audience.

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Originally Posted by Red 5 (Post 7816750)

The going is slow but there's no rush. We have a month to get this done.

Checking in every hour for a month doesn't make you a hardcore football geek.

That makes you a completely different kind of geek.:thumb:

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Originally Posted by DMAC (Post 7816775)

Cant we just kick them out?

Hell no, I want the players they pass on. :evil:

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Originally Posted by AndChiefs (Post 7816756)

I quoted you just because you're in league 2 but I'm open to any trade offers either up or down. Let's get some activity going here.

I'm the Seattle Undertakers.

I'm not looking to make any trade offers right now. I just want this thing to move along a little faster.

These teams are really slowing down the process:

Round Rock Tamba Tornado (kcmaxwell) - 1 Veteran pick, ZERO rookie picks
Columbia KC Hood Starz (southkctiger) - ZERO picks so far in either draft
Oklahoma City Outlaws (jreid18) - 2 veteran picks, ZERO rookie picks
Lexington Akitas (tyoung509) - ZERO picks so far in either draft
New Orleans Narcs (JimNasium) - ZERO picks so far in either draft
Anchorage Eskimos (LocoChiefsFan) - ZERO picks so far in either draft

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Originally Posted by Dartgod (Post 7816788)

Those just sound like UFL teams.

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Originally Posted by brorth (Post 7816710)

Yeah, I have a sick feeling that this will be a shit ton of time and work that will yield no enjoyment whatsoever.

Impressions after getting familiar with the site:

The concept is great. There is definitely a niche to fill here. I'm not much of a stat geek, but a stat geek is a stat geek is a stat geek. The opportunity to control all the positions on a "fantasy team" should appeal to a group that will utilize this.

It's going to be tough to set up leagues as large as these. You have to rely on everyone in the league to be responsible owners. In league 2, there are 5 teams that haven't made a first round pick. 1/4 of the league bailed before the draft started. IMO, it requires a level of commitment that is tough to give when you don't know if the whole league is willing to do the same.

The UI is tough to deal with. It feels clunky and not efficient. It is almost impossible to keep track of selected and available players without a completely separate system set up beside the monitor. That will probably require a subscription to another site or a commonly prescribed method available to people new to the league if people are paying money to play.

The initial draft process looks daunting, and without having some type of email notification to let you know when you are on the clock, it requires you to log in constantly. Additionally, with no countdown timer on the draft page, you never know how long someone has been on the clock, so logging in doesn't always give you an answer as to how long you have. It's frustrating, and makes it feel like longer than it is.

Watching the activity in League 1 makes me think I just got stuck in the crappy league, which gives me hope for the game, but highlights how little fun this has been so far.

I'm sticking it out in the hopes that I can help with the beta testing by providing data and feedback, but otherwise I would have already pulled the plug. The combination of perceived lack of interest in the league and amount of work required to set it up without assurance that it's "not for nothing" would be the driving factor(s).

Thanks for the great feedback.

As I've mentioned before, the UI worked much smoother in development than in production. We have definite plans to implement some AJAX code that won't require the page to reload every time. That might take a couple weeks to deliver, since I'm just learning on the fly.

I can probably finish email notification tonight. I thought I would have it done sooner, but all the people dropping has required a lot of DB admin, rather than programming. I can probably do a countdown timer or something similar in the next couple of days.

Owner dropouts is a huge issue and we've known that even in the conceptual stage. We are playing with the concept of a different draft format (see related poll) that would be faster and might get people hooked faster. Another concept might be a free version to get the feel of the game with the pay version being people that are committed enough to lay down a few dollars. In any event, our target audience is probably 1/5 to 1/10 the of the total fantasy market.

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Originally Posted by topher79 (Post 7816757)

5 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Rookie Draft
29 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Rookie Draft
53 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Rookie Draft
20 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Veteran Draft
29 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Veteran Draft
68 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Veteran Draft
77 Chula Vista Cripplas On the clock Veteran Draft

36 Springfield Attack On the clock Rookie Draft
60 Springfield Attack On the clock Rookie Draft
13 Springfield Attack On the clock Veteran Draft
36 Springfield Attack On the clock Veteran Draft
61 Springfield Attack On the clock Veteran Draft
84 Springfield Attack On the clock Veteran Draft

26 Portland Rhein On the clock Rookie Draft
50 Portland Rhein On the clock Rookie Draft
71 Portland Rhein On the clock Veteran Draft
74 Portland Rhein On the clock Veteran Draft

We have a new owner for Chula Vista, but he's had problems logging in. I think I have fixed it, or can fix it in the next attempt.

We are recruiting for Springfield. If anyone wants to run that team, drop me a PM.

Portland has had some activity, but has lately dropped off.

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Originally Posted by Dartgod (Post 7816788)

We'll soon be recruiting new owner for these teams, or will run them ourselves, unless activity picks up.

I think there are enough of paying attention that we could divvy the teams who aren't drafting and pick for them in good faith. Is that possible? If so, I'd volunteer. Not sure that solves the problem though because we need these owners to be active longer than the draft 
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Yeeeeea DeMarcus Ware & T Sizzle bitch.

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Originally Posted by Red 5 (Post 7812685)

LMAO

Who is Long going to be protecting, Matt Cassel?

Holy shit. He took Cassel. ROFL

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Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini (Post 7816819)

Yeeeeea DeMarcus Ware & T Sizzle bitch.

They won't be rushing the passer when your offense scores 10 points.

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Originally Posted by Red 5 (Post 7816821)

They won't be rushing the passer when your offense scores 10 points.

You don't need a billion WR's when you have a good QB and a great defense :)

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Originally Posted by Bo's Pelini (Post 7816827)

You don't need a billion WR's when you have a good QB and a great defense :)

You better take a WR at 105.

I noticed that cdcox took a QB, 2 WRs, and a pass rusher with his first four picks in League 2. I wonder if this means that scoring will favor a drafterbater team with top skill players as opposed to a true fan team with dominant lines (acknowledging that QB is important in either case, of course). :shrug:

Here are the first four members of cdcox's League 2 team, the Souix Falls Swagger, ftr:

A.J. Green WR
Andre Johnson WR
Jay Cutler QB
Justin Houston DE

Can someone post cdcox and rain man's current teams in League 1?

Uh oh, here comes the run on tight ends. :)