Draft pause prior to Round 17

Let's postpone the prospect draft until sometime next week, we shouldn't fault TBL for going on a vacation at the end of July. We don't need to rush into the draft either, we don't have any deadlines to meet.

I have no problem going as far as we can with the draft until his pick comes up again. So next round of the regular draft and the second round of the prospect draft. How long has he been gone?

He has been away since the afternoon of July 26th

I would ideally not find a new owner this late in the draft. Tampa has drafted his team (the players who are left are just roster fillers), and he is likely to get his #1 prospect pick.

I'm fine with him dropping 5 rounds each time he misses a pick in the NHL draft (actually - I'd even propose automatically dropping 5 rounds whenever his pick comes up if we don't hear from him, just so that we don't have to wait the 12 hours in between). I am however also of the contradictory opinion, that rather than replace him, keep him while auto-drafting the best available player on the Dobber prospect ranking.

Yes - I acknowledge that this isn't what we originally agreed in the rules, but he already has his team. He already has his #1 prospect. He is likely to stick it out during the season. With a new owner we never know what we're going to get.

I disagree with this completely. I have a waiting list of GMs that would LOVE to be in this league and would be active. When they were put on the list they all knew that their was a chance that the team they will get won't be there own. Everybody was fine with this.

As a commish of this league I am trying to look out for 19 other people. Not 1. This league will be more fun if everybody is active. If we have somebody who isn't drafting now and leaves a very irresponsible list what will stop them from not answering trade messages later or not setting up lineups.

This has happened multiple times in my other keeper league. We tried being nice and it only got worse.

Ok, so he got back to me. He says he's been on the road.

He seems unaware of what;s going on here so I updated him.

He submitted anothr 5 person list....all 5 were taken....don't know when he's getting back to me again.

He did not submit any further prospects.

To say he didn't know when the prospect draft would start is false, since he did vote on that poll.

Correct

I'm good with whatever gets decided. Just let me know when I'm OTC

I'd hope not i mean, a one day pause in the draft is fine, just send him another message asking for some really deep picks that we are sure no one has, and then proceed with the draft until we can't, hopefully by then he will be back. Chances are if he's answering on vacation he IS quite excited to be in the league.

Idk I feel like kicking someone for malprep before vacation is a little uptight for this league. A couple of you I've spoken to and as a general consensus I like everyone here and I think it'll be a fun few years of fantasy hockey for me, as you guys are quite chill and easy to talk some hockey with. I see you may have had other leagues with issues, but those leagues are not this league and I have full confidence that we can keep good activity. I'd try to treat this league as if it's the first one you've ever held because this league is pretty cool and special and not like many I've seen! Anyways that's my last bit of opinion on the matter and if it comes to a vote you know where my vote lies, and i'm glad you're waiting on what he says before deciding to put him up for an eviction of sorts (Sounds like im on big brother!)

There's no way he'd be able to open that monster on mobile, it's way to big. And he might not even have cellular data. At this point in the draft, it would be very hard for him to guess who's available, so I think he should just let someone of his choice autograft for him... If we don't boot him.

Actually i'm gonna come back to say that I really like this idea. It's a form of punishment for "you didn't prepare, you get what you get" but also that it doesn't mean he will go.