The Draft: How will it work?

This is not quite how the draft will work. Teams will not have to submit to me and rely on me to get back to them to move the draft forward.


On the main page you will see a section called The NHL Draft: redditdynastyhockey.freeforums.net/board/31/nhl-draft

Within this section I will post a thread for each round. I already made one for Round 1: redditdynastyhockey.freeforums.net/thread/15/round-1

Here everybody will make there first round picks. At the top of each thread will be the order for that round. I will update if trades are made.

Once picks are made here, I will update the other two threads as I have time:

Draft Order & Results - Players: redditdynastyhockey.freeforums.net/thread/11/draft-order-results-players
Draft Picks by Team - Players: redditdynastyhockey.freeforums.net/thread/13/draft-picks-team-players

These are the threads where you can see who has been drafted and to which team.

Besides this, the time limits above is what will be set in place. I don't think this should be to a vote as this will be enforced to make sure everybody in this league is consistent and timely with picks.

All this being said....

I think players that have been drafted should of course be allowed to be traded. This is the beauty of the league. You are the GM. I mean The Islanders technically don't have to be pick #1. They can decide to trade the pick for other picks later in the NHL draft or in the prospect draft. Free range is important!

July 15th was just a date to thrown out there, but we can start sooner. I just wanted there to be enough time to close the polls already open.

Let me know if you have any questions!

The 18 hours are only there to help people who happen to be out for the day or are in a different time zone. It is no way meant to be used for organizing trades and taking time to research prospects. You should have this information at the ready when it's your turn to make a pick.

I just don't think its possible to do any kind of live draft if we are on 3 continents and 5 or 6 time zones.

As for penialty, I think it had to be harsher than best player available. Chris and I had talked about dropping 5 rounds in the draft. You then have only 12 hours to make all of your following picks. If you miss a second time the. You drop another 5 rounds and have 12 hours to make all of your followin picks. If you miss a third time, you should be expelled from this league.

I think with 18 hours allotted to you there should be no excuse for missing your pick and you should consider if you want to be apart of this league. With a harsh penalty it will keep everybody in check. If you are worried about failing this time constraint you should think about your involvement in this league as well. I don't mean to sound harsh, but it's just the reality of the situation.

This is exactly why we will hVe the spreadsheet and as I said above I will be updating two separate threads on the forums with every player/prospect drafted so there is no confusion. This was their should be three locations where players/prospects drafted will be collected.

It's for picking a player already drafted o don't think as harsh of a penalty is needed. I think we should tell the person that they need to repick, but the next team is on the clock. The draft commences as it should and with each pick made those players are off the board for the person who picked incorrectly. This person can jump in at any time to pick a player that is still available. So rather than dropping rounds, they drop picks. Make sense?

There should be enough eyes on this where this should not happen. We should know right away. I know I will be paying attention to this and cross referencing past picks so people know right away.

If you check once before work in the morning and once before work in the evening you shouldn't be in a situation where there is 1 hour left on the clock.

We can try and organize for the team that just picked to email the following team that they are on the clock, but you can't always rely on that person to this, so it really relies on checking the website. Draft season is really the only time of the year to check a lot during the day. I don't think it's a lot to ask for.

In theory it can work, but the team who is on the clock should be accountable for knowing when it's there turn. They can't say, I never saw the email and think that's a pass. They still need to check the forums and not rely on the emails in case somebody forgets.

I'm going to do my very best to keep everything up to date on the forums and on fantrax.

Once a player is drafted, I will try and update the main draft pages here and here. I will also be updating each round thread at the top so you can see who was drafted that round. I will also try and import players onto rosters on fantrax so the player list found here is as up to date as it possibly can be.