Draft Champions?

[TakestheCake]

Greg you might have missed me in the signup list. Brian Magnani

[2COR5:17]

Hi guys. On the podcast Friday you mentioned you might launch ahead of schedule. I have my son-in-law all geeked up for his first NFBC draft. Any updates you can leak out to us?

[Greg Ambrosius]

Hi guys. On the podcast Friday you mentioned you might launch ahead of schedule. I have my son-in-law all geeked up for his first NFBC draft. Any updates you can leak out to us?

Hang in there. We're hoping if all goes well this could be the week.

[fwicker]

Any update?

[davetniagarafalls]

"We can't have the inmates running the prison."

[Southern Comfort]

Everytime we ask Greg for an update he kills a Stark....Yes he has that power

[Big League Wood]

I have sprained my thumb refreshing this page.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Any update?

Sorry, I was out of the office yesterday as our local high-school team played in the championship football game at state yesterday. Yes, your Iola-Scandinavia Thunderbirds (with my son on it!!) played at Madison yesterday and played their hearts out. But in the end they fell 35-12 to a state powerhouse to finish second in Division 6. What a great experience for this town of 1,300 -- of which more than that showed up in Madison -- to enjoy.

Now, back to baseball. We had final testing on the draft room and credit cards yesterday. I didn't see any issues. Let me check in with IT this morning to get an update. I think we are almost there.

The Draft Champions leagues this year will start one hour after they fill this year, so if we do get this going today be ready to set your KDS and to draft. I will add a separate post to explain everything involving the Draft Champions, but the idea is that we are going to fill these faster this year and we're going to draft these faster this year. Stay tuned.

[DOUGHBOYS]

Sign me up!!!

[Greg Ambrosius]

I have sprained my thumb refreshing this page.

We do have a 10-day DL now if you're interested!! MLB started that last year and it was soooooooo well received by fantasy players. You'll be back playing before you know it.

Hang in there. We will have you done with refresh soon enough.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Sign me up!!!

Okay, so these are all of the folks who said they wanted to be in the first Draft Champions leagues. We will need everyone to first sign up on the new NFBC site once that is live. I will send an email out to everyone as soon as that happens with instructions on how to do that. Again, we have new Age Verification software and Location Verification software, so everyone has to go through this initially. If you already signed up for the NFFC this past season, you are good to go and can easily add this Draft Champions team. If this is your first time then sign up, have the software verify that you are at least 18 years old and in a non-exempt state and away we go. First 15 in will be drafting soon.

Here's the list again:

Bill McRae
Steve Clarke
Todd Macey
James Wilson
Michael DeCavalcante
David Miller
Jon Stadtmueller
Gregg Doyle
Robert Dlogizama
Marty Rancilio
Martin Lowy
Mario Malgeri
Steve Meyer
Kyle Estes
Nickolaus Sackett
capper3
Dave Taylor
Chris Latka
Brian Magnani
Michael Price
Dan Kenyon

[2COR5:17]

Will this be in the Fanball lobby?

[Greg Ambrosius]

Will this be in the Fanball lobby?

It is not. The NFBC lobby is its own, but I'm sure in time we'll create links to easily transfer from one of our contest lobbies to another.

[lucko21]

Any chance of getting a DC where the lineups set automatically for you like football. I know it is harder with the categories, but if there was some kind of program similar to ESPN player rater tool that would rank players and start them based on that. Maybe even give people all day Monday to override the previous week's lineup if they want or else it locks in place. Any way to have all the work over once the draft end would be awesome.

[Bronx Yankees]

Any chance of getting a DC where the lineups set automatically for you like football. I know it is harder with the categories, but if there was some kind of program similar to ESPN player rater tool that would rank players and start them based on that. Maybe even give people all day Monday to override the previous week's lineup if they want or else it locks in place. Any way to have all the work over once the draft end would be awesome.

You should look into the Cutline format. It is points-based as opposed to categories-based, but the format sets the optimal lineup for all teams so that there literally is no work after the draft except for a limited number of free agent pickups at designated times.

Mike

[lucko21]

Thanks. I'm not a big fan of the leagues that are combined with other leagues to have overall grand prizes. Just feels like such a crapshoot where almost everyone ends up losing.

I do really like the slow drafts that are starting now. Big fan of drafting before Jan 1. After that, my "local" leagues start to get going.

[Greg Ambrosius]

Any chance of getting a DC where the lineups set automatically for you like football. I know it is harder with the categories, but if there was some kind of program similar to ESPN player rater tool that would rank players and start them based on that. Maybe even give people all day Monday to override the previous week's lineup if they want or else it locks in place. Any way to have all the work over once the draft end would be awesome.

We have the NFBC Cutline Championship for optimal scoring. We are not planning any optimal scoring private leagues.