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by DOUGHBOYS » Wed Nov 29, 2017 11:26 am
There is one thing that I believe would be cool for the draft room.
I don't know how hard it would be to install.
I was thinking that the main focus of our drafts online is our queue.
We'll add and subtract players from it.
We tinker with it in between picks.
We'll watch it get ravaged as we watch helplessly, our next pick distant.
For those that have been in the new draft room, do you see where it says 'history' and it shows the last three or four picks?
That box is redundant, since the names appear again next door in chat.
So, with that 'history' box, I'd like to see 'Queue 2'.
I know, I know, another queue may be redundant as well, but hear me out...
We all use our queue in different ways.
Some of us use it as a strict guideline as to who we choose next.
Some of us use it as a grouping for our next choice.
Some of us use it for players we don't want to forget.
Some of us use it for positional needs.
We all differ in how to use the queue.
If having a secondary queue, we would be free to...
Put hitters in one queue, pitchers in the other.
Put our next round players in the top queue, players we don't want to forget in the secondary queue.
If near the end of the draft, put players from one position in one queue, other positions in the bottom queue.
More choices.
Our top queue would still be the primary queue and the queue in which the computer would select a player should our time expire.
The secondary queue would be another source to stockpile the pitchers, players of interest, or players 'not to forget'.
It is just a thought and I don't know how hard it would be to program, or what it would look like on phone since I'm a computer guy, but it would be cool and something no other draft room has to my knowledge.
Edit- I talked with Greg about this and, as feared, it would probably be hard to install.
Plus the 'history' should be somewhere in the draft room.
I also talked with another drafter who would prefer that history should be kept somewhere in the room, but players names that are drafted, eliminated from chat.
What are your thoughts?
Also, just a reminder that the draft rooms are fully functionable. Even as is, they are better draft rooms than what STATS had.
The STATS draft room was a dinosaur where we couldn't even use symbols like %, or $, or hyphens in chat. Sheesh.
AND, we could expect no changes from STATS.
We're getting daily changes from this IT.
As said, this is already a better room then we had. And hopefully, with changes being added each day, it should be one of the best in the industry by fast drafts time.
And No,that is not coming from Greg, it is how I feel.
Get in a draft and judge for yourself.
On my tombstone-
Wait! I never had the perfect draft!