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Adding an Automatic Draft process

Rich
2005-01-31
2013-04-16
  • Rich

    Rich - 2005-01-31

    Anyone have any ideas on how to create an "Auto Draft"?  Maybe based from a player_rank table where the draft order is either selected or randomized and the first team would get player_rank 1, second team would get player_rank 2 and so on?

    I'd be interesting in helping out with this if anyone is interested in helping me create this, I have some ideas, just not really sure how to piece it all together.  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

    Thanks
    -Rich

     
    • Brad Schwie

      Brad Schwie - 2005-02-05

      I've heard of this feature through yahoo's leagues, but I've never seen it in action.  Does anyone have any screenshots of what this might look like?

       
    • Rich

      Rich - 2005-02-05

      I don't have a screen shot of yahoo's but I know how it works:

      I believe that Yahoo either has an online manual draft or a random draft.  It randomly picks the order of the teams to pick.  then it gives a date of when the draft will be held.  Each player has the opurtunity of giving the players a rank (there is a pre-draft rank already set by yahoo that a player would change).  Then on draft day, team 1 would get the first player on thier list, or if they didn't modify it, the player ranked #1.  Team 2 would get player 1 if not chosen from their list or player 2 if they didn't modify the list and so on ....

      Thanks
      -Rich

       
    • Brad Schwie

      Brad Schwie - 2005-02-05

      Rich,

      The Auto Draft sounds like a pretty cool feature, but I won't have time to develop it.  I'm setting my sights on developing a better auction module later this year.  In addition, I also want to find a way to archive franchises that leave the league.  It would be nice to have a hall of fame page showing who the coaches are with the highest winning percentage and so forth.

      If you have the time to work on the Auto Draft, give it a shot.  I'm sure there will be people that would love to see it.  I conduct my drafts live, and everyone is in attendance, so I'm not all that interested in developing this feature.

      Brad

       

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