Fantasy Footy

[Dale61]

Greg, keep in mind that you are to draft a team of 30 players, and if the teams ahead of your next pick choose all the players on your contingency, then you'll be back to zero.

When the draft started, I had 78 players on my contingency and lost 23 in the first two rounds. I have continued to add to my list during the draft to replace positional players that have been selected by other teams.

I now see that AFL All Stars has complained that one of his high picks - Barry Hall - isn't on his list, so I don't know what draft he is in.

[Dale61]

A question to all in Nicks league.

How many of your drafted players have you actually picked, rather than been taken from your contingency list?

All four of my players thus far have come from my list.

[Cam]

ditto, only picked my first pick - rest were auto

[sdmonkey82]

All of mine have been contingencies.

AFL Allstars has had over two hours now, does he get skipped?

[Dale61]

So far, our draft has gone like this:

Round 1
1. Footy Balls Ben Johnson
2. Kyneton knobs Nathan Buckley
3. pauls black n white attack Jason Akermanis
4. Gallifrey Timelords Matthew Lloyd
5. Phil's Phavourites Chris Judd
6. AFL All Stars Alan Didak
7. Ballajura Magpies Chris Tarrant
8. West Gate Trihards Josh Fraser
9. Fradingwood Shane Crawford
10. the scoobydooers scoobydoo James Hird
11. B&W Copulators Angelo Lekkas
12. Cranbourne Bums Gary Ablett
13. Monty Python The Holy Grail Jonathan Brown
14. Gold Coast Bogans Adam Goodes

Round 2
15. Gold Coast Bogans Matthew Pavlich
16. Monty Python The Holy Grail Simon Prestigiacomo
17. Cranbourne Bums Cameron Ling
18. B&W Copulators Chad Fletcher
19. the scoobydooers scoobydoo Ben Cousins
20. Fradingwood Brent Harvey
21. West Gate Trihards Nick Riewoldt
22. Ballajura Magpies Peter Bell
23. AFL All Stars - Skipped - 0 Contingencies
24. Phil's Phavourites Nigel Lappin
25. Gallifrey Timelords Brad Johnson
26. pauls black n white attack Anthony Rocca
27. Kyneton knobs Ryan Lonie
28. Footy Balls Nick Stevens

Round 3
29. Footy Balls Michael S. Gardiner
30. Kyneton knobs Luke Darcy
31. pauls black n white attack Scott Burns
32. Gallifrey Timelords Adam Simpson
33. Phil's Phavourites Adam Cooney
34. AFL All Stars - Skipped - 0 Contingencies
35. Ballajura Magpies Tarkyn Lockyer
36. West Gate Trihards Simon Black
37. Fradingwood Andrew McLeod
38. the scoobydooers scoobydoo Lenny Hayes
39. B&W Copulators Warren Tredrea
40. Cranbourne Bums Mark Coughlan
41. Monty Python The Holy Grail Paul Licuria
42. Gold Coast Bogans Shane Woewodin

Round 4
43. Gold Coast Bogans Michael Voss
44. Monty Python The Holy Grail Brett Kirk
45. Cranbourne Bums Troy Simmonds
46. B&W Copulators Brett Burton
47. the scoobydooers scoobydoo Chris Johnson
48. Fradingwood Barry Hall
49. West Gate Trihards Ben Graham
50. Ballajura Magpies Richard Cole
51. AFL All Stars - Skipped - 0 Contingencies
52. Phil's Phavourites Nathan G. Brown
53. Gallifrey Timelords Jeff White
54. pauls black n white attack James Clement
55. Kyneton knobs Shannon Grant
56. Footy Balls Mark Bolton

Round 5
57. Footy Balls Troy Cook
58. Kyneton knobs Brad Scott
59. pauls black n white attack Shane O'Bree
60. Gallifrey Timelords Scott West
61. Phil's Phavourites Fraser Gehrig
62. AFL All Stars - Not Picked - (After 2hrs 53mins - time limit 2 hours)

Considering our draft commenced approx. 1.30pm Monday, things are looking grim if we are to have our 30 players per team drafted before the season starts.

[Cam]

One person is slowing this whole thing down. Come on dude, get some contingencies and this thing can be over tonite.

[Cam]

oh wtf has happened now. people missed everywhere and then guys further down have picks.

[Daks]

Like i said before.... dont stress. You will get your picks, The site is experiencing difficulties and the glitches are being removed. That stuff never happened to my league when we were doing the draft... Wierd

[Cam]

my contingency list is plucked. i can't move guys around. interesting even though i have pick before footy balls i can't add leppitch to my cont. list because it says he has already selected him... hmmm

[Greg J]

Yeah, I have been adding to my contingencies this afternoon, and rearranging them, and all was fine, until just a little while ago.

It stopped letting me rearrange the order of my list. I logged out. And now my contingency list is frozen. I can still see everybody's previous draft choices though.

I am going to regret missing out on the first four picks all season (Scott Burns was still available for my first pick). But the die has been cast.

This is fun.

They (the developers) need to ,
* automatically email you when it is your draft pick
* either enforce a minimum number of contingencies upon registration or come up with some sort of default selection process for people without enough contingencies when it becomes their turn
* come up with a tutorial or something that people go through after registering.

[Greg J]

No big drama if it will not let you select him if he really is unavailable. But it will be frustrating to find out he was.

[Joel]

pauls black n white attack got Alistair Lynch, however, I had two picks before him and Lynch was at the top of my contingencies. What is the go with that? Not happy about that.

[Dale61]

Now I've missed a pick and three teams AFTER me have chosen players from the top of my contingency list.

[grims]

Hey i picked chris tarrant at number 8 or something like that (shows it on the draft page) but he's not shown on my drafted players list. Any thoughts?

[Dale61]

Yeah, just do what I'm about to do - give up.

How something so simple can be so freaking difficult is beyond me.

I've had a gut full.

If my selection ever holds up the process, can someone let me know and I'll deal with as soon as I can.

Good luck with it everyone.