OT: Creative ways to determine draft order in Fantasy Football?
I saw on reddit someone suggested to have everyone go on chat roulette, and whoever sees a wiener in the fewest clicks gets first pick. It sounded funny but I seriously doubt that is chosen.
Any ideas or suggestions? What do you guys do to decide your league's draft order? There are 12 of us, and we have no out-of-towners, so any kind of competition is welcomed.
Rock Paper Scissors tournament
We play Rock, Paper, Scissors, Lizard, Spock.
at MIS. I am not a big race fan, but I have a passion for drinking and uecker. On race day everyone picks a driver from a hat and however they finish is the draft order.
I am a big Bob Uecker fan- loved the Major League movies!
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I'm from Wisconsin. First time I played euchre at Michigan I was trying to figure out why they named a game after the Brewers announcer. Then I couldn't figure out what it was the first time I saw it wrote down. Cool story, I know.
If you haven't tried an auction draft I highly recommend it. Strategically there are so many more ways to approach it. And if I'm reading your post correctly it sounds like you all draft together in person which makes any draft exponentially more fun but auctions get nuts...Well now I have to go do a mock
Auction drafts are a blast. If you want to add to the intrigue, you can have players come up on the auction block at random.
An auction is the way to go for sure. Everyone in my league was skeptical when the idea was brought up 3 years ago, but we would never go back now. There's way more strategy involved - spend a ton a stud and patch in with no-names? moderate amounts on all positions? Bid on players you don't even want to drive up the price? Bid on everyone so no one knows who you really want? The best part is if there's a guy you REALLY want (cough, Denard), you can get him as long as you're willing to outbid people.
is awesome.
Everyone gets a pool of funds, say $100. They can bid whatever they want on whomever they want, but MUST fill the max number of slots (usually 15), so that sort of limits the max you can spend on your stud. There are also usually rules about # of QBs you can take, etc. so someone can't load up with all stud RBs and try to trade their way into top players for other positions.
Here's a link to an example from ESPN:
We also do an auction where everyone starts with $100. However we don't say you have to save $ to fill out your roster with. If you run out of $ and still need more spots you have to wait til everyone is out of $ at which point the snake draft starts to fill out everyone's rosters.
We actually have an auction keeper league (3 players max, at 110% (rounded up) of previous year's contract), so it adds a lot of extra intrigue. I got luck for $4 last year, but I can't keep him this year because i'd be keeping 2 qb's (I'm contractually obligated to keep Stafford because I leased his cheap contract for 3 years from my buddy who had Rodgers cheap already), so I'm trying to work out a 2 year lease or an outright sale of Luck's $5 contract this year. In short, crazy shit goes on in our league - I'm the commissioner so it's a total pain, but we do a lot of crazy deals in offseason and on draft day and it's a TON of fun.
All I'll say is I would NEVER go back to a regular snake style draft. So boring, and a random thing like draft order has way too much to say about how your team ends up looking.
We randomly determine a nomination order. It's like determining a draft order with a standard draft except each person nominates a player for everyone to bid on. It's common to have a rule that the person nominating a player must bid on the player to make sure a player is taken with every nomination (keeps the draft moving). Since there's no noticable advantage to being early or late in the order, it does not reverse on even-numbered rounds.
It's ideal if you can get someone not in the league to be the auctioneer, but it's not required.
I agree with others here that this is the only way to do fantasy sports. An in-person auction draft is a blast.
Last team standing does a one-on-one. Also, use a somewhat strong beer and then draft immediately after the tournament.
Guy I work with ties their draft order into the Kentucky Derby, kinda similar to the NASCAR one above. Each guy in the league gets 2 starting positions assigned at random. They use the highest finish of the 2 horses for each person and rank the draft order as such.
Side bonus is that he also hit the trifecta this year using his 2 numbers and a 3rd he picked, won $4,000.
Then figure out what to do with the money. Person who bids the most gets first pick, person who bids the least gets last pick.
If you really want to make it interesting. Say that the person who bids the most gets 2nd pick and a portion of the money, with second highest bid getting first pick.
Play the Hitler Game on wikipedia. Click random article and then fewest clicks to get to Hitler's page. At the end break all ties with additional rounds of it.
I did it in 3 clicks but I got lucky with my random article. I got Carl Moritz.
I’m in need of something like this too but our league has guys all over the place (Chicago, Minneapolis, Denver, Detroit, Phoenix, San Francisco).
Something we can do over the interwebs would be awesome!
order in distance from the Big House. Furthest away picks first since they are least likely to have the copious amounts of Michigan information inundating their daily lives. They should be rewarded for their suffering!
Roshambo?
Congrats on having the first pick again this year!
He's just upset you keeping picking up his mom around the same time every year just to get first pick in a fantasy footbal draft.
We assign each of the 12 teams one of the top 12 golfers at the PGA Championship as set by Vegas odds. Draft order is based on relative finish of each team's assigned golfer. It adds some intrigue to an already entertaining tournament.
Each person is asked in reverse order of last years standings which pick they want.
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drive competition...longest goes first, etc. etc. you KNOW you were thinking something else.
/dickroll'd
Who can hold their tongue to a 9 volt battery the longest?
I'm in a league that uses the daily 4 lotto. Everybody is assigned a day, the 4 digit number pulled on your day is your number. Picks assigned by descending order of lotto results.
putt putt tournament. ridiculously competitive. nobody should have a huge advantage either.
So much more strategy, more involvement and, importantly, ever so much more fair. Serpentine drafts are not fair and actually rather routine. the problem is that given the crazy amount of FF information, the tops of drafts across leagues look almost identical. the result is that, say, the 3rd pick in every league ends up winning it because they took players x, y and Z in the draft (right down the list). Saw it several times before we switched to auction - I would never go back.
Use $100 in fictional draft dollars and you need to have $1 for your last roster spot on draft day. I promise it takes about as long as a regular draft. Best to find an outside other friend to auctioneer.
How do you determine the order the players are put on the auction block?
You go through a normal draft order, each person picks a player and that player is put up on the auction block. (You COULD potentially have dumb people put up kickers right away and slow the process but that probably won't happen).
One way to avoid people putting up absolutely random players, is that the person who puts the player up on the block, must also bid a minimum of $1 on him. But this also makes putting up kickers that you wouldn't mind getting for $1 a sound strategy early on.
The most entertaining part is when one player puts up A. Foster, and most people realize it's not Arian Foster but a different A. Foster, except for that one guy in your league who is only half paying attention and he gets screwed.
never tried auction draft,sounds like fun and more strategy.
Didn't Brian just post this last night? http://mgoblog.com/mgoboard/meta-topic-season-ova It is still on the front page.
OT season is OVA!
I would say do an Auction Draft, but i know Auctions arent for everyone.
With that being said I think a beer olympics is in order... Not only do you decide on the order of the draft, but also have a great memory filled (or forgten) day.
But in all seriousness, you could pick games over the preseason
August 7th, 2013 at 11:03 AM ^
COCKFIGHTS!
Or better yet, dogfighting. Winner gets first pick, but he has to pick Michael Vick as his first pick.
Too soon?
Everyone gets to pick five different FBS teams. The first to get a new football commitment from one of their teams goes first, second goes second, etc.
it's called hazing, look it up
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1vA46noTLio
they should really bring BMS back
Kickboxing tournament.
None of you know how to kickbox? Perfect.