OT: Creative ways to determine draft order in Fantasy Football?

Submitted by Jehu the Damaja on
Our group is tired of doing the same old 'pick a number out of a hat' routine to decide our draft order. I thought a Mario Kart or Super Smash Bros. tourney would be fine, but there are a handful in the league who have a huge advantage over the rest of us, seriously. Same kind of deal for a punt, pass, and kick competition.

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.

TheBlueBaller

August 7th, 2013 at 10:57 AM ^

We've had a few successful ones in the past

1. Poker game

2. NCAA Tourney

3. Worst team last year of fantasy gets first pick and so on, like the real thing

4. Putting guesses on the final showcases added up on Price is Right

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August 7th, 2013 at 1:32 PM ^

My humor generator is broken today...

...but I use a lottery system to set the draft order in multiple leagues.  Last year's champ gets one random number generator 'ping pong ball'.. and the team with the worst regular season points scored gets 12 random number generator 'ping pong balls' in an excel spreadsheet (all the other teams get the corresponding ping pong balls in order).

Make sure you set calculate to manual.

Hold down F9 until you feel lucky

Find the highest value for each team

Set the draft order from highest value #1 pick, to lowest pick #12

PROFIT

 

BTW - my favorite rule is that the worst team from the year before gets renamed by the other owners for the following regular season.  The motivation of avoiding being renamed by the rest of the league keeps all the owners focused on trying hard well after being eliminated from the playoffs.

 

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