We are off and running for our 44th season. Never figured I would be saying that!
First I need to thank Mike and Lynne for being gracious and thoughtful hosts. Sorry in advance for your next electric bill! The setup was perfect and the food even perfecter. And a big shoutout to all of you for rolling with the punches which came in the form of a last minute room URL change. More on that below.
As to the draft itself...a few thoughts...….
On the positive side I thought the draft room was a nice upgrade over MFL's native draft room. Much more attractive. And related to that the color coding of positions made it easy to see who had filled spots, who had taken second qbs, that sort of thing. I also thought it was easy to use for everyone..click, click, click...done. From my point of view it wasn't hard to create the room, jump in to correct the one 'mis-pick' or upload the results last night.
On the flip side I was disappointed in a few things but those issues can be avoided next time based on last night's experience. When I pay for PrimeTime Draft I get to install the software on two machines. I did that...on my desktop computer and on my laptop. What came as a surprise was that the two installs DIDN'T 'mirror' one another. In other words the draft I set up on my desktop after the draft results were generated DID NOT simply show up on my laptop install. I had no way to access it from Mike's place. I had to quickly create another draft for us to use. It wasn't difficult, the settings are imported from our league site with a few clicks. The issue, as you found out, was that the link I sent out in my emails was no longer valid. I couldn't 'run' that original draft as commish.
Luckily everyone saw my panicked 5:45 emails or was close to their phone and got word of the change. It worked fine but the customization and adjustments I had made to the original draft were gone. The helmets I'd uploaded would have taken too long to replicate. More importantly the draft showed as an 18 rounder when I had intended it to be 17 rounds. Things like that. But it worked.
From my end I was not able to see the 'available players' button you all had in the top left. Instead my room had a button that sent me to the commish tools page for starting/stopping/pausing the draft, etc. Next year I'll use a second devise and just log in as an owner on that one.
The Zoom room worked ok. Not perfect but it served it's purpose. I'm not a Zoom user regularly so I wasn't able to easily fix the issue I had with the camera on my laptop or the 'feedback/garbled sound' that was apparent. Having to run it on my phone was fine but it really messed up my ability to see texts or answer calls. Again, better prep on my part will hopefully fix that next time.
It was also apparent that not everyone reads my emails, or checks the site or this news blog very much. It's, well, kind of frustrating to be honest when the TE position comes as a surprise to someone in Round 9. I know I expect everyone to take time to jack with this dumb league and that's stupid on my part. I promise to keep changes to a minimum from here on out. But please promise to at least 'speedread' the crap I send out. Thanks!
There are two apps in your app store to use with MFL. One is MFL Mobile. I use it and tested it today. Works fine. MFL Lite is the other and I couldn't get it to log me in so it may be fubar. Also...I have the league itself coded for easy mobile access and use. You can try it through your browser and see how you like it.
One last piece of housekeeping. The rosters are set at 18. Everyone ended the night with 17 players. Waivers (First come, first served) are now open. Since the first pickup you make through the close of the waiver window tomorrow is equivalent to your last draft pick I will add the $5 waiver change back to your waiver cash account.
Questions, comments, concerns? I'm here.
-commish
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