killersquids 3 Posted July 20, 2011 For the first time in my league's 10 year history, a live draft might not be possible. Has anyone done an online auction draft? What were the pitfalls? TIA. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
808state 0 Posted July 20, 2011 For the first time in my league's 10 year history, a live draft might not be possible. Has anyone done an online auction draft? What were the pitfalls? TIA. We have done online auctions the last 4 years and for the most part it works. Some things to check and watch for: 1) Check with site you are going to use to make sure it can accomdate your roster format 2) For ESPN, all auction participants had to sign up for an account 1 hour prior to the start otherwise your draft would be cancelled 3) There can be lag when bidding depending on network condtions and/or computer hardware. One owner got a steal because the timer wasn't refreshing fast enough on people's computer. 4) Some site require updates to flash or some other plug in. Also, some browsers might not be supported. All of this should be resolved prior to the draft and not last minute. Having everyone create an account and logging in to the auction site a day before the draft helps. 5) We had a draft where two people's computers kept crashing becase they had tons of viruses on their machines. That sucked since it was a lot of waiting. The next year they both got new computers. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
