The draft picks up again Monday 11/2 at 10:00 AM CT with round 19, on 2-minute clocks. The site makes every pick from your lists, so this is the time to get them right. Two things below: what's new, and exactly how the site chooses your player.
1. What's new: "Max in this draft"
Many of you are adding hundreds of players to your lists. If your list happens to have a dozen tackles together, the site would take them one after another, because it goes down your list in order. So Draft Options now has a Max in this draft table: Position · League minimum · Drafted so far · Max in this draft.
- Positions: QB, RB, FB, TE, WR, C, G, T, P, K, DE, DT, ILB, OLB, CB, S, LS. These are position groups, so T counts both LT and RT (G = LG and RG, DE = LDE and RDE, and so on).
- The max is a total for the whole draft, and the picks you've already made count. If you've drafted 2 tackles and set T to 4, the site takes at most 2 more.
- Blank means no limit. Every team starts blank, so if you set nothing, nothing changes for you.
- A player at a position you've maxed out is skipped, not removed. He stays on your list and the site moves to your next name.
- The legal roster always wins. You can't set a max below the league minimum for a position (the table shows it). If your maxes ever leave no legal player at all for a pick, they give way for that one pick.
2. How the site makes your pick
When your pick comes up, the site goes through these steps in this order and takes the first player it finds:
Step 1: My Priority List. The first available player on your list, in the order you put them. Your order is the ranking here; the site doesn't re-sort it by My DA or anything else. If you want your list in My DA order, build it that way.
Step 2: your Position list (only if nobody on your Priority List can be taken). It goes down your entries ("QB", "CB", …), and for the first entry where someone is available it takes the best available player at that position by My DA. Each entry gives you one player and is then used up.
Step 3: the fallback (only if both lists come up empty). The best available player by My DA at a position where you're still short of the league's standard roster mix (it's listed in the draft rules). If you're already at the mix everywhere, simply the best available player by My DA.
Which My DA? For Steps 2 and 3 the site uses the League Default My DA (the league's standard weights, applied with your own team's defensive front, team leaders and the shared Allocation scout ratings) unless you choose your own.
Want your own My DA used? Set it in Draft Options.
On Draft Options, find "When my list runs out, take my Position list and the fallback by …", pick my My DA score, and press Save (that form has its own Save button, separate from the max table). From then on Steps 2 and 3 rank by your My DA weights. Step 1 is always your own list order either way.
Rules that apply to every step:
- A player the roster rules won't allow right now (you'd no longer be able to reach the league minimums with the picks you have left) is passed over for now.
- A player at a position where you've hit your max is passed over (the new table).
- Passed over never means removed: he stays on your list for later.
The Draft Options tab on the draft pages (or Draft Central in the site menu → Draft Options). Set your maxes and your My DA choice before 10:00 AM Monday. You can change either at any time while the draft runs, and each change counts from the next pick on.
The max table is for the rest of this allocation draft only.
Questions? PM me.
— CMax
