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25 August 2007

Today is the Metachat fantasy football draft. Don't forget, bunnies - 6:30 PM Pacific time!

post by: ikkyu2 at: 08:10 | 19 comments

Woah. Take note everybody - it was 6:30 eastern time as recently as a few hours ago.

posted by rainbaby 25 August | 08:59

Hmm, rainbaby, I've had it in my calendar as 9:30 eastern since I signed up... ?

posted by mike9322 25 August | 09:18

From the site:

Your live online draft is set for Sat Aug 25 6:30pm PDT.

I've got a wedding rehearsal dinner today, so I've been pretty clear on this for a couple of weeks. The bride and groom are well aware that I have to be SEATED AT MACHINE at 6:30!

posted by ikkyu2 25 August | 09:30

Ok, I get it. I guess I wanted to send up a wahooo in case anybody else was confused. What's the worst that could happen.

posted by rainbaby 25 August | 09:42

I imagine that if somebody doesn't show up for the draft, Yahoo! will just autopick their players. That's totally just a guess, though.

posted by box 25 August | 09:47

Yes, they will, box. Hopefully they'll have pre-set their picks.

I'll be there, but only for about the first hour or so, which, with 12 teams, will be maybe the first 5 or so rounds. After that, I gotta take off to go see some clients, but I'll pre-rank the remainders before then. Looking forward to it!

posted by ufez 25 August | 09:55

Yes, Yahoo does autopick players for people who aren't at the draft.

Yay for football! : )

posted by sisterhavana 25 August | 11:49

I've got my lucky drafting underwear on and am even wearing eye black to cut down on possible strain.

posted by drezdn 25 August | 12:09

Oh yeah? Well, I'll be drinking a draft beer and sitting at a drafting table. And is it me, or is it a little bit chilly in here?

posted by box 25 August | 12:35

Can I get an invite? I am a total n00b to fantasy football, so if this is for "serious players only" I won't be offended. My Yahoo ID is zenparadox2, though the best way to contact me via e-mail is zenparadox2@gmail.com

posted by desjardins 25 August | 15:30

Desjardins, I'm not sure if it's still possible to register but if it is, here's a link to the info you need.

posted by drezdn 25 August | 16:15

Here is the draft order, set via the Pro Fantasy Sports Draft Randomizer (I thought I'd do that so we'd have a chance to strategize knowing our draft positions)
Here it is:

1. Mad Wet Hens
2. Chicago Zoob Turtles
3. IMPERFORATE!
4. nyc avengers
5. The Ikkyu2s
6. Courtesy Flush
7. The Pistolwhippets
8. Box City Boxes
9. Super Bowl XXX
10. The Kenosha Kids
11. [Clever Team Name]
12. redacted

This is the draft order for the first round (and odd numbered rounds). It's a serpentine draft, so redacted will have the first pick of the second round and then it will go in reverse order - Mad Wet Hens has the last pick of the second round and the first pick of the third round, and so on.)

This is going to be fun! : )

posted by sisterhavana 25 August | 18:23

AWESOME!!

The random draft order drawing may be the only thing I win all year.

posted by mudpuppie 25 August | 18:27

I emailed everyone in the league too, in case they don't get on here before the draft. (Ikkyu2 was the only one without email enabled)

posted by sisterhavana 25 August | 18:30

By the way -- hearty thanks to sisterhavana for organizing this whole thing again.

posted by mudpuppie 25 August | 18:57

I can't get in and my test worked. Anybody else having a problem?

posted by rainbaby 25 August | 20:04

I'm in. Try firefox and shut off your firewall/adblock/proxy, rainbaby.

posted by ikkyu2 25 August | 20:15

Firefox here too. I had to click on a Java icon after launching the application.

posted by mudpuppie 25 August | 20:19

Just so everyone knows, my team is "The Kenosha Kids" though I am in no way connected to the Mefite "The Kenosha Kid." I was going to go with "." as my team name but thought that might just be a bit over-the-top.

posted by drezdn 26 August | 14:17

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