have Mock Draft autopick draft kickers and def last
The Mock Drafts are useless because once someone goes on autopick Def and Kickers get drafted in the middle rounds when in reality they don't get drafted until the last 2-3 rounds. That makes anything after the 6th round useless. Please hold off drafting Kickers and Def until at least the last 4 rounds.
G. Genovese
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David Charles Tanner
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Make it so auto draft does not pick a kicker until the very last pick and only 1. Also only draft 1 defense and next to last pick only. Whenever I get a D or an F is when auto gets me a kicker round 8, defense round 9 and another kicker or defense as the last pick. Not smart, please fix this.
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Joseph Cross
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When someone goes on auto-draft in a mock draft it seems as though the computer will fill out an entire starting lineup before selecting bench players. The K and DEF are not ranked in the Yahoo rankings over the bench players. I would suggest the logic should be that the computer drafts best available player regardless of position until the minimum roster requirements cannot be met and then the computer turns to selecting specific positions to fill the lineup.
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G. Genovese
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Because most participants drop out of mock drafts after the 7th or 8th round auto pick causes defenses and kickers to come off the board way too early making mock drafts useless from that point forward. Is it possible to have mock drafts without kickers and defenses or at least program it to draft them last?
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Mat Irby
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Your algorithm is incredibly outdated. Year after year, I come on here hoping that you guys have updated to stay ahead of the trends. And every year I am disappointed to find out that you have the same tired algorithm that you had 10 years ago. No one draft kickers or defenses until the end of a draft, and quarterbacks are going later and later every year. Not only that, but how about some options to accommodate newer formats? There's no way to do a superflex draft? People are running to apps that make a mockery out of your program. It would seem to behoove Yahoo, and increase your foot traffic, if you were to make a program that was actually useful.
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Tyler Fisher
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Adding all kickers to the "Do not draft" list does not work. I just put every single kicker listed by Yahoo on the do not draft and lo and behold kicker drafted in 9th round.
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Tyler Fisher
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I have custom ranked 150 players for a 10 team draft (meaning my list will not run out before the end of the draft). Kickers are dead last on my list. On Auto draft, I'm getting kickers in the 9th round. Why can't the auto draft use my list to make picks? I made the list for my league draft, which I won't be able to attend. Just use the list I made, not that hard. Don't attempt to grow a brain and draft me a kicker ahead of 40 other players I've ranked higher.
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Chris
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Here's a perfect solution for you serious mock drafters:
Join a mock draft that doesn't have the DEF and K positions available at all for drafting purposes.
Since YOU plan on drafting those positions last, YOU also will probably plan on streaming those positions from week to week throughout the season since the elite players at those positions will be long gone by the time YOU are ready to draft them.
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John Milman
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Yahoo should also implement a way to block trolls who get into a draft in order to ***** it up. (sort of like "anonymous" in this thread). Too frequently, people draft a kicker first, or all QBs or something else absurd, keep letting the clock expire, etc. There should be a way to flag people in drafts for Yahoo to review their conduct and block them.
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Frank DeBolt
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Put all your K and DEF on Do Not Draft and even on auto-draft you get no K or DEF. It is much better way to use auto-draft for mocks and during live drafts.
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G. Genovese
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I'm finding the Mock Simulator on FantasyPros.com to be more useful and realistic and helpful. It is not as much fun as life mock drafts but it is much more useful if you want to figure out who will be left in the latter rounds. They have a feature that recommends who you should draft and their software engineers have figured out how not to recommend D's and K's until the end, too bad Yahoo can't figure it out. Like D.C says below very few people stick it out until the end and those of us who stick around to see who is available in the later rounds would find this feature useful.
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Dcat
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"Anonymous commented · June 22, 2017 11:39 AM · Flag as inappropriate
The rule is that all starting positions must be filled before back ups are drafted. That is why Ks and Ds are drafted before any back up position players."hey "anonymous", tell your dopey Yahoo colleagues that the rule is STUPID and should be changed.
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G. Genovese
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But in Mocks when people leave the draft early (and most do) they are put on autopick which screws up the draft for the people that stay because the auto draft teams are picking D's and K's in the 8th, 9th rounds that makes the mock from that point forward useless. They should make it more like the real world that does not allow them to be drafted until the last 4 rounds or at least until you have back up WR'S and RB's.
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Dcat
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Yahoo mock drafts are completely useless once you hit round 8 because it starts to autopick defenses and then kickers in round 9. Unfortunately, it is extremely rare that all participants in a random mock hang around... usually more than half of the participants are letting Yahoo select by the time they get to round 4 or 5. Thus we are stuck with terribly unrealistic mocks once we hit round 8. Not useful to practice and very frustrating. The only solution is to add defenses and kickers in the mid teens... NOT in rounds 8 & 9. SImply put, as so many others have said in as many words, "Yahoo, why you so stupid?"
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Anonymous
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Understood, but autodraft fills all starting roster positions first. That's why you should draft live if you are a serious player.
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G. Genovese
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But that is not how it works in the real world so Mock Drafts are useless after the first D/K's go off the board in the middle round. It would be useful if the Mock drafts simulated the real world so there would be some value in the later rounds.
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Anonymous
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The rule is that all starting positions must be filled before back ups are drafted. That is why Ks and Ds are drafted before any back up position players.