Drafts - Extended draft pick times and slow drafts
This would allow commissioners to extend the time that is allotted to each team for each pick during the draft longer than the current maximum. Currently, the maximum draft pick time is 2 minutes.
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Ken Kasbohm
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An extended draft would be great as an option. I generally prefer Yahoo leagues, but this is one feature CBS has that I really enjoy. It allows a league to draft at a pace that may take a week, but doesn't penalize people if they can't all be online in one night. For example, each owner has 3-5 hours to make pick, so they log on when they can. The draft automatically pauses overnight. It's fun to make it spread out, rather than feeling so rushed in just a single night. Please add this feature - it would be great!
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Jimbo Slyce
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YES. Guy is exactly right. It is so annoying to have to enter everyone's team after a live draft. Just please let us use the Yahoo site to draft our teams live online but in our own time. The commissioner should be able to determine the amount of time between picks or just shut off the clock completely.
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DemBoyz
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I do not see any reason why Yahoo would limit what we can adjust ourselves within private leagues. There just isn't any good argument for not allowing customization. Letting us choose what time limit we want (and no limit on number of pauses) is only going to help Yahoo draw more players.
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Ed Gitlitz
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The ability to do an extended/untimed draft in the app. It would be a lot better and easier instead of an offline draft via email which is what we currently do. Getting, in our case, 14 people from all over the country to be available at the same time is nearly impossible. Having the ability to do an "offline" draft using the in app draft room would be great. CBS currently offers something like this and it is fantastic.
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Frank Metzler
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We like to break the auction up over several days, with many breaks to slow things down and trash talk. Last year the draft room only had 10 pauses. Can you extend the draft room over multiple days and add more breaks for the Commish to apply?
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George Nocery
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This was first suggested back in August 2018. How come it hasn't been implemented yet? it's a great suggestion! This would enhance the experience by allowing more time for trading draft picks during the draft or slow drafts for players in multiple time zones. Come on team, this seems like an easy fix. Allow 2, 4 and 8 hour timer. Also an option to turn off timer. Thanks, George
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Douglas M Koenig
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The Draft, in the options for Commissioners, give us the option to have a staged time limit. 2 minutes for Rounds 1-10 and 4 minutes for that.
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Matt Roderick
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We normally do an offline draft so we can all get together and eat and drink and talk trash to each other. It literally takes all afternoon and into the evening. With COVID there are a couple guys that can't make it due to state travel restrictions. The remainder of the league is still getting together. These guys will have to be on the phone the whole day to draft. If we could remove the time limit we'd be able to set it up online and they wouldn't have to be glued to their phones the whole day. Would be much appreciated!!
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BRIAN SELMSER
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duo you really 2 minutes. you are over analyzing then
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Darryl Kelly
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100% Not sure why this is a thing. I used an external site last year because of this. I would rather use yahoo but eliminate the pick time option. I don't want people to end up getting auto picked players if they lose connection.
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Guy Gryphan
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Why 'force' users to your time limit you choose? What a poor UX! Allow the commissioners to set a timer length or choose no timer at all! For those who want something other than 1 option for time, we have to do all the extra work of using another site to draft and transferring those draft picks into the Yahoo site. If we have keepers and trades, it makes this a heavy lift!
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Guy Gryphan
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Agreed! Why 'force' users to your time limit you choose? What a poor UX! Allow the commissioners to set a timer length or choose no timer at all! For those who want something other than 1 option for time, we have to do all the extra work of using another site to draft and transferring those draft picks into the Yahoo site. Eventually I'll find a draft site that allows for a better league experience if you force me to keep using other sites. Then if add trades and keepers, it's a heavy lift for a commissioner.
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Adam Kirson
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Being limited to 5 pauses of the draft is absolutely ridiculous. Every other website on the planet allows you to pause/restart as you please. It completely ruins the draft process. And the fact that this 'feature' is not mentioned ANYWHERE on your website and we had to find out the hard way is even more ridiculous. If it wasn't for this one stupid issue, Yahoo would be the absolute best fantasy site, but this is a total deal breaker for our league
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Andrew Regan
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More options for time allowed for each draft selection during a live draft. 2 min max is too short when you're trying to enjoy the best day of the year!! It also is a bit too frantic - as a dynasty league these decisions become a bit harder.
Can these options be added by 8.31.2019??!!!! PLEASE!!! I definitely don't write code and don't know the background that goes into it but on the surface it seems adding more options for time on selections would be easy. Thank you! -
Grant Givan
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2 minutes is not enough time in between picks. We host a live draft but there are always 1 or 2 guys who can't make it so we have to use an online draft set up for them to take part. Yahoo allows for a max of 2 minutes between picks. Make unlimited an option or at least go up to 10 minutes.
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John Currie
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Other sites allow this, why can’t Yahoo? Yahoo is too strict on the time limiting policy, and 15 minutes is entirely too short of a limit.
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Sunil Gandhi
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I agree 100% We had several glitches during the draft (not related to internet connectivity) and I was unable to undo any picks because the 15 minutes of pause time were used up. We definitely need unlimited pause time (or at least up to 60 minutes). We didn't even have the opportunity to pause for a bathroom break! We will be moving our league to ESPN or CBS sports next year if this is not improved.
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Junior Cochling
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Some players are newer and need more time selecting. As commissioner we should have the option to set 3 or 4 minute draft times...been in yahoo for years. Would like to have this implemented
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Daniel Bogle
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The two-minute draft clock limit is an arbitrary limitation on leagues that isn't conducive for leagues that meet to draft in person and like to take their time with the draft. Of course, there is the option to plug in the players manually, but that adds additional effort for the commissioner and sometimes can result in miscommunications without a live draft board. Allowing for us to use the software Yahoo! provides with a draft clock that is longer than two minutes, or even allowing for there to be no draft clock, would vastly improve the experience.
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lance 2238
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Create live drafts that have a customized timer and notifications. Simple right! Yahoo! already does both, why not combine the two. This would allow leagues such as mine to do a slow draft which a manager has hours or days to select a player then when they do the next manager would receive a notification that they are on the clock. Currently my league does this through GoogleDocs and texts. Yahoo! would be able to charge for this ability I'm sure. The other platforms allow you to do this but it costs a lot and I really like to use Yahoo! Fantasy.