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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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.
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Steve Huslig
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The problem with that is some commishs would pause for hours, if not days, and that cannot be supported by the infrastructure.
Offline drafts are always the best option if you have time constraint concerns.
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Jesse Thomson
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Please allow the commissioner to pause the draft an unlimited amount of times for the online draft. In a league where we can trade draft picks - it's annoying when the commissioner is unable to pause the draft to work out the players being picked up.
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Chris
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In the real world (such as the NFL Draft), there IS a time limit. If you have to take 3 days to select a player (which seems to be what you want here), then you shouldn't be playing fantasy.
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Anonymous
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Consider giving commissioners an option to remove time limit from live online drafts. I know first-hand of one league that is only still in CBS for that reason (even though yahoo is way better than cbs in every other aspect)
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Jesse Jensen
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Just do offline draft.
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Robin Tikka
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Sounds like you are doing an offline draft, enter them later.
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Eric Yates
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Out of town guy needs to be in town guy to be at the draft.