Drafts - Custom mock drafts/Mock drafts to match league settings
These new mock drafts would allow you to customize the settings for a mock draft or have set the mock draft to match one of your league's settings. Currently we only offer the default settings for mock drafts.
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P K commented
Autopick is supposed to be a tool of convenience, not strategy. It would be nice to have a tool to control auto pick logic like ESPN does (ie take a RB in round 1, a qb or te in round 8 etc), but to have a change to the default behavior doesn't make sense. It does stink that it ruins the integrity of mock drafts but it can't predict each owners behaviors.
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Buzzy Newberry commented
It's an absolute JOKE that in there is no differentiation between PPR and standard in mock drafting. This should have been fixed YEARS AGO!
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josh baker commented
Allow mock draft for defensive players!
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Anonymous commented
about time...********!!!!
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brian horner commented
Why not create a mock draft ability to edit roster positions? I have a ten team 2-qb league, so drafting with standard settings really do not help me at all. Most good qb's are gone before the 3rd round in my current league... whereas, most qb's are available in round 3 or later in the standard 1-qb leagues.
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G. Genovese commented
If folks would stick around for all of the draft this would not be a problem. The issue is if there are a few people auto picking the K's and D's start coming off the board in the 8th round making the rest of the Mock draft useless causing more people to leave the mock draft making it even more useless. No K's or D's should be allowed to be autopicked until the 12th round at the earliest.
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Chris McKeirnan commented
It's not so much about who your team is picking, though it is an issue when you need to auto pick. It's more about everyone else autodrafting, and you can't change everyone else's priority and do not draft list.
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B commented
You can put all of them on your 'do not draft' list and it will avoid them; however, the algorithm for picking up bench players gets screwy and you could end up being really unbalanced. This is based on previous experience but haven't tested it this year yet.
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Anonymous commented
Some of the comments to my original post are stating the obvious. I was well aware when I posted this that Yahoo autopicks all of your starters before picking bench players. That is where the problem lies. If you have any fantasy football experience you know you're not picking your entire starting lineup before picking bench players. So Yahoo's auto-pick is unrealistic and causes the draft to be useless after the 9th round. PLEASE FIX THIS!!!
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G. Genovese commented
Once the autopicked D's and K's come off the board the mock draft becomes useless. I think they should not allow autopicked K's and D's until the last 4 rounds of the the draft. If that happened more people would stick around for the entire draft.
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Dcat commented
taking kickers and defenses in the 8th and 9th rounds is moronic. But especially kickers. Put them at the end of the autodraft please. I don't even bother with the mocks beyond round 8 because of this stupidity.
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Chris McKeirnan commented
No, it only works out if EVERYONE is autodrafting. If one or more teams are not auto drafting, then the mock is NOT realistic and does not help you out with what will happen in your real draft, and quite frankly is worthless.
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Anonymous commented
But....if you are drafting with other auto drafters, it all works out.
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Chris McKeirnan commented
Yeah, the poster is obviously aware of that. They are saying that Yahoo shouldn't fill all starting positions before picking any bench players, as anyone who has more then 1 year of experience knows that your first player off the bench is WAY more valuable then your starting def/k.
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Steve Huslig commented
Yahoo! fills all starting positions when a player chooses autodraft before picking any bench players.
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Anonymous commented
Please fix autopicking selecting a defense in the 8th round and a kicker in the 9th round. This is ruining the integrity of a mock draft. There are no competitive leagues out there that select their defense and kicker that early. If someone is set to autopick, select their defense and kicker in the 14th and 15th rounds. This is what ESPN does.
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Jax Kearney commented
And let's not even get me started if you play in a IDP league and want to do a realistic mock draft!
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John Haakenson commented
Not immediately, some times when selecting a draft slot (say #4) another gets if first and you get #6 which you don't want. So you need time to be sure you don't want to move to another draft.
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John Haakenson commented
I agree, especially close to the actual draft time, it is a good idea to filter out those in Standard formats vs. PPR. There can be a materially different strategy and the preseason-to-date ADP's are different.
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steve church commented
Lucy ...you have some spaining to do ....
2/3rds of our Smack talk has disappeared from our league page. We use it to go back and comment on each others past Smacks with each other...was really fun and interactive. Now no one can access past smacks.
The location has changed and is not as accsessible/convenient as it was. 1/2 the league doesn't know where the **** it is and it is now hard to read for those who find it ! ...... And now you can't post a .gif or url.
Why did you take something unique that wasn't broken and make it worse. Please fix it and put it back the way it was. You're taking the fun out of it !
Really Yahoo....you should have asked/polled first...get it together