Drafts - Enhance Autodraft Capabilities
Requests to improve autodraft for various reasons including D/STs and kickers being drafted too early, picks taking too long, etc.
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Nick
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Your 'free' mock draft interface is the worst among nfl and espn. the lobbies are hard to join in the position you want and i'm often having to wait 5-10 minutes to join a lobby because I can't join the 0-5 minute queues. ESPN offers a free version of your 'instant' draft, a feature Yahoo charges 35$ for. it's unfortunate the instant draft feature can't be free and you still charge for fantasy advice (which i don't want!). Yahoo is overall the better platform out of nfl and espn, so i will continue to use it by default, but would think it really cool if you made the instant draft function available for free to users.
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matin sadeghy
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Most auction mock drafts include at least one (some several) computer players. Part of the reason is that there's so much time between each mock draft's start time (up to 15 minutes), which means that if I sign up to mock draft right now, ten minutes from now I may have forgotten or be doing something else, and my team goes on autodraft.
Here's the problem with the autodraft: IT IS WAAAAAAY TOO AGGRESSIVE ... especially early on.
The top 10-20 players go for a lot more than what they'd go for if humans were drafting. Sometimes the top players go for $70-75 on the high end (almost NEVER happens in real life) or mid-high 60's on the low end - still high, but closer to reality.
Consequently, when I do mock drafts, I almost never end up with any of these high end players (and neither do most of the other human players), and if a mock draft isn't realistic, it defeats its purpose.
The second consequence is that the autodraft players will usually end up blowing most of their budget on 2-3 top end players, and not have much money to use for the rest of the draft. Again, THIS is also unrealistic.
What ends up happening is that in my mock drafts, I get none of the top players, but I get unrealistically great deals on the middle-late round players.
Please look into fixing this glitch - it's not difficult to fix. All you have to do is to program some variance into the decisions of the autodraft bots, and most importantly, lower their bid amounts. If a player goes for $42 on average, the bot should not be bidding up the price to $55. Max them out at the average bid, or maybe a couple of dollars above that. Or - to make it more realistic - their maximum bid can depend on their particular need for a player. If they don't have any RB's, and the RB market is running dry, increase their max bids.
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Christopher Scott
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For the life of me please please please fix autopick. For years yahoo continues to have autopick be a massive pain point. First off if someone had their team set to autopick it should not wait ten seconds for the player to be selected. Secondly if someone is jumping back and forth from autopick to manually picking it as soon as they change to autopick it DEFINITELY should not take the full countdown two picks in a row for the system to select the player. This is absolutely ridiculous and needs to be fixed IMMEDIATELY!
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Adam Travan
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If you let the clock run down to zero twice in a row, you should be placed on autopick. If you are on auto pick either by choice or by missing 2 in a row the pick should be made in 15-30 seconds and not let the clock run down for each one.
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Chris Long
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Most experts agree that players should not draft a kicker until the last round, however the Yahoo autodraft system will select a kicker with all other starters. Please allow an option for managers to elect that autodraft will not draft a kicker until the last round. Would also be nice to set limits such as "don't draft a defense before X round".
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Matt W
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Hey Yahoo - I know feature requests sort of get thrown in a black hole at times (I work in tech lol) but I have a good idea for mocks that could honestly drive people from other platforms to mock on your page, thus increasing your potential user retention.
In yahoo mocks, after someone leaves, the autodraft looks to fill lineups rather than go BPA. This creates a situation where kickers and defenses get taken in round 7-9, essentially causing ADP to be misleading for people still in the draft, thus making the mid-late rounds of the mock effectively useless for people
My suggestion - have DST and Kickers be automatically set to autodraft in mocks in the final 2 rounds, and go BPA until then, with maybe some weight on 1st QB and 1st TE drafted.
This would ensure that if you stay in a mock, the auto drafting slots would behave more accurately, thus making Yahoo the best place to mock against live players, and giving people on the platform more of a reason to mock
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Joseph Capodicasa
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For the mock drafts, if the person is on autodraft can the autodraft not take a defense or kicker until rounds 13 plus? I think it is a much needed change as serious leauges are not taking defenses and kickers before round 12 the latest. Most people leave the draft after round 7 and it auto drafts a defense or kicker. Should be picking the next available WR, RB or TE or randomize it based on need.
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Sean Santiago
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Whomever wrote the programming for the bots in the Auction Mock drafts doesn't understand Auction drafts. The mock drafts are completely useless if there are any bots because the bots are programmed to automatically jump to their highest possible bid. You can't ever get a realistic idea of how your Auction draft is gonna go unless you're lucky enough to have all human participants in a mock who are all logged on. I could literally write a better program than this. Please have them fix this so that the bots only bid in $1 increments above the current highest human bidder, that way bots will bid realistic amounts for players and will not completely ruin Mock Auction drafts.
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JOHN BASTIN
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What ever happened to Yahoo Pro Money Leagues ?
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JOHN BASTIN
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What happened to GRADING your Mock drafts ?
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JOHN BASTIN
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CHAT FEATURE...
Could you bring back the CHAT BOX in Mock drafts, I used to use your CHAT BOX in Mock drafts to look for people to play in my leagues.
I am looking to find a League to join in for myself, but there is no CHAT in Mock drafts. Could you make a Message Board on the Fantasy Football page perhaps ?
We need a tool or way for Fantasy footballer's to find other ways to unite or join other leagues.
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JOHN BASTIN
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Yahoo...
Please fix the BOTS/AUTO PICK in your Auction draft rooms. Your BOTS/AUTO PICK start a bid at a players Max or Ceiling value, instead of how an Auction works where the bid starts low and highest bid gets player.
I kring whenever I see someone loose connection in my Auction draft & that person goes to AUTO PICK. Because the player that is currently being bid on, the Bot on Auto pick throws in a bid at that players highest value that totally screws up the draft.
Please make your Bots on Auto pick to pick more like HUMANS !
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TurdFerguson .
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Different formats and roster build rooms.
Immediate autodraft with no countdown when people leave for faster drafts.
Improved A.I. for autodrafting teams. K's and DEF's should almost never be going as early as round 10 let along round 5 where they often start. That's ridiculous and screws up expectations.
Make an automated version where people can just practice against bots with varying strategy algorithms.
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TONY MENTO
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Have both types available. Those that CAN use auto draft and those that CANNOT. I don't believe that you get a true experience (especially in Auction drafts) when so many players post the autodraft from the very beginning. Make it so users understand that once you go in to a mock draft, you are in until the end, or at least until 3/4 of the way thru.
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Brandon Eid
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Mock drafts
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RocknRef
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I haven't been able to use auto draft since Yahoo made it impossible to exclude multiple players at a time. Completely useless going 1 at a time.
Live draft only now -
Mick
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This is nearly useless in Salary Cap drafts. Even a moment of lost internet connection will initiate auto-draft based on default yahoo dollar rates that rarely match individual league set up rules. Auto pick will bid on players at much higher rates than would normally occur.
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[Deleted User]
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Autodraft is awful and mostly because I have no real control. I want to be able to pick maximum and minimum amounts of each position. I want to be able to build triggers into my draft. If 5 RBs come off the board and I don't have an RB then my next pick has to be RB or do not pick a kicker until the last round and a D/ST until the second to last round. If 3 of these 5 TEs go off the board then my next pick should be TE. etc... Auto draft would be SO much better with this. Being able to reorder all players is great for somethings but without putting limits for positions in it just makes us end up with too many of certain positions.