Post by Juggs on Mar 3, 2015 13:30:16 GMT -5
If you all have not seen the post and edit I recently made to the community offseason signup thread, well, "It's dead Jim." Free agency starts this week, and we don't have time to run a good simulation before that date hits. I have decided to abandon that idea to try to set up a community mock draft. This site, going back to the NFL.com days, has run some kind of mock draft every spring. The community draft was actually what got me to join this board many years ago. This thread, like the previous one, is just for signing up to take teams.
This draft is a tiny commitment compared to the offseason, it just involves checking in every once in a while to make a single decision for your team. My plan is to go as many rounds as we can before the draft, and if people want to, continue going past April 30th, but even if not, we have almost two months, which is right about how much time the mock took last winter. One very good way to keep things moving is to "bookmark" the three new threads. This can easily be done by clicking the "actions" button in the top right, and then clicking "bookmark". If you do this, it gives you a separate notification for posts in those threads without clogging up the profile tab. That way, you can't miss you going on the clock or getting a trade offer.
I am creating three threads today. This one for signing up, the discussion thread, and one final thread to be the "picks thread", which is just for announcing selections. If you guys have any questions on how this works, feel free to ask here, in the discussion thread, to me in a PM, or just check out the archive forum at the bottom of the homepage to see how things have been run in the past. This mock is modeled after those and I don't plan on changing anything unless by popular demand.
One rule we've gone by in the past for this is a 24 hour draft pick clock. However, I'm leaning on the side of ignoring this clock until we start getting closer to the draft. This is because missing any picks really screws up the whole draft, as frustrating as it is to wait 3 days for one person, it's probably for the best. To avoid this, in the past we have had multiple people run the whole draft. If an owner knows they won't be getting online for say, a weekend, that owner can just PM his list of top 5 or however many top choices to someone in charge, preferably not just me, lol.
Lastly, I would really like to have other owners "in charge" to help run things. They would just have input on settling rule changes, taking PMs of absentee picks, and potentially vetoing draft trades, which I know has happened before.
Arizona Cardinals: SteelersFan4Life
Atlanta Falcons: KKC86
Baltimore Ravens: Saskabronnco
Buffalo Bills: Marchingon
Carolina Panthers: ColtsrockJCR
Chicago Bears: Mitch9234
Cincinnati Bengals: MrCincinnati
Cleveland Browns: Morkim
Dallas Cowboys: MrCincinatti
Denver Broncos: Saskabronco
Detroit Lions: inoccent
Green Bay Packers: MissLacy
Houston Texans: Jindred
Indianapolis Colts: ColtsrockJCR
Jacksonville Jaguars: AFJagsfan
Kansas City Chiefs: 101mitch
Miami Dolphins: Jindred
Minnesota Vikings: Juggs
New England Patriots: Patriotsk1d
New Orleans Saints: Marchingon
New York Giants: plax
New York Jets: Mitch9234
Oakland Raiders: inoccent (conceeded to a raider fan)
Philadelphia Eagles: Eagledomiknation
Pittsburgh Steelers: Cityofchamps
St Louis Rams: Marchingon
San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49ers: Jindred
Seattle Seahawks: SteelersFan4Life
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Morkim
Tennessee Titans: Juggs
Washington Redskins: xDeadlyxMirage
nflfootball11 mitch9234 coltsrockjcr Jancey MarchingOn patriotsk1d h24dog steelersfan4life56 Morkim 101mitch EagleDomiKnation Jindred 999Bronco inoccent cbagin NickWorthem Divebitch craig440 Panther awesomeace nateball89 TonOdanK Miss Lacy saskabronco rey713 lostabroad2 xdeadlyxmirage cantonhall34 cityofchamps falconsfan7007 DirtyBird DPNormanReturns kkc86 gobolts25 cbagin Nathan nyj theWILLmckoy projcm @jeffb2865 plax
This draft is a tiny commitment compared to the offseason, it just involves checking in every once in a while to make a single decision for your team. My plan is to go as many rounds as we can before the draft, and if people want to, continue going past April 30th, but even if not, we have almost two months, which is right about how much time the mock took last winter. One very good way to keep things moving is to "bookmark" the three new threads. This can easily be done by clicking the "actions" button in the top right, and then clicking "bookmark". If you do this, it gives you a separate notification for posts in those threads without clogging up the profile tab. That way, you can't miss you going on the clock or getting a trade offer.
I am creating three threads today. This one for signing up, the discussion thread, and one final thread to be the "picks thread", which is just for announcing selections. If you guys have any questions on how this works, feel free to ask here, in the discussion thread, to me in a PM, or just check out the archive forum at the bottom of the homepage to see how things have been run in the past. This mock is modeled after those and I don't plan on changing anything unless by popular demand.
One rule we've gone by in the past for this is a 24 hour draft pick clock. However, I'm leaning on the side of ignoring this clock until we start getting closer to the draft. This is because missing any picks really screws up the whole draft, as frustrating as it is to wait 3 days for one person, it's probably for the best. To avoid this, in the past we have had multiple people run the whole draft. If an owner knows they won't be getting online for say, a weekend, that owner can just PM his list of top 5 or however many top choices to someone in charge, preferably not just me, lol.
Lastly, I would really like to have other owners "in charge" to help run things. They would just have input on settling rule changes, taking PMs of absentee picks, and potentially vetoing draft trades, which I know has happened before.
Arizona Cardinals: SteelersFan4Life
Atlanta Falcons: KKC86
Baltimore Ravens: Saskabronnco
Buffalo Bills: Marchingon
Carolina Panthers: ColtsrockJCR
Chicago Bears: Mitch9234
Cincinnati Bengals: MrCincinnati
Cleveland Browns: Morkim
Dallas Cowboys: MrCincinatti
Denver Broncos: Saskabronco
Detroit Lions: inoccent
Green Bay Packers: MissLacy
Houston Texans: Jindred
Indianapolis Colts: ColtsrockJCR
Jacksonville Jaguars: AFJagsfan
Kansas City Chiefs: 101mitch
Miami Dolphins: Jindred
Minnesota Vikings: Juggs
New England Patriots: Patriotsk1d
New Orleans Saints: Marchingon
New York Giants: plax
New York Jets: Mitch9234
Oakland Raiders: inoccent (conceeded to a raider fan)
Philadelphia Eagles: Eagledomiknation
Pittsburgh Steelers: Cityofchamps
St Louis Rams: Marchingon
San Diego Chargers
San Francisco 49ers: Jindred
Seattle Seahawks: SteelersFan4Life
Tampa Bay Buccaneers: Morkim
Tennessee Titans: Juggs
Washington Redskins: xDeadlyxMirage
nflfootball11 mitch9234 coltsrockjcr Jancey MarchingOn patriotsk1d h24dog steelersfan4life56 Morkim 101mitch EagleDomiKnation Jindred 999Bronco inoccent cbagin NickWorthem Divebitch craig440 Panther awesomeace nateball89 TonOdanK Miss Lacy saskabronco rey713 lostabroad2 xdeadlyxmirage cantonhall34 cityofchamps falconsfan7007 DirtyBird DPNormanReturns kkc86 gobolts25 cbagin Nathan nyj theWILLmckoy projcm @jeffb2865 plax