Hockey draft

This past Sunday I held a draft for the people who are doing my fantasy league this year. Because we had remote people, we opted to do the draft on line to mixed results. On the plus side, the usually interminal draft only took about two hours. Having an inflexible time clock set at 1:30 helped people who might otherwise spend 5:00 hemming and hawing over a pick make up their mind. The program took care of removing previously drafted players from the list, so there wasn't the usual problem someone asking in the 15th round if Joe Thornton had already been drafted. All good.

But we had a couple of people who had problems with the interface and ended up making some of the wrong picks. There was also a bit less of the intrapersonal interaction between managers that characterizes the usual draft. A lot of the stuff that happened in the room didn't make it on to the chat board. In the end, I think that I would do another online draft next year and maybe add a few more roster spots if it is going to go that quickly.