Stakesarehigh
One day it will all make sense
I said something a few drafts back about how these things are grinding to a halt in the late rounds recently. It has been slowing down a bit compared to when I started here for a while now, but it has really gotten bad over the past few months.
I know personally, I used to make lists and would be keeping tabs on every pick as often as I could, but life has gotten busier for me at work and my home life isn't all that smooth and I just have other things to worry about than who I am going to pick in the 21st round of the AL only mock draft. Life has always been busy, but I could usually throw a name out when I got texted when I was on the clock. Now, especially in these specifically limited drafts, when I get a text and haven't made a pick in a couple of days and I have to look at my team and need a RILB and a RG and a FS, and one has to have played for the Jaguars and one for the Dolphins and one for the Lions, and one of those had to have played in the 70s and 2 in the 80s, I can't always have a pick ready when I get texted.
I get it that it's pretty boring to just do an open draft all the time, and you have to make tweaks to keep it fresh, but we seem to be going through a bit of a drought. I really don't have any sort of solutions to the problem either that hasn't already been brought up. I know we discussed time limits when we get to certain rounds (depending on the sport), and that doesn't sound like a bad idea to start. Couple that with trimming a little off the length of the drafts... maybe 3 bench players and 3 BP guys in MLB, no more than 10 rounds of NBA. I don't think we have much of a bench in football, but maybe we can loosen up on the playing players out of position rules. I'm not saying drafting Michael Vick at WR or anything, but you should be able to have 2 RGs and move one to the left side and stuff like that. I know I've gotten knocked for playing Derrick Thomas as an OLB in a 43 before, even though he did play there one year. I don't know, I'm just throwing things out there. Ultimately, this is your baby, and I am not going to tell you how to raise it and I will probably be around to play with it as much as I can.
And I'm sure what I said came out as disrespect and I do apologize. It's been a hell of a month for me and I shouldn't take it out on this group.
I don't mind it taking so long as much just moreso if we're going the subjective route somehow some clarification... Or something
I took an hour and a half drafting Bob McClure and I know full well he will have zero influence on my result is all.
I will then take 45 seconds analyzing whether two teams painstakingly put together are better than each other.
Ultimately winning and losing isn't a huge deal it's just my two cents I guess
Sorry @Nosferatu I shouldn't have popped off like that