Logistically it's really difficult to put in place because people choose a player in turns. For example if me, you, and qs, did a draft:

I'd pick a player, then you'd pick a player, then qs would pick a player, then it would be my turn again, then you, then qs, etc. We'd keep doing that in turns until everyone has picked their 23 players.

(That's how a draft usually works anyway, I assume the draft we're talking about works the same way)

So doing it for the forum with maybe 15 to 20 players all of whom are in different time zones would be quite challenging.

I've just had a look. It looks like the official FPL draft is a one off that you select before the end of GW1 so it's not that much to manage. After that you can make transfers from the free agents pool via 'waivers'. It's also a maximum of 16 teams.

I've done one with my friends. The difficult part is as Irish says that the league manager chooses a time to draft that would ideally fit everyone. Although you can create a list of prioritized players so if you're not there it'll pick the players on the top of your list.

Well whos interested? Lets see who wants to do it and we can pick a time then.

Irish gunner wrote:

I'd pick a player, then you'd pick a player, then qs would pick a player, then it would be my turn again, then you, then qs, etc. We'd keep doing that in turns until everyone has picked their 23 players.

Kind of like that but it goes 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 3rd, 2nd, 1st. Seems a bit fairer that way too.

Qwiss! wrote:

Well whos interested? Lets see who wants to do it and we can pick a time then.

I'm in.

I'm interested in the draft

I'm in

I'm in! What I like about the draft is you don't get players copying whichever team is doing well in their league by picking up their players. More foresight involved.

Im in

Me too.

Ok so who isn't on GMT? And do we want office hours or after work? Weekday or weekend?

Should we do it after thrbcommunity shield? I expect most of us will be around and posting then

Do we have the OMIT league created already?

Can't use the same league for draft. I've also heard that H2H is better suited for the draft mode since you can't make that many changes as the season goes on so the classic mode will make it a little pointless for some after a while.

The other consideration is that if we do go ahead with H2H we need people to commit. If half of us give up half way through in a 16 man league it won't be much fun.

A player has either 30, 60, 90 or 120 seconds to pick a player when it's his turn (whatever the admin has chosen), or the first available players on your watchlist will be your pick.

Mirth wrote:

Should we do it after thrbcommunity shield? I expect most of us will be around and posting then

Good call.

If anyone can't be online when we draft you can pre set your list of wanted players in a wishlist and it will draft for you from there.