OK, I haven't seen Sir-Mickey yet, so in the interest of getting this going before its too late, I'll at least get this organized, but since it is Sir-Mickey's idea I will defer to him if necessary.
Here are the people who I've gleaned off this thread who for the most part said they want in:
Sir-Mickey
doconeill
Zip-a-dee-dude-da
Paging Tom Morrow
yosh12
disneydude91
Fatphil32
lawsonsontour
Mickey_Man
GS67
aaronmckie
dpuck1998 (withdrawn?)
The Grumpus
flyingcat2003
parrotheadlois
shaq_d
jdtopgun71
DSWalczak
Splat25
jdtopgun71 (or son?)
thematson
Alztybrn
pixiechick
Oregon Traveler
BostonRob
fav's=mets&mickey
zulemara
Mr. Plutes
mjperry
That's 29 total. This could be three leagues. I _think_ the ESPN system allows someone to be a commissioner without having a team - not sure, so myself or Sir-Mickey could commish them all, but the hardest part is organizing the draft, so there should be at least one team owner from each league to at least act as Vice Commish.
We also need to decide how to organize - do we want a Pro/Amateur/Rookie setup, or just random?
To confirm you want in, PM me with your email address, your experience level (perhaps both in years and your own estimate of Pro/Am/Rookie), and preference for skill or random-choice leagues. Please do so ASAP - let's say a 5PM Eastern Monday cutoff?
If you aren't on the list but still interested, you can PM me and be put on a provisional list if we need to fill in some spots.
We'll need an "official" name for the leagues as well. I'm hesitant to use DIS or DISboards without some at least nod from Pete...I suppose I could PM him to check. "DISboards FFL" is pretty simple, with perhaps "-A", "-B" etc. to distinguish them.
Live drafts are preferable, but they only work well when everyone can be on at the same time. I distrust the "autopick" lists. We could do it by email (I can set up some lists), or even do it via the DISboards (although they is likely to be a lot of kibitzing
) if that seems preferable, but that can take a long time too. Even live, it can take several hours. If we go the email route, we'd need to get started ASAP.
For those with questions on the specific rules, I'd expect that we would use an ESPN Custom League as found
here. Although it is a custom league, the default "Standard" scoring rules would be in use.
As for my preferences, I'd also stay out of dividing a league into "divisions", as they are pretty arbitrary - just one division with all the teams in it. With a 10-team league, the top 4 would compete in the playoffs - I dislike having byes, and 8 teams is a lot. We can customize how the playoffs are done though. ESPN Standard if I remember correctly is 4 teams, last 4 weeks of the season with two weeks per playoff matchup (everyone else still plays for pride though).
If we end up with two 12 or 14 team leagues, we could perhaps do 8-teams, 1 week per match.
Also, if there is interest from our true rookies, I could perhaps write up a brief description of the concept and strategies...
