Draft 2025 AFL Fantasy "Draft" League

[WaynesWorld19]

2024 Players - who will have first right of refusal for 2025

1. Jeremias - The Commissioner
2. Barrybran
3. poss2591
4. JDWCE
5. Constantgin
6. weltschmerz
7.1Bally1
8. Joao
9. Black Hawk
10. GameofSloanes
11. ForeverHardcore
12. CGB_84
13. Antler
14. fallovertheline
15. Dreamcatcher
16. D4n
17. Briar Gold
18. Jesse G
19. Bennellongtime
20. rebel
21. mfcmac
22. stallon
23. Areyoufireal

We'll need at least two commissioners to control the rabble .....

 

[dplggr47]

As soon as we have a full league we can start the draft.

People have commitments so it’ll be hard to find a time everyone is available for 1-2 min picks so I suggest we do pick times of 1-2 hours.

People can set contingencies.

What is the league setup. How many players in each team etc.

 

[Jeremias]

What is the league setup. How many players in each team etc.

Squads of 18 - 4/5/1/4 with 4 on the bench.

No captains.

 

[Constantgin]

Lockout first saturday game ?

 

[Jeremias]

Lockout first saturday game ?

I have it currently set to “standard lockout” which I assume is first game of the round.

Meaning no loopholing.

 

[Jeremias]

dplggr47 what say you?

 

[dplggr47]

dplggr47 what say you?

Yeh, I can join. I just can't do a Monday draft.

 

[Jeremias]

Yeh, I can join. I just can't do a Monday draft.

We'll probably do a 'slow' draft. What time are you unavailable?

 

[dplggr47]

We'll probably do a 'slow' draft. What time are you unavailable?

Unavailable 2-10pm Monday, Tuesday until 6:30pm, Wednesday until 6pm.
Free tonight.

 

[Bipolar Bear]

When is this >_>

 

[stallon]

When is this >_>

happening right now, a third of the way through

 

[Dreamcatcher]

When are we moving to a faster schedule. We,'ll not finish at this rate. And why aren't unavailable coaches automating

 

[Jeremias]

When are we moving to a faster schedule. We,'ll not finish at this rate. And why aren't unavailable coaches automating

We’re moving to shorter pick times in the morning. We will finish in time.

 

[WaynesWorld19]

 

[Jeremias]

Such a shit app. Keeper is much, much better.

 

[Barrybran]

Congratulations GameofSloanes on your BF draft league win

 

[GameofSloanes]

Congratulations GameofSloanes on your BF draft league win

Thanks guys. Thanks to all for a great season hope to see you again next year!

 

[Constantgin]

Congrats on the win.

 

[Dusty Hill]

Hey guys, not sure where this should go so please advise if not correct.

Conducting a start up keeper league on the keeper fantasy platform next season. Looking for North Melbourne fans and based in melb/Vic with some keeper experience.
Looking for 4 more coaches to join! Please hit me up with anyone that might be interested and I can go through it in more detail.

Thanks!

 

[danster168]

Hey guys, not sure where this should go so please advise if not correct.

Conducting a start up keeper league on the keeper fantasy platform next season. Looking for North Melbourne fans and based in melb/Vic with some keeper experience.
Looking for 4 more coaches to join! Please hit me up with anyone that might be interested and I can go through it in more detail.

Thanks!

hey mate, I'm keen. I've been playing afl fantasy for a while. a few top 500 finishes. Never done afl keepers, but done nba fantasy keepers.

 

[JDWCE]

2024 Players - who will have first right of refusal for 2025

1. Jeremias - The Commissioner
2. Barrybran
3. poss2591
4. JDWCE
5. Constantgin
6. weltschmerz
7.1Bally1
8. Joao
9. Black Hawk
10. GameofSloanes
11. ForeverHardcore
12. CGB_84
13. Antler
14. fallovertheline
15. Dreamcatcher
16. D4n
17. Briar Gold
18. Jesse G
19. Bennellongtime
20. rebel
21. mfcmac
22. stallon
23. Areyoufireal

We'll need at least two commissioners to control the rabble .....

I’ll forego this year

 

[TedDougChris]

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Welcome to the 2025 Big Footy AFL Fantasy DRAFT league

We'll put together as many leagues as the number of teams allows

Players who participated in 2024 will have the first right of refusal to play again in 2025. However you need to put your hand up early to lock away a spot

Our 2024 comp had 16 teams running a 4-5-1-4 format with 4 interchange players, so this will be the default, however DRAFT rules are open to discussion & a final determination agreed by majority.

WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW

1. Number of Teams and Format

TBC - determined by the number of teams signed up

2. Draft night

TBC - likely midweek prior to Opening Round but open to discussion

Prior to official PS Games

1. Everyone will have a Standard Pre-Draft List, which to start with takes the same order as last year's averages (sexy Macrae being pick 1). If you don't make a selection (computer glitch, timed out), then it will automatically select the next available player on your draft list.

2. Everyone will have a maximum of 30 seconds to make a selection ....failing to make a selection within the 30 seconds, the next player on the pre-draft list will be allocated automatically to your pick

3. Once the draft is done, you can sub your players around as you see fit, but if you want to get rid of anyone then you'll have to trade them out and trade in a free agent.

Remember there's a free agent pool, so once the draft is done, people can ship off the Paddy Dows Elliot Yeos of the world and reshuffle their team a bit.

OTHER COMMENTS

A. IMO*, if you don't get one of the top top rucks Jack Macrae, you may as well wait until later in the draft and grab someone like Draper forwards late. There will still be plenty of good mids (etc.) available - more important to grab those.

B. For draft you need to adopt a different mindset to Fantasy Classic. Forget about the speccy players, or grab only one or two of them (and if you do, get them late!). Better to have a solid team crunching out 80s for 22 rounds rather than hoping rookies get a game or someone goes from 50 --> 90 and failing, then being left trying to replace them from the free agent pool.

C. If you have a floating bench, you don't want to be carrying spuds as you'll just cop their sh!te score each week where you need an emergency. It's better to have 2 reasonable players and a couple of non-playing rookies or injured players (who will come back later in the year) provided that you don't run out of players... however, Covid depletions could hurt adopting this tactic.

3. NO Captains

4. NO Opening Round / Round 0 - if the draft happens before Opening Round it'll simply be to free up time for people to devote their time to their Round 1 teams

5. Random Order Generator

Subsequent Draft selections by way of "Snake" order

*OP shamelessly stolen from TedDougChris

WaynesWorld19

Did you send me the royalties cheque ??

 

[GameofSloanes]

We doing this again? I'd be keen if so

 

[Barrybran]

We doing this again? I'd be keen if so

We will in some capacity

 

[Bandicoot]

I'm considering using Fantasy next year for our keeper draft league and have a few questions about it's workings.
Does the basic package show projected scores and result in the matchup page?
How do trade waivers work? Can you set it up whereby trades are locked out after the first game on Saturday and all players from the round being played then go into the waiver pool and the picks are then from last to first? Those selections are then shown on the day and time chosen?
Are people happy with the draft platform and find it easy to use?
Thanks for any help.