This year's Draft order

[Wind Dancer]

We have one owner that is making a point to allow him to draft this year where he finished the regular season last year(he finished fourth so he would draft # 7 this year in a ten teamer). We have used...in the past our league playoff results to determne our next year's draft order...where the above mentioned owner finished first in the playoffs and NOW woud draft 10th(or last in the opening round!)!

 

What do your league do to establish drafting order for the next year?

 

Thanks!

[Big Country]

There is a similar thread going in the Fantasy advice forum.

 

If it is a non-keeper league, then the previous season shuld have absolutely no affect on the next season's draft order. The season's are totally independent events.

 

If you have keeper's, then previous year's finish should have some affect on the next year's order, though the importance of this increases with the number of keeper's, as if you only keep one or two players, most teams are still starting out fairly equal in talent level. Most leagues I have seen use the final playoff order for their draft order. Many also utilize a lottery for the early picks for the non-playoff teams or the bottom 3-4 teams to help prevent tanking at the end of the year.

 

Hope this helps.

[Robash]

well do to the fact that im in the airforce and either myself or the people i play fantasy football with leave each year, i only get to participate in redraft leagues, so its always random for me

[Fenokee]

Well put BC. Having keeper/dynasty leagues follow professional draft guidelines (worst to first) is reasonable, but re-draft leagues should handle the draft positions like they handle the draft - throw everything back in a hat and start from scratch.

[1stimer]

A local redraft I am in did the following :

 

We took the order each team placed last year (after playoffs) and then went from place 10 up to 1 allowing each individual to pick where they would like to draft this year. Seemed to work out pretty well but will probably change again next year.

[Egret]

I voted playoffs assuming that it's a keeper league. If it's now a keeper league it should be random every year.

[loaf]

we do random pick of the cards. however, your turn to pick the cards coincides with your playoff finish from previous season.

[Bengal Mania]

We took the order each team placed last year (after playoffs) and then went from place 10 up to 1 allowing each individual to pick where they would like to draft this year.  Seemed to work out pretty well but will probably change again next year.

 

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If you're not going to go completely random, I like this method the best.

 

Our redraft is completely random every year. It used to be picked at the start of the draft, but a few of us got it changed to make the draft order a few weeks ahead of time. Not because you NEED to know, but the anxiety in planning and waiting was killing me. It's nice to be able to actually plan a little bit knowing your spot ahead of time.

[Last Plane Out]

the 10 team league I'm in draws numbers each year for draft position , then odd numbers go in one division even in another...... pretty simple

Edited July 28, 2005 by Last Plane Out