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Originally posted by 3ebfan511
Uhh, no one would be forced lol...it would be for players that ENTER the draft. In the NFL draft there is always risk of some guy going nuts and going awol, that doesn't mean you don't have a draft. You can always supplement with a CPU player if you lose a guy as well. Overall I just like the idea because it would be more fair for everyone, not just the good teams. If you are afraid of competition from noobs, thats saying something, and if these well run teams are so good (as they should be) they will still be able to win easily but with a few rookie agents on the roster. If you can't have a winning team with like, 3 rookies on your roster, your not that good. What do you think NFL teams do, just pick all the free agents they want and have no rookies on the roster ? Every team, superbowl winning teams always have rookie and young players that have to learn on the roster, so I would like to see GLB do more of that. (seriously, your team will not fail because you have to help 3 rookies build a better player. Also, if your an established owner you could just DRAFT YOUR OWN PEOPLE if you want, and again, only maybe have a few on the roster that you are unfamiliar with that you would need to show the ropes to.) I think it would help rookie players alot and make the game MUCH more interesting, and fair. But, its complicated so I don't expect it to be implemented anytime soon.



Did you miss the part where we said that was already done, and people did what they wanted anyway, they didn't even follow their own rules.

Originally posted by Evil Sports Agent
So it is basically a auto-sign option for players, that get a auto-fill offer from a team?

Pretty much except the owners get to pick who they want via a draft instead of an auto-fill option, and if they don't show up or leave the draft early the team will just autofill.

but its not autofill the owner gets to pick the player after the draft combine

Originally posted by Majestic Gent
Pretty much except the owners get to pick who they want via a draft instead of an auto-fill option, and if they don't show up or leave the draft early the team will just autofill.

So it would be a live draft... Maybe it would be better to have every team set up a priotity list, where they list the players they want, plus a cap to a position and do it automatically. But I still dont get, how you would come up with a fair draft order. Sure new teams would get better picks than resetting teams and after that?

Originally posted by Evil Sports Agent
So it would be a live draft... Maybe it would be better to have every team set up a priotity list, where they list the players they want, plus a cap to a position and do it automatically. But I still dont get, how you would come up with a fair draft order. Sure new teams would get better picks than resetting teams and after that?

YES YES EVIL SPORTS AGENT

Originally posted by Evil Sports Agent
So it would be a live draft... Maybe it would be better to have every team set up a priotity list, where they list the players they want, plus a cap to a position and do it automatically. But I still dont get, how you would come up with a fair draft order. Sure new teams would get better picks than resetting teams and after that?

I would just opt for a random draft order for two reasons.

1. From a development perspective, the implementation is a lot simpler. No having to code all of this special logic to determine a draft order for a feature that may not even be popular.

2. From a business perspective, I would not want to "punish" resetting teams (long time customers) for being more experienced.

Plus it's fair every team has the same exact odds to get the #1 selection, also the draft order should snake so the last team to pick in the first round, would be the first team to pick in the second round and all the other teams follow suit respectively.

ETA: A live draft would be a pain to implement, I'm sure it would cost a good amount of flex to participate in said live draft. Even an auto-draft would be no easy feat. With that being said, I would assume that this would have to be a wildly popular feature for the devs to bother implementing it. Other than that, the only monetary benefit I see that they could gain would be turning it into a generic API, or web service, that other sports MMORPGs could pay for that would allow them to implement the same draft functionality into their games.

Originally posted by Majestic Gent
I could see something like this working as a supplemental draft in the lower levels.

We often get people saying how difficult it is to find a team, or vice versa. Those players and teams can mark themselves as draft eligible to fill out a roster, or simply be drafted and play for a human team. Then when the draft comes teams can pick players from the available pool until their roster is where they want it. Similar to auto-fill team just sends out contracts to random players.

By making it optional, teams and players that don't want to participate don't have to.

The issue that still remains would be being stuck on a team with a bad or inactive owner.



Uhh, inactive teams are a small issue whether you have a draft or not. So, that is not a unique issue to having a draft. Without a draft, I just had 2 players stuck on an awol team that won 0 games, and another player stuck on a noob guys team...but my other 18 players or so had no problems. Its a small issue that doesnt happen that much. So, point is, it happens now a small percent of the time, and will continue to happen a small percent of the time, whether you have a draft or not, that will always happen, and has nothing to do with having a draft. NFL players might get drafted to a crappy team, does that mean you don't have a draft ? Someone has to get drafted by the Raiders lol...thats what makes the NFL actually fair. Every team has a chance, and why 50% that don't make the playoffs make it the next season. (because the bad teams are given the highest draft picks to help them, and a more favorable schedule.) None of which happens in GLB which is why you have the same good teams winning it all each year. A draft would help things be more competitive for the weaker teams, and more interesting, which is why I support the idea 100%. (Again as an OPTIONAL feature for rookie teams so no one is forced anything. Would make rookie more interesting in my opinion, and if people liked it could be expanded. If not, just stays optional.)

Originally posted by 3ebfan511


Uhh, inactive teams are a small issue whether you have a draft or not. So, that is not a unique issue to having a draft. Without a draft, I just had 2 players stuck on an awol team that won 0 games, and another player stuck on a noob guys team...but my other 18 players or so had no problems. Its a small issue that doesnt happen that much.

What you are saying is true, but you had a choice in where those 2 players were stuck. I think that's what turns most people off from doing a draft and one of the reasons the idea isn't that popular.

I could only ever see a draft being implemented as an optional thing that would have to be user run and would most likely not involve serious agents. The teams and players run by serious agents want control over the players they recruit and the teams they are on so a draft is definitely not the best option from their point of view.

well i mean you dont have to sign up for the draft its optional

Originally posted by Majestic Gent
What you are saying is true, but you had a choice in where those 2 players were stuck. I think that's what turns most people off from doing a draft and one of the reasons the idea isn't that popular.




Actually, no. The team that went awol I just clicked and signed my guys to a bunch of teams at the last minute since I didnt have time for all the recruiting nonsense. So I just signed my guys to any contract that came in, as long as the team had a good need for that position. Some were CPU teams, some human, and overall like 16 guys had no problem and only 2 that I signed to the same team were on an awol team.

So..those numbers are probably about the same every season, any time, draft or no draft, it does not matter. That's not a valid reason to not hold a draft, just as, the possibility of being drafted by the Oakland Raiders or Cleveland Browns is not a reason to not hold a draft, or enter the NFL draft. Thats why its fun, and fair. Everyone has a chance. Right now GLB is sortof the opposite with not much help given to new teams or agents. So a new guy coming in signs only random players or his own OK players, while the good established teams sign from established agents they know, who pump out pretty good builds, and the new guy gets obliterated by those teams in the regular season.

Now of course, the established owner and his team of established agents are all paying more money into GLB then the new guy, so the system is set up to benefit them. But its not good for fair competition for the younger players that way.

Im not like, demanding a draft. But I would definitely support the idea.