Happy Saturday Night!

We are a little over 11 days from the draft and here are the important specifics that you need to know to be ready for a successful draft night.  First the draft is on Wednesday the 25th at 9 pm eastern, 6 pacific.  Our actual time slot is 9:15 but we all need to be signed into the system at 9 sharp.

By the end of this week, I need every owner to sign into the league site and go to the mock draft lobby section.  On this page you will see a place to test your computer for the proper software configuration to run all of the draft program.  If you do not have the proper software you will be screwed and will not be able to draft.  If you have incompatible software, you will be prompted to upgrade your system, for free, to more current versions of the software needed.  Everything is flash driven, so if your pc has flash 9.0 or beyond you are set.  If you have a mac, it will work, but check it out regardless.  The test takes less than a minute.  This is MANDATORY!

If you are not sure what you are doing and you need more information to find out whom to draft, go to the Draft Kit page on the home page.  There is enough information on that page about every damn player in the league.  There are a ton of sources out there to get your information from magazines, to literally thousands of web pages.  If you are unprepared it is on you!

If you go to your My Team/Roster page on your ESPN pages, you will see that there are pre-draft player rankings.  You can set your players in order of importance that you want to draft.  You can compile all of your knowledge to have all of your information at your finger tips on draft night.  Also you can set your auto-pick strategy.  This is very helpful in case you are not able to make it to the draft or if your connection was to be severed during the draft, the autopick will do your bidding in your absence.  It is very cool, check it out.  Better safe than pregnant.  

I know that Brian is on call on draft night and may have to go into proxy mode,  If there is anyone else, please let me know so that I can help you get your shit straight before the big night.  

I am going to post this on the blog as well this evening.  If you would please go to the blog and leave a comment once you have checked your computer for compatibility.  That way we will have no surprises.  

I am making a list of everyones chat and skype names so everyone will know how to get into the chats on draft night.  It sounds as if we are going to have small gatherings for the draft, but we are spread out so much now, we will have to do most everything teleconference style.  More info to come.....

Commish De La Xplodey