Since you are already paying for the premium features of fantrax, you guys should really consider setting up the picks on Fantrax.  For a little bit of setup work now it could make the admins lives a lot easier come draft time and easier for your GM's. 

Once you have it setup, you can automate it that the it automatically does the 48hour clock.  you can even have it pause between certain times at night.  It will also automatically email the next team when its their turn to pick. 
By having the teams make their pick on fantrax it will automatically add the players to their teams.
It also allows GM's to que up players so lets say I know I am going to be away for 48hours I can just que up my next 3 or so players and set it to auto draft. 
It also saves your draft results so its easy to go back and view who has been drafted or reference again in the future if you need to. 

Just throwing it out there to the admins.. would be happy to help you set it up if you wanted. 

I would actually love to see all of our contracts and cap hits posted on fantrax as well but I know that would be an uphill battle to fight..... if you did it you would love it though.....

Fine ideas 

BTW off topic, Niemi sure looks good in Dallas. Here is to hoping Stalock gets #1 Goalie in the Shark Tank.  Cmon Sharks!   

 

Waiting on PR to check the 2015-16 sched.
We would put this into play this yr since it's a better way to determine standings.

Outstanding!

Again if any help is needed do not hesitate to reach out. 

I does sound interesting. I will dig on Fantrax and see what it means.

To create a schedule weighted toward Conference and Division matchups would that have to be done manually or push a button on Fantrax?

Yes BB it would have to be entered manually. Each matchup painstakingly 1 at a time. However once inputted once this can be auto set to carry over each season. My suggestion...we use last years exact schedule for each club. Once inputted, it is there forever.

Someone(s) then got to input the schedule. (Assigning at least one person to post the schedule onsite in a thread individually starting at week one, and a fantrax designated  inputter(s) building the schedule. I did this for a baseball league simulating 100+ games.

We can do this if the league wants it.

You post whatever and whenever you want man!

I don't remember anyone ever bringing it up.
Good idea.
Fantrax allows for multiple matchups each wk.
What's the thinking behind it? Better way to get clear results of top teams?

Guess we'd set the best lineup and it would matchup against 2 teams instead of one.

Snug, you know more about this kind of setup being a commish in Dynasty.

Thanks man...(forget Jonathan  )

I built the schedule in fantrax for Scouting Department (Corey made the schedule but it was implemented in fantrax by me) I would be happy to do the same for FNHL (if needed)

Yes, fantrax allows you to set multiple opponents in the same week...this allows a more realistic simulation imo. The rewards are clear, it gives a truer sense of the strongest teams & playoff teams/matchups are more deserved.

Division weighted scheduling also builds up rivalries & drives up interest. As a new GM having only 1 year vested in FNHL I did not wish to step on tradition, however I felt we could make a great league even better by increasing matchups to provide a more realistic total simulation.

The current schedule only needs to be edited to accomplish this task. If the matter can be voted on or approved, it is not overly complicated to achieve. We could have an 82 game schedule (by having 4 opponents for 16 weeks = 64 games & 3 opponents the final 6 weeks)

This is the best hockey league Ive ever been a part of, so if it stayed the same it wouldn't kill me, I would LOVE an 82 game simulation with all you fine gents. 

Has there ever been a discussion of playing multiple opponents per week?

Is this a topic that can be or has been raised, or possibly voted on?

I love the league and want to stress that this is not a complaint.


Thank you