Post by SultansOfSquat (Man) on Mar 3, 2006 18:52:08 GMT -5
Ok. I've finally heard back from the last outstanding missing team owner, so I expect to send out Yahoo invite emails sometime tonight or by tomorrow afternoon for everyone to sign up on Yahoo for the 2006 season.
At the moment, the Yahoo league has the basic stuff set up, but we'll need all the owners to sign up for their teams before we can load in all the existing rosters (via the offline draft function). And w/out the existing rosters loaded, nobody can do any trading of course, so that's why I held off on sending out the invites so far.
Hopefully, everyone will sign up on Yahoo promptly after I send out the invites so we can get things moving.
Also, after you sign up on Yahoo w/ your team, I will go ahead and lock down the add/drop function as discussed in this recent thread until we finalize the pre-draft player drops shortly before the draft itself. So don't panic if you didn't realize we were gonna do that. ;D
You will be allowed to trade players as soon as we have all the rosters loaded and verified -- I will probably send out an email letting you know when the rosters are loaded so you can verify and go from there.
As of now, we will allow pre-draft trading up until the official player drop submission deadline (via PMs on this forum site). We don't have an exact date set for this deadline yet since I'm not sure how long it will take everyone to sign up on Yahoo and also get up to speed on the setup -- not everyone's been checking regularly so far. If everything goes smoothly, I imagine we can set the deadline for roughly 2 weeks from now -- probably Sunday 3/19 -- though it could easily slip to 3 weeks. Obviously, this deadline will have to happen sometime before the draft -- probably at least a couple days before -- and the draft itself will need to take place before the season begins, so hopefully, the deadline won't slip beyond 3 weeks from now so we can have at least a week-plus to conclude the actual player drops and run the draft. We can probably get more solid dates for the different deadlines/events once we have all the owners signed up on Yahoo and rosters loaded.
And oh, after y'all sign up on Yahoo, please do keep visiting this forum site for discussions about rules, league issues, etc. since we probably don't want to lose those discussions on Yahoo's rather lacking, temporary message board. The Yahoo board is adequate for some smack talk, trade block posts, etc., but not really for something that requires more permanence.
Also, please get a Yahoo IM account, if you haven't already, for conferencing during the draft among other things, eg. better method for trade talks, and post your YIM id and an email addy you will be using over in this thread to help us w/ contact info. Preferably, you'll be using the same YIM id for signing up to the Yahoo league and will also use that email addy in your team profile. If you don't want to post the info in that thread, probably just entering the info into your forum profile would suffice (and also use that info for the Yahoo league).
And please do let me know if you have any questions...
_Man_
At the moment, the Yahoo league has the basic stuff set up, but we'll need all the owners to sign up for their teams before we can load in all the existing rosters (via the offline draft function). And w/out the existing rosters loaded, nobody can do any trading of course, so that's why I held off on sending out the invites so far.
Hopefully, everyone will sign up on Yahoo promptly after I send out the invites so we can get things moving.
Also, after you sign up on Yahoo w/ your team, I will go ahead and lock down the add/drop function as discussed in this recent thread until we finalize the pre-draft player drops shortly before the draft itself. So don't panic if you didn't realize we were gonna do that. ;D
You will be allowed to trade players as soon as we have all the rosters loaded and verified -- I will probably send out an email letting you know when the rosters are loaded so you can verify and go from there.
As of now, we will allow pre-draft trading up until the official player drop submission deadline (via PMs on this forum site). We don't have an exact date set for this deadline yet since I'm not sure how long it will take everyone to sign up on Yahoo and also get up to speed on the setup -- not everyone's been checking regularly so far. If everything goes smoothly, I imagine we can set the deadline for roughly 2 weeks from now -- probably Sunday 3/19 -- though it could easily slip to 3 weeks. Obviously, this deadline will have to happen sometime before the draft -- probably at least a couple days before -- and the draft itself will need to take place before the season begins, so hopefully, the deadline won't slip beyond 3 weeks from now so we can have at least a week-plus to conclude the actual player drops and run the draft. We can probably get more solid dates for the different deadlines/events once we have all the owners signed up on Yahoo and rosters loaded.
And oh, after y'all sign up on Yahoo, please do keep visiting this forum site for discussions about rules, league issues, etc. since we probably don't want to lose those discussions on Yahoo's rather lacking, temporary message board. The Yahoo board is adequate for some smack talk, trade block posts, etc., but not really for something that requires more permanence.
Also, please get a Yahoo IM account, if you haven't already, for conferencing during the draft among other things, eg. better method for trade talks, and post your YIM id and an email addy you will be using over in this thread to help us w/ contact info. Preferably, you'll be using the same YIM id for signing up to the Yahoo league and will also use that email addy in your team profile. If you don't want to post the info in that thread, probably just entering the info into your forum profile would suffice (and also use that info for the Yahoo league).
And please do let me know if you have any questions...
_Man_