Thursday, March 16, 2006

On the clock

At Tom's suggestion, I'd like to start enforcing our draft day rules regarding how long everyone has to make their picks. I offer this proposal:
  • First round picks may take up to five minutes
  • Subsequent picks are allowed no more than three minutes
  • Each manager may invoke one three-minute "grace period" at any point during the draft
  • Once the clock has expired, and if the manager has used up his grace period, the person with the next pick may jump ahead and make a pick
This is a fair amount of time, I think. Anybody object this proposal?

We will hopefully have some type of exacting clock mechanism (a stopwatch, egg timer, something) to make this go smoothly.

2 comments:

Lyons said...

We actually voted on this three owners' meetings ago. We allowed five minutes for the first three rounds, and three minutes for every round thereafter.

I'm not too picky on any one idea myself, I just want some sort of clock enforced.

Either idea is fine. We'll have a quorum so we can do whatever we want

Lyons said...

This is the guy who, upon learning that the Roger Clemens he dropped was going to sign with Houston, lobbied for a one-time allowance to pick up a previously dropped player after 13-man cuts were due. The rule change would have been in effect, of course, immediately.