FOHL Team Draft Complete!

What's next?

 

Team Draft Order and Results

So the Team Draft is completed... now what?

First things first, I'd like to thank everyone for being involved with the league and kicking it off with a BANG! It took roughly 20 hours for us to have every team claimed. Which included an overnight stint. So that's pretty good!

Now moving forward. We will give teams 5 days to make roster changes and complete their "to do list" (more on that later) then we will get into a quick preseason, then right into the 17/18 regular season! So preseason begins on Saturday, March 9th! Excited to get this going!

Let's housekeep a bit. A few rules have been added/updated to the rules page. Just want to reiterate that we follow the OHL OA and Import rules. 3 OAs and 2 Imports per squad. There are a few rules which will now be up for discussion on the slack channel #rulediscussion.

The first rule I'd like us to debate is a draft lottery. Currently, there isn't a draft lottery for the import and priority drafts. But we don't want teams tanking on purpose to be last in the league. So I propose a 4 team draft lottery, which includes every team that misses the playoffs. So no team could drop below 4th but would stop people from super tanking to get the first pick guaranteed.

The second rule I'd like some discussion on is trading 16-year-olds. Right now the rule is you can't trade any until a month (30 sim days) before the deadline. I propose we eliminate that rule all together. We are always technically a "year behind" with ratings. So I think we should be able to trade any 16-year-olds. Also, it's a bit of a nightmare to track this and we'de be trusting GMs that they would abide by whichever rule we stick with.

Last rule to be discussed; which round in the priority draft do we switch from a live draft to an auto draft. The auto draft, GMs would still have a chance to send in a list of preferred players, but once said list runs out we would go with BPA based on the OHL's version draft order. Expecting everyone to do 15 live rounds is a bit much. I propose 7 or 8 live rounds with the rest being "auto'd". I want to stress, that teams can still send lists in and get guys they want. But we don't want the draft to take a month either. So list and BPA will help a lot with that.

A few "To Do" items;

Teams can now name captains by sending their teams picks to the commish!

Double check rosters. Now is your ONLY chance to double check your rosters and find any errors. I hand made these ratings and reverted picks and trades to the end of the 17/18 season. It was a massive grind. There might be a few errors. So double, triple check your teams for missing players, prospects, picks if you can. We strive for fairness and we'll tackle each error respectfully. Send anything you find into the commish.

That's it for now I believe. 7 trades went down today, so check those out. Any questions/concerns hit the commish up on the Slack app!

 

 

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