What if a player's slot busts mid- or post- draft? Why have the draft results on ALL? This could generate player friction and even ridicule viz "haha you were drafted last!" etc.. Clue games were starting 30-40 minutes late until the past month or so now they start pretty much on time, this could push back the start time. Zach On 9/6/07, cflrich at cfl.rr.com <cflrich at cfl.rr.com> wrote: > Hello, > > Some years ago, we were holding minidrafts at the beginning of clue games, to balance them. We did it manually and, at the time, I had begun work on some code to add infrastructure for the process. > > I've lost that work, but minidrafts were mentioned the other night, and I've decided to pick it up again and see if I can't get it implemented. > > Here's the general idea-- I'd be interested if anyone has suggestions or comments on the method proposed. > > The general idea is that both captains agree to have a minidraft. Then they draft from the pool of player slots. I would like to have a play-by-play of the draft to the ALL board, so the players can follow along, although this will probably be a point of contention with some. Once complete, the players are (automatically) traded to the appropriate team. I hope to make use of the trade code that Karth has put in recently to do this. After that, game starts normally. > > The following commands would be Implemented: > MINIDRAFT -- both captains must request a minidraft for one to commence > DRAFT x -- a captain drafts a player > UNDRAFTED -- list undrafted slots > HOMETEAM -- list currently drafted home team > AWAYTEAM -- list currently drafted away team > > Some problems I see: > -- I'm not crazy about the HOMETEAM/AWAYTEAM command names > -- What to do if slots quit during the draft? Personally, I think this needs to be left to the captains to sort out, even if it means restarting the draft. It's very complicated to handle even the basic cases programmatically, and a major clue shift in the slot will most likely require a re-draft anyhow. > > Any comments? > Rich > (dotman) > > _______________________________________________ > netrek-dev mailing list > netrek-dev at us.netrek.org > http://mailman.us.netrek.org/mailman/listinfo/netrek-dev >