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Have you ever played fantasy baseball, basketball, football, or anything of the like? What happens to start your league, a fantasy draft right? Well why don't we implement something like that for Buzzerbeater. Im glad BB is taking more steps to perfecting the draft, but I want to take a leap here. First off..

Let's take the Draft Order List we get towards the end of the season, and make it a secondary tool. In Fantasy sports drafts, you can also make your Draft Order, so lets make the Draft order a secondary option where if you cannot make the draft, that could be your primary. We still receive our Draft Order before the draft so you can make those changes to it like you always would. Draft night would be at a regular 8:00 Sunday night special. At 7:45 you can enter the draft room and make those final changes to your draft order at your wish. 8:00 is when it starts, the worst team in your league pops out their draft list, and they are 100% confident that Player 23 is the next Michael Jordan.. and next to their Potential.. is the word in Red. DRAFT! Each team gets 1 minute to choose who they would like, when a minute passes and you haven't made your decision, it falls directly onto your draft board for your player at the top. For people not present throughout the draft, players will be selected by draft board. Also, lets have pictures and names of the players before the draft on the draft order so when you press Draft! A slot, ( Just like the Box Score Screen in games ) shows up with Picture, Name, Height, Potential, and maybe 2 skills show up, also like a players profile page.

Just some thoughts im going to throughout there. Overall..

Changes:
Make the draft live.
Place it on the Games/Schedule. (Could we rename it to Events or Calendar)
Teams choose players in the draft room/lobby from their draft board/order.
1 Minute Time Limit For Drafting.
Some Details are shown like a players profile when drafted.
Perhaps teams in the lobby could vote on each others pick.
Poll on your fans saying whether they like it or not.
Just read the main entry for the whole thing.

Overall, I couldn't care how long it takes to make it, 1-2-3 seasons? As long as it gets implemented eventually. It makes the game a ton more fun and in depth. Basically just implement the whole Fantasy Sports Drafts, into this game. After all, Buzzerbeater is fantasy.. Right ? :)

Comment Feedback Please !

Not bad I would like it if it were implemented. But when you are in the draft lobby you shouldn't be able to see the ratings of people you haven't scouted ( I'm guessing this is how you were thinking though)

overall i like your suggestion, especially i like the option that you could get names to your draft order at least after the draft so that you could see who catch your number one pick.

I like the idea. But it (obviously) would need to be staggered, like games are, to suit the needs of individual countries. If it was all done at the same time (like it currently is) then it would be a little pointless for a lot of countries.

I won't make any comment on the difficulties in implementing it, because the BBs know that far better than I, but I do wonder how labour-intensive it might be.

Well thats what labor is for, working hard! Haha, and yes each draft can be at a set time of 8 oclock everywhere which would be at a span of 24 hours, as everyone has an 8 oclock. But as I said, I wouldn't expect it in the next season or so, as BB already has a set plan for this season. Possibly in 2-3 seasons.

This is insane... 1 minute for the live draft? Have to be logged there at exact time? Maybe you are flexible and can be whenever you want at any time, but Im pretty sure that I would miss draft everytime.

are you usually able to watch your team's games regularly?

I can see around 50 percent of them.

well then you have a 50% chance of making the draft! :D (assuming thats when they are)

This game does not force you to be online at one particulate time. I hope they will not start now.