Our draft scenarios changed a handful of times in the 10 days leading up to the event and our plans did as well.
We did get a lot of chances to talk to everyone on our radar. Some of you weren't for a few reasons. Wachter, Bly, and Crush were clearly going before we picked for example. Sierra wasn't on our radar first because of a lack of need and later because we decided as soon as it became an issue that we were pulling all bots on our line. We already had as many as 3 position changes we were planing to pay for as well so we stayed off of that. Jiggly we took off our board once we realized that he wouldn't be there with our 2nd pick no matter what it was. And a few people we sent messages to and got no response, at which point we removed them. One person was messaged and even after several minutes of back and forth, had no idea who I was. A lesson to DSFL players is to always know who the HO, GM's, and CoGM's are. The info is readily available and a lot of times you can figure out which teams you're interested in, are good fits, or are interested in you.
Lot of good conversations though. Fletcher impressed us greatly. I thought I was getting a huge steal late with Tillman and Lattimroe (half right!). Jackson obviously blew us away. We liked Taylor as well..especially him honestly informing us that if we asked him to switch position, he expected us to pay for it. We graded highly for that kind of thinking things through. Booter was a lot of fun.
And even though he wont get counted as part of this draft class technically, we happened on Andreas Waiters during our scouting and had a few general conversations with him as well that generally gave us the feeling that we should make the move to bring him in.
I also had a blast randomly harassing draftees with a series of questions that may not have always made sense (but always served a purpose). It is probably my favorite part of gm'ing thus far.
We did get a lot of chances to talk to everyone on our radar. Some of you weren't for a few reasons. Wachter, Bly, and Crush were clearly going before we picked for example. Sierra wasn't on our radar first because of a lack of need and later because we decided as soon as it became an issue that we were pulling all bots on our line. We already had as many as 3 position changes we were planing to pay for as well so we stayed off of that. Jiggly we took off our board once we realized that he wouldn't be there with our 2nd pick no matter what it was. And a few people we sent messages to and got no response, at which point we removed them. One person was messaged and even after several minutes of back and forth, had no idea who I was. A lesson to DSFL players is to always know who the HO, GM's, and CoGM's are. The info is readily available and a lot of times you can figure out which teams you're interested in, are good fits, or are interested in you.
Lot of good conversations though. Fletcher impressed us greatly. I thought I was getting a huge steal late with Tillman and Lattimroe (half right!). Jackson obviously blew us away. We liked Taylor as well..especially him honestly informing us that if we asked him to switch position, he expected us to pay for it. We graded highly for that kind of thinking things through. Booter was a lot of fun.
And even though he wont get counted as part of this draft class technically, we happened on Andreas Waiters during our scouting and had a few general conversations with him as well that generally gave us the feeling that we should make the move to bring him in.
I also had a blast randomly harassing draftees with a series of questions that may not have always made sense (but always served a purpose). It is probably my favorite part of gm'ing thus far.
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