Squish (268)
E-roc (127)
Shirley (66)
Jeff (53)
Tommy (53)
Mal (50)
Ken (44)
Amir (40)
TJ (29)
We were getting frustrated finding a date that worked for everyone, so I set up a quick spreadsheet of all the remaining weekend dates before opening day so that people in my league could indicate in one central place the dates that didn’t work for them. I only used weekend dates, since drafting on a weeknight kind of sucks. Here’s a template if you’d like to do the same.
I used Google Docs so that everyone in the league could just edit it right online. Definitely easier than e-mailing an Excel file around. Just copy my stuff into a new spreadsheet, and then use the “Share” button in the top-right corner to give everyone in your league editing privileges.
Click the thumbnail at right for a full-size preview.
Brandon 11:37 am on 8/03/2009 Permalink |
Sounds like a great idea that I recommended in one of my leagues!
Matt 11:38 am on 8/03/2009 Permalink |
Weird, what a coincidence.
Ross 4:35 pm on 8/03/2009 Permalink |
Our commish uses: http://whenisgood.net/
Works pretty much the same as this, but wouldn’t require everyone to have a google account.
Matt 4:42 pm on 8/03/2009 Permalink |
WhenIsGood looks pretty cool. Actually, no Google accounts are required for the method I describe above. Even without an account you can still view and edit the spreadsheet if it’s been shared with you.
Ross 4:47 pm on 8/03/2009 Permalink
Ahh, my bad. Didn’t realize that.
We used a shared google spreadsheet last year as our draft board since someone was drafting remotely. Worked great!
Matt 4:52 pm on 8/03/2009 Permalink
Nice! We’ve been doing the same thing for a couple of years in our keeper league, but we’re going to use the Yahoo! draft tool this year since I discovered it could handle our draft rules.
Daily Haze: Use technology to choose a draft date | The Hazean 7:01 am on 8/04/2009 Permalink |
[...] week when trying to figure all that stuff out. And it works well enough. Eventually I wise up and set up a spreadsheet using Excel or Google Docs to figure out everyone’s schedule, which would have been a great place to start from at the [...]
Dan 4:22 pm on 8/28/2009 Permalink |
Here is a Google Spreadsheet I created to actually perform the draft. It is great when you have “out-of-towners”. Hope this is helpful.
http://fantasyfootballdraftgeek.blogspot.com/2009/07/fantasy-football-draft-board-template.html