You actually believe doing a full player draft and issuing 16xN of
commands is faster than each captain doing "trade foo" for a couple
players?
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Zach

On 9/6/07, John R. Dennison <jrd at gerdesas.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 06, 2007 at 07:05:35PM -0400, Zach wrote:
> > 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.
>
>         It will not push back the start time.  One of the reasons for
>         Rich wanting to do this is to reduce the amount of time it
>         takes for balancing teams.
>
>         And yes, results should go to All.  It's not as if you can't
>         watch the galactic and visually see what player is picked by
>         whom and in what order.
>
>
>
>
>                                                         John
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