If you’re a first timer holding the draft at your place or you get to chose where the draft should be here’s 10 tips to make sure you have a terrible fantasy football draft party.
Don’t provide food or drink or you provide it in the middle of the draft I get it, you’re busy getting your place in order and it slips your mind to order food or ask your owners to bring any.
Invite over the owners early to eat and allow for chit chat before hand.
Don’t have enough places for owners to sit The sure way to piss off your fantasy football owners is to have them sit on the carpet.
Make sure you have enough room.
Do the draft party during “Little Suzy’s Birthday” party When you do this invariable the spouses come in and bother everyone by asking “Honey, who was that actor in that movie we watched last night?”.
Hold your draft party as it’s own party and if the spouses are going to come you need to put them to work.
Keep them busy or they will get bored and interrupt the flow of the draft.
Have your draft outdoors with lots of wind and rain We had held the draft at my Dad’s house for a few years.
Well, that wasn’t the case at all.
There’s also the wind and potential for rain, you need to be very careful about doing it outside and make sure you have a backup plan in case it’s too windy or starts to rain.
Let owners pay you later This one always chaps my hide because you are there on draft day and other people are paying their $250 but you always have someone who can’t pay right away.
Get that money up front and make sure they make a commitment.
Set the bar high right away and stress payment early or on draft day.
Don’t have a fantasy football draft board so owners can visually see who picked who There’s nothing more irritating then listening to people who don’t pay attention yell out “who was just taken?”.
The league will be very happy to see who drafted who visually.
Don’t have wireless internet or enough power outlets Laptops are the norm now so make sure you have enough power outlets for everyone and make sure you have wireless internet.
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Call up a bar and ask them for a room where you can hold your draft in private.
The only problem was that they didn’t have good wireless and the projector was down so again, make sure you check out the place you hold your draft and treat it like a big deal because it is.
Have owners call in and do it over chat I will no longer tolerate people doing a draft over IM or by conference, when you do this you are beholden to that persons internet connection or cell phone.
The draft has a rhythm, keep with it and it will go smoothly.
Rules? What rules, definitely don’t talk about the rules Make time for people to talk about your rules, it kills me when someone drafts a player and then asks the question, “can this person get points for Kickoff returns?” because when they hear “NO” they will complain.
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