Draft Utility for 2007!

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Originally Posted by kq76

Are you familiar with the old BOSI draft utility? If you are, could you give us an idea of what ways it's different from it as in what it adds, what it lacks?

It looks like it's the same general idea in that each GM in an online league logs in, makes their draft list and then the program automatically processes the draft until it gets to a team that hasn't made a draft list yet and then it waits until they do or the commish logs in and makes an auto-pick if their clock runs out. Does it add anything to that like automatically sending out emails of what player you ended up getting or emails notifying you that you're on the clock or emails to the commish of everything?

There are draft lists that each GM can setup and each GM can choose to turn on auto-pick if they know they won't be available to make their next pick. BOSI can't do that.

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Originally Posted by kq76

Are you familiar with the old BOSI draft utility? If you are, could you give us an idea of what ways it's different from it as in what it adds, what it lacks?

It looks like it's the same general idea in that each GM in an online league logs in, makes their draft list and then the program automatically processes the draft until it gets to a team that hasn't made a draft list yet and then it waits until they do or the commish logs in and makes an auto-pick if their clock runs out. Does it add anything to that like automatically sending out emails of what player you ended up getting or emails notifying you that you're on the clock or emails to the commish of everything?

I only have seen an older version of BOSI, I think, so I can only compare to that. Things (I think) it does better than BOSI on:

- Allows auto-drafting
- Allows draft lists, and auto-picking from draft lists
- It's faster
- Better search capabilities
- Easier management of administrating draft (trading picks, editing picks, etc).
- Works for inaugural drafts as well
- Allows serpentine draft orders, and conceivably sandwich picks
- Works on OOTP 2007

Things BOSI is better on:

- Has a draft clock (soon to be added to my util).

I looked into auto-sending of emails on picks, etc., but I couldn't get it to work for some reason. I may revisit this later.

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Quick sidetrack.

Speaking of BOSI, has anyone seen or talked to Joe?

EDIT: Nevermind. I just remembered his username here. Carry on!