[USML Announce] USML Draft -deadlines and logistics

[Willy Strotman]

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> On Mar 7, 2021, at 11:34 AM, Mark Blocker <blockermark at gmail.com> wrote:
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> League:
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>   A reminder; we will hold the USML Draft on Sunday, March 21, starting at 8:00 am CT.  The draft will be held remotely.  This email provides the remaining deadlines and some logistical items.  Please review.
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>   Deadlines: Here are the three upcoming pre-draft deadlines.
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> 3/14 at 5:00 pm CT -- Deadline to submit freeze rosters
> 3:14 at 7:00 pm CT -- Auction draft dry-run (more info below)
> 3/17 at 5:00 p.m. -- Deadline for free drops.
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>   Logistics:  The draft "room" will consist of a Zoom meeting room.  The link for that Zoom room will be sent the week of the draft. Because it will be difficult to hear/monitor bids via Zoom, we are going to use a free website service called Fantrax to run the auction. Some of us have used or previewed the site, and it seems suited to our needs. You input your bids by clicking or (more rarely) entering numbers, and it runs in a similar fashion to eBay.
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>   To acclimate people to using the Fantrax system, we are going to hold a short dry run next Sunday, March 14 at 7:00 p.m. If you can make it please attend. In order to use the Fantrax site, you will need to sign up for an account at Fantrax.  You should receive an email with an invite later today, and that should take you directly to our league. To conduct the dry-run, we will meet by Zoom and simulate the draft for a modest number of players. The Zoom link for that will be sent out shortly.
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>   Important: to set up the Zoom calls, please respond to this by indicating what email address should receive the Zoom invite.  The Fantrax invite will go to the email you currently use for the Onroto system, but you can choose a different email address for Zoom.
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>   Feel free to email me or call my cell if you have questions. I recognize this is way more complicated than in the past, but I am confident we will be able to make this work. Let's just hope this is the last time our draft has to be held entirely remotely.
> 
>   -- Mark B.
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