[USML Announce] USML Draft -deadlines and logistics

[Rick Gammons]

ricklgammons at gmail.com

On Sun, Mar 7, 2021 at 2:08 PM Frank Luby via Announce <announce at usml.net>
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> On Mar 7, 2021, at 1:44 PM, Willy Strotman via Announce <announce at usml.net>
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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.
>
>   Deadlines: Here are the three upcoming pre-draft deadlines.
>
> 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.
>
>   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.
>
>   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.
>
>   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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