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Old 04-26-2013, 09:09 AM   #14
WheelsVT
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Join Date: Sep 2002
Location: GA
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Originally Posted by Firefly View Post
The utilities not only make drafting easier, they make it fun. The community gathers in the draft chat and lots of info is shared and trades are made. You get a chance to hang out with guys you may not know too well. For many it's the thing they enjoy most about FOF.

Drafting rounds by stage would be a real killjoy.


+1 Also, the utilities allow a draft to proceed without requiring guys to have game access. They can draft from their phones.

If you wanted to have a solution for MP drafts tied to the game to eliminate the need for 3rd party import/export I'd think it'd have to involve an API between a hosted draft tool and the commissioner's game. The game would have to be network accessible to the draft tool perhaps through an encrypted session.
I would guess it would be coded as mini-stages. The game sends the list of available prospects at the start of the draft then the tool sends in stages - 1 pick and any trades made since the last pick. Then the game sends back a confirmation. There's just no way the commissioner would want to do an import/export for every pick stage. This sort of API would allow the draft to run real-time. At that point the setup is making the connection between the game and the tool and you're done if the API is robust enough.
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