Fantasy Cross County - NCAA Nationals XC

I would love to play, but I do not have friends that watch cross country so I have nobody in my league. Can you make a public league option or will anyone else let me join their league?

Anyone can create a "public" league by sharing the passcode publicly. I participated in the Wisco closed beta and I have to say the drafting process and presentation is quite good.

It would be nice for someone on LRC with some sort of status to create an "official" Letsrun league that we could all join.

I don't know that I have any "status" but I made a Men's and Women's league.

"Letsrun Bragging Rights - Men"

passcode lrc12345

"Letsrun Braqgging Rights - Women"

passcode lrc123456

Super secure passcodes...

For the beta we haven't created the public leagues option for users to join. Currently we haven't implemented a messaging system (outside of the draft window) for users in a public league to communicate the scheduling of the draft. We do intend to include public leagues in future versions.

For the meantime, the method that habs suggested would work as anyone that has the passcode for a league can join. If users are going to make their passcodes public on here, maybe also share the date and time that the league commissioner intends on holding the draft. The draft will only begin when the majority of participants in a league are active on the draft window to ensure that the commissioner doesn't start the draft and let his rivals be victims of the dreaded 'auto pick.'

Good luck!

http://www.draftathletics.com/

Alright, I'll hold a draft Wednesday evening at 9pm Eastern time, though I'm welcome to other suggestions.

Bump for 2 spots left in the Men's contest. I don't think anyone else has signed up for the Women's contest besides me, haha. I guess I will have the women's draft immediately after the men's draft, so approx. 10:30pm Eastern on Wednesday, 11/19.

Draft Athletics folk, is there nothing that I need to do before the draft? Just wait until the draft start and click the radio button to turn the draft on? How is the order determined? I know you guys are still in development, I just want to make sure I don't screw anything up and have the LRC police come exact vengeance.

george oscar bluth wrote:

Draft Athletics folk, is there nothing that I need to do before the draft? Just wait until the draft start and click the radio button to turn the draft on? How is the order determined? I know you guys are still in development, I just want to make sure I don't screw anything up and have the LRC police come exact vengeance.

Once you have turned the draft on and updated the league with that change, you will then need to click the 'Join Draft' button that will now be visible (if it is not immediately visible then refresh the page). From there you will be taken to the draft screen where you will have to declare yourself ready for the draft to begin.

We have put together a fairly extensive help page on the site but if you have more questions then email us at

and we will try to address your queries as soon as possible.

The starting order is determined at random but the snake draft feature ensures that each user has a fair chance.

Thanks guys. Bump to remind those we are trying to do this around 9pm eastern tonight or shortly thereafter - I'll post here if I won't quite have it up and running by 9pm due to work. Also, I deleted the women's predictions league because no one else was in it.

Lastly it looks like there are 13 users signed up but only 9 teams created, so if you joined the league but didn't create a team, you should probably do that today.

We noticed a small error in our code that allowed more than 12 people to sign up for your league. We therefore removed the people that joined after 12, other than one user who had already created their team so for this occasion your league will have 13 users. We apologize to anyone that can no longer take part in that league but with the dozens of test drafts that we did when developing the app we found that 12 was the optimum number of users and any more than that made the draft drag on.

Your greatest challenge will probably be trying to get 13 strangers to all be online at the same time but hopefully you can use this thread to ensure that all the users are aware of the draft's time.

http://draftathletics.com/

League name: Letsrun.com

Password: lrc4life

Join up

Pushing draft back to 9:30pm eastern - here's to hoping everyone can make it.

Bump again, I will edit the draft to be "on" in about 15 minutes and then wait. I can't imagine we will be able to make this work haha

2 of us on so far. Solid start.

That was pretty much a failure. Will attempt again tomorrow (Thursday) at 9pm eastern.

trollololol wrote:

League name: Letsrun.com

Password: lrc4life

Join up

Joined. Whens the draft?

[q]To register you must have an access token. All available tokens have now been issued.[/q]

Guess I'm too late.

Yeah it's kind of a bummer. Knowing that there is no chance to get 13 people from LRC on, I was just going to make a different league with 4-5 friends that I know I could get online, but sounds like I won't be able to.Oh well, it's not like it is hard to do a manual draft for one xc race.

Fastnbulbous wrote:

[q]To register you must have an access token. All available tokens have now been issued.[/q]

Guess I'm too late.

Just a(nother) reminder to those in the 13 team league that we are trying again tonight at 9pm eastern