I usually run a draft every fall. We've had a bunch of drafts this year, so the usual players might feel drafted out. If so, that's fine. But if you want to play, say so in this thread. Some people have shown interest in a Saturday Night Live-type skit draft, and that sounds interesting to me. Other ideas: - video game draft - TV commercial draft - draft idea draft Any other ideas are welcome.
Video game draft is an idea I like, though perhaps there might not be enough interested parties to make it worthwhile?
I'd go for it but would definitely want to iron out the details very clearly first. I haven't owned a console in my adult lifetime for one so my selections would be skewed towards PC at some point but how much (or if I even worry about it) would depend on the theme. To throw another idea out there: how about a video game music draft?
I'm a pure PC gamer too. Not sure if it's really a big deal, as many of my choices will pre-date (modern) consoles.
I had thrown these out before but here are some ideas: Draft a band draft - basically draft a vocalist, drummer, bassist, guitar, producer, etc/ Draft a movie crew/cast - same idea but with actor, director, supporting, etc. Pop culture draft - draft the top icons of pop culture. A couple of examples: Tony the Tiger from Frosted Flakes or the logo from a famous TV show.
I'm in a similar boat, having stopped at PS2 (I will one day soon buy an Xbox). But if we were to include PC and arcade games, I'd join. A vidgame music draft would be cool, too, long as it stipulated that the music be known from the game mostly (which might be hard to do).
Well, I'm almost always up for a draft, but most of these suggestions are way out of my league. Video game music? I never played video games, well, except for Pong, and my little brother cleaned my clock and I've never gone back. I like Felix's band idea. Inspired! But I would suck at that... So, let me make a suggestion, we draft an album, song by song. Of the vinyl variety. 2 sides, 5 tracks per side. You only get to pick one real life Side 1 Track 1 song. Each slot on your album must be filled by a song on the same track/side as it is on it's corresponding album release.
I agree that some of the options are slightly esoteric, but you've seen Saturday Night Live, right? Monty Python? MAD TV? The Kids in the Hall? Chapelle’s Show? In Living Color? Skit shows should have a broad reach among draft players. And it's eminently YouTubeable, which makes research and presentation easy. Those would be tough for me. I'm an old fogey yet I've never owned any vinyl at all. There may be some on BigSoccer young enough that they haven't owned an album of any sort. And I don't think I can even name a single musician from a band that doesn't have the musician's name in the band name, outside the guys in The Beetles.
You should do a song sheep draft. The soccer sheep drafts worked very well in the Beautiful Game, and they are very different from the traditional drafts.
Its kinda as much like a scavenger hunt as a draft. The administrator of the draft announces the requirements for a round-- say, "A tune written or cowritten by Kid Ory." Everyone has say 24 hours to PM a choice to the admin. If two or more people choose the same tune-- "Muskrat Ramble"-- it is disqualified, and those people have a deadline for a new choice. If the second choice-- "Do What Ory Say" is also chosen by more than one person, a third effort is required. If "Blues For Jimmy Noone" also fails, the two or more people who tried it have to pick a choice from a list of the crappiest tunes composed by Ory; a list suggested by the successful drafters. (Did Ory compose any crappy tunes?) These choices are called "sheep" (as in "sheep in wolf's clothing," maybe?) So then, in a song draft are we going to be able to agree that a given nominee is actually a sheep? If the category is "Hit songs about animals," someone will nominate "Muskrat Love" as a sheep, and someone else will object that a Willis Alan Ramsay song can't be a sheep, and yada yada yada...
That sounds tricky to run, and won't the game just be people googling the answers? With the The Show guys on the Daily Show and some skit series starting up with the new fall season, I've become re-interested in that.
Why? Lets say one round the criteria is Bob Dylan songs. Drafted songs might include Like a Rolling Stone or Get Stoned. "Sheep" songs might include Saved or Wiggle Wiggle. Of course it would be at the draft manager's criteria, but posters could veto it if for example they think Saved is a good song. In the current soccer draft the rule is we need three vetoes to overrule a sheep. There was an argument as to whether Erick Wynalda was too good to be a sheep.
Ok. I think its a lot easier to get consensus on Wynalda, but as long as there's a magic number the opposition has to reach...
The qualifications shouldn't be so limiting as to make it a trivia contest. The trick is to guess whether, in a John Lennon draft, so many people will avoid "Imagine" and try for "Across the Universe" as to make "Imagine" available...
I think the public part of traditional drafts is the best part - pickers have to explain and defend their positions, outsiders can watch and comment, there are things to see even when it isn't your turn, and you get exposed to new shows/albums/whatever the draft is based on. And while soccer players have objective statistics to quantify their quality, there is nothing similar for cultural artifacts. In a regular draft, you have ~10 data points on which you can vote, but can a sheep draft last long enough to produce that when it's just a private game?
Definitely in for Video Game Draft. I like the rock band draft as well, although I would probably be terrible at it.
Everything is in the sign up thread: https://www.bigsoccer.com/community/threads/video-game-draft-2013-sign-up-thread.1994291/ These are by far the simplest rules I've ever devised.