As draft interest draws near, so does usage of Draftteks innovative ODS . For those of you regular users, we’re going to prepare some short bites every few days on how to use the ODS in preparation for draft day.
Today: Using baseline ODS data vs. using your own changes
Today (3/13) we collected new team needs from out Team Correspondents and put up a new Consensus Mock Draft (CMD) over on the regular site. All the baseline information in the CMD (Team Needs, Grabs, Lockouts, Player list order) is immediately propagated over to the to the Online Draft Simulator.
But if you’ve been running the ODS and have made a bunch of changes to the input screens, to get the draft just the way you want it, won’t this importing of new baseline data mess you up??
The answer is no, not right away anyway. Please go to the ODS “Simulator Home” page by clicking on a link off the main site. You will see two big buttons to the right of the ODS logo. Here’s what they do:
1) “New Simulation” – clicking this button will clear all changes that you’ve previously made, and load the current baseline data. The result will be a simulation based upon the same input used in the current CMD. You will find that the result will not be exact between the CMD ond baseline ODS, typically a deviation slips in in round 2 or 3. This is not to say that the ODS is “wrong”, both are plausible. Sometimes the model gets in a situation where two or three player all rate very closely for a certain team at a certain pick. In these situations, the model resorts to probabilistic decision making that may not give the same result twice.
2) “Re-Edit Custom Inputs” – If you click this button, you will retain all the changes that you’ve previously made. Keep in mind that there is a 24 hour window. All changes to input pages that you’ve made will disappear after 24-hours and the baseline data automatically loaded. But if you leave the site or power down for the evening, when you come back the data will be remembered if you click this button.
#2 will be important on Draft Day. We’ve deliberately installed 64 player “Grabs”. After each selection is called, you the ODS user will go to the Grab page and enter the player just selected – then simulate forward. If you stray away from the Drafttek website, or accidentally leave the webpage, no worries!! When you come back to the Drafttek web site, click “Re-edit Custom Inputs” and your data will still be there. This will give ODS users a unique interactive draft day experience not to be found elsewhere, you can be running “What-If” simulations through the first two rounds(!!)
