2011 DRAFT TIME FOR MONDAY 5/16 DRAFT

[TylerW]

Hey Troy is there anyone to advance the rosters to 2011 before the draft to show FA's and the adjusted cap after the 2010 salary's are off the books?

[Jared A]

Hey Troy is there anyone to advance the rosters to 2011 before the draft to show FA's and the adjusted cap after the 2010 salary's are off the books?

It'd be tough to do that without doing tags first.

[Troy S]

Hey Troy is there anyone to advance the rosters to 2011 before the draft to show FA's and the adjusted cap after the 2010 salary's are off the books?

We don't know what the salary cap will be yet for next season. That'll be pending NFL labor agreement if a new cap is part of that. If it's uncapped again, we'll figure it out independently again probably something about the same. But can't say for sure what the cap will be yet because the NFL might set a new cap before their own free agency when they get to it eventually.

[TylerW]

Alright that's no problem.

[Goodell]

Draft pick deadlines have been added to the draft pick lists (click draft in top navigation and view picks). In looking at my script to add those last year and the instructions on the main draft page from last year I just used the same 20 minues for round 1-2, and then 15 minutes for 3-7 with compensatory picks at the end of those rounds.

If you pick deadline, for example, says:
Mon 5/16 10:40 am ET

You have to be online and manually make your selection before that time, or else the system will pick for you based upon your own queue ratings or the highest undrafted player from NFL draft if you have no players in your queue. At least 15-20 minutes before that (depending upon the round) when the team before you has their own deadline pass, you will officially be on the clock until your pick deadline and your draft screen will change when you are on the clock. You can entertain offers to trade your pick up until the deadline.

We'll turn the draft by tomorrow evening for top of the draft selectors who know who they'll pick. Every day, even if there are no more pick windows since you reached the end of that round, once they are on the clock teams at any time can make their next selection before their pick due date. We often have many picks for the start of the next round made the night before if people are around to do that.

I'm looking into the discussed auto-pick setting if people know they won't be around for their window to not wait on them (as well as possibly being put on that if you miss picks or we know a GM not around), but not sure that'll be ready yet pending some tests.

[Goodell]

The draft has been turned on now for those teams at the very top of the draft to enter their selection if they are online and choose to do so. Any time you are on the clock you can make a pick starting now, so it's possible we could have a couple picks depending upon who is online and ready to make their pick official.

But starting at 10am ET tomorrow morning, there will be pick deadlines and the computer will pick your top player in your draft queue if you aren't online when on the clock, or pick the highest NFL player from real draft order not selected yet if you have no players in your draft queue. Better to be safe than sorry and have some players in your queue in case something comes up and you can't be online before that posted pick deadline.

If you have ANY questions about the draft, just send me a PM. Thanks

It's always possible at the start of a new year that something doesn't work quite right and wasn't adjusted 100% for the new year where I missed something, so if something goes wrong send me a PM or post message.