[quote name='ReturnofBoltz']Quick questions:
1- When will we be able to pick which team we're going to use? I understand the fantasy draft, but when will we pick the team we'll be playing as? Maybe we could start soon, going down the list giving people priority. Would be cool to know who we're gonna field a team with.
2- If someone flakes out is there a way to make the computer play as that team? Or have another user take it over? Just curious how the online leagues work, haven't done one with this game before.[/quote]
We won't be going down the list giving people priority. Two lotteries will be held. One to determine team selection order, and one to determine drafting order. Team selection will come first. Personally, I'm not in any great hurry because I never planned on starting the league until AT LEAST the 17th.
For one thing, some people are stil having trouble with the servers, so I want to give SCEA as much time to straighten that out as possible. More importantly, we currently have 21 people signed up for this league. I've never seen a league work with more than 12 people. If waiting 2 weeks causes some of those 21 to lose interest, then we don't want them in the league. I want to know how many people are actually in this league before we select teams.
As far as people flaking out, I haven't looked at the actual league structure yet this year, but the way it worked last year is you could drop people from the league, and everybody who was scheduled to play them just got a win for that game. It made for some very arbitrary records, and the more games don't get played, the less fun the league becomes. This point also brings me back to my reason for wanting to wait to find out who's really committed. I hope that makes sense.