{"id":5443,"date":"2014-08-11T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2014-08-11T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qballers.com\/blog\/?p=5443"},"modified":"2014-08-11T14:07:20","modified_gmt":"2014-08-11T18:07:20","slug":"16th-annual-qfl-auction-first-time-online-using-fantrax","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/2014\/08\/11\/16th-annual-qfl-auction-first-time-online-using-fantrax\/","title":{"rendered":"16th Annual #QFL Auction First Time Online Using @Fantrax"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_5444\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5444\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014_16thanual-QFL_Auction.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/2014_16thanual-QFL_Auction-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"A view of the chaos\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-5444\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-5444\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A view of the chaos<\/figcaption><\/figure>The 16th Annual QFL Nation free agent Auction and rookie draft was conducted for the first time ever completely online Friday night. Only two owners were sitting in the same room together this year. The original QFL used ooVoo to video chat while using Fantrax&#8217;s new auction software to facilitate the numbers. Yada yada yada 5.5 hours later its 1:30am ET and the rookie draft is not finished because Scott is MIA. <\/p>\n<p>But it wasn&#8217;t entirely Fantrax&#8217;s fault. There was drunkeness. Hans was using IE 6.0. And Rishi went soft all of a sudden exhibiting an unusual amount of leniency on some roster violations (wish I had some of that treatment last Auction!) that took forever to resolve. Each. Time.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Qs &#8211; Fantrax might read this post because I put @fantrax in the headline and they could see it on Twitter. Leave your comments for them below. Remember its in beta so chill. Except for the quirk of our transition and franchise player rules I would say it worked pretty well. What are they supposed to do otherwise when an owner doesnt nominate a player in time? What about more people with Commissioner level admin rights? I would like to see some easy read out that tells you what are each team&#8217;s positional area of need is still to that point in the Auction.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Early Auction review from Owner.<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Got to like McDs team, Rishi\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s, Duggans, Seths (although not as good as last yr).  Josh look horrible (and hes really bad at auction strategy), def do not love SOQ given he was coming from a position of strength last yr, QBC is terrible.  FaHQ is really bad beyond his top 3 guys. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 16th Annual QFL Nation free agent Auction and rookie draft was conducted for the first time ever completely online Friday night. Only two owners were sitting in the same room together this year. The original QFL used ooVoo to video chat while using Fantrax&#8217;s new auction software to facilitate the numbers. Yada yada yada [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1,19,20],"tags":[395,275],"class_list":["post-5443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","category-qfl-nation-news","category-qfl-prime","tag-16th-auction","tag-auction-review"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5443"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5449,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5443\/revisions\/5449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.qballers.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}