SubmitYourDraft.com is LIVE. Please check it out!

[Ben Titmarsh]

Hey guys,

www.SubmitYourDraft.com is finally available!  I'd really appreciate it if you guys could check it out, have a play around and let me know what you think.  You can use the site in one of two ways:

1. Submit your own MODO drafts, instructions are here: http://www.submityourdraft.com/faq

If you choose to do this, your draft will be available for rating by the rest of the community.

2. Critique other peoples drafts.  On a pick-by-pick basis you can decide if you agree or disgaree.  This will cause the pick to get a rating, modify the overall draft rating and modify the members overall rating.

If you don't want to do either of these, then feel free to just check it out and read the draft recaps.  However, signing up will literally take 30 seconds of your time, no email confirmations or anything painful like that, just the basic details.  Register here: http://www.submityourdraft.com/register

While using the site, if you get an error page, then the problem will be automatically flagged with me.  For all other issues, cosmetic, usability, suggestions etc then please leave me a message here or send me an email: [e-mail]

I'm hoping to build up a bit of a community of contributors and critics.  So to kick it all off, I've submitted a couple of my own drafts.  Please head over to submityourdraft.com and let me know what you think.  I look forward to your comments!

[Dan Barrett]

I think there needs to be a different resolution for when the vote is split on which card is THE pick - e.g. if 2 people vote for one card, 2 vote for another, whichever "came first" so to speak gets priority.

[Ben Titmarsh]

The resolution at the moment is that the card that was chosen by the drafter takes priority.

Dan Barrett said:

I think there needs to be a different resolution for when the vote is split on which card is THE pick - e.g. if 2 people vote for one card, 2 vote for another, whichever "came first" so to speak gets priority.

[Dan Barrett]

Are you sure?

I can't find the example i found earlier, but it was like this:

User picked card A

2 people voted for card B

2 people voted for card C


Card B was shown with a tick - i think it should display both B and C in such a case.

Ben Titmarsh said:

The resolution at the moment is that the card that was chosen by the drafter takes priority.

Dan Barrett said:

I think there needs to be a different resolution for when the vote is split on which card is THE pick - e.g. if 2 people vote for one card, 2 vote for another, whichever "came first" so to speak gets priority.

[Kieran Symington]

I think it would be quite a good feature to let the person who submitted the draft reply to drafts where a majority have picked a different card - either agreeing with what people said or explaining why they don't agree with everyone else.
Also, though I doubt you'd have any control over this, it would be good if people had to give a reason if they select disagree - it's much more interesting to know why people want other cards, rather than just seeing that people disgree with the one taken.

[Thom Richardson]

responses would be really good.

When I am rating a draft, if I am one of the first to rate it i leave comments when i disagree.

Eventually though when 5 people have already rated and explained why the pick is wrong it gets a bit tedious to type out strong signal, or fits curve better or whatever when everyone who has disagreed has said that reason.

In fact it might be cool if you could agree with someone elses pick to indicate that you support their reasoning.

[Dan Barrett]

yea, and while we don't want it to become some massive forum argument etc, being able to comment on others' comments 1 deep, or comment on whatever people said in their final assessment (again, 1 deep, perhaps only for draft creator) would be neat.

Perhaps add a basic forum-type thing so the format as a whole can be discussed, pick orders etc?

Also would be cool if you could view drafts by format, maybe have a drop-down when you submit one, or tag it as ZEN-ZEN-WWK etc... Then when you have 50 or so, deep stats analysis... nom nom

[Thom Richardson]

i was thinking that if you agree with someones reasoning you could click thier comment and then those with the most people agreeing rise up the list. with some way of being able to tell the people who have agreed

this avoides the creation of arguments and rewards people who make good (and early) comments

of course i have no idea if this is even possible but its a thought

viewing by format or user or draft type (8-4 etc) will be awesome

[Ben Titmarsh]

Cheers guys, got those suggestions on the list. For now, I've taken Dan's suggestion and signed up to twitter. Please follow me:

https://twitter.com/submityourdraft

The next release will have a little news feed item that will list all of my tweets, so I can use twitter as a sort of news publishing service for updates to the site.

[Dan Barrett]

Ben, check out my twitter list:

http://twitter.com/dangerawesome/magic

It has over 100 MtG twitter-ers on it, including pros, blogs, bloggers etc - following everyone on it and sending some of them some nice @'s would be a good start.

[Thomas David Baker]

Minor nit. Login at http://www.submityourdraft.com/viewdraft/31 should take me to http://www.submityourdraft.com/viewdraft/31 after I login, not the homepage.

[Thomas David Baker]

Would also like the following features:

* Don't allow multiple submits of the same thing on the overall comment (I just double posted).
* Do show/don't show picks with Ajax or somehow get me back to the same point on the page when it reloads (I like to switch it off for the last few picks so I can just agree where it isn't important). Alternatives: give a "not important" button for these picks, or weight them less, or some combination of those.

[Dan Barrett]

Yea, that's a stickyflow thing, same as i posted a while back i think?

Thomas David Baker said:

Minor nit. Login at http://www.submityourdraft.com/viewdraft/31 should take me to http://www.submityourdraft.com/viewdraft/31 after I login, not the homepage.