New Drafting Formula

[HeadHoncho]

I've spoken with Ry Vor, and I think it's time to switch up our drafting procedure for Team and Warlord games.  We're going to move to a bidding process.

- Each team starts with 100 "diamonds"
- Each team allocates them up front among three different rounds of Kingdom picks
- Each round of picks will go in order of the amount bid, highest to lowest
- Once all picks have been made, sum up the picks by numerical value of the picking slot for each team
- If one or two teams ended up with a significantly higher sum (i.e. separated by a total of three or more picking slots) than the lowest sum, that high team or teams receive a single chivalry bonus of 25,000 gold to allocate to one team

EXAMPLE:

Team A allocates 50 diamonds to Round 1, 30 diamonds to Round 2, and 20 diamonds to Round 3
Team B allocates 45 diamonds to Round 1, 35 diamonds to Round 2, and 20 diamonds to Round 3
Team C allocates 40 diamonds to Round 1, 35 diamonds to Round 2, and 25 diamonds to Round 3
Team D allocates 39 diamonds to Round 1, 33 diamonds to Round 2, and 28 diamonds to Round 3

Round 1 is:

A
B
C
D

Round 2 is:

B (ties are randomized)
C
D
A

Round 3 is:

D
C
B (ties are randomized)
A

So Team A has picks 1, 8, 12 (total 21)
Team B has picks 2, 5, 11 (total 18)
Team C has picks 3, 5, 10 (total 18)
Team D has picks 4, 7, 9 (total 20)

Team A kind of got the shaft on the allocation and dice-off, and is at least three picking points worse than the leader, so Team A would receive one chivalry bonus to allocate to one of its Kingdoms.

Your feedback is welcome!  This method puts more control in the hands of the players while still allowing for a slight equalizer for bad breaks.

[Jumpingfist]

I kind of liked what a player had suggested before about using points but instead of calling them diamond make it gold. If you have 25K+ gold left over you get to add 25k to one of your positions 50k+2 positions etc. say you must spend at least 1 gold per round so you will never have more than 75k gold extra.
some players may rather have the gold than the position.

I think I could be happy with a team and likely get gold at the same time either way

[HeadHoncho]

I don't think individualized gold bonuses are an option with the game setup utility, I had understood it to be 25K gold or nothing. Will let Ry Vor correct me if I'm mistaken.

[Jumpingfist]

Yes that is why I said 25k + extra

Really the other way is fine but may be subjective. I would like set numbers . Like your example A is 3 points above 2 guys but only 2 points above another guy. What is the cut off.

[HeadHoncho]

Oh, I see. Interesting!

[HeadHoncho]

Maybe instead of going by round, you make three specific numbers for your bids, and they all get ranked in order. (Credit where it's due, that part is from Ry Vor.)

So a team might get picks 10, 11, 12, but three chivalry bonuses.

[Jumpingfist]

Interesting though if required to spend 100 point 10 11 12 is not possible unless everyone bid exactly the same.

I would be fine with the method but think some may drop feeling robbed when there plan went wrong. I think the by round system is a safer way of at least getting something ok. Again any method works as long as the bonus requirements are defined.

[Atuan]

We could add a bid to this.

You bid for each pick, winning bid for the 1st pick has those funds taken out of his pool of 100. Then everyone can bid for the 2nd pick and so on. You could have the option to have all of the pick one bids have their pool funds lowered by their bid if you wish to make it more interesting.

[HeadHoncho]

Neat idea, but I honestly think that would take too long. Four bids for each slot is a bit involved.

Idea on the possible picks 10, 11, 12 would be each player could spend 25, 50, 75, or 100 on picks. The rest get converted to chivalry bonuses.

[Jumpingfist]

Ah I see. So you could actually get a very good draft if everyone went for 3 bonuses.

i still like more by round like I said with less drop potential but would be fine with any of these methods.