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I’m having an issue with ORAS sprites not populating the template sheet. I copied and pasted the oras list from the example draft boards, but the sprites don’t seem to copy over. Any fix for that?
 
On the draft league doc, it gives not point amount for pokemon who are tera captains, even when I do add tera tax. Is there a way that I can solve this?
 
Hi, I was seeing a video from King L5 and saw him checking a spreadsheet for the ORAS drafts that have % Usage and Wins for the pokemon in the format. Is this document available somewhere in the forum? I would love to check it myself. Thanks!

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Is it feasible to hold a draft league format with variable levels to balance the Pokemon roster? How do you feel this would be most easily implemented and explained with low-mid level players in mind? My league is hovering between 14-18 players.
 
Is it feasible to hold a draft league format with variable levels to balance the Pokemon roster? How do you feel this would be most easily implemented and explained with low-mid level players in mind? My league is hovering between 14-18 players.
Doing this makes the list kinda messy, if you're doing traditional tiering for drafting, what's the proper level to bring something like Zacian down to? It gets heavily subjective especially since you have to choose what tier / point value that Pokemon will have to be in the tier list afterwards.

Now if you're doing a free draft (i.e no point budget / tier list), using the Random Battles Levels for Pokemon could be a novel idea. They're somewhat design to balance all the ubers level mons and have the weakest of mons at the highest level, so it could make for an interesting series. Can't guarantee anything in there will be super reflective of their viability in draft but it's probably the most objective you could get with changing Pokemon levels.
 
Is Hidden Power regarded by good draft players and the tiering council as broken enough/toxic enough to the game experience to warrant a ban from natdex/past-gen drafts, or only because there is a community distaste for it?
 
Is Hidden Power regarded by good draft players and the tiering council as broken enough/toxic enough to the game experience to warrant a ban from natdex/past-gen drafts, or only because there is a community distaste for it?
For Smogon and a lot of the greater draft community, it's not banned in standard past-gen drafts. The opposite is true for natdex, where it's often banned due to distaste. It's annoying for mons with 4x weaknesses and the gen 8/9 mons can feel handicapped due to not having it as an option.
 
hey gangsters. so, idk if anybody else has run into this problem, but the standard draft league template sheet in the main thread people like to use has (at least, it did for me) a problem where the match stats reported don't reflect accurately in the data sheet if you have a B pool. this ONLY affects the pool B teams, and that's because the functions relating to those stats are written with some incorrect references.

The functions in CH2 and CI2 should be, respectively:
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(CC2:CC353="","",SUMIF($BE$2:$BE&$BG$2:$BG,CA2:CA353&SUBSTITUTE(CC2:CC353," ("&Setup!AD9&")",""),$BH$2:$BH)))
=ARRAYFORMULA(IF(CC2:CC353="","",SUMIF($BE$2:$BE&$BG$2:$BG,CA2:CA353&SUBSTITUTE(CC2:CC353," ("&Setup!AD9&")",""),$BI$2:$BI)))

I'm going to reach out to the people who actually own the sheet and hopefully they will update so nobody else runs into this, mainly posting this here so there is some place where people might see this in the meantime
 
What would it take to have a SV OU Draft League style ladder? The "drafting" would probably have to convert to salary cap style budgeting, but I could certainly see it working out with some experimentation. It could morph into something like "SV Salary Cap" or "SV Budget" as a metagame. Could even explore Tera caps, combo taxes, or dynamic market pricing based on usage stats. Feels like there’s something here. Has anyone tried this?
 
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It wouldn't be possible with it still being Draft. There's Draft Factory if you'd like to look into that! Moreso than the actual drafting skill, what makes or breaks a good draft player is their ability to see what their opponent has to choose from, and building a new team to specifically counter what they have available and what you'd expect them to bring. The Draft PS room has speedtours where players are given 20 minutes to teambuild before each match, and that maybe would be something you could look into, but what you're effectively suggesting is an entirely new gamestyle/format rather than Draft itself.
 
It wouldn't be possible with it still being Draft. There's Draft Factory if you'd like to look into that! Moreso than the actual drafting skill, what makes or breaks a good draft player is their ability to see what their opponent has to choose from, and building a new team to specifically counter what they have available and what you'd expect them to bring. The Draft PS room has speedtours where players are given 20 minutes to teambuild before each match, and that maybe would be something you could look into, but what you're effectively suggesting is an entirely new gamestyle/format rather than Draft itself.
Good call - this is probably more of a dynamic budget approach than actual "drafting" and counter teaming that is the spirit of Draft League play.
 
What are the rules around posting about your own Draft Leagues? I co-run Canada's oldest private draft league, and we are going public - I don't want to invalidate rules by posting about it, but I want to share it here somewhere, if applicable.
 
What are the rules around posting about your own Draft Leagues? I co-run Canada's oldest private draft league, and we are going public - I don't want to invalidate rules by posting about it, but I want to share it here somewhere, if applicable.
Check out this thread:
 
Check out this thread:
Appreciated! I'll have to DM the mods some questions - we want to advertise for fans and spectators but won't explicitly be taking signups from external sources at this time. I'm hoping there's a viable way to share it in spite of that.

EDIT: Seems you cannot advertise for spectators, only for sign ups. RIP.
 
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