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LastMcGovernite
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« on: August 30, 2021, 01:44:25 PM »

As the NBA Fantasy Draft is winding down on the Off-Topic board, I thought I might gauge some interest in this activity. Basically-- we'll pick a decade or era (let's say the 1960s), and participants will select a president, vice-president and cabinet. Obviously, since this is a draft, no one individual can be on more than one list. And you cannot put someone in a spot he or she held in real life. So, for example, you couldn't make Robert McNamara your Secretary of Defense, but you could make him your Secretary of Transportation.

However, one problem with drafting games is that it only takes one slowpoke or dropout to gum things up. For that reason, I'd propose this correction. I'll divide the country into a number of regions based on the number of participants we have. As an example, if only four people agree, it might be the Northeast, South, Midwest, and West. On a given turn, player A must choose a cabinet member from the Northeast, player B must choose someone from the South, C from the Midwest, and D from the West, and everyone will have the same 24 hours to make their choice. And then the next turn, they'll shift so that B must choose someone from the Northeast, C from the South, etc. This will have the benefit of approximating the geographical balance that usually goes into making a cabinet and will allow multiple picks to be made without running into the danger of people choosing the same person simultaneously.

You can choose any of the following for your admin: presidents, vice-presidents, major party pres/veep nominees, senators, congressmen, governors, cabinet members, and CEOs who held office during the era we end up choosing.

What do you think about this? Let me know if you'd like to participate or have some ideas for improving or streamlining this activity. And let me know which era you'd like us to use for this game. 70s? 90s? Contemporary?
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« Reply #1 on: August 30, 2021, 01:50:34 PM »

I would love this, but I want 2019-2020 (just so we have contemporary, but with a pre-COVID setting).
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« Reply #2 on: August 30, 2021, 01:51:15 PM »

Interesting
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« Reply #3 on: August 30, 2021, 04:11:28 PM »

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« Reply #4 on: August 30, 2021, 04:12:02 PM »

I'm willing to do this
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« Reply #5 on: August 30, 2021, 04:15:16 PM »

I'd be interested.
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« Reply #6 on: August 30, 2021, 04:28:28 PM »

I'm ready to start whenever you are.
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« Reply #7 on: August 31, 2021, 10:12:44 AM »

This sounds cool!
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« Reply #8 on: August 31, 2021, 12:36:13 PM »

Very good! I'll assume everyone who indicated interest is on board unless I hear otherwise. I'll keep this up for 3 days before we begin the project in earnest.

We'll do the 2010s if that's all right with everyone. Anyone who served in one of those offices listed above during some point in that decade is eligible. The great thing is that we can always do a different era at some later point!
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« Reply #9 on: August 31, 2021, 02:54:08 PM »

I'll join
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« Reply #10 on: August 31, 2021, 05:00:03 PM »

I’m down. Would appreciate reminder pms though.
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« Reply #11 on: August 31, 2021, 10:11:14 PM »

I’m down. Would appreciate reminder pms though.

What we did in my nba draft is we just quoted whoever was up after you
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« Reply #12 on: August 31, 2021, 10:26:23 PM »

I’m down. Would appreciate reminder pms though.

What we did in my nba draft is we just quoted whoever was up after you
Ah. That works as well.
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« Reply #13 on: September 01, 2021, 05:32:11 PM »

Sure I’m in
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« Reply #14 on: September 01, 2021, 06:54:12 PM »

Interested
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« Reply #15 on: September 01, 2021, 10:01:08 PM »

Sounds like fun, I'm in.
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« Reply #16 on: September 03, 2021, 03:35:37 PM »

I would like to join the game as well. I hope I am not too late. Please!
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« Reply #17 on: September 03, 2021, 04:16:01 PM »

Not too late at all- just go ahead and make your selection for President in the appropriate thread.
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