That's true, the distraction from real football when that happens is pretty appealing
Personally, I'd be happy to do any kind of football draft, just don't have that much time at the moment until the end of the season, which would be a good time to run some as well, given the lack of Euro's/World Cup this summer.
African Cup of Nations/Copa America are on, so that kind of draft would be an idea.
Like your Messi/Ronaldo idea too
Most definitely. The dark times under the Owl were probably around the peak of drafting on here.
On a more serious note (I drafted that Brexit idea above ages ago and just tweaked it
), I like the idea of a summer ACON and Copa draft. Maybe even combined in some creative way.
The Messi vs Ronaldo idea is cool too! I think in general, we need more creative ideas if we want to get drafts off the ground. I like the basic structure of the current idea, but it just doesn't have the vavavoom IMO. We've done so many drafts on here now that you just can't pull people in otherwise. Everyone is tired of drafting the same names over and over, and seeing those same selection of names in the final. The most successful drafts of recent have been the Cisse draft (humorous premise which needed some solid research), The all-time draft which allowed steals between rounds, and the Hipster draft (totally new set of players). The LFC and Serie A drafts were popular simply because those two are probably the number one topics on here, but neither can be repeated any time soon.