[Mr. Dashbee]

We are picking the clock options this year. We have two choices:

• A flat 12 hour clock, no stoppages
• An overnight stoppage, but the first clock of each day expires at 12 noon

All times are eastern, of course.

POLL ends at midnight Monday night/Tuesday morning.

[Matte]

Just a couple questions to clarify some things. In the clock stoppage version of the draft, is the clock stopped from midnight to 8am, or from midnight to noon? Say someone goes on the clock at 5pm. When midnight hits, that's 7 hours gone from their clock. Does the clock stoppage take them to 8am before their last hour starts ticking, or does them having an hour left count as "the first clock of the day" and give them until noon? And a different scenario: Say picks are made during the clock stoppage and then someone is up to pick at 7am. Do they have until noon to pick or do they have 8 hours until 3pm? Would the "first clock of each day expires at noon" thing only count for someone whose pick came up from 8pm the previous night to 4am the morning of?

[Mr. Dashbee]

Mar 25, 2019 11:30:36 GMT -5 Matte said:

Just a couple questions to clarify some things. In the clock stoppage version of the draft, is the clock stopped from midnight to 8am, or from midnight to noon? Say someone goes on the clock at 5pm. When midnight hits, that's 7 hours gone from their clock. Does the clock stoppage take them to 8am before their last hour starts ticking, or does them having an hour left count as "the first clock of the day" and give them until noon? And a different scenario: Say picks are made during the clock stoppage and then someone is up to pick at 7am. Do they have until noon to pick or do they have 8 hours until 3pm? Would the "first clock of each day expires at noon" thing only count for someone whose pick came up from 8pm the previous night to 4am the morning of?

Good questions:

The first clock would end at 12 noon regardless of the time it started. The last pick could have been at 7:59 AM eastern, but that first clock of the day would expire at 12:00 PM.

I hadn't thought of a clock running for a long time (say, 7 hour) before the overnight stoppage. That is a great point. Under the spirit of the suggestion, they'd get a longer time as the clock still ends at noon. that would need some tweaking, likely tweaking to "8 hours or 12 noon, whichever comes first."

I will post that in the discussion thread.