Just another player selection i came up with the other day, pretty easy to understand and i can't see to many other problems with it. Anyway, it's like this,
Before this starts, every team in the league must be given a budget (of virtual money, not vcash), i'd say 5million, but it could be whatever.
1) All teams pm the manager of the league the squad that they would like.
2) The league manager sorts through the squads and finds any player clashes.
3) The player clashes are then posted in the thread, and managers of the teams involved in the player clashes send in bids via pm for each player they wanted that was involved in a clash, this is a silent bid, so no last minute bids. (NOTE, managers can opt out of bidding for a player if they want to) I'd suggest giving a 24-hour window for the bids to be sent in.
4) If a team does not have the maximum number of players in their squad, they can pick a 'free' agent to join their squad after the silent bidding has finished at a certain cost (I'd suggest 250,000).
5) The squads should soon be complete and it should only have taken a couple of days.
Obviously there are going to be certain players that everybody wants in their team, but this should encourage managers to pick players that they think other managers might not pick in order to save their budget for players that might cost more in a silent bid.
I'd like some Advice on whether this is a good idea and if people want to use it/make their own variations of it, go for it. Looking back, i should have used this in my league, the draft is taking ages because managers are inactive or people are leaving half way through.