Settings (Regular Draft)
The "Settings" area is where you will set up the basic rules and information related to your league's draft. If you change your draft type to Auction, different settings will be available and you should view the Settings (Auction Draft) section.
League logo
(Optional) If your league has a logo image, you can upload it here.
Images must be less than 2 megs in size, have an equal pixel ratio, and can be in GIF, JPEG, or PNG format. The recommended graphic is a 300x300 pixel PNG file.
League Name
Enter the name of your fantasy league here.
Number of Teams
Select the number of fantasy teams that are in your league.
Draft Type
FanDraft supports both traditional style draft ("Regular") and "Auction" style drafts.
Combination Drafts: If your league performs a Combination Draft (eg Half Regular/Half Auction), follow the instructions here .
Pick order type
There are 3 different "Pick Order" types to choose from:
Serpentine: A Serpentine draft (also known as a "Snake" draft), is a type in which the draft order is reversed every round (eg 1..12, 12..1, 1..12, 12..1, Etc.).
- For example, if you have the first pick in the draft, you will pick first in round one, and then last in round two.
Non-Serpentine: Also referred to as a "Fixed" draft, the same order of selection takes place every round (eg 1..12, 1..12, 1..12, 1..12, etc.)
- For example, if you have the first pick in the draft, you will pick first every round.
Custom: This is for leagues that use a "3rd Round Reversal" or other non-traditional order types other than Serpentine / Non-Serpentine.
- If you choose this option, you will need to edit the " Custom Round Order " to further complete these settings.
Rounds
This is the total number of rounds that will take place in your draft.
It's important to note that the draft will immediately conclude either at the quantity you set here.
Roster size
This is the total number of players on each team's roster.
The Roster Size field is vitally important to set up correctly, as it is used in creating a correct calculation for preventing teams from drafting an illegal roster. The draft will immediately end once all teams have filled up their roster.
Player Pool
Most leagues will want to leave this as the default "All Players" option.
However, the other options include:
- Rookie Only: Useful for Dynasty leagues that are only selecting NFL Rookies.
- Veterans Only: Useful for Dynasty startup leagues who want to exclude NFL Rookies.
- Playoffs Only: For leagues performing a late-season "Playoff" draft. This will include only players from teams that are in the NFL playoffs.
Pick Clock (Draft Clock)
This is how much time each owner has to make their selection.
Clock Extension
Some leagues allow owners to use extensions during a draft. If the owner chooses to use one, it will reset the clock to the predefined "Extension Duration" and thus give them added time to make a draft selection.
You can customize the quantity (0-3) of extensions and the duration of the extension here.
When Clock Hits Zero
There are three different options that determine what action takes place when the clock hits zero (00:00):
- Nothing Happens: When the clock hits zero, nothing will happen.
- Skip Pick: When the clock hits zero, the owner selecting will be skipped and the next owner will be on deck to draft.
- Auto-Draft: When the clock hits zero, FanDraft will automatically select the best available player for the team selecting.
- Skip and Return: The same as the "Skip Pick" option, however, after the next owner makes their selection the pick will return to the initial team that was skipped.
Draft Date
The draft date area is completely optional, in that you can hold and start your draft on any day (and at any time) that you want regardless of what you put in this field. You can even leave this field empty if you would like.
If you enter your draft date information, FanDraft will send out a reminder email to any users that you invited to draft remotely. The email will contain the information (time) that you set here, as well as provide reminder information to these users on how to log in to the draft.
Owner Editing
Only the admin user (person who purchased a PRO account) has access to edit all league, team, and draft setup. This include assigned co-commissioners, who also don't have access to edit setup information.
If you turn "Owner Editing" on, this will give owners who have a registered account and have been invited to participate remotely to the draft access to edit their Team Name, Team Logo, and Owner images.
All other team information is still required to be added by the Admin commissioner.
Disable Draft Sound FX Interaction
During the draft, the pick modal displaying the last pick made shows various sound effects (eg Cheer, Boo, etc.) which remote owners can interact with. If you Disable Draft Sound FX Interaction, it will not allow your remote owners to see or interact with these buttons.
Roster positions
This section allows you to input your league roster rules, which denote the positions that your league uses along with the minimum and maximum allowed at each position.
Use: If your league uses this position, make sure the switch is turned to the green "on" position.
Minimum: This is the minimum amount of players at this position required for each team.
Maximum: This is the maximum amount of players at this position required for each team.
Color: Here you can customize the cell color on the draft board for the position.
Setting this information correctly will allow FanDraft to warn/prevent owners from drafting an illegal roster.
By default, FanDraft shows the 6 standard positions used in most leagues, however, you can simply click the " Toggle More Positions " button to reveal the vast amount of available positions you can add.
Toggle the " Use " for each position you wish to include/exclude, then set then the Minimum and Maximum amount a team is allowed to select from each position.
Hide rankings
Most leagues will want to leave this as the default (unchecked).
However, if your league prefers to not allow owners to sort players on the draft board by Rank , then you can check this box.
Hide Clock
Most leagues will want to leave this as the default (unchecked).
However, if your league prefers to **not use a draft clock, then you can select this option.
This will turn off and hide the draft clock during the draft.**
Use Whammies
Some leagues like to assign a set quantity of random players to be assigned as "Whammy Players". These leagues will then penalize the owner who had the misfortune of selecting this player, by having them do something such as "take a shot".
To utilize this feature, simply turn on the "Use Whammies" option, select how many players you would like to be randomly assigned a "Whammy" designation, and then click SAVE LEAGUE CHANGES.
When one of these players is selected during the draft, a video will automatically pop up announcing that this was a Whammy.
If you would like to test how this works via a practice draft, to see what it looks like, we added a special "Reveal Whammy Players" ability for the commissioner.
- Click the "Enter Draft Room"
- Exit back to league SETTINGS, and scroll to the bottom.
- Click "Reveal Secret Whammy Players
How the Whammy Players Are Selected:
Keepers or players that have a Player Video assigned to them will automatically be removed from eligible Whammy players. The system will randomly select eligible players from top 150 of positions used by the league.
Note: Whenever you change the number of whammy players or "Reset Draft", it will reset who the random whammy players will be.
Whammy videos are also only fully compatible with laptops, as auto-play functionality of any sort of video is not compatible with mobile browsers (tablets and phones)
View Only Mode
Most leagues will want to leave this as the default (unchecked).
However, if you want to allow remote owners to only see the draft board, and not make selections on behalf of themselves, this disables the ability for them to do so.