1. Video Reactions
   Available to the commish under the audio icon dropdown. The commish can now play videos that broadcast for either “Good Pick” or “Bad Pick”. This should be a fun little addition to some cheap laughs, available to the commissioner at any point in the draft.
   While there are only two videos (sorry, no ability for custom videos at this time), it’s something we may expand on in the future.

2. In-Draft Trades Announcements
Trades are now announced via an audio announcement and pop-up after they take place. This is especially helpful for alerting remote users that a trade has happened, and the details of the trade.

3. In-Draft Trades now offers “Additional Notes” section
When performing in-draft trades, you can now include “additional notes”, which is very useful for documenting details of the trade that does not handle (eg future draft picks).

4. Expanded “Pos. Menu”:
When the ticker is turned off, a menu for quick-access buttons becomes available, for use to swap quickly between the different position boards. We expanded this tool to offer the ability of switching between different board display types too.

5. Added “Half-PPR” and “Super Flex” player rankings options.
There are now 4 different options to use with Player Rankings: Standard, PPR, Half-PPR, and SuperFlex

5. Nomination Clock
Auction drafts can now utilize a nomination clock, that will auto-skip nominators after a set amount of time. This can be turned on and customized in the Settings area.

To see a full list of the new features and updates to ‘25, click here.

The 2025 Changes & Additions

This offseason our focus has been on refinement of the platform. A lot of work has been made into some of the more invisible aspects, which help bring greater security and stability. However, these invisible changes have also allowed us to polish up several aspects of many of the features. For instance, you will now see much greater stability with aspects such as Apple Music for team songs, which is now using the most recent version of the API allowing for better playback, and more consistent integration. Many of you will also be happy to hear that we now also provide a wider list of options for player rankings, which now include Standard, PPR, Half-PPR, and SuperFlex.

We also made sure to work on adding more fun to the platform, especially with the inclusion of the “Video Reactions”, which are to the commish under the audio icon dropdown (where the Voice Reactions are located.) The commissioner can now play videos that broadcast for either “Good Pick” or “Bad Pick”.

Features and updates in 2025:

• “Video Reactions”: Available to the commish under the audio icon dropdown where the Voice Reactions are located. Commish can now play videos that broadcast for either “Good Pick” or “Bad Pick”.

• In-Draft Trades Announcements: Trades are now announced to remote users when they take place, alerting remote users that a trade has happened and the details of the trade.

• In-Draft Trades now offers “Additional Notes” section: Users can include notes such as “Future draft picks, etc.”.

• Total pick number now displayed when performing IN-DRAFT TRADES.

• Expanded “Pos. Menu”: When ticker is turned off, there is quick-access buttons to change between the different positions. Expanded ability to also be able to switch quickly between different board display types.

• Added “Half-PPR” and “Super Flex” player rankings options.

• Improvements to Player Videos: Removed Team Songs from playing during player video play, player videos no longer get cut-off 1 second short of actual length.

• Improved Apple Music (Team Songs) functionality and stability are greatly increased do to upgrade by Apple API.

You can learn more about these new features, and a handful or other new additions by clicking here.

More to come!

As summer approaches, we will continue working on further site improvements and even introducing a few new features. So stay tuned!

To end an owners auction, click on the “Commissioner Tools” drop-down menu, and click the “End Team’s Auction” option. You can then select a team and click the submit button to end that team’s auction. This team will then automatically be skipped during the player nomination process.

If you would like to reverse performing the ending of a team’s auction, you can simply re-select that team, and they will be re-included into the auction draft.

When the draft nears the end, many of us commissioners have an experience where owners are requesting quick changes of the Player Board positions. “Can I see the Kickers? Ok, now let me see the Defenses. Switch back to the kickers”, is what you’ll hear in rapid succession.

If you turn off the “Ticker” in the draft room, you’ll now have buttons available to quickly swap between different position boards, which offers a quick ability to change between the different positions of the Player Board.

The 2024 Changes & Additions

This offseason, our primary focus has been on enhancing scalability. There has been a large increase in users utilizing 's remote capabilities, which we're very excited to see. However, as more and more leagues leverage this feature, it necessitates a greater investment in our service backend to effectively manage the additional traffic. Our goal is to make drafts more fun and engaging, but also ensure a fast, stable, and reliable experience. Consequently, much of our time and resources have been dedicated to vital yet less visible improvements to in 2024.

All of that said, we did add a some new improvements to the 2024 experience, which include:

• A new “Positions Board” board display

• Quick Change Position Boards tool

• Color Differentiated "Traded Picks" teams

• “Allow Owner Editing” option

• Auction Draft Tool: “End Team’s Auction Draft”

You can learn more about these new features, and a handful or other new additions by clicking here.

Pricing Changes in 2024

As previously mentioned, we've focused a lot on strengthening the backend of to keep it scalable for our users and their many remote users. Because of this, you might notice some small price changes this year, which are needed to support these improvements.

For users that only use for one league, the price will remain $30. 

However, we will now be offering a PRO Plus account for those users who want to use for up to 5 different leagues. 

Additionally, we will no longer be able to provide any loyalty or early bird discounts.

More to come!

As summer approaches, we will continue working on further site improvements and even introducing a few new features. So stay tuned!

As the chill in the air gives way to the warmer breezes of spring, the excitement for the upcoming fantasy baseball season starts to build. At , we've been synonymous with elevating fantasy football league drafts into monumental experiences. We're excited to announce that the same level of enthusiasm, organization, and technological innovation is now available for fantasy baseball leagues. With the season just around the corner, it's time for leagues to start planning their drafts, and is here to ensure your draft is both thrilling and seamless.

for Your Fantasy Baseball Draft

has long been the go-to digital draft board for fantasy football leagues looking to elevate their in-person drafts. Our platform brings the draft to life with customizable features, real-time updates, and an engaging user interface that makes every pick feel like a major league event. We're bringing that same energy to fantasy baseball, providing leagues with a dynamic and immersive draft experience that's second to none.

Whether you're drafting in person or coordinating your picks from different locations, caters to all your needs. Our system is designed to make every aspect of your fantasy baseball draft run smoothly, from setting up your draft order to the final pick. With , you can customize player rankings, adjust draft settings, and even add a touch of personal flair with team logos and walk-up songs. It's all about creating a memorable experience that kicks off your fantasy season on a high note.

Getting Started

Preparing for your draft is easy with . Simply visit our official Baseball website at https://fantasydraftboard.com to learn more about our features and how to integrate our platform into your league's fantasy baseball draft day.

Not only is this useful tool from a strategic angle during the draft, but it is also very helpful in informing owners which positions they have remaining to fill come the end of the draft.

only supports “Non-Serpentine” styled order types for Auction drafts, and previously for “Combo Draft” styled users when they did the switch from auction to regular they had to maintain a “Non-serpentine” order type during the Regular style draft. Now, when making the transition from auction to regular, you can also change your “Order Type” to Serpentine, Non-Serpentine, or Custom.

We recently expanded on this color differentiation styling for after a pick is made by the new team, and it includes the color on the bottom-right signifier of the team that made the pick. Previously all of those areas were gray for every team, and this new addition helps improve readability for traded picks on the draft board display.

This small addition gives the commissioner is useful for auction leagues that utilize this value in-season and for dynasty purposes. Simply go to the REPORTS area after your draft, and click on the “Draft Roster” link to access this report.

Only the admin user (person who purchased a PRO account) has access to edit all league, team, and draft setup. This includes 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.

Note: All other team information beyond team name, logo, and owner image is still required to be added by the Admin commissioner.

Change Voice Announcer before the draft

The commissioner can now go to the Audio/Video setup area to change the voice used for the Voice Announcer.

This will allow you to cycle through all of the various options, test the voice, and determine ahead of time which is most suitable for you.

's "Voice Announcer" feature is based on Text-To-Speech (TTS) technology, driven by software that part of your computer's operating system. Not all TTS voices are the same on each browser and computer.

Recommendation: For the best quality, we recommend the "Google US English" or “Google UK English” voice options, which are found towards the bottom of the drop-down list.

I had a stable re-draft league many years ago, and we reached a point where we collectively decided to step into the realm of keeper leagues. The idea of maintaining a carry-over roster each year was appealing for many reasons:

1. It would create a sense of team identity, thus adding to the reality of being a fantasy team owner.

2. The idea of building a dominant fantasy dynasty was an added challenge to improve the game.

3. It would expand fantasy football into the off-season, where owners could remain engaged with offseason keeper declarations, and trades of players and draft picks.

Our First Failure: Using Contracts

The biggest downfall of a keeper league is how it can impact the draft day experience. We live for draft day, and so degrading the draft pool to only rookies and veteran scraps was worrisome. We decided to start off small, allowing teams to only keep 4 players with time-limited contracts. Two years of this first experiment we scrapped it.

It all felt like a very half-assed and unrewarding experience and didn’t accomplish any of our goals.

Despite the failure of our first attempt at a keeper league, it was a valuable experience. We learned what we liked and disliked, and what changes would get us to where we wanted. 20+ years later, we have developed a perfect balance of team identity, off-season engagement, ability to develop multi-year champions, and most importantly — maintained a quality draft experience.

All of these glorious things wrapped together, in a league format we have deemed:
”The Hybrid League!”

Keeper Leagues vs Dynasty Leagues

Keeper League formats involve fantasy teams getting to keep a handful of players from year-to-year. This maintains a fair amount of quality in the draft pool from year-to-year, however, from a gameplay perspective, it’s very unsatisfying.

It ultimately just feels like skipping the first round or two of the best players and equally distributing the biggest names to all the teams. There’s no sense of team identity and trades remain as infrequent as in re-draft leagues. It just doesn’t really improve the overall fantasy league experience.

Dynasty League formats involve fantasy teams keeping their entire roster from year to year. It’s a great format for serious leagues, but it has some major downfalls. The biggest one is that the draft becomes less exciting. You are essentially just drafting rookies, and the draft will only last about three rounds. The first round is interesting, and then it’s just a bunch of unknown rookies that got selected in the 5th round of that year’s NFL draft. On top of this, if your team is bad it can several years to rebuild and get out of a hole.

The Hybrid League

The Hybrid is a perfect combination of Keeper and Dynasty Format, where a large number of players are kept, but the draft still maintains a lot of value.

Here’s how the keeper rules of a Hybrid works

• 3 Total Skill Players (QB, RB, WR, TE) of any mix

• 2 DR (Drafted Rookies)

• 1 Kicker

• 1 Tight End

• 1 Defense/Special Teams
  
  Note: These keeper quantities should be perceived as "up to that number" and not mandatory for owners to keep. If an owner doesn't want to keep a kicker, they don't have to. If an owner didn't draft any rookies or doesn't have any eligible DR keepers, that's their problem due to poor planning.
  

  Additional Rules

• Keepers are designated one week following the NFL Draft

• Drafted Rookies (DR) lose eligibility for that keeper slot if traded, dropped, or assigned to a different keeper slot (eg one of the 3 Skill Player keeper slots)

• Following the end of the season, trades involving players cannot take place until keepers are designated

• Rookies picked up off of Free Agency are NOT eligible for DR keeper status.
  

Most of these keeper slots are self-explanatory.

You keep any mix of 3 total players from any of the skill positions: Quarterback, Running back, Wide Receiver, and Tight End.

For example: you can keep 2 QBs and 1 RB, or 3 RBs, or 1 RB and 2 WRs.

You then keep one kicker, one tight end, and one Defense/Special Team. Things like kickers and defense may seem trivial, but there is a purpose for this. For one, it helps establish team identity. We have owners who have had the same Defense/S.T. for 20 some years. It’s odd, but also awesome. Kickers can be fun too, as it creates an NFL-like atmosphere of owners struggling from year-to-year to find a dependable kicker that they can have for many years to come. I made a sizable trade some years back to get Justin Tucker, just out of the belief that I won’t have to deal with that position again in the draft for the foreseeable future. That’s something you’ll rarely see in other league formats (trading for a kicker).

Explaining the Two “Drafted Rookies”(DR) Keeper Slots

The slot that requires some additional explanation is the two “Drafted Rookies (DR)”.

The “DR” keeper slots are for any player that you drafted as a rookie. You can keep players in this slot for as long as they are on your roster and assigned with that DR designation. For instance, we had an owner draft Peyton Manning as a rookie, and he got to remain in the “DR” slot until he retired.

The one important note is that “once a player is dropped, traded, or moved out of the DR slot in any given season, then they are never again eligible to be placed back in that slot”.

What the DR keeper slots accomplish is adding value to rookies. There is a strategy to acquiring a player for those slots (rookies), and it forces owners to give constant thought to their rosters (both offseason and during the draft). For instance, if in a given season you only have two players eligible for that slot for the next year, you may be hesitant to trade either of them during the season as it would limit the number of players that you get to keep.

The one small downside is that this must be tracked manually. This means that the commissioner must keep a spreadsheet of keepers and their designations from year to year. Players will oftentimes be shifted from the DR keeper slot to one of the 3 skill position slots, which is usually done to make room for grooming recently drafted rookies. It’s essential to track this because once they are moved out of the DR slot then that player loses his eligibility in the future.

Hybrid League Example of Keeper Roster and Draft Pool Quality

As mentioned earlier, the Hybrid keeps a beautiful balance between keeper roster and draft player pool quality. While you aren’t going to have the type of draft pool that you get in a re-draft, it’s still going to be dramatically better than a dynasty league. The first round is usually dominated by big-named rookies and a handful of veterans, and the quality remains fairly solid through about the 5th or 6th round.

For example, below is was my roster going into the 2021 season:

SKILL 1: Patrick Mahomes (QB) KC

SKILL 2: Josh Jacobs (RB) LVR

SKILL 3: James Cook (RB) BUF

DR 1: JK Dobbins (RB) BAL

DR 2: Kenneth Walker (RB) SEA

TE: George Kittle (TE) SF

K: Justin Tucker (BAL) PK

DST: Seattle Seahawks (SEA) DST

I drafted both Kenneth Walker and Dobbins as rookies the prior year, and decided to put them into my DR spots. Although I also drafted James Cook as a rookie, I put him into my Skill position.

Going into the draft, here is the quality of players that will be available:

ALL of the NFL rookies. These will dominate the majority of the first round of our draft.

The veteran talent in 2023 (there are many more, but here are the top 5-10 players from each position)

Quarterbacks

• Tua Tagovailoa QB/MIA

• Kenny Pickett QB/PIT

• Jordan Love QB/GB

• Jared Goff QB/DET

• Kirk Cousins QB/MIN

• Russell Wilson QB/DEN

• Derek Carr QB/NO

• Matt Stafford QB/LAR

Running backs

• Miles Sanders RB/CAR

• Alexander Mattison RB/MIN

• Rachaad White RB/TB

• Khalil Herbert RB/CHI

• James Conner RB/ARI

• Zeke Elliot RB/DAL

• Raheem Mostert RB/MIA

• Jamaal Williams RB/NO

• Antonio Gibson RB/WAS

• Tyler Allgeier RB/ATL

Wide Receivers

• Jaylen Waddle WR/MIA

• Brandon Aiyuk WR/SF

• Calvin Ridley WR/JAC

• DJ Moore WR/CHI

• Jerry Jeudy WR/DEN

• Christian Watson WR/GB

• Keenan Allen WR/LAC

• Tyler Lockett WR/SEA

• Christian Kirk WR/JAC

• Trey Burks WR/TEN

Important Additional Rules

TRADE DEADLINES AND KEEPER DESIGNATION DATES (IMPORTANT!)

It’s important to note our rule that during the off-season “Trades involving players cannot take place until keepers are designated”. You don’t want owners trading away all of their excess talent at the conclusion of the season. All that will do is lessen the draft quality. Instead, lock the rosters following your fantasy season until the keeper designation date.

Example:

My league’s trade deadline is week 12 of the regular season. Owners can then not trade any players until our keepers have been designated for the next season, which for us is one week following the NFL draft.

We do allow for trading draft picks immediately following the conclusion of the fantasy season though.

The earlier you set your date for keeper designation, the sooner it opens up trades and starts getting people excited for the draft. We set our keeper designation date for one week following the NFL draft.

Once the keepers are designated, then all of the non-kept players will be the veterans available for the draft. It’s a very good idea to set your keeper designation date early, so that way owners can know who will be available in the draft pool, and begin preparing for their draft.

Prepare for some owner pushback regarding “keeper designation dates”. I highly recommend an early date (one very shortly after the NFL draft). Some owners will have the all too common response: “But what if my keeper gets hurt during training camp!”

It’s important to understand the value of an earlier date for keeper designation though:

The earlier the keeper designation date, then the earlier teams will know the draft pool and be able to prepare for their draft, and the earlier they can start making trades.

CAP HOW FAR IN THE FUTURE A TEAM CAN TRADE DRAFT PICKS

Our league owners frequently include future picks in many of their trades. For instance, an owner may offer their first-round pick for the next two seasons for a player. However, we do cap how far into the future you can trade. It would be a real bummer to have some owner trade their 1st round pick for the next 10 years, and then have something bad happen to that owner. We use 2 future seasons for our cutoff. So in the 2021 season, the farthest forward they could trade picks is 2022 and 2023.

CONSIDER FUTURE DRAFT PICK TRADES AND DRAFT ORDER

Our league does an inverse-standings (loser bracket for top pick) to determine our draft order. We also hold a snake-style draft.

We ran into one strange scenario that can happen with this method. Let’s say I traded my 1st round pick to a team, and then at the end of the season, I land in the loser bracket. It would actually benefit me to do poorly in the loser bracket, because I don’t have my 1st round pick, and getting knocked out early would thus improve my 2nd round pick position. This inadvertently screws the guy that I traded my 1st round pick.

PREPARING YOUR OWNERS FOR A HYBRID LEAGUE

Starting a Hybrid Keeper league means owners should be preparing for the long haul. Educating them on a little long-term strategy and what to be aware of will get them both excited and well-informed. Here are a few tips:

1. The first draft you hold will essentially be like any other re-draft, because all of the players will be available. However, going forward the future drafts will very much evolve into a different thing where rookies will take on significantly greater value (as those will be the players with the most upside in your draft.)

2. A decent strategy in your first draft is to get a tight end, kicker, and defense that you like, because you’ll likely be keeping them for a very long time with their individually designated spots.

3. Keep constant consideration of drafted rookies, because you’ll want two of them to fill those DR keeper spots when the time comes to designate keepers. If you didn’t draft any rookies or dropped them all during the season, you’ll be at a significant disadvantage when that time comes, because you’ll be keeping fewer keepers that other teams.

4. Bringing additional attention to rule 3: Always pay attention to how many eligible DR keepers you have prior to a draft. If you enter a draft with two DR keeper players, but don’t draft any rookies that draft, if something bad happens to one of those DR keepers of yours (eg they retired or have a career ending injury) you’re gonna be hurting at that next year’s keeper designation period.

A Rules Template for Your First “Hybrid League”

We’ve had several people reach out requesting a starting point and rules template for their start-up Hybrid League. Below is a list of rules, which you can paste into your League Constitution/Rulebook. While a lot of these areas are flexible, we highly recommend not fussing with the established amount of keepers, as they have huge implications on the end goals of this format. For instance, increasing the number of keepers by even one will greatly reduce the quality of the following year’s draft pool

1. Rosters consist of a 19-player roster.
   (This rule is flexible, however, it’s what works best with our league)

2. One week following the conclusion of the NFL draft, each owner will submit their keepers, which include:
   - 3 Total Skill Players (QB, RB, WR, TE) of any mix
   - 2 DR (Drafted Rookies)
   - 1 Kicker
   - 1 Tight End
   - 1 Defense/Special Teams

3. A player can only be placed in the Drafted Rookies (DR) at this keeper designation time if they were an NFL rookie when drafted by the designating fantasy owner.

4. Rookies picked up off of Free Agency are NOT eligible for DR keeper status.

5. Players permanently lose eligibility for the DR keeper slot if traded, dropped, or ever assigned to a different keeper slot (eg one of the 3 Skill Player keeper slots).

6. The trade deadline is Wednesday, December 1, at 12 PM ET

7. Trades involving players cannot take place until keepers after keepers have been designated.

8. A team may trade future draft picks, but any such picks may not be more than 2 drafts into the future.

This mobile friendly view was created with the remote user in mind, and even more specifically those that are drafting on a phone.

The new display shows players in a vertical list format, providing a more conventional approach to viewing a list of available players on a smaller mobile device.

The list can be expanded for more phone-screen coverage, by drag-pulling the header area up or down, which will provide a longer view of the player list.

To access this view, users can simply select the “Player list” option from the display board drop-down menu.

Amidst the multitude of features provided by , there might be a few that you haven't yet discovered. In the following list, we highlight these distinctive features that can be seamlessly integrated into your live draft, ensuring you host an unforgettable draft day.

1. Player Whammies

2. Walk-Up Songs

3. Pre-Draft Presentation

4. Player Videos

5. Custom Sound FX

6. "The Pick Is In..."

7. Draft Start Audio

To utilize this Commissioner-Only tool:
-> Open the chat area.
-> Type a message.
-> Click the “Commish Announce” button.

The details:

More specifically, all skilled positions are being driven by FantasyNerds.
The ”Skilled positions” include: Quarterbacks, Running backs, Wide Receivers, Tight Ends, Kickers, and Defenses.

Individual Defensive Player (IDPs) rankings are also provided by FantasyNerds.

The more obscure positions, such as Coaches, Punters, etc., are generally derived from real-time "average draft position" (ADP) data supplied by MyFantasyLeague.com.

Changes to Individual Defensive Players (IDPs) Rankings

When viewing the “Top Overall”, IDPs will now appear grouped toward the bottom of the skilled players. Previously, IDPs were intermingled with the “skilled positions”.

Benefits / Why the change?

In the past ’s player rankings were always derived from Average Draft Position (ADP) data provided by MyFantasyLeague. Unfortunately, that data would always be unpredictable, especially in the early parts of summer.

The new rankings are now significantly more consistent with consensus rankings, and predictable throughout the entire draft season.

The changes to IDP rankings have also been significantly improved, providing more accurate and expansive rankings for all of the individual defensive players.

The earlier you start this process, the better, as people's calendars will start filling up early without a "Save the Date." Finding a tool to help with this process will save you (the Commish) a lot of time and headaches.

While there are tons of calendar scheduling services out there, finding one that caters to the needs of scheduling a draft day is more difficult to discover. Below are summaries of a few of our favorite free scheduling tools that we've used to get you kicked off and running with the "Draft Day Scheduling Process."

Google Forms

This one is for the power user, who wants maximum flexibility.

Simply add a question for “owner name”, and then add a “matrix box” with rows of dates and columns of “Available”, “Not Available”, and “Not Ideal”. As the submissions come in you’ll be able to quickly scan a graphic “summary” to find your best draft date.

Pros: Powerful, flexible, and visually superior. Create a form, and then easily send out a single URL via email to all of your owners.

Cons: If you’ve never used Google Forms before, there is a slight learning curb. It may take you a few tries before you get the form properly created, because “Matrix Box” creation can be a bit confusing at first.

FantasyNerds: Draft Date Picker

This is a recently discovered gem that we wish we’d known about sooner.

Pros: Very easy to create, and the product was developed with fantasy football in mind.

Cons: Requires account registration for the Form Maker (not the owners who will respond — only the creator). Very binary responses, being limited to checking a box for being available or not. Having a 3rd option is sometimes nice.
The biggest downfall is that there is no “single URL” that you can send to people, so you will either have to enter all of your owner's email addresses, or else send out the unique URLs to every owner individually.

Tallycal

This is a fairly new service that just started up in the Summer of 2022, and while we don’t have any live experience with it, we set up a couple of fake polls to try it out and it was quite slick.

Pros: A very modern interface. Doesn’t require user registration, and is free of cost. Has the ability to create a link to send to owners. Options for “Yes, No, If Need Be”. Easy to follow results summary to find an ideal date.

Cons: None as of now. The service is great. Being new on the scene, eventually, services like this will have to find ways to monetize, so it’ll be interesting to see how it evolves. But for now, Tallycal is a great way to schedule a draft.

Doodle

This used to be our no-fail recommendation for scheduling a draft, but wow has this sucker devolved. It now feels like a prehistoric website that hasn’t been updated since the early 2000s. Add on top of this a bombardment of banner ads, a lack of tools for the organizer of the poll, and a missing ability for the organizer to modify their responses. This now falls to the bottom of our recommendation list.

Pros: It’s free and fast, and doesn’t require any registration from the form maker or responders. Create a form and send out the link to the owners via email.

Cons: Visually confusing with all of the banner ads. Lacks tools, customization, and ability to edit the poll maker’s response.

1. Establish a draft date
   You don’t need to hold your draft the weekend before the NFL kickoff. If you want to maximize the fun of a draft party, do it during a date and time that the vast majority of owners can attend. Set up an online poll for your owners, and find a weekend day or evening that works best for everyone.
   
   

2. Select an ideal venue
   If everyone lives in the same area, see if the owner with the biggest home is willing to host. I’ve always been a bigger fan of outdoor (backyard) drafts than inside. It’s a lot roomier and less stuffy. Not to mention, spills and messes are easier to contain.
   If you go this route though, make sure to have plenty of extension cords and power strips.
   If your owners are spread out around the country, consider getting an Airbnb in a fun location, and make a whole weekend of the event.
   
   

3. Accommodate remote owners
   There are always going to be one or two owners that just can’t make your in-person draft. Do your best to accommodate these owners. We’d be remiss not to recommend , as it allows these owners to participate in your live draft remotely. If these owners can’t do that, then decide whether they want to be set up for auto-draft, or have a fellow owner make picks on their behalf.
   
   

4. Party Décor
   It may sound frivolous, but you are throwing a theme party after all, and one should never throw a theme party without decorations. So buck up and make a $20 buck investment into some properly themed football decorations. The basics include a tablecloth, streamers or pennants, and disposable plates.
   
   

5. Decide the “Draft Rules”
   How much time will each owner have to make a selection? Will owners get any “extensions”? What happens if the clock hits zero and an owner hasn’t made a pick? Can owners trade picks and/or players during the draft?
   Make sure everyone understands these rules before the draft begins to avoid confusion.