New! Create your own drafts

Kevin Day, August 15th, 2008

Two new site updates for anyone that’s wanted to either:

  1. Use the draftboard to to help monitor a draft in real-time, or
  2. Start a new draft with only computers

These new products are the Draft Calculator and Draft Simulator. They’re part of the 2008 Membership Package, which also includes the Lineup Calculator and saved Mock Drafts.

The Draft Calculator lets you pick a team size (6 to 18 teams), number of rounds (up to 20) and draft position.  You then manually enter every draft pick during your live draft to easily see how the draft is going.

This is an early version of the Draft Calculator, and it does not offer any suggested picks (that will be next year).  It is a good tool for visualizing a draft in action. You don’t want to waste precious time scrambling to see if the guy next to you has already drafted a QB.

The Draft Simulator is similar to the Draft Calculator except that the computer selects for everyone else in the draft.  It’s especially useful if you need to prepare for a draft with more than 15 rounds.

These two additions have been requested by a lot of people, and it’s exciting to see the draftboard used for other applications than just mock drafts.  You can get started now by signing up for a membership.

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9 Responses to “New! Create your own drafts”


Question about this program:
I was thinking of using this tool with a projector… so that it projects the draftboard onto a screen at my draft. My only questions is… if you enter all the commish names (and there are not cpu bots), are the selections timed? I am looking for them not to be, because we are lenient with that at our draft. I want to just enter the names whenver they are chosen and not worry about a selection timing out.

Brett on

Brett: The selections are not timed at all for the Draft Calculator. You can take all day if you want.

Right now, you can only enter one team’s name. The rest of the teams will be called “Computer,” but the Computer doesn’t actually do any selections. You should be able to use it like you suggested as long as you keep track of who’s turn it is to draft.

Kevin Day on

One suggestion for the Draft Simulator, that would put it over the top. Allow for custom scoring to affect the projected draft order. This would make this a great tool for creating a custom cheat sheet and a way to simulate how your league draft should go.

I guess since my league has wacked out scoring, my need may not be universal, but hey, it doesn’ hurt to ask.

Wintrode on

i dont like that you cannot enter all team names in the draft calculator….makes it much more difficult to use on draft day.

jon on

@Wintrode: That’s a great idea and I’ll work on it, but it won’t be done by this season for sure. The main goal for next season will be to add better support for multiple scoring systems. You’re not alone there.

@jon: You’re right, it would be nice to add all the team names. I’ll work on that and hopefully get that option available soon.

Kevin Day on

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Daily Haze | The Hazean on

I’ve had to pay for access for this three times. Why won’t it recognize me when I log in? My bank statements certinaly reflect me paying for this!

ARGGGH!!

Brandon on

Brandon: Your account is listed as paid. I’ll follow up with you via email about your login problems.

Kevin Day on

wintrode and jon both have great ideas. kevin, i’m loving your site already…and it’s only been a few days since i’ve signed up. if you can incorporate both of those ideas, it would certainly be helpful and make this a more complete tool. regardless, i’ll be sending people this way (except for the people in my $$$$ league ;) )

Satori on

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