TYPES OF DRAFTS
There are 3 different draft options available to managers in Maximum Fantasy Sports Fantasy Football. No teams may join a league once the draft room has been opened, though drafts can be deleted and started over, if necessary.
Live Online Draft - Each manager drafts players in our browser-based draft room. This option allows managers that live in different geographic areas to assemble virtually, talk smack and draft efficiently. Your league can generate its own draft order offline and enter it through a Commissioner Tools option or MFS can generate a random selection order for your league. You will have the ability to dictate how many days in advance of the draft we randomize the draft order for you. Every team selects one player per round until their roster is full. The draft order reverses each round, so the team that picks first in the first round will pick last in the second round and the team that picks last in the first round will pick first in the second round. If a manger can not be present for all or part of the online draft, our rule engine will select a team for you (see the Autodraft section for more information). There will be a time limit set by the Commissioner for each draft pick. If a team does not select a player in this time allotment, the autodraft rules will kick in and draft a player for that manager. If you are participating in the Live Online draft and need to leave or take a break with the newspaper, our draft control allows you to click an “I’m Away” button so the Autodraft kicks in automatically. If this does occur, the draft control has a player queue. If your turn comes up and you are “Away” or wait too long and time expires, the rule engine will draft from the “On Tap” area, which is the top of your player queue. If you would like to see this description in practice, you can run a simulated draft in our Draft Demo League (MFS Userid required for access). Also, you must have JavaScript enabled in your browser settings.
Offline Draft – The draft is conducted in whatever fashion you chose and the results are entered into your MFS league. The Commissioner, or designated flunky, will use a modified version of the draft control to select players in the order that they were drafted offline. This is a great option for leagues that like to get together in person prior to the start of the season in a central location….like….Vegas.
Autodraft – Maximum Fantasy Sports will generate the draft results for you. This will be a computerized draft. The autopick logic in our rule engine will use a combination of your player pre-rankings, MFS player rankings and your specified position order to draft an entire starting lineup first. After all of your starting positions are filled, the system determines a list of bench positions based on the number of starters at a position vs. the overall roster size and continues with the same logic described above. The exception to this rule is that MFS position pre-rankings allow you to slot a position to be chosen last. For example, much like the real NFL, kickers typically get no respect and vary little from team to team. So, you could slot that position last. This instructs the rule engine to make the last pick or two a Kicker. This is done to determine a maximum number of players to draft per position (starters plus bench) so that no roster ends up with an inordinate number of players at any single position (e.g., five quarterbacks in a league that has a single starting quarterback). MFS suggests all managers pre-rank players and positions to assist in the Autodraft logic. Our goal is to have the autodraft engine emulate your thought process while drafting players, without the influence of draft-time beverages, of course. To set your pre-rankings, go to your team home page and click on the Pre-Draft Rankings link.