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Teams take turns choosing a player to add to their roster and each round the draft order reverses.

Instructions and guidlines for uploading your own player list to use in your upcoming draft.

Musings about how dynasty league commissioners might fairly employ an auction format for rookie drafts.

Enable an arsenal for each team to use during the draft to annoy, distract, and sabotage other participants.

Configure options for a 2nd phase and switch formats mid-draft.

Upload a logo and background images to make your draft room match your podcast, company, or personal style.

Teams take turns choosing a player to add to their roster and each round the draft order repeats.

Teams take turns choosing a player to add to their roster and each round the draft order reverses.

Teams take turns bidding on the active player, choosing to raise the current bid or fold.

Teams enter a private bid (aka "blind bid") for each player and when time expires, the highest submitted bid wins.

Teams freely compete to claim the highest bid before the timer expires.

Get an explanation of each draft format, each more awesome than the last.

These formats are the traditional turn-based methods whereby teams take turns nominating between auctions.

This format gives the winner of each auction the privilege of nominating the next player.

In this format, commish is the only one able to nominate players.

This format lets teams freely nominate players one-at-a-time and puts them on cooldown until their nominee has been drafted.

Get an explanation of each nomination format and how each affects the flow of a fantasy auction draft.

Drafty draft room mechanics are bit different from the fantasy league provider draft rooms. Find out how.

The best D/ST scoring settings you can implement in your fantasy football league

Drafty draft room mechanics are bit different from the fantasy league provider draft rooms. Find out how.

Let's discuss what it means to have a minimum bid, a max bid, and what mechanics are at play.

Get answers to all your questions about the Drafty auction draft room experience.

A summary of error messages and issues you may encounter in the draft room.

A guide for fantasy football and fantasy baseball veterans who have never tried an auction draft, but want to learn how it works.

Drafty provides best-in-class draft rooms for your upcoming fantasy season but does not host any leagues. Play anywhere, but draft here.

In a traditional auction draft format where team owners nominate a new player in between every auction, draft participants unknowingly add up to 2 hours to their draft duration.

Some folks really enjoy the daily routine of updating their roster, but fantasy football offers a lot of improvements to how fantasy baseball is played to simplify without sacrificing the fun.