Category: Online Draft

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A live player draft allows you to define a pool of available players in your system, and coaches to login to the website from a remote location such as their home or office, and participate in picking teams in real-time. This can be used for picking teams at the beginning of the season and evenly distributing talent throughout the league or organization.

The draft kit can also be used to automatically assign (draft) players to teams. For example, you may not want to hold a live draft, but you may want to evenly balance teams across the board. To do this, create a draft and rank the players by player Rating. Then set the draft pick time to :00 seconds and the draft machine will automatically draft players to teams to balance out talent.

Admins that have access to the Online Draft system will see this option under the Teams section of the Admin Features page. When clicked They will be taken to a page to setup a draft or edit an existing draft.

If there are no drafts created, click "New" to add a new draft. If there are drafts created, select one in the list and then choose an option:

• Settings
  Allows you to configure the settings for the draft.
• Open
  Allows the admin or commissioner to open and start the draft
• Undo
  Allows and admin or commissioner to undo all assignments the draft created
• Delete
  Allows an admin to delete a draft and remove all entries for the draft

Creating a draft

Once you have clicked "New" or "Settings," you'll be taken to the draft setup page to define the settings for your draft.

Running a draft

Once all of the settings have been added, you can start your draft. Send the "Address" from the settings page to all people involved in the draft and they will be able to login and access the draft board. To start the draft, the draft commissioner must login, go to Admin > Teams > Draft Players and click "Open." Once opened, they can click the Play button to start the draft timer.