Run a live, in-person Salary Cap (auction), snake, or linear draft completely free. Go Online with PREMIUM whenever the draft needs to sync live with another device.
OH, AND WE'RE BUILDING A PHYSICAL AUCTION CONTROLLER.
The Bid Dial accessory gives the auctioneer tactile control over the chaotic bidding process. So you can focus on the action in the room, not hunting and pecking on the keyboard.
Not yet available. Everything above works without it.
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On draft day, you have enough to worry about. Don't waste it fighting a vibe-coded mess. FF Drafter was crafted for the best possible UX – every action designed, play-tested, and polished until draft night just runs.
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A real live auction: nominate players, take bids, call going once and going twice, then confirm the winner. Run it as the auctioneer from one screen, or switch on per-team bid entry to record each team’s bid in its own column.
The classic. Pick order reverses every round, with arrows on the board showing which way the round is running.
Keep the same pick order every round, start to finish – no reversal.
Flip the QB format to Superflex and the roster template opens an SFLX slot – and every value and ranking switches to two-QB numbers.
Switch the value format to Dynasty and rankings and ADP come from FF Ranker’s dynasty board. Rookie-only drafts narrow the pool to incoming NFL rookies and default to five rounds.
Pick your scoring and the whole board reorders – player values, rankings and auction prices all arrive matched to it. Those three formats are the choices; there is no per-stat scoring editor.
Anywhere from 2 to 20 teams, with the roster template and the round count following along. Odd numbers are fine.
Assign each team its keepers before the draft – as many as that team has picks, or budget, to pay for. In snake and linear a keeper consumes a round’s pick; in a Salary Cap draft you set its price and it comes off the budget. You can still assign one from a board cell mid-draft.
In snake and linear drafts, hand a pick to the team that acquired it – before the draft, mid-draft, or even after the pick was made. The board redraws itself. (Salary Cap drafts have no pick ownership to trade.)
Grant a team an extra player at no cost – no pick spent, no roster slot used, no budget spent. Assign it in settings or from the comp cell at the foot of a team’s column, before, during or after the draft. It is also how you hand out a free keeper.
Set one budget for the room, or give every team its own – uneven budgets, handicaps and penalties included.
Set QB, RB, WR, TE, FLEX, SFLX, K, DEF and bench counts to match your league exactly – or zero a slot out. Kickers and defenses only join the player pool when you ask for them.
Someone missing from the pool? Type in a name and a position and draft them like anyone else.
Arm a secret set of players – each with its own callout message – and the board detonates when someone drafts one. A party rule: landmines change nothing about who can be picked, what they cost, or when the draft ends.
Drag the teams into the order you want, hit Randomize, or settle it with the Mad Dash. Locked in once the draft goes live.
Need a draft order? Settle it with a 100-yard race your whole league can watch – open a link, and the result stays sealed on our server until the gun. Free, no account, even if you draft somewhere else.
Set the nomination clock, the bid clock, the confirmation clock and when it turns gold and red – or switch timers off entirely and run with no pressure. Every clock tops out at ten minutes; this is a live draft, not a week-long one.
A bid in the last second doesn’t end the lot. Any raise pushes the clock back up to the bid reset floor – 15 seconds by default, and yours to set.
Choose what an expired clock does: draft the best available player automatically, or pause and wait for the commissioner. Nothing is ever skipped or forfeited, and the board can name the upcoming auto-pick before it fires.
Set a date and time and the room counts down to it in every viewer’s own time zone. You choose what happens when it lands: the draft starts itself, or it holds in the lobby until you start it. Leave the time blank and it always waits for you. There is no calendar file to download – you tell your league the time.
Open every lot at $1, or start anyone valued over $10 at half their projection – with optional jitter so the opening price never leaks the exact value. The nominator can also name their own opening price.
Every team’s column heading carries its max legal bid – budget minus a dollar for each open roster spot – so nobody has to do the math. Per-team bid entry refuses a bid above it, and the bots respect it too.
Run the bidding without the mouse: ↑ and ↓ move the bid, Space pauses, R resets the clock, Enter confirms the winner. (Nominating still means typing a name into search.)
Live rosters, player headshots, the pick clock, league progress and a scrolling ticker – built to be shown on a television or projector. Needs a landscape screen at least 920px wide, so a laptop, TV or tablet held sideways.
It is a web page, so it goes on the TV the way any web page does – AirPlay or Chromecast the tab, or run an HDMI cable from the laptop. There is no cast button inside the app and no TV app to install.
Run the board on your laptop and mirror it into a second window of the same browser – the one you drag onto the TV or projector. Local drafts mirror to another window on that one computer; syncing another device is Online.
Scale the whole board, the top strip and the columns until it reads from the couch, go full screen, and the draft holds the screen awake so nothing dims mid-pick. (On an iPhone there is no full-screen API – the app shows you the workaround instead.)
Sound cues, on-the-block and post-pick popups, and a ticker along the foot of the TV board carrying live status, recent picks and league progress. Every piece is a toggle, and the ticker is TV-board only.
Hit pause and every clock stops – no bids, no nominations, no picks – until you resume. Fixing a mis-recorded pick still works while it is held.
Took the wrong player, or typed the wrong price? Undo the last pick, or click any drafted cell to correct the price or move the player to another team – the board refuses a correction that would break a budget or a roster.
In snake and linear drafts, put an absent manager on autopilot and their picks are made automatically, best available – and they can take control back the moment they walk in. (Auctions have no autopilot: nominating isn’t picking.)
The commissioner runs the room: start it, pause it, undo and correct picks, hand this turn to another team, and decide who is allowed to change what. Managers draft; the commissioner runs the draft.
Promote a seat to co-commissioner and they can run the clock, confirm and undo picks and edit settings alongside you.
Clocks, popups, ticker, values and bid rules stay editable while the draft runs. The rules that would rewrite the draft – format, budget, roster template, team list, draft order – lock the moment it starts.
Go Online and every manager searches, follows picks, bids and drafts from their own phone, tablet or computer – same room or across the country.
In an Online draft every screen shows where it stands – saved, saving, reconnecting, back online – so nobody has to wonder whether their pick went through. A green dot marks each team whose manager is currently connected.
Rankings, projected points, auction values and real ADP arrive automatically – market values from FantasyCalc, adapted to your league size, scoring and QB format, and draft order from Sleeper ADP. Keeper money is priced in: values rescale to the dollars actually left in the room.
Order the board by one of your saved FF Ranker rankings and it brings your tier breaks and your target and fade marks with it. One account works on both products, and the tier colors are colorblind-safe and identical across them.
Every row carries the position, NFL team, bye week and injury tag – Q, D, O, IR, PUP or SUS. Open one for the full card: headshot, projected stat line, and the bio.
There is no draft queue – nothing auto-drafts off a saved list, and autopilot always takes best available. What you get is stars: mark the players you’re chasing and filter the board down to just them. The list lives on your device, so nobody else sees it.
In snake and linear drafts the player list draws an estimated availability line at your next turn, so you can see which players might still be there when it comes round to you.
Show projected values, hide them until a player is drafted, or turn them off entirely – so the numbers never steer the bidding. Bids themselves are always public on the board.
The page has to load, and the player list has to have been fetched at least once that day – after that a Local draft runs in your browser off a cached pool, so a flaky connection doesn’t stop draft night. It is not an offline app.
Unlimited free mocks – snake, linear or Salary Cap – against bots that each get their own private board and personality: position leans, nomination habits, bid patience. Use your real league setup, or hand every seat to a bot and Turbo the whole draft in seconds.
Before draft night, copy your Sleeper league’s name, teams, draft order, roster template, scoring and budget into FF Drafter. It is a one-time head start on setup, not a live connection: later changes and draft picks do not sync in either direction. Kept players still need to be assigned, and IDP slots come across as bench.
Sleeper is the only league host FF Drafter can copy setup from. For ESPN, Yahoo and other hosts, enter the teams, roster template and scoring yourself, or reuse a previous FF Drafter setup. After the draft, move the completed results to ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo with the Chrome extension; entry sheets, formatted text and CSV are there if you prefer to enter them yourself.
No. FF Drafter is the draft room, not a companion board for a draft happening on another site. Run every nomination, bid and pick in FF Drafter; ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo remains your league’s home for the season. When the draft is finished, the Chrome extension can enter the results there for you, or you can use the entry sheets, formatted text or CSV. Sleeper import only copies league setup before the draft.
Set your league up once – team names, seats, and the draft defaults every future draft starts from. Save a manager’s email against a seat to reserve it for them.
Email an invite straight from the league Teams page, or share one join link – managers claim their own team. Joining, drafting and watching stay free for everyone you invite.
A league keeps your teams and your draft defaults, and every draft you start from it inherits them. Tune the clocks on draft night, then save them back as the league’s defaults for next year. An account holds up to 10 leagues at a time.
Start a new draft from an existing one’s rules, roster template and teams – as a mock, another Local draft, or an Online one. Nothing is drafted into it and the source is untouched. (A Local draft can’t be flipped to Online in place – you copy it into a new Online draft.)
Your league page lists the drafts you have run, grouped by season – Local and Online alike. Your account keeps the 10 most recent league drafts and 25 most recent mocks backed up; older ones stay on the machine that ran them.
Signed-in drafts back up to your account as you go, so if the tab dies or the cache gets cleared you can reopen the last saved copy – on that computer or another one – and carry on. It is a backup, not live sync: two devices drafting at once is Online.
To run or join a draft, yes – a free one. No password required: we email you a sign-in link or a six-digit code, or you use Google. Want to look first? The live demo needs no account at all, and signing up keeps the draft you ran in it.
When it’s over: a full recap, a letter grade for every manager, steal of the draft, biggest reach, and every roster reviewable on the completed board.
When the draft is finished, use the Chrome extension to enter every pick into ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo for you. Prefer to do it yourself? FF Drafter also exports team entry sheets, formatted text and CSV, including auction prices.
A free Chrome extension that types every pick into ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo for you, so nobody keys in 180 picks by hand. Chrome only, and it runs after the draft rather than syncing during it.
Print the whole thing – recap, grades, the full board, every roster and the pick list – straight to a PDF from your browser’s print dialog.
A Local draft – the full room, every format, every league rule, up to 20 teams, run from one computer – is free forever, and so are mock drafts. Premium is only about managers drafting from their own devices.
Premium sales are closed for the season – draft season is over, and we’ll be back for 2027. It’s a one-time pass for the season (the calendar year), and only the commissioner buys it. Your leaguemates never pay a cent to join, draft or watch.
Premium covers 10 Online drafts a season across every league you run – counted only when a draft actually starts. Local drafts and mocks are unlimited and never count.
If Premium doesn’t work out, request a refund from your Account page. Requests inside 30 days, before your league’s first Online draft has finished, are the straightforward ones – after either of those, it comes to us and we sort it out with you. Nothing auto-renews, so there is no subscription to cancel.
FF Drafter runs draft night and stops there. Lineups, waivers, FAAB, trades, matchups and standings live on ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo – which is exactly why the results export and the Chrome extension exist.
No chat, no voice, no video, no trash-talk board. FF Drafter focuses on the draft board – run your group text, Discord or video call alongside it.
FF Drafter doesn’t send turn alerts – no text, no email, no push. It runs in a browser rather than as an installed app, so there is nothing sitting on a phone to buzz. On draft night the room does the work instead: sound cues, the on-screen clock, and autopilot for anyone who steps away.
There is nothing to install – it is a website, so it opens in the browser on any phone, tablet or computer. No iOS app, no Android app, no desktop app. The one download is the optional Chrome extension for entering results.
The pool is offence plus team defences: QB, RB, WR, TE, K and DEF. Individual defenders aren’t listed and there are no IDP slots to put them in – a Sleeper import counts those slots as bench and tells you it did. You can always type a name in as a custom player, filed under one of the positions your room drafts.
The roster template builds starters and a bench, and that’s it – no taxi squad, no injured-reserve slot, no separate reserve of any kind. If your league keeps players off the active roster, draft them onto the bench and track it wherever you run your season.
Scoring is one of three presets – PPR, Half PPR or Standard – and it exists to shape the values and rankings you draft against. There is no per-stat editor, so TE premium, six-point passing TDs, bonuses and per-position tweaks can’t be expressed here. Your league site still scores the season however you like.
No best ball. FF Drafter runs the draft – snake, linear or Salary Cap – and best ball is a way of scoring the season after it, so it lives on whichever site runs your league.
Fantasy football only – the player pool, the positions and the values are all NFL.
You don’t need to print anything – the TV board is the draft board, live on the screen all night, so there is no board poster, no player labels and no pre-draft cheat sheet to run off. Print all you like afterwards: the recap comes out with grades, the full board, every roster and the pick list.
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It might still be in there under a different name – skim the full feature tour, poke around the live demo, or ask us directly and we'll give you a straight answer.
Setup is easy. Running a draft is even easier.