Draft How To

MyFantasyLeague.com offers a variety of ways to assist your league in holding it's draft. Understanding all of the options and when they are best used can be very helpful to your league's draft experience. There are three primary drafting scenarios available to you with MyFantasyLeague.com.

While there are no strict requirements preventing you from using any scenario (1-3) with any location (A-C), the following are the preferred options:

Physical Location	Drafting Scenario Recommended

A (all together)	2 (offline draft w/ a PC), 1 (offline draft w/o a PC)
B (most together, few outsiders)	2 (offline draft w/ a PC) or 3 (online draft)
C (most/all in separate locations)	3 (online draft)

Now that you've determined the best draft for your league, the next step it to understand exactly how to prepare for it.

1. Offline draft without a PC. In this low-tech approach where all members are together for the draft, one person simply records all the picks on paper. At the completion of the draft, the commissioner must use the For Commissioners > Setup > Load/Unload Rosters option to manually enter in each team's draft picks.

Pros:	Draft can be held anywhere (no PC required)
	No prep work necessary
Cons:	Most manual labor required (double entry of picks)
	Greatest risk of error
	Does not support a Draft Report

2. Offline draft with a PC. Similar to #1 above, this scenario adds a single PC (which does not need to be connected to the Internet during the draft). Download & setup the FFLM program as the commissioner can hold the draft offline. Once completed, the draft order and results can easily be exported to an online league. NOTE: There's no charge to use FFLM in the preseason for drafting.

Pros:	Draft can be held most places (need a laptop/PC)
	Offers a quick, interactive way to hold your draft
	Draft not subject to slow periods just prior to the season
	No need to manually record the draft picks twice
Cons:	More work to setup up
	Requires a PC be available during the draft

3a. Online draft with MFL. This fully Internet-based draft requires each owner to have access to an Internet-connected PC. (Owners without Internet access can still contact the commissioner to have him/her enter their picks). The draft can either be run in a few hours (using the live draft) or over several days.

Pros:	Quick, easy
	No double recording of picks
	Owners can be located anywhere
Cons:	All (most) owners need a PC with Internet access

3b. Online draft with MockDraftCentral.com. This scenario involves using the third-party MockDraftCentral.com Internet-based draft and requires each owner to have access to an Internet-connected PC. (Owners without Internet access can still contact the commissioner to have him/her enter their picks). These drafts are commonly run in a matter of hours.

Pros:	Quick, easy, flashy interface
	No double recording of picks
	Owners can be located anywhere
Cons:	All (most) owners need a PC with Internet access
	Extra charge required for third-party application

1.	Go to For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup and define the option "At the start of the season, rosters are determined by" to use the "None of the above - commissioner will use the Load Rosters option to load franchise rosters." setting.

4. Go to your league home page and select For Commissioners > Setup > Load/Unload Rosters.

Select all the players for the chosen franchise. You can either highlight the players in the left-hand window and click on the 'Add To List>' button or you can copy/paste/type in the player names in the free-form text box below. When finished, you MUST click on the Load/Unload Rosters button to actually add these selected players to the chosen roster.

1.	Go to For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup and define the option "At the start of the season, rosters are determined by" to use the "Off-line, live draft, that happens all at once, taking a matter of hours to complete, using FFLM.

4. From the main program window, select the File > New League menu item (click OK for the popup message). The Setup toolbar button will now activate.

5. Select the "File > Import from MyFantasyLeague.com" menu item to import your league's information, such as the teams, rosters, salaries, scoring rules, and draft order from MyFantasyLeague.com.

6. Go to the Draft > Set Draft Order menu item to define or confirm your draft order using any of the draft setup buttons or by manually entering the information into each round (for a fully customized draft). For more information on exactly how this works, please click on the Help button while accessing this Setup Draft Order screen.

7. Once your draft is properly defined, click on the 'OK' button to save changes.

NOTE: If you will be using a different PC for the draft, be sure to copy the League.leg file to this new PC. You'll also need to install a copy of the FFLM setup program on this new PC.

9. Go to the Draft > Interactive Draft menu item to hold your draft and make each team's picks.

10. Periodically (and when finished), click on the Save button to store your current draft results.

11. From the main program screen, click on the Exchange toolbar button to open the Import/Export screen.

12. Enter the 5-digit league ID for your (already created) MyFantasyLeague.com league and your league's commissioner password. Click on the Verify League & Password button.

13. Verify the teams in FFLM correspond to the Franchises in MyFantasyLeague.com.

15. Click on the Transfer the Draft Results button to transfer your league's draft picks. NOTE: You can only upload the draft results once. Also, be sure to ONLY transfer the Draft Results. Do not transfer the Rosters or use any of the other options on the Export tab, since all of that information is already setup in MyFantasyLeague.com.

1. Use the For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup screen to specify an online, MFL (email or live) draft.

3. Use the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Setup > Draft Start Date/Time Setup screen to define the time in which your first draft pick *may* be made. You draft can, but does not have to start at this exact time. It cannot start before this time. NOTE: If you don't see the Draft Setup screens, you will have to go to General League Setup to enable one of the 'online draft' settings.

5. (Optional) You may also want to define some of the settings found in the For Commissioners > Setup > Draft Setup > Draft Timer Setup screen.

6. Go to Reports > Fantasy League Reports > Draft Report to verify your draft order.

7. All owners must use the For Owners > Draft option to enter the draft room. For the live draft screen, click on the "Live Draft" link located at the top of the Draft screen.

8. Go to Reports > Fantasy League Reports > Draft Report to verify your draft order.

There's nothing required after the draft as all players are automatically added to the correct roster immediately.

1.	Go to the For Commissioners > Setup > General League Setup screen to define the parameter "At the start of the season, rosters are determined by" to use the setting "None of the above - commissioner will use the Load/Unload Rosters option to load franchise rosters.

NOTE: MFL support staff will actually import these rosters automatically for you upon request.

Go directly to http://www.mockdraftcentral.com to set up a new draft. You will need to ensure that your franchise names and franchise email addresses are exactly the same as what you've already defined for your MFL league. You will also be separately responsible for any MockDraftCentral.com draft charges.

The commissioner needs to send an email to support@myfantasyleague.com to request that his/her mockdraftcentral.com results get imported into his/her 2008 MFL league. It is imperative that this email be sent from the commissioner-defined address (for verification) and that the 5-digit MFL league be included.