This screen only appears if your league is defined to hold an online draft in the General League Setup.  Once the order is defined and the draft has started, an owner may either draft a player (if it's his/her turn to draft) or define a pre-draft (if it's not his/her turn to draft).

Regularly Scheduled Selection

When it's a franchise's turn to draft, entering this menu item will present the owner with a list of all available fantasy free agents for the league.  The owner may pick a single player from the list directly or use the 'Show Only' pull-down box to filter out a subset of the list (choosing either by position or by pro team).  Click Here for more information.  Alternately, if they created a My Draft List as a guide to the draft they will be able to view this updated list to make their draft picks.

In addition to making a selection, the franchise owner can also enter comments into the optional free-form text field.  These comments will appear on the Draft report.

Once a player has been selected, you MUST click on the Make Draft Pick button to actually make the pick.

Pre-Draft Selection

If instead it's not your turn to draft, you may still define your Pre-Draft picks.  A pre-draft set of picks is used for one draft selection for a team.  The franchise owner makes as many draft requests as possible for each pick and orders them as desired.  When a team that has pre-drafted is due to make a selection, the system automatically makes the pick for the owner by drafting the highest ordered player in the owner's pre-draft list as soon as the owner is on the clock.  In order to make a pre-draft request for a future round/pick, the owner must use the 'Go immediately to: Round xx' option.

NOTE: If you'd prefer to establish a personal draft list of players that you're interested in, without having the draft pick automatically made for you as soon as you get on the clock, please instead use the My Draft List screen.

Show Only - Use this filter to restrict the available draft picks by position or team.

Select A Player - This is the listing of filtered players to choose from.

Add To List - Once a player has been selected, click on this button to add him to the team's pre-draft list.

Remove From List - Select this button to remove the currently highlighted pre-draft player from the list.

Move Pick Up - Click on this button to move the currently highlighted pre-draft request up one position in the request order.

Move Pick Down - Click on this button to move the currently highlighted pre-draft request down one position in the request order.

Save Round xx Picks And Continue - Once all the pre-draft requests have been defined and ordered for a given round/pick, click on this button to save them to the system and advance to the next round/pick.  The screen will refresh with a summary of your pre-draft requests for the previous round/pick and then repeat so you can enter pre-draft requests for the current round/pick. 

Live Draft Selection

This option only appears if the commissioner has enable 'Live Drafting' for this league.  Use this selection if your league wants to draft in real time on the Internet.  Live drafting gives you the ability to see each person's draft pick as it's made.  In addition, teams can send comments to one another.   Live drafting is best designed for leagues unable to get all their team owners together in a single physical location.  Click Here for more information on using a live draft.

Fantasysharks.com Draft CoachTM

This option only appears if the commissioner has enabled the option 'Show Links to Various Fantasysharks Tools' in the Other (Appearance) Settings screen for this league.  When enabled, this tool will intelligently suggest what players you might want to pick up next in your MyFantasyLeague.com hosted draft.  More detailed information on this feature can be found at the Fantasysharks.com Draft CoachTM web page.

FFLM (offline PC-based) Draft

You can also use our FFLM program to hold your draft completely offline.  If your league get's everyone together for the draft, you just need a single PC running the FFLM program (this program is free for preseason tasks).  Enter the picks into the FFLM draft and export the results to your MyFantasyLeague.com league when finished.  To take the draft experience to the next level, some leagues even get a projection monitor to display the PC's screen on a wall, etc.