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DRAFT DETAILS
The Commissioner must select a date and time to conduct Live Online drafts and Autodrafts. The time it takes to complete a draft will vary due to the time allowed for each selection, the number of teams in the league and the number of players being drafted. You'll need to use Microsoft’s Internet Explorer release 7.0 or above, Google Chrome release 4.0 or above, or Firefox release 2.0 or above, to effectively participate in a Live Online draft. It is possible to use Safari, AOL or other, but our draft control works best in Internet Explorer. Consider yourself warned!
When it's time for your Live Online draft, go to your league home page and click on the Join Live Draft link found in the top center of the page. Please arrive 30 minutes ahead of your scheduled time as the draft will start promptly and may go quickly if only a few managers are logged in and the autodraft kicks in for those not present. The exception to this is if the Commissioner chooses to pause the draft or restart the draft.
During the draft, you can view any team's roster by selecting the team name from the Team Managers drop-down box. A list of how many players have been drafted at each position will appear in a column to the left of the roster. You can also set up a draft queue for yourself. This list of players, which supersedes any pre-rankings and/or default rankings, will be used to make a selection if you do not draft a player during your pre-determined allotted time period. To add a player to your queue list, select a name from the list on the left-hand side of the screen. The chosen name will appear in the draft box and the player will be added to your queue when you click on the Add to Queue button. In addition, all of your pre-rankings will be viewable by changing the sort criteria (which can be found in the drop-down box) from MFS Rankings to Pre-Draft Rankings.
You'll see a number of indicators when it is your turn to draft. Your team name will appear in a box in the upper left-hand corner of the screen, your team icon will turn green, and the On Tap box will turn green as well. To draft a player, select a name from the list on the left-hand side of the screen. The chosen name will appear in the draft box and the player will join your team when you click on the Draft button. If you do not draft within the allotted time, the computer will automatically give you a player based on your queued list, pre-rankings or our default ratings (if you have not queued players or submitted your own rankings list). Once you click the Draft button, you cannot "undraft" a player, even if there is time left in your allotted selection period. To see which player Maximum Fantasy Sports would recommend based on our default rankings, click on our “Suggest a Player” button. The player's name will appear in the draft box. Click on the Draft button to select that player.
To chat with other managers during the draft, type your message in the entry box and hit “Send”. All messages will appear in the League Huddle draft day chat box. Draft choices will also be shown in the League Huddle chat box. When the draft is complete, you will see a message telling you the draft is over. Click the “OK to Finish” button to quit and close the browser. To see the complete draft results, go to your league home page and select Draft Results. All of the selected players will be listed under the name of the team that drafted them. The League Huddle dialog will be stored and available for review as a link from the Draft Results page.
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