A "draft" is where a group of people take turns making selections. OnlineDraft provides an easy way for groups to conduct drafts to divide whatever they are sharing. Drafts are a snap to set up and can be accessed from any Internet-connected device. Similar to fantasy sports leagues, draft rules and individual preferences can be set to meet everyone's needs. OnlineDraft makes it easy. Season Tickets • Youth Sports • Vacation Homes

A draft is when a group of people take turns making selections. If you share something (like season tickets, or a vacation home) with a group of people where you need to determine who gets which games/or weekends, you can use a draft. This service allows you to host your draft online. Many professional sport leagues hold a draft each year to select new players coming into the league. Similarly, amateur sports leagues can use a draft for coaches to select players for their teams. OnlineDraft can host drafts for these leagues too.

Both! OnlineDraft works great either way. You and your partners can access the draft from anywhere from any device as long as you have a connection to the Internet. If you want to meet in person to conduct your draft, that is great. If everyone wants to draft from home or work, that works great too. OnlineDraft will simplify the process whether your Draft is In Person, Remote, or a combination of the two.

OnlineDraft is terrific for season tickets. A majority of season tickets are shared amongst several people. If you share a vacation home, a boat, motorcycle, plane, OnlineDraft can simplify how you determine who gets which days, weekends, weeks, or months. OnlineDraft can also handle drafting players or people. Load your players or people in our system and the coaches can use their Internet-connected devices to make their selections.

No. Every partner can make their own selections from any Internet-connected device. You can choose to all be in the same place if you like, but it is not necessary.

Yes! We agree that it is fun to get together to hold your draft but it can still be a hassle to record your picks and keep track of what is still available. Your group can use this service to record all of the picks and handle all of the busy work of running the draft. As an added bonus, all draft participants can use their smart phone, tablet, or laptop to see what has been selected and what is still available. If someone can't attend the draft party, then they can access remotely to make their own picks. Finally, once your draft is over, everyone has access to the draft results. Hold your in person draft like you always have, but make it much easier with OnlineDraft.

Just click on the link in the upper right corner of the page that says "See prices & sign up for free". You need just your name and a valid email address to create your account. We will send you an email to verify your email address.

No! It is free to sign up and try out the service. Basic functionality such as adding partners and assigning tickets / players / days / etc directly (not via a draft) is also free. YOU DO NOT HAVE TO ENTER A CREDIT CARD NUMBER TO CREATE AN ACCOUNT. We charge a fee to conduct a draft.

If you have forgotten your password, click on the FORGOT PASSWORD link from the login page.

Yes, login and then click on the SETTINGS button in the upper right corner of any page to change your name, email address, and password. Please note that you cannot change your email address to an email address that is already in our system.

From your DASHBOARD click on the green button that says START A NEW GROUP. You will enter a name for your group and select what you and your group are drafting (tickets, players/people, days).

When you create your group we ask "What are you going to draft?" This is important because it controls how we configure your group. If you select tickets, we will set your group up to draft tickets. If you select players, we will set things up differently.

No. Once you set up your group you cannot change to something else. If you choose the wrong option you can delete your group under the SETTINGS tab and then create a new group.

No, you can only have one Administrator. You can add people to your group and then not include them in the draft. This will allow them to view your groups data.

You can browse through our currently available teams on the Available Teams page. We are working to add new sports, leagues, and teams all the time. If you want us to add you team, Let us know!

If your team or venue or season is not available, open a support case by clicking on the blue HELP button on any page. Give us the details of what is missing and include links to the schedule.

The easiest way will be to add your games twice. First, add all of the games with seats 3-4, then add all of the games for seats 5-6. You will end up with 2 pairs for each game. Then set up your draft however you like. Each pick will represent one pair of tickets.

Under your GAMES tab, please select the ADD CUSTOM GAMES/EVENTS option to add your preseason games. You can add pre-season, exhibition, playoff games, or any other custom event you need.

Most people will draft games as one person gets all of the tickets to a single game. When setting up a draft to for season tickets, the best choice is almost always to draft GAMES. You can also use DRAFT GAMES if you break your tickets into sets. For example, 4 tickets are broken into pairs. In this example, one pick gets 2 tickets. To set this up, just add GAMES twice. Once for the first pair of tickets, and again for the second pair of tickets. Only use draft TICKETS only if you have a very complicate draft where the number of tickets per pick changes or if you have a need to break tickets into smaller and variable sets. Again, most people choose draft GAMES!

Yes! You can assign tickets before or after the draft. Only tickets with the status set to DRAFT will be included in the draft. For example, if you group has 41 games, you could assign 5 games to yourself or different partners and then include the remaining 36 games in the draft.

Yes! Click on the blue HELP button in the upper right corner of on any page and open a support case. Please provide all the details you can so we can get your team or venue's season schedule loaded.

Yes! Prices and totals are OFF by default. Please go to your group and select SHOW/HIDE PRICES under the SETTINGS tab. You will then be able to enter prices for your games or tickets and get totals for each partner once games have been assigned in your draft.

Sure, in your existing regular season group, you can click on ADD CUSTOM GAMES/EVENTS under your GAMES tab to add your playoff games. Then you can hold another draft. You can also start a new group and use a "Micro Draft" for playoff tickets. A Micro Draft is any draft where you draft less than 20 "things". It is offered at a lower price than other drafts. Create a new group and then select Something Else as what you want to draft. Then you can enter the playoff games you wish to draft.

Let us know! Schedules can change and we can quickly update the details and everyone's ticket date. Click on the HELP button in the top right of every page and open a support case.

Yes. Create a simple spreadsheet with the first column the FIRST NAME and the second column the LAST NAME. Save the file as a CVS, or comma separated file. You will then be able to import the file and quickly load your players/people into our system. You can optionally include a column for ID, plus 5 additional data columns. By default, these columns are labeled Grade, Age, Parent Name, Phone, and Email, but you can easily change the column labels to be whatever you want. There is also a field for Comments and you can optionally add a photo for each player.

Yes! You can assign an "ADMIN RANK" to your players. This rank is available to all Coaches / Managers and, if set, becomes the default ranking for AutoDraft. A Coach can override the Admin Rank by setting their own personal player rankings. Assigning an Admin Rank can be very helpful if your league is trying to increase parity as all coaches can have a general sense of how players are ranked.

Yes! You can import other players from other OnlineDraft groups. This is particularly helpful when you have a draft and then need to move any players not drafted into another draft. To import players from a different OnlineDraft group, click on ADD PLAYERS from the PLAYERS tab, and then click on the link that says IMPORT PLAYERS FROM A DIFFERENT GROUP. You can import players still set to DRAFT or players that have been ASSIGNED.

Yes, you can hold multiple drafts for your league with OnlineDraft. Each "draft" should be set up as its own Group. You can import coaches and players from other groups as needed. You can also change the Administrator for any group. Players not drafted in a draft can be easily imported into another OnlineDraft Group to be drafted in the next draft. If you are running more than 3 drafts we can extend a price break -- please open a support case to let us know.

Definitely. You can enter as many players as you need whenever you like. You can import some players and manually enter others.

Yes. From the VIEW & MANAGE page you will can edit player/people details and DELETE players.

All of the information that you add is available to the coaches to help them make their selections during the draft.

First Name, Last Name, ID, Comments and the first two data columns are available on the Live Draft page.

The Group Administrator can change a setting to allow all 5 additional data columns to be shown on the Live Draft page.

Player photos, if added, are available on the Live Draft page.

Yes, you can definitely do this. Here's how: 1) Under the players tab select VIEW AND MANAGE. Assign players directly to the specific coach by changing the status from DRAFT to the Coach. This takes these players out of the draft and assigns them before the draft. 2) Next, click on the DRAFT tab. Select the DRAFT ORDER. For each pick that was used to assign a player before the draft, select the PLUS icon under the DRAFT NOTE column. Enter a PICK NOTE indicating that the pick was used to pre-assign a certain player. Under the "Skip this pick automatically?" setting, select the YES option. So you are pre-assigning whatever players you want and then during the the draft the specific pick is skipped where the player was pre-assigned.

We provide 5 custom columns for player data plus columns for email and phone number. In addition, we also provide a "comments" column.

If you need to more columns than the 5 provided, you can add all additional data into the comments column. For example:

Field 6: value | Field 7: value | Field 8: value

Using placeholders is a great way to get your draft set up before you have set all your coaches (or people making picks). To replace a placeholder with a real coach, first, add the real coach. Next, change the IN DRAFT setting for the placeholder to NO. You will then be prompted to select a coach to transfer the placeholder's draft picks. Once you select the desired coach, save your changes and the real coach will get the draft picks and the placeholder will be removed from your group.

You remove a placeholder by changing their Draft Status to NO. If you have assigned draft picks to the placeholder you will need to select a different person to take those draft picks or they will be assigned to the Group Administrator.

To add days to your draft, select ADD DAYS under the DAYS tab in your Group. First, select the time frame (1 month, 3 months, 6 months, etc). Next select the starting date. If your time frame does not fit into what we have available, you can just uncheck the days you do not need. In addition, you can add days from more than one time frame.

If you group does not draft a certain day, like MONDAYS or TUESDAY, you will be able to remove all of those days from a time frame before adding days.

Yes. When you add your days you will be able to specify if a day gets exclusive use or whether there are several spaces / rooms / shares for every day. At the draft, partners can choose Room 1 for a certain day(s) and then a different partner can select Room 2 for the same day(s).

If the partner has not verified their email address yet, you can click on the blue EDIT button to change their email address. If the partner has verified their email address then you cannot change it for them -- follow the steps below... First, add the new partner with the correct email address. We recommend using a slightly different name for the new partner so you can tell them apart. For example, enter the last name using all capital letters (the partner can change this later) You can then remove the partner with the wrong email address from the DRAFT and transfer any draft picks to the partner added with the correct email address. If you have assigned anything to the partner with the incorrect email address you can go to the NAVIGATOR and filter by the partner with the incorrect email address. Select the CHANGE ALL drop down menu from the upper right corner and change the status to new partner. Once you have transferred over any draft picks or items assigned, click on the gear icon by the partner with then incorrect email address and click the REMOVE button.

If a partner has not verified their email address yet, you can change their name by clicking on the blue EDIT button below their Name and Email address. Once a person has verified their email address, the account belongs to them and only the person owning the email address can change their name. We do this for privacy and security reasons. Any partner can change their own name by logging in and then clicking on the SETTINGS button in the upper right corner of the page.

If you are the administrator for the draft but not making any selections, you will still be "IN" the draft, but you will not have any picks assigned to you. Picks are assigned on the DRAFT ORDER page.

Click on the PARTNERS, or COACHES, tab. Click on the green ADD button to add new partner. Enter a name and email address to add a partner. You can choose to send an email now to this person or you can send one later.

Yes! Click on the ADD PARTNER button from the PARTNERS tab and then select the link that says "Use a link to invite multiple partners at once!" You will then copy the link and then email or text the link to your partners. They will then be able to sign up and join your group. You will be notified when a new partner joins.

Yes, you can import partners from other OnlineDraft groups. Just click on the green ADD button and then click on the IMPORT PARTNERS link.

Yes, Group Administrators can click on the gear icon next to any partner to view their settings. Group Administrator can control whether or not a partner is in the next draft with the IN DRAFT setting and also control whether a partner can view the names of other partners with the VIEW PARTNERS settings. By default all new partners have both the IN DRAFT and VIEW PARTNERS settings turned on.

Yes, a partner can be in your group but if the IN DRAFT setting is set off, then they are not draft participants and cannot make selections in the draft. They can, however, view the draft and view the NAVIGATOR and CALENDAR.

Click on the gear icon next to the partner and then click on the RE-SEND WELCOME EMAIL link. This will re-send our welcome email containing instructions to this person. Check the email address to be sure that it is correct. If the email address is not correct, you can click on the blue EDIT button to change the email address. Once you change their email address be sure to click SEND WELCOME EMAIL to send an email to the correct email address. Contact the person directly using the same email address. If you continue to have problems, click on the blue HELP button on any page to open a support case.

If you don't have all of your partners yet, you can use a placeholder partner to get your draft order set up. Once you add your partner you can remove the placeholder partner from the draft and assign any draft picks to the new "real" partner. You can also use placeholder partners to try out the service and see how your draft would be set up. Once you are satisfied with the service, add your partners and then move the placeholder partners' picks over to your real partners.

To replace a placeholder partner with a real partner, click on the IN DRAFT setting for the placeholder partner. You will then have the ability to transfer any draft picks assigned to the placeholder over to a "real" partner. If you have assigned tickets/games/players/days/etc to a placeholder partner, go to the NAVIGATOR and filter by the placeholder. Use can then use the CHANGE ALL drop down menu to transfer anything assigned to a placeholder over to a real partner.

Yes. To remove a partner click on the gear icon and then click on the REMOVE button.

Yes. From the PARTNERS or COACHES tab, click on the link at the bottom of the page that says SHOW REMOVED PARTNERS. You may then re-add any removed partner.

One you have created a group you can click on the DRAFT tab to get started. First we ask for the number of picks (or turns) in your draft. From there you will need to complete your draft order, set a scheduled draft start time, and make sure you have items to draft (tickets, players, days, etc) and partners to participate in the draft.

The number of draft picks you enter is the number of turns you will need to have in your draft. For example, if you are sharing season tickets and your season has 40 games, your group could have 40 draft picks where each partner chooses one game. If you are drafting players, a league that consists of 100 players would have 100 picks. If you are drafting all of the weeks in a year for a vacation home, you could have 52 picks -- one draft pick for each week in the year.

Click on the draft tab and then find the draft order link in the DRAFT SETTINGS section. The draft order page consists of three steps... Step 1: Enter the number of picks each partner will get in this draft. Step 2: Set the number of picks in each round of the draft. In groups with equal ownership, this typically means one pick per partner per round. However, if, a group has unequal ownership percentages partners with higher percentages can have more picks per round than partners with lower percentages. We make a recommendation based on what you enter in the first section but you can change our recommendation as needed. Section 3: In this section you set the actual draft order. You can use the WIZARD to quickly populate your draft order. You can change every pick manually as well so you have complete control over the draft order.

Yes, when you set up your draft order on the DRAFT ORDER page, you can choose to set up your draft with a "SNAKE" or repeating draft order. You have complete control over your draft order.

Certainly. Create a draft and go to the DRAFT ORDER page. You will be able to set the initial draft order from your Lottery and then fill in the remaining picks with a SNAKE or REPEATING draft order. You can hold the Draft Lottery well before the draft begins or at your draft.

Yes, you may change the draft order as needed at any point before your draft begins. You cannot change your draft order once your draft has begun.

This can be easily handled with your picks per round which is the second step of the draft order page. For your group, instead of 8 picks per round, set it to 16 picks per round. Then, 5 guys get 2 picks per round, and 2 guys get 3 picks per round. From there you can build out a snake draft in the next step.

Drafts do not start automatically. The Group Administrator MUST START each draft by simply clicking the START DRAFT NOW button. You are required to set a Schedule Start Time so that everyone knows when the draft is scheduled to begin. Ultimately it is up to you and your group to decided exactly when the draft will start. If everyone shows up early you can start early. If some people are held u, you can start later.

If a partner, or partners, own unequal shares in your group, the number of picks in the draft and the draft order can properly represent your ownership structure. For example, if a group consists of 3 partners sharing 4 equal "shares" that means that one partner has 2 shares. If you draft is for 40 games, that would mean that one partner picks 20 games and two partners pick 10 games each. When setting up the draft order, you would first enter those pick totals (20, 10, and 10), and then enter 4 picks per round. One partner would get 2 picks per round and the other two partners would get 1 pick per round. Using the number of picks per partner, and the picks per round setting, OnlineDraft can accommodate any ownership structure. p.s. OnlineDraft even supports skipping picks for especially complex group structures.

Our system definitely supports unequal ownership. You can accomplish what you are asking by either: 1) Making your rounds bigger (have more picks per round) and giving partners with higher ownership percentage more picks in each round. If you use the draft order wizard on the Draft Order page, our system will recommend how to do this and you can tweak as needed to meet your groups needs. or 2) Setting your draft order equally and then skipping picks where needed. From the draft order page you can set picks to "AutoSkip" so when the turn comes up in the draft, it gets skipped automatically. The admin can also skip picks manually during the live draft.

Yes, you can sign up for free and add your tickets, games, players, days, or whatever you are sharing. Instead of adding partners, you can use PLACEHOLDER PARTNERS. You can swap these placeholder partners for real partners later. With your group created, items added, and placeholder partners, you can set up and preview your draft. You cannot start the live draft, but you can certainly see how easy it is to set up and you can see exactly what your live draft would look like. It is free to sign up!

Yes, you can definitely do this. Here's how: 1) Under the Games / Tickets / Players Days tab select VIEW AND MANAGE. Assign the items directly to the specific person by changing the status from DRAFT to the person. This takes these items out of the draft and assigns them before the draft. 2) Next, click on the DRAFT tab. Select the DRAFT ORDER. For each pick that was used to assign an item before the draft, select the PLUS icon under the DRAFT NOTE column. Enter a PICK NOTE indicating that the pick was used to pre-assign a certain games / ticket / player / day(s) . Under the "Skip this pick automatically?" setting, select the YES option. So you are pre-assigning whatever items you want and then during the the draft the specific pick is skipped where the item was pre-assigned.

Sure this is possible. Here is how...

A draft ends when either there are no more picks, or there is nothing left to pick -- whichever comes FIRST! You have 90 days to complete your draft.

To handle your situation do the following:

1) Add all of the games in the season. Change the status of the games NOT in the first from DRAFT to HOLD

2) Create a custom game that has a date in the future and has the title DO NOT DRAFT

3) Create your draft order with all of the picks (I assume 81)

4) Start your draft where only the games from the first group show up PLUS the custom DO NOT DRAFT game.

5) When the first group games have been selected, your draft will still be ACTIVE and only the DO NOT DRAFT game will be left. The draft will not end because the custom DO NOT DRAFT game will still be present AND you still have more picks to be made.

6) When you are ready to draft the second group, change the status of those games from HOLD to DRAFT

7) Partners return to the LIVE DRAFT to make selections for the 2nd group

8) Repeat the steps for the 3rd group.

9) The draft will end when the last pick has been made.

OnlineDraft works great for In Person drafts. Set up your group and draft before and then bring your Internet-connected device to wherever your are going to meet. Your meeting place needs to have an Internet Connection. It can also be very effective to connect a laptop to a bigger television screen. This way, everyone can see the draft screens. During your draft, you can use the Admin Pick functionality to make all of the picks. In addition, your partners can also bring their internet-connected devices to have a continuously updated "Draft Board" so everyone know what's been drafted, what's left, and whose turn it is. We support people getting together to draft in person... OnlineDraft will just make the draft much easier.

There are several possible reasons why you cannot start your draft... 1) You have not set a Scheduled Start Time. 2) You have not added any Tickets / Players / Days / etc to your draft. 3) You have not added any Draft Participants. 4) You have not paid the Service Fee. Our system will tell you what remains to be done on the Live Draft page.

The draft does not start automatically. The Group Administrator must start the draft by clicking on the START DRAFT NOW button.

Click on the DRAFT tab and then click on the green ENTER LIVE DRAFT button.

The Group Administrator can pause the draft at any point by clicking on the yellow button that says DRAFT ADMIN MENU (PAUSE DRAFT). Once the draft has been paused, the Group Administrator can pick for a partner, undo the last pick, or end the draft. The Group Administrator can resume the draft by clicking the green RESUME DRAFT button.

Yes. The Group Administrator can pick for a partner at any point during the draft. First, the Group Administrator needs to pause the draft. Then, the Group Administrator can either use FORCE AUTOPICK to let the system automatically make the next pick for the partner based on the partners preferences, or MANUALLY PICK the next game where the Admin actually makes the selection for the partner.

Certainly -- our service works great for in person drafts. The administrator can make all of the picks by pausing the draft, or participants can make picks themselves from their own device (phone, tablet, laptop). It can also be any combination -- some people pick themselves, the administrator makes other picks. The system is flexible for however you wish to use it and makes it simple to record all of your picks. The ownership data is available to all participants immediately and throughout the season.

Yes. The Group Administrator just needs to pause the draft and can then make undo the last pick. The Group Administrator can continue to undo picks as needed.

Yes. If you have not completed your draft yet, click on the DRAFT tab and then select the link at the bottom of the DRAFT SETTINGS section that says "Need to start the draft over?" Then follow the instructions to reset your draft.

With AutoDraft on, the system will make your pick for you based on your preferences. With AutoDraft on, the system will immediately make your selection and move onto the next selection. If you are using or may use AutoDraft, you must rank your games / players / days / before the draft begins. If you have set your rankings before the draft begins, AutoDraft will make your selection from your list (top ranked items selected first). If you have not set your rankings, selections are made in chronological or alphabetical order.

Your draft can take as long as you and your group decide. You can decide together to get it done quickly by being prepared (everyone logged in and ready at your scheduled draft start time) and enforcing time limits. Or, you can make picks over several days. When it is your turn, we send you "TURN EMAILS". You can have an "Email Draft" where we send the next picker an email until all the picks have been made.

There is no time limit for each pick. There is a counter that shows how long it has been since the last selection has been made. We leave it up to your group to decide how much time each pick should take and how to enforce that time limit. Ultimately, if a partner is taking to long to pick, the Group Administrator can pause the draft and make the selection for a partner.

No. You can take up to 60 days to finish your draft. Take as much or as little time as your group needs to make all of your picks.

No, the draft is always available. You and your partners can make your selections at any time. OnlineDraft works well from mobile devices too.

Yes, you and your partners can set the TURN EMAILS setting to ON if you wish to receive an email whenever it is your turn. You can turn this on or off whenever you like. Please note that if TURN EMAILS is off, a partner will not be notified that it is their turn. This could slow your draft down if picks are being made over several days. We recommend TURN EMAILS be set to ON by all partners if your draft is going to span several days or more.

The Draft Board is only for drafting Players or People. It is a dynamic "spreadsheet" that tracks the picks in columns and rows. The Draft Board gives an overview of the entire draft and makes it very easy to see where your group is in the draft and who has picked which players.

Yes! The Group Administrator can skip any pick in the draft by first pausing the draft, and then pressing the SKIP PICK button.

You can set any pick in the draft to AutoSkip. This means that when this turn comes up in the draft, it will be automatically skipped and go onto the next pick. NOTHING will be selected for a pick that has been set to AutoSkip. The Group Administrator can set picks to AutoSkip from the Draft Order page. Click on the plus note icon next to the pick to change the setting. You can use AutoSkip if certain picks are already selected or if you need to have picks skipped to make the ownership percentages work. For example, a minority owner getting a pick every other round could have their picks set to AutoSkip every other round.

Click on the DRAFT tab for your group. Then click on the red button next to GAME RANKINGS. You can then rank all of the games in your draft. Then, from the DRAFT tab again, you can click on the AUTODRAFT settings to turn on AUTODRAFT if you want the system to pick for you based on your rankings.

Yes, you can add people to your Group but set their IN DRAFT setting to NO. These people can watch the draft and view the Group's data.

Yes, the Administrator can click on the DRAFT tab and then find the setting that says SHOW CHAT SYSTEM MESSAGES. The Admin can set this to SHOW or HIDE.

If this is set to HIDE, the CHAT window WILL NOT show system messages whenever the Administrator PAUSES or RESUMES the draft.

This could be helpful if the Admin plans to pick for draft participants and needs to pause and resume the draft frequently.

Use the VIEW link to view all of the tickets / players / people / days / etc being managed by your group. You can filter by date, status, owner to quickly narrow down your search. Download data into excel (or iCal for tickets and days only) format. Group Administrators can use the same page to change the status and manage all of the items in the draft.

Certainly. We do not delete your data. Draft Results will be available to you and your partners in the list and calendar (games/tickets) indefinitely.

Sure, from the VIEW page, click on the PRINT button for a print-friendly version of the draft results. If your draft contains photos, those will be included in the print-friendly page as well.

Yes, for groups drafting tickets or days, we provider a calendar view.

Yes, download any data to excel format or to iCal (not applicable to player drafts).

Yes. The Group Administrator can change the ownership of any pick made in the draft from the NAVIGATOR.

Yes, definitely. Set up your draft order and include picks for all players to be assigned. For example, if you have 100 players in your league and need to pre-assigned 15 of them to certain teams/coaches, you would still set up your draft for 100 picks. Then go to the DRAFT BOARD and you can pre-select ANY pick in the draft before the draft begins. Typically the children of coaches are pre-selected this way. Players who are returning to the same coach from a previous year, siblings, ranked players, or any other player can be selected at a specific spot before the draft begins. When you start the draft, you will just make picks that have not been selected already. Pre-selected picks will be skipped but displayed on the Draft Board.

Yes, just change the SHOW DRAFT ORDER setting to NO. By doing this, no other coach will be able to see the Draft Order or how any of the players have been assigned. Everything becomes visible when the draft starts, but you can also choose to change this setting at any point. We understand that often the details of the Draft must remain confidential before the draft begins -- OnlineDraft supports this requirement.

Yes, you can hold multiple drafts for your league with OnlineDraft. Each "draft" should be set up as its own Group. You can import coaches and players from other groups as needed. You can also change the Administrator for any group. Players not drafted in a draft can be easily imported into another OnlineDraft Group to be drafted in the next draft. If you are running more than 3 drafts we can extend a price break -- please open a support case to let us know.

No. You can use OnlineDraft to just manage the Draft and display all of the details on a screen and report the results afterwards. Coaches do not have to do anything with the system, or they can take advantage of pre-ranking players and having a continuously updated available players list throughout the draft via their internet connected device.

Yes. Create two Groups. Once you have completed the first group, any remaining players will still be in the "DRAFT". Go to the second group and select ADD PLAYERS and click on the IMPORT PLAYERS FROM ANOTHER GROUP. You will then be able to import any players not draft from the other group. EASY! You could continue this further for more drafts if needed.

One of the best parts about using OnlineDraft is that team rosters are done the moment the draft is finished. Each coach just needs to login and view and/or download their roster. Easy!

Of course. Once a Draft has been completed, the Administrator can select the TRADE option under the PLAYERS tab to make a trade. A record of the trade is added to the draft log. In addition, the Administrator can change the assignment of any player from the VIEW & MANAGE page.

Just connect your laptop or computer to a TV and open OnlineDraft in your web browser. All of the coaches will be able to follow along by just looking up at the TV. Not only are all the teams built as the draft progresses, but the Draft Admin can also show the players still available. Using OnlineDraft during your In-Person Draft gives you a real "Draft Board" keeping everyone on the room on the same page.

OnlineDraft's integration with Sport Ngin allows Sport Ngin customers to connect to their Sport Ngin accounts to import their athletes and teams directly into their OnlineDraft account. Our users can then take advantage of the OnlineDraft system to place athletes on teams. Once the teams have been completed, the data can be sent back to Sport Ngin to actually place these athletes on Sport Ngin Rosters. OnlineDraft greatly simplifies the process of placing athletes on teams and with the integration with Sport Ngin it saves hours and hassle recording draft picks and assigning athletes to rosters all while providing an superior experience for your Draft.

Once you have created an OnlineDraft group to draft "Players", you may click on a link from the ADD PLAYERS page or click on the "SETTINGS" tab to access your Sport Ngin account. The first step is to link your account. Click on the button that says "Authenticate your Sport Ngin Account" to get sent to your Sport Ngin account. You will then enter your Sport Ngin username and password and confirm that you wish to allow OnlineDraft to have access to your Sport Ngin data. You will then be sent back to OnlineDraft with your account linked. Next you need to select the Sport Ngin site you wish you link. After selecting your Sport Ngin site, you can now import Athletes and Teams.

After linking your Sport Ngin account, you can import Players. Go to the Sport Ngin start page by clicking on ADD PLAYERS under the "PLAYERS" tab or click the "SETTINGS" tab. Click the IMPORT PLAYERS button. Select the Registration you wish to use. Select GET PLAYERS. Next, a table will load all players available for import from the selected Sport Ngin registration. If needed, filter the players by birthday. Check the box in the right column to mark a player to be imported. Click the IMPORT button to import all selected players.

In order to import Teams from Sport Ngin, the teams MUST BE ASSIGNED to a Sport Ngin Subseason! Please be sure that you have linked your teams to a Subseason before trying to import into OnlineDraft. After linking your Sport Ngin account, you can import Teams. Go to the Sport Ngin start page by clicking on ADD SPORT NGIN TEAM under the "COACHES" tab or click the "SETTINGS" tab. Click the IMPORT TEAMS button. Select the League, Season, and Subseason for your Teams. Check the box next to the Teams you wish to import. Click the Import button. All of these teams will now show up under the COACHES tab.

Yes! To allow coaches to actually make their picks during the draft, a Sport Ngin team must be assigned to a real person. Add the coach or manager from the COACHES tab by clicking on the ADD COACH button. Enter their name and email address. Next, click on the link next to the Sport Ngin team that says "replace with a real Coach". On the pop up window select the real person added to be assigned to this team. Now the real person has been assigned to this Sport Ngin team and they can make selections during the draft.

No. Having coaches make their picks themselves is OPTIONAL. You can use OnlineDraft to manage your draft without allowing real people to make picks. In this scenario, you can import all of your players and teams and the administrator can make the picks during the draft. For In Person Drafts, you can connect a laptop to a TV so all present can watch the Draft Board. Coaches or Managers can call out there picks and everyone can watch the Draft Board throughout.

Once you have assigned players to a team, you can click on the link under the "PLAYERS" tab that says "Roster to Sport Ngin". On the next page you will see a table with all players available to be rostered back to Sport Ngin. You may click on the ROSTER ALL button to roster all of the players at once, or you may roster players one at a time. Please note that in order to be rostered back to Sport Ngin, a player must be originally imported from Sport Ngin and assigned to a team that was also imported from Sport Ngin!

No, rankings are private. The administrator and the heirs CANNOT access other heir's ranking lists.

Yes, an heir can drop out of the draft at any point. On the Live Draft page, any heir can turn their AutoSkip setting to ON. This setting is in the right column of the Live Draft page. Having this set to ON will skip all of their future turns. For example, an heir could make15 selections then decide they do not want anything else. They could change their AutoSkip setting to ON and then all of their remaining picks would be skipped with no selection made. They would have "dropped out" of the draft.

A draft ends when either there are no more picks in the draft or there is nothing left to pick -- whichever happens first!

If you know that one or more of the heirs will drop out, then you need to set up your draft order accordingly by adding more draft picks than the number of items in the draft. When an heir decides to drop out of the draft by turning on AutoSkip, the draft will continue with enough picks so that the draft ends when there is nothing left to draft.

Yes, any partner can choose to skip their own pick whenever it is their turn. If a partner wants to skip a pick, they would wait until it is their turn and then select SKIP PICK from the Live Draft page. This only skips the current pick -- it does not skip future picks.

If the 5 people are going to take turns, you could add all 8 people into the draft. On the DRAFT ORDER page, in the first section set it up so 3 people get 25% of the total picks and then 5 people get 5% of the total picks.

In the second section, you would enter 25 picks per round.

In the third section, use the DRAFT ORDER WIZARD and set your initial draft order so that the 25% partners get picks in every 4 picks while the 5% partners get on pick per every 4 alternating.

The initial order (25 picks) would look something like this:

• 25% 1
• 25% 2
• 25% 3
• 5% A
• 25% 1
• 25% 2
• 25% 3
• 5% B
• 25% 1
• 25% 2
• 25% 3
• 5% C
• 25% 1
• 25% 2
• 25% 3
• 5% D
• 25% 1
• 25% 2
• 25% 3
• 5% E

That would handle 25 picks at a time and then would simply repeat that pattern until all of the necessary picks have been made.

We also offer a DRAFT ORDER ALGORITHM that could handle this as well. It is integrated into section 2 of the DRAFT ORDER PAGE and offers a mathematically derived solution that may be preferable. With the second link you could actually try it out to see what a draft order would look like (enter 8 people with 25, 25, 25, 5 x 5 picks).

https://www.onlinedraft.com/home/draftOrderAlgorithm
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Yes, at any point any participant can switch their AUTOSKIP setting to ON which tells the system to automatically skip all of their future picks without making any selections.

This can be very useful if a participant wants to select just a few things and then nothing else.

OnlineDraft saves a log of all draft transactions (draft start, pause, continue, end; all draft picks and picks undone/skipped/autodraft; plus all chat messages) and makes it available to all partners during and after the draft. The draft chat log can be used as a reference in case there are any questions after the draft is completed. The preserved draft chat log is what makes the system transparent as the administrator nor any draft participants can make changes to the draft chat log.

If the administrator for a group is also a partner making selections, other than saving the draft chat log, OnlineDraft has absolutely NO WAY of precluding an opportunity to self-serve.

At the bottom of each page, OnlineDraft has posted the following: OnlineDraft, LLC has no involvement whatsoever in the arrangements and/or agreements made between members / partners / participants of users and groups using this service. Our goal is to make the process of determining which person gets which of whatever you are sharing or dividing ( games / season tickets / players / people / days / weekends / weeks / accounts / things ) as easy as possible. Our Terms and Conditions also contain the same language.

The draft chat log is what makes the OnlineDraft system fair and transparent. However, OnlineDraft cannot ensure that administrators and partners adhere to whatever rules you and your group have agreed to.

When you have a lot of items in your draft, you may want to allow participants to choose several picks in a row. However, OnlineDraft has NO recommendation on how you should set this up as it is entirely up to the group to decide. As with all settings, it is ultimately up to your group to agree on how your draft should operate.

Once a draft pick has been made, a partner, or heir, CANNOT go back and make changes. A partner may turn on or of AutoSkip or AutoDraft whenever they like.

The Administrator has the ability to UNDO the last pick made and can continue to UNDO picks go back as far as needed.

The Administrator has the ability to skip any pick in the draft. The administrator can skip one pick at a time. The Administrator can also turn on AutoSkip for any partner.

A partner, or heir, can choose to skip any of their own individual picks when it is their turn. A partner, or heir, can also turn on AutoPick to skip all of their future turns.

Yes, the administrator has the ability to add more items, delete items, or assign items at any point.

Pre-Assigning items in a personal property draft could be applicable or useful if certain items are to be assigned to a certain person before the draft begins. OnlineDraft has no involvement whatsoever in how you and your group decide to pre-assign items and/or configure your draft.

You must be able to receive emails from OnlineDraft.com in order to use this service. Please review the following:

1) Check your SPAM or JUNK email folders. While we maintain a positive sender reputation because we DO NOT send unsolicited emails, our emails can sometimes be incorrectly delivered to SPAM or JUNK. Check these folders to see if our emails have been delivered here. If they are, be sure to mark the emails as NOT SPAM.

2) Be sure you are using the correct email address. People have multiple email addresses -- be sure that you are trying to login using the email address that you used to sign up, or the email address that your group administrator used to sign you up.

We link people to groups with their email address. Double check that the email address you are using to sign up or login is the same email address that the group administrator used to add you to their group!

Check the "TO:" field in the email notifying you that you have been added to a group. Make sure that email address in the "TO:" field is the same one you are using.

If you need to change the email address, contact your group administrator directly and have him or her use a different email address.

Some email services block links in some emails. This service requires you to use information from emails when you verify your email address or retrieve / change your password.

If you cannot click on links in emails from us, you can use the information included in the emails and enter it in the appropriate form.

Change Password Form (requires User ID, Verification Code and Temporary Password from the Password Email)

Account Verification (requires New User ID and Verification Code)

To Verify your account, take the New User ID and Verification Code from the email we sent you and enter it in this form:

Account Verification (requires New User ID and Verification Code)