FSR08 Rules Index

LIVE Draft OVERVIEW

ESPN'due south Alive Draft is the best way to experience the thrill of a gut-wrenching, existent-fourth dimension, driver-by-driver live draft process, in which owners pit their knowledge and skill confronting others, building a unique team of drivers to manage through the Sprint Cup flavour. Similar any prospective NASCAR team owner, y'all want to assemble the best possible team of drivers. And then it'southward smart to exist prepared before you lot ready out. To assist brand your live typhoon go equally smoothly every bit possible, the post-obit information will cursory you on the ins-and-outs of the alive draft.

NOTE: Do NOT draft multiple teams on the same PC at the same fourth dimension. Doing and so may cause the Draft Awarding to freeze or crash.

PRE-Draft
Your live draft engagement, time and details are listed on both your League Settings folio, as well every bit on your League Office folio (every bit seen in the examples below).

EDITING Typhoon LISTS
We highly recommend that all alive typhoon users customize their draft list before the actual draft. This protects y'all on the off chance that you are unable to participate in your live draft (on our calendar, zero is more important than Fantasy Draft Day!).

The list tin can be ordered using our Pre-Rank or Lite Version Tool available on your pre-season Team folio ("Pre-rank Drivers" link). Your listing will be used equally your default rankings if you are asunder for any reason during the draft. The links to editing your draft lists are available in two places:

  • On your pre-flavour League Part page in the "Draft INFO" box.

  • On your main Team page.

NOTE: Y'all tin edit your typhoon list as often as you like until one hour before your scheduled live draft time.

ENTERING YOUR Live DRAFT
You lot can enter your live draft lobby as early every bit i 60 minutes earlier the scheduled start time.
Links to enter the typhoon are available on Fantasy Stock Motorcar forepart page as well as your League Function and Squad page. Please keep in mind that all leagues must exist full in order for a draft to begin, then League Managers pay attention. Make certain all your league's teams have owners before your draft!

Alive DRAFTING
The draft order is randomly determined before the alive draft begins and the order in which each squad drafts will match information technology. (League Managers in custom leagues tin can manually adjust the draft social club). The offset pick of the draft will exist 'on the clock' within three minutes of the scheduled draft fourth dimension, so all team owners should make certain that they are set up to go.

Owners participate in each circular of the typhoon by taking turns selecting drivers in a "ophidian" typhoon format (i.e., 1-6, 6-1, 1-half dozen, etc). Each team drafts i driver per round until their all their roster slots are full (including demote).

DRAFTING A DRIVING USING THE Coffee DRAFT Application
The Java typhoon application is designed to give Squad Owners as much driver information during the draft so that you lot tin can choice the best available driver every round.

NOTE: Be sure to exam the PC you will be drafting on to make sure you tin run the draft application. Expect for the "Test Your Draft" link located on the League Office folio. We also recommend lowering or disabling your anti-virus and/or firewall security settings. Once you consummate your typhoon, you lot will be able to render the settings back to normal.

Your draft list volition be displayed in the center of the application. If you have customized your list prior to the draft, it will exist displayed. Otherwise the list volition be the ESPN default rankings list.

To draft a driver, first click on his proper name. Doing this will highlight the driver'southward row and add him to the Draft Driver area on the bottom (including his mug shot, if he has one). Simply click on the "Draft Commuter" push button when y'all are on the clock to draft the driver onto your team.

If you're not on the clock, yous volition not be immune to draft until it is your plow. However, you can sort drivers in your draft list, or add them to your watch list. You can filter to view available drivers by the last name.

Note: If your draft brandish seem off, you should try reloading the awarding.

In Custom leagues, the League Managing director will be able to typhoon drivers for other teams using this tool. In social club to draft for another team, the League Director must click on Pause Draft. In one case the draft is paused, the League Managing director tin can select the draft option under the appropriate team proper noun. The League Manager will and then exist able to draft a commuter. The League Manager can and then continue drafting for other teams if need be. The League Manager can resume the draft by clicking on the "Resume Draft" link. Lastly, the League Manager tin pause and resume a draft equally many times as needed.

NOTE: In Custom Leagues, the League Manager can also disengage a draft pick. This will reset the clock.

DRAFTING A Driver USING THE Low-cal DRAFT Awarding
The Lite Typhoon application is designed to permit owners unable to use JAVA to be able to take part in a alive draft. It is just equally effective every bit the JAVA application just without the bells & whistles. The Low-cal Version of the live draft application is linked on both the League Office and Clubhouse pages when the league is in draft mode. To select a Commuter when using the Lite Version draft, click on the driver yous wish to draft and so select "Draft" when you are on the clock. You must also refresh the Lite Version draft application to become the most recent draft status.

NOTE: In Custom leagues, the League Managing director will exist able to draft drivers for other teams using this tool. Likewise, the League Manager tin can disengage a draft selection equally many times equally needed.

Motorcar-PILOT Condition
Autopilot is the automatic draft choice tool. It volition automatically select the highest-ranked available driver based on your draft list when it is your plow to typhoon.

IMPORTANT Note: The default setting for Autopilot is "off". Yous may turn information technology on at any time by clicking on it. Only information technology can as well turn on automatically if you fail to brand your selection within the allotted fourth dimension menses, and have no awaiting claims; your draft listing is used for executing the typhoon pick. At this time your team's auto-pilot condition will be changed to "On". When your autopilot status is prepare to "On", the live draft organisation makes your team's picks using your draft list as its guide. Specifically, the alive typhoon system picks the superlative-ranked commuter on your typhoon list that is still bachelor at the time of your pick, while making certain that you meet the roster position requirements.

All picks for that team are fabricated immediately until the team owner sets their machine-pilot status to "Off", at which signal they volition over again have the allotted time to brand their selections.

NOTE: If your team has its autopilot status prepare to "On", and you accept draft claims awaiting, the system will select your awaiting draft claims earlier the typhoon list.

PENDING Draft CLAIMS

You may submit draft claims for upcoming rounds of the live draft. Yous must highlight a commuter'south proper noun and click the "Add together to Awaiting" push. This will movement the commuter to the pending picks area. There is no limit to the number of drivers that can be added to pending picks.

When it's your turn to select a driver, and you take a commuter in the awaiting picks area, the first driver listed will exist drafted onto your team in one case your selection time has expired.

CONCLUSION OF THE Draft
After all rounds have been completed the system will need a few minutes to procedure it and convert your league into regular-season manner where you tin start managing your team for the season!

CUSTOM LEAGUE DRAFTS


In Custom leagues, the League Manager has the power to customize many parts of the league's typhoon.

EDIT DRAFT SETTINGS
LM Tools >> Edit League Settings >> Edit Draft Settings.

Yous can access the "Typhoon Settings" folio at anytime upwards to ane hr earlier your league'southward draft is scheduled to begin. On the page you lot can change whatsoever of your draft settings, and whatever edits submitted to the system will automatically trigger an electronic mail to each owner in the league notifying them of the changes.

  • Changes to live drafts can be fabricated up to one hour before the scheduled alive draft time. Additional draft times will be added equally required.

  • Changes for Autopick drafts can be made until 2:59 a.grand. ET the day the Autopick draft is scheduled to procedure.

  • Changes for Offline drafts tin exist made until the time the League Managing director begins entering the offline results.

Prepare DRAFT ORDER
LM Tools >> Set Draft Guild.

If your league uses the Live or Autopick typhoon method, y'all can access the "Set Draft Social club" page at someday until your league's draft is scheduled to begin. On the page you can manually assign a draft position for each squad in the league. If no typhoon gild is gear up the typhoon order is randomly adamant when your league'southward draft begins. For Offline drafts the organization does not find a typhoon gild.

RESET Typhoon
LM Tools >> Reset Draft.

You can admission the "Reset Draft" page after your league'due south draft is consummate. If y'all wish to reset the draft, the organisation will completely change the league's status from post-draft to pre-typhoon. This will disengage all draft picks and allow team owners to set up their draft listing again if they wish.