Auto Picks in Fantasy Drafts NEED to be shorter
This draft experience is completely unacceptable.
In a league with 200+ picks, your system becomes borderline unusable the moment multiple managers are inactive. Auto-draft rigidly burns the full timer every single pick, even when it’s obvious the user is gone. The result is a draft that drags past 3 hours for no legitimate reason.
This isn’t “fairness” — it’s a failure in basic design. There is no justification for forcing active users to sit through endless dead time because the system refuses to adapt to inactivity.
There are incredibly simple fixes:
Reduce the timer after consecutive auto-picks
Instantly pick if a queue exists
Allow commissioners to enable a fast draft mode
Instead, users are stuck in a slow, tedious process that wastes hours and makes the platform feel outdated.
If this is intentional, it’s a terrible decision. If it’s not, it needs to be fixed immediately.
Jimmy Richardson
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