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Allow round-by-round pre-draft strategy for auto draft
It would be helpful if we could set up a pre-draft strategy for auto draft, specifically regarding which position we want to draft in each round of the draft. For example, if I want to draft a RB in round 1, a WR in round 2, a QB in round 3, a TE in round 4, etc., I would like to be able to arrange my auto draft strategy to make sure that the auto-draft chooses my desired position for each round.
70th rankedHi,
Thanks for your feedback. We'll pass this request along to our team.
Thanks,
Yahoo Fantasy Support
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Option to set Pick-by-Pick (Position-Based) Draft Strategy
Please consider providing an option to set a position-based pick-by-pick draft strategy. I really don't want to have to rank hundreds of individual players to accomplish the same thing. For example, I'd like to set an option to draft a RB in the first 2 rounds, a WR in Round 3, and so on.
ESPN Fantasy Football has this functionality, as detailed at https://support.espn.com/hc/en-us/articles/360000137872-Editing-Autopick-Draft-Strategy.
Thank you for your feedback regarding adding an option to set a position-based pick-by-pick draft strategy. We will pass it along to our team!
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Drafts - Extended draft pick times and slow drafts
This would allow commissioners to extend the time that is allotted to each team for each pick during the draft longer than the current maximum. Currently, the maximum draft pick time is 2 minutes.
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Add '3rd Round Reversal Snaking' as a draft type option
When you setup a draft the only option are 'Snaking' and 'Non-Snaking'. Add a third type for 'Snaking - 3rd Round Reversal'. If you're not familiar 3rd Round Reversal is a way to try and balance out the importance of high picks by giving the lower positions in the draft earlier choices in rounds 2 and 3 (instead of just round 2). Then you would snake starting in Round 4 with the 1st overall pick going 1st in round 4.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your feedback.
You can use the commissioner tools to customize your draft to set it up with the kind of snaking system you want to use. We will pass along your feedback to our product team.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Auto draft is pathetic
Let Stevie Wonder pick instead of Auto Draft.
Thank you for your feedback regarding autodraft. We will pass it along to our team! Autopick selects players based on the following:
- All starter positions are filled before bench positions.
- You can't designate which round a player is picked or a position is filled.
- Each round, autopick drafts the highest-ranked (pre-rank, then default rank) available player based on your position needs. The system determines a max number of players to positions ratio, including bench, so that your roster positions are balanced.
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THIRD ROUND REVERSAL should be a standard option for snake draft orders
Leagues should be able to randomize their draft order, including reversing the order at the start of the third round and then snaking until the last pick.
Hi Steve,
A commissioner can use their tools to randomize the draft order now, after the team list has been finalized. Once randomized, you can copy down the order and use the tools to create a custom draft order to set up a 3rd round reversal.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Auto Save when using Offline Draft
For various reasons our league prefers to use the offline draft feature. The only real downside is that it doesn't auto-save when you make a pick. You have to go and hit save. Then once it saves you have to go and click on the next person to draft. If would be much better if it would just auto-save when a pick is made and move to the next player.
Hi Jim,
Thanks for your feedback.
We will pass along your feedback to our product team.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Fix your auto-draft
I used auto draft last night because I was not available for the draft. It obviously is not linked to how my league is set up. It drafted 2 QB's that are 2nd string and 5 other players with zero projected points for this coming season.
Make your auto draft usable!!!
Hi,
Situations when autopick is used
- The league you've joined is set to use Autopick Draft.
- Any time a manager does not pick a player when it's their draft turn.
- If a manager does not attend the draft or leaves the draft before it's over.
- If a Private League using head-to-head scoring has an odd number of managers 1 hour before the draft, a live draft will force-change to autopick because head-to-head only supports an even number of managers. The commish then needs to either switch to another scoring method or get an even number of managers and reset the draft.
Details on how autopick selects players
- All starter positions are filled before bench positions.
- You can't designate which round a player is picked or a position is filled.
- Each round, autopick drafts the highest-ranked (pre-rank, then default rank) available player based on your position needs. The system determines a…
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Make it so when you pick draft order and snake it - it stays that way and doesn't just change in the 2nd round.
We held our draft yesterday and the draft order in the 1st round was one way, (I had the 8th pick) and then in the next rounds, I was moved to picks 20/21, 40/41, 60/61 etc. Some how I moved from 8th pick to the last picks of the 10 team draft. Pick 8 should snake to 2nd pick being pick 13, not picks 20 and 21. This is totally unacceptable, you ruined our draft and our league. How can you not know how to snake a draft, you have done it correctly in the past. This…
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Fix Draft Board View during on-line drafts with pick trades and 3rd round reversal.
Our drafting managers have complained that the DRAFT BOARD view does not present a clear, linear view of how the draft picks are displaying in the order they're being made.
This happens during the real-time draft, not necessarily looking at the screen after draft ends.
Hey Steve,
Thanks for your feedback. We will pass along your feedback to our draft team to look into this further.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Custom auto draft
You should be able to customize your auto draft if you can’t make the draft. Example tell auto draft you want 5 WRs, 3 rbs, 1 QB, 1 Kicker. Etc. that would be a cool feature. Then you wouldn’t have to worry about how many qbs you drafted. You can actually get the best player at the positions needed.
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Improve auto draft
There was a person in my league that was forced to miss most of her picks because she has 4 little kids that were keeping her up. Auto draft drafted 5 QBs in a 1 QB league. With one of those QBs being Jimmy Goropolo. Now her season is pretty much done unless she gets lucky picking up players on the waiver wire or trades. Auto draft needs to do a much better job at actually getting players a person needs.
Hi Ryan,
Situations when autopick is used
- The league you've joined is set to use Autopick Draft.
- Any time a manager does not pick a player when it's their draft turn.
- If a manager does not attend the draft or leaves the draft before it's over.
- If a Private League using head-to-head scoring has an odd number of managers 1 hour before the draft, a live draft will force-change to autopick because head-to-head only supports an even number of managers. The commish then needs to either switch to another scoring method or get an even number of managers and reset the draft.
Details on how autopick selects players
- All starter positions are filled before bench positions.
- You can't designate which round a player is picked or a position is filled.
- Each round, autopick drafts the highest-ranked (pre-rank, then default rank) available player based on your position needs. The system determines…
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Playoffs - Edit matchups for every round.
This feature would allow commissioners to edit the matchups for every round of the playoffs. Currently, only the first round of the playoffs can be changed.
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[Drafts] Include position minimum requirements
Requests to force managers to draft x number of players at x position.
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Randomize draft order
Is there anyway or something to look at upgrading to be able to Randomize the draft order for each round of picking during an online draft?
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Turn Off Auto-Scroll for Draft Board
When viewing "Board" in a fantasy snake draft, the horizontal scroll bar automatically moves to the left after every pick. This makes watching the draft from the Board view difficult when teams 9+ are drafting (as they are now off-screen without manually scrolling back).
It would be much better if the horizontal bar only moved by manual user clicks so I can watch the draft picks live on that screen.
Hello John,
Thanks for your feedback. We will pass along your feedback to our product team.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Yahoo Fantasy Auto-Draft Needs to Stop Drafting NA Players
Please fix Yahoo Fantasy’s auto-draft logic. My auto-draft selected five players designated NA and filled my bench with players who aren’t currently active. Auto-draft should exclude NA players by default unless the manager specifically adds them to their pre-draft rankings or queue. Auto-draft should build a reasonably usable roster, not blindly follow rankings while ignoring player availability.
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Bring back the Draft Pick Grid in The Pop-Down Menu
A few years ago there was an easily accessible tab under the draft pop down menu that showed the draft pick grid and the owners of the draft picks for leagues that trade picks. You removed that tab, the only way I have been able to find it is during the commissioner settings in settings up the draft before the season. Will you please bring back the draft pick grid for fantasy hockey.
Hi Addison,
On the desktop or mobile website, you can hover of the Draft tab and then select the option for Draft Picks.
The Draft Picks page will allow you to see the draft picks for teams for the current season and next season.
Thanks,
Product Support
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Earliest round for kickers and defenses
I had to use Yahoo auto draft this year, and it did fine except for the awful decision it made to draft my kicker and defense in the 5th and 6th rounds!!! That is ridiculous, especially when I went into the pre draft rankings and moved all kickers and defenses back so the 10th round should have been the earliest. I see some notes now that your logic will try to fill starter spots first, and that kickers and defenses can be put in the do not draft list. Seems like a better idea would be to simply allow…
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Give more than 30 minutes to get our draft position
Why is the draft position revealed only 30 minutes prior to our draft? Is there a reason for this? I would be nice to prepare in advance. Thanks.
Hi Ross,
By default, the draft order will be randomized approximately 30 minutes before the scheduled draft. Commissioners in a Private League can set a customized draft order or randomize the draft order earlier than 30 minutes through their tools.
Thanks,
Product Support
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