Features include:
• Digital Draft Board: Display by player listing, team grid, round, or positional breakdown.
• Custom Logos: Import your own team and league logos, as well as owner images.
• Real Time Clock: Customizable by minutes and seconds. Audio alerts when clock is expiring.
• Streaming Ticker: Constantly streaming on the bottom, and reporting all of the latest picks.
• Regular or Auction Style Drafts : Customizable Draft Order / Salary Cap Rules.
• PreDraft Presentation: Run this during the time before draft begins.
• Multiple Draft Reports: Hand out all of the results to owners immediately following the draft.
• Import/Export data : Import/Export setup information, player names, etc.
• A completely customizable draft order.
• Add Players or Teams on the Fly: For easy handling of trades during the draft.
• Import your own audio to listen to during the draft and predraft.
• Automatically tracks roster size, position maximums, and remaining auction dollars.
• Customizable Player Database: Allowing for easy add/remove/re-rank of NFL players.
• Multiple League Capabilities: Use FanDraft for as many drafts/leagues as you want.
• Wide Screen or Regular display.
• Easy import of regularly updated NFL player database.
• Help: In program help, as well as online forums
What's new in 2007 (version 7):
- Improved User Interface
- Multiple Draft Board Displays: All easily accessible from a drop down menu.
- Improved Player Database: Includes a fuller database of players
- Improved Ticker: Runs smoother than ever, and easy to change speed.
- Additional Ticker Options: Can show the full draft, or just select rounds
- Draft Clock Improved: Timer can now adjust by “second” increments
- Color Coded Players Boxes: Color coded by position
- Improved “Queue”: Added “search” for easier player find/selection
- Online Player Access: A simple right-click will pull up their expanded personal information from the internet.
- Graphical Pick Announcement: Players can be graphically announced after each selection, displaying all the information of the latest draft pick.
- Improved PreDraft Presentation: Now full screen, improved data entry/display.
- Auction Improved: Calculate max much each team can spend per remaining picks (based on positions remaining and amount left with at least $1 left per pick)
- Customizable “Positions”: Add/Remove/Rename positions your league uses
- Combine Positions (for leagues that share count WRs/TEs as one position)
- Customize the players available for display during the draft: You can choose a certain amount of the top ranked players, or all of them
- Draft Music: Import up to 10 songs to play during the draft
- Print Function: Reports can now be printed as well as exported to HTML
- Enhanced Reports: Includes better information, and more visually appealing.
Digital Draft Board
• Make your Youth League's draft feel like a professional draft.
• Keeps your draft running quick, smooth, and organized.
• Displays who is on deck, and the latest selections.
• View by Player Board, Team Draft Board, or Round Summary.
Custom Logos
• Import your own league logo, team logos, and owner images .
• Images are displayed during the draft and predraft.
Real Time Clock
• Customize the clock up to the second.
• Audio alert at 15 seconds, and a timeout horn when clock hits zero.
• Edit, pause, and reset the clock at any time during the draft.
Streaming Ticker
• A cycling report of the latest picks in the draft.
• Customize the speed and round depth of the ticker.
Regular or Auction Style Drafts
• FanDraft can meet nearly all of your leagues distinct rules.
• Customizable draft order / salary cap rules.
• Keeps a running tab of draft picks, and the bid amount paid for them.
PreDraft Presentation
• A visual presentation of the league to run before the draft begins.
• Include your own league and owner images, as well as owner biographys and keeper rosters.
Multiple Draft Reports
• Reports to use as handouts during the draft .
• Hand out draft results to owners following the draft.
• A variety of reports are available that can be sent to your printer, or exported as HTML files.
Import/Export data
• Import player data from LeagueWorks
• Export draft data for use in LeagueWorks
• Export setup information for use in Draft Order v2
• Import draft order results from Draft Order v2
FanDraft Draft Board
Custom logos
Streaming ticker
Multiple Draft Reports (view samples)
Import player names from LeagueWorks, and then at the end of your draft export the results from FanDraft back into LW.