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Draft day software...what is the best one to buy? (1 Viewer)
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Ruffrodys05
IBL Representative
You could download the free version of the Draft Dominator here at FBG. The free version is once and done with no projection updates. Once you do that and give it a look, if you feel it is something you would buy all it takes is to purchase a Footballguys Insider subscription. After you do that, all Draft Dominator subscriber version updates are included with the subscription. In addition you will also be able to download the subscriber versions of the Projections Dominator, Lineup Dominator and Trade Dominator. All are VERY VALUABLE tools.
These are what I use and I don't bother to look elsewhere. Others may have differing opinions.
These are what I use and I don't bother to look elsewhere. Others may have differing opinions.
steveski
Footballguy
Draft Wizard by Fantasy Pros. Not the most powerful and doesn't list a ton of info, but it acts like a typical cheatsheet that you can enter your own rankings and it will cross players off automatically as it syncs with your league. I have found nothing as valuable when it comes to live online drafts with short timers. You don't waste time crossing off who other people select and you can just focus on who you want to pick.
I've mentioned it to FBG and to other sites and they all seem to just shrug it off. I don't understand it. When you are doing a live draft, you don't have time to be doing all this other stuff and you don't have time to compare detailed statistics. You have to do that ahead of time. When you're drafting, you should have a list of players and that's about it.
http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/assistant/?sport=nfl
$15 for the software + $5 per platform. If you want to sync with MFL and Yahoo, your total would be $25.
I've mentioned it to FBG and to other sites and they all seem to just shrug it off. I don't understand it. When you are doing a live draft, you don't have time to be doing all this other stuff and you don't have time to compare detailed statistics. You have to do that ahead of time. When you're drafting, you should have a list of players and that's about it.
http://draftwizard.fantasypros.com/assistant/?sport=nfl
$15 for the software + $5 per platform. If you want to sync with MFL and Yahoo, your total would be $25.
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Thank you for that, and Yes, I agree with you, too much going on to do it all yourself, we are on a short timer and I will need to make quick decisions. I am hoping for one that will use expert's to set the expected yards, comp/td's and then help me pick either RB/WR etc etc
steveski
Footballguy
By default, that software will rank the players by the "experts" picks. You can check it out and do mock drafts for free on there to see if you like it. Live drafts work the same basically. The software suggest players when its your turn. Hard to explain but check it out. It's easy to use.
Draft Dominator's ability to predict the positional drop-off based on expected positions taken before your next pick is useful as it will sometimes suggest you take a player with a slightly lower VBD simply because more of a certain position will be taken. Not earth-shatteringly useful, but it's a nice "who should I pick" suggestion if you're going on autopilot and want to maximize value.
That said, I don't think any draft software is really that critical for drafting, it's the underlying projections that really make the difference. It's nice in terms of being able to keep track of players taken, but I don't think there's anything more valuable to be gained from draft software than a piece of paper with your ranks/tiers on it.
And from a personal experience side, I used DD one year and won the league. Immediately after, the league voted to disallow any sort of drafting software because, to their mind, the point of a draft is to have the people drafting making the decisions, not the draft software. I followed that up with winning with paper and pencil the next year (while others used computer spreadsheets of their own design), and the draft was no harder for me and I felt more personally responsible for that win even though the DD projections had been based on my own rankings.
That said, I don't think any draft software is really that critical for drafting, it's the underlying projections that really make the difference. It's nice in terms of being able to keep track of players taken, but I don't think there's anything more valuable to be gained from draft software than a piece of paper with your ranks/tiers on it.
And from a personal experience side, I used DD one year and won the league. Immediately after, the league voted to disallow any sort of drafting software because, to their mind, the point of a draft is to have the people drafting making the decisions, not the draft software. I followed that up with winning with paper and pencil the next year (while others used computer spreadsheets of their own design), and the draft was no harder for me and I felt more personally responsible for that win even though the DD projections had been based on my own rankings.
Adam Harstad
Moderator
Obviously everyone's experience is going to be different, but I've found the DD to be perfectly usable in a draft with 60-second timers, even when I've made a mistake and been forced to go back and undo picks for several rounds. Of course, I've been using it for over a decade, so it's gotten to be second-nature. I'd imagine someone new to the software would be slower while getting used to it.steveski said:
FBGs' mobile apps are also great, but at this point, I'm too comfortable and proficient with the DD to bother switching to anything that doesn't offer an overwhelming advantage. It's nice having my online drafts on different screens (tablet + laptop) so I don't have to switch back and forth between tabs, though.
Gottabesweet
Footballguy
What about for us ipad users?
Adam Harstad
Moderator
Footballguys' mobile drafting app goes for $5 and should be hitting the app store very, very soon- like, any day now. I haven't tried out this year's version, but I got last year's and liked it. I did a couple of our staff mocks on it to try it out, and while I prefer the laptop version, the iPad version was extremely user friendly and I managed to go from picking it up to completing entire drafts in about 5-10 minutes.
I'd tried out some other drafting apps in recent years, and at least as of 2013, there wasn't anything else even remotely as slick, quick, and polished. I understand that my testimony will probably be taken with a big grain of salt since I'm on the staff, but I've been a fan of FBGs and their products a whole lot longer than I've been an employee of Footballguys.
Gottabesweet
Footballguy
I've been beta testing the app and it's awesome, why are most only using it for mocks and not the real drafts?
Adam Harstad
Moderator
When I said I used them for a couple of staff mocks, I don't mean I used the "mock draft" functionality in the app itself. The FBGs staff holds a series of mock drafts (i.e. 12 participants running a full draft) over the offseason to help peg player values, and I used it for that- so it was a "real" draft, it just wasn't for a league we played out.Gottabesweet said:
Gottabesweet
Footballguy
Excellent thank you Adam
