The allocation draft is set up, and it starts by itself on Monday 10/26 at 10:00 AM CT. From now until then, the whole 3,246-player pool is yours to study and rank. Everything is under Draft Central → Allocation Draft on the site.
Do this before Monday
- My Priority List — add players with the "+ list" buttons on the Draft Pool, or with Quick add, and drag them into order. When your clock runs out, the site takes the top player on your list who is still available. Make it long (up to 500): your favourites will go early.
- A Position list (Draft Options) — "best QB", "best CB" … the site's second choice when nobody on your list is left.
- My DA (optional) — it starts fresh for the real league. Set your own weights, then Use as My list if you like (it replaces your current list). In Draft Options you can also have the fallback pick use your own My DA instead of the League Default.
- Your times — My Draft Schedule shows exactly when each of your 53 picks is made; the Draft schedule shows every round. Every pick takes its full clock, so these times don't move.
- Mon 10/26 – Sat 10/31 — rounds 1–18, 10:00 AM to about 8:40 PM each day: 10-minute clocks in rounds 1–6 (two rounds a day), 5-minute clocks in rounds 7–18 (four a day)
- Sun 11/1 — no picks: update your lists for the overnight rounds
- Mon 11/2, 10:00 AM – Tue 11/3, about 11:20 PM — rounds 19–53, 2-minute clocks around the clock
Good to know
- Everyone sees the same ratings. For the allocation draft only, every player card and My DA use one shared scouting file, so nobody is helped or hurt by the staff he happened to draw. After the draft you'll export your own staff's scouting from the game.
- Draft e-mails: tick the ones you want in Draft Options, but please untick them before the 2-minute rounds on Monday 11/2.
- No-spoilers bookmark: wafl-fof.com/nospoilers/ shows the latest sim's games with no scores, so you can watch the box scores and logs at your own pace once the season starts. From the preseason it also links each week to WAFLvision, our play-by-play replay of the games.
- After the draft: I enter all 1,696 picks into the game. The league files go out on Fri 11/6 (Pre-Training Camp) — your first import. I'll post the FTP details and a short how-to before then.
— CMax
