NFL-Managed Leagues use one of three draft types: Live Online, Autopick, or Offline.
Live Online Draft
A Live Online Draft allows you to select a full fantasy team, live, round-by-round in an interactive environment. The draft client features comprehensive stats, analysis, and chat functionality, all packaged in a user-friendly interface. In this draft application you can rank your players in real time, adding them to a queue that will update as players are taken by other teams in the league. You can search for players or filter the available players by position so that you can make fast, easy, and informed decisions to fill out your roster. When you have found the perfect selection, click “Draft Now” and the player you selected will be assigned to your team. You can track all of the action by round and by individual team, all in one place inside the draft application.
Autopick Draft
The Autopick Draft makes selections based on NFL.com fantasy experts’ default rankings or a team owner’s established rankings. This draft type is an excellent choice for beginners, as well as for leagues that can’t agree on a live draft time. In an Autopick Draft, players are assigned to your team automatically. NFL.com helps you fill your roster, either by going strictly off your Pre-Rank Draft list and Excluded Players list or by selecting the best available player at an open position of need on your roster. Select a day and time for your Autopick Draft, and that’s all you need to produce a league full of fantasy teams for owners to manage as they see fit.
Offline Draft
Use Offilne Draft if your league conducts its draft outside of NFL.com. The Offline Draft option allows you greater flexibility in completing your draft. For example, your league could complete a draft over multiple days, whether it’s done in person or through other electronic means. After completing your league’s draft, use the “Submit Offline Draft Results” tool in the League Manager Tool section of Manage Tools to input the players for each team.