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The draft can be one of the most fun and exciting days of the season. Gather all your team captains and players to run a live draft, where each team captain selects one player at a time until the rosters are complete. During the draft setup, you can:
Add Players
Select Team Captains
Define draft order
Set draft order for remaining rounds
Set your player ranking method
In this article, we will discuss how to set up your Team Draft.
Preparing for a Team Draft:
Before you use the Team Draft, you need to take care of a couple of things.
Create your event or league.
Add players to your roster. To see how to add players to your event roster, Click Here.
If you have multiple divisions, create divisions.
Enabling Team Draft:
Before creating a draft, you must enable the option to use a team draft. To do this, follow these directions:
Go to Event/League > Event/League Profile > General Settings.
Scroll down to the section "Team Draft."
Check the box "Enable Team Drafts" (as shown below).
Click "Save."
Create a Team List (Optional):
Note: You can create your team list before creating your Team Draft. If you do not create your team list before creating the Team Draft Setup, you will be required to create the team list during the Team Draft Setup.
When running a draft, you are creating teams. Those teams need to be placed in a team list. You can create your team list before you set up the Team Draft (or during the Team Draft Setup). To create a team list, follow these directions:
Go to Golfers > Divisions/Flights/Teams > Manage Team Lists.
Click "Manage Team List" for the division in which you wish to create the teams.
Select "Add New Team List."
Enter the name of the team list. Note: The team size and method can be left as is (as shown below).
Click "Next."
No additional action needs to be taken with the team list. Note: It is recommended that teams are created during the Team Draft Setup (outlined later in this article). However, if you wish to add teams before setting up the draft, you can click "Cancel" and then go to "Manage Teams," where you can "Add New Team" or edit existing team names.
Setting up a Team Draft:
After completing the steps above, follow these directions to set up your Team Draft:
Go to League/Event > Team Draft
Click Add New Team Draft.
Fill in and select the following(as shown below):
Name: Name of the Draft. By default, the event/league name will be used.
Choose Team List: If you have created a team list, select the team list where the teams are to be placed. If you did not create a team list for the draft, select the option "Create team list when draft is completed." Note: Once the teams are created, they can be seen by going to Golfers > Event Divisions/Flights/Teams > Manage Team List.
Click "Next," and you will be taken to the Team Draft setup page, which consists of five sections (each discussed in greater detail below):
Golfers
Teams
Team Captains
Draft Order
Draft Settings.
After completing each section, click "Save."
Golfers Section:
Within the Golfers section, if you have not added golfers to your event/league already, you can add golfers to the Event/League using one of the following options:
Note: You will be redirected to another page when selecting these options. You must navigate back to the setup page (Event/League > Team Draft) to start creating the draft again.
Teams Section:
Within the Teams section, you can set the team names for the teams part of the draft. Note: If you have already populated your team list with teams, this section will be prepopulated with team names. If no teams were previously created, we will display five empty inputs by default.
You can take the following actions:
Enter/Edit Team Name: Enter or update team names. Note: If you edit the team name of a previously created team, the update will be saved to the Team List when the Draft Setup is saved.
Add Teams: Click the blue plus symbol to add new teams. Note: Each new team created will be added to the Team List when the Draft Setup is saved.
Remove Teams: Click the red trash can to remove teams. Note: When the Draft Setup is saved, each team removed will be deleted from the Team List.
Team Captains Sections:
Within the Team Captains section, you can assign a captain to each team. Note: Any captain assigned to a team cannot be assigned to another team as a captain or player. Use the dropdown to scroll through or type a name to search for and select a captain.
Draft Order Section:
In the Draft Order section, you can select the order in which the teams will choose their player picks in each round, and the method used.
For the first round order, sort the teams using the drag and drop mechanism to determine the picking order for the first round. For all subsequent rounds, select one of the following draft orders:
Recurring: The first-round pick order is applied to all rounds.
Snake: The pick order is reversed for every round.
Combination: Manually set each round to use first-round order or first-round reversed order (as shown below). Note: The Rounds column displays the total draft rounds needed to select all golfers. The draft round total equals the number of golfers divided by the total number of teams.
Draft Settings Section:
In the Draft Settings section, the manager will select the Ranking Method and the Time Between Picks (as shown below).
For the Ranking Method, there are three options:
Past Results: When using this method, the player rank is based on prior Event/League results (as shown below). For more details on how this ranking method is calculated, Click Here.
Alphabetical: When using this method, players will be ranked alphabetically by Handle. For details on changing the handle, Click Here.
Handicap Index: When using this method, the rankings will be computed based on the Handicap Index saved in their player profile. Rankings will be calculated by sorting players from the lowest to the highest Handicap Index.
After selecting the ranking method, you can also set the time between picks (as shown below).
Note: The Time Between Picks value will represent the number of seconds each captain has to select a golfer. This value only has a visual effect, meaning we will not force an auto-pick if the time expires.
Saving a Team Draft Set Up:
After you have completed the Team Draft Setup steps, make sure you click "Save" to ensure the Draft Setup is saved and all team and team captain changes are applied. After the setup has been saved, you will be taken back to the Team Draft page, where you can see and manage your upcoming draft (as shown below).
For more details about the available options on this page, Click Here.