A look at some new FanDraft '21 Features
FanDraft Football 2021 went live a few weeks ago, and we’ve added a variety of new features to further improve your league’s draft experience.
Along with some major backend updates that will further ensure a snappy and stable platform, we’ve also added a variety of new and exciting user features to add greater flexibility for you to customize your draft experience.
Customizable Position Cell Colors
You can now completely customize the cell colors associated with each of the positions on the draft board grid.
Want all Quarterbacks to be hot pink? Go for it!
Want the Kickers to be neon green? Why not!?!
Support for 3rd Round Reversal Order
FanDraft now supports 3rd Round Reversal and other non-traditional pick order types. League’s that select this option can customize the direction of every round of their draft.
End of Draft Report Card
When your draft is complete FanDraft will display a “Roster Grades” report card, which grades each owner’s draft. Now you will have the computer’s support behind making fun of your fellow leaguemate’s drafting abilities.
Direct Message in Chat
We added the ability to perform DMs in the chat area. Now remote drafters will be able to hash out trades while the draft is taking place.
Shareable Links to your Draft
When your draft is complete, you can access a public link that can then be shared with friends or on social! Aren’t you excited to hear what the people on Twitter have to say about your draft? :)
More Auction Flexibility!
We added the ability for decimal bidding, customizable bid increments, customizable wrap-up time, and (highly request) ability for owners to add a custom opening bid amount!
Customize the Team Song Experience
We added the ability to “Auto-change song tracks”, which will automatically change team’s walk-up songs each round. You can also now customize the walk-up songs to either "Continue songs where they leave off", "Start songs over for every pick", or "Stop songs (fade out) after 15 seconds".
Everything else…
In addition to what was added above, here’s a list of everything we added in 2021:
Features
Ability to customize Position Cell Colors.
Support for 3rd Round Reversal and other non-traditional Pick Order types.
New "Draft Report Card", which automatically appears at the end of the draft, and gives Draft Roster Grades to each team.
Chat: Added ability to direct message other owners.
The ability for commissioner "Hide Player Rankings", and not allow filter view "By rank" for owners.
Added option for "Veterans Only" and "Playoffs Only" to Player Pool options (previously only "Rookie Only" was an option).
Added a shareable link to a draft board report following the conclusion of your draft, which users can post to social media or email to outsiders.
Removed the need to "Activate"(via email) your PRO account after purchase. Users will now immediately receive PRO access following purchase.
Added support for SuperFlex (QB+RB+TE+WR).
Audio
Added new "Audio" tab to the Dashboard access customization for all audio portions of the draft experience.
Audio SFX played by the Commish now sync to remote users.
Added ability to customize "Team Song" as either: "Continue songs where they leave off", "Start songs over for every pick", or "Stop songs (fade out) after 15 seconds".
Added option to "Cycle team songs" every round, so song tracks will be automatically changed at beginning of each new round.
Added customizable "Phonetic" input for team names (for voice announcer).
Voice announcer now states who is now "on the clock" after stating the last pick.
Team Song compatibility fixes for Safari browsers.
Added ability for Remote users to turn off Team Songs.
Auction
Added ability to do decimal bidding.
“Bid Increments” are now customizable.
Owners can now customize their opening bid amount.
Added ability to customize “Wrap-Up” time.
UI Improvements
Can now customize ticker speed.
Changes to font size and board sorting are now preserved on the exit of draft room.
Filter by Position now groups as an individual option for combined positions.
Stability improvements for Team Songs to prevent song cutoff.
Added slider component to Team Song volume control.
Auction teams with $0 won't get skipped during the nomination process when Min Bid is $0.
Improved compatibility with iPad tablets.
UI improvement separating Draft Order and Traded picks for improved clarity.
A more sophisticated “Auto-Draft” algorithm.
New cell stylizing for "Traded Picks".
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