New Features in FanDraft ‘26
FanDraft 2026 is now live, and as usual we added a variety of new features and improvements.
Below are some detailed highlights of a few of these new additions:
End of Round Summary
Give every draft round its moment. FanDraft’s End of Round Slide automatically displays a full-screen highlight at the end of each round, calling out the Best Pick and Worst Pick to spark instant reactions, debates, and laughs. Fully customizable by the commissioner, it can pause the draft for maximum chaos, auto-dismiss to keep things moving, or be turned off entirely — all designed to add energy without slowing the draft down. (learn more)
2. Take a Draft Break
This can be found under the “Commissioner Tools” icon for non-auction leagues. This allows commish to create an intermission and pause the draft, in case there’s a desire for the league to take a break at any point.
Always a nice options to keep in the back pocket, in case the league collectively want to take a break to get snacks, etc.
3. Added option to fade walk-up songs out after 15, 30, or 45 seconds
Previously, for users who want to fade out a song at a certain moment, the only option was to do so 15 seconds in. Now, for users who utilize this preference, there are options for 15, 30, or 45 seconds.
4. Added ability to customize “Pick is in…” sound effect.
If you utilize the “Pick Is In” feature during your draft, you can now customize the sound effect that plays during that action.
Additional features and improvements:
Tightened up the pausing of walk-up songs playing while a Voice Announcer is speaking.
Auction Voice Announcer: Now announces when a player has been nominated for auction drafts.
Auction Team Songs: By default, now walk-up songs only play during the nomination process, and stop during bidding. There is an option for users to override this should they like
Clock Extensions: Clock extensions now add times to the remaining time on the clock, instead of resetting to the clock extension time
Better messaging for when user tries to select player that will cause an illegal roster
Added ability to delete archived leagues
View Only Mode: If you want to allow remote owners to only see the draft board, and not make selections on behalf of themselves, this disables the ability for them to do so.
We’ll be continuing to add more during the off-season, so make sure to track the full list of the new features and updates to FanDraft ‘26 here.
