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How does a draft work?
Pick a contest on the Drafts page and press Join. It is a snake draft: 30 seconds a pick, and the order reverses every round. The room starts the moment every seat is taken by a person, and not before. Once it is full you have 10 seconds to pull out and get your entry back.
The pick clock is 30 seconds, 45 when a pick costs $25 or more, and a minute from $100 a pick. You also have 30-second timeouts to call: 3 a draft, 6 from $25 a pick, 9 from $100. If your clock runs out, the pick is made for you from your queue, or from the best player left if your queue is empty.
What do I own after the draft?
Every pick is a card: your share of what that player scores in that contest. Your cards are on the Portfolio page. They can be bought and sold until the contest's first game starts.
How do I get paid?
The whole entry pool is paid out - nothing is kept from it. It is divided by points: each card is paid the pool times its player's points, over all the points scored by the players drafted in that contest. The bonus boards in the lobby (the MVP, the category leaders, the milestones) add points on top.
Wherever you see per $1 - the lobby's MVP board, the heat maps, your Portfolio - it means what $1 on that player pays.
How do Buy and Sell work?
To buy, type a name in the box at the top of the Market - any sport - or press Buy on a heat-map tile, a ticker card or one of your Portfolio cards. You see the player's record, his three markets (single game, slate, season), and a price scale. Move the slider to your price and press the one button: it says whether you buy now from somebody selling at or under your price, buy part and bid for the rest, or leave a bid that waits for a seller.
Selling is the same screen from the other side: what you hold and what it cost you, the best bid, and a button that sells now, sells part and lists the rest, or lists. Nothing is sent until you press it, and a bid or a listing can be taken down from the Desk.
How do I know if a price is good?
Every card is priced per $1 of the slot it was drafted in. $1.00 is par - what the drafter paid - and it is also what an average drafted player pays back. So $2.00 per $1 means a player who pays twice what the average pick does.
The buy and sell screens put three yardsticks on one scale: Fair, the platform's own mark on him right now; His typical, what his $1 slot usually paid in a week or a night this season or last; and the best offer or best bid in the market. The coloured zones and the sentence under the slider say where your price sits: a steal, good, fair, a little high or expensive to a buyer, and the same lines read the other way to a seller.
A worked example: if a receiver's typical week pays $2.60 per $1 and a card of him is offered at $2.00, you are buying him 23% under what he usually pays.
What are the fees?
A 3% processing fee on each entry, shown on the card before you join. On a trade the buyer pays 0.25% on top of the price, and the seller receives every cent. If you pull out of a room in time, or a room never starts, the entry and the fee both come back.
What are the rules of play?
One seat a draft. You may take one seat in a draft and no more. The card shows how many seats a draft has before you join.
One account a person. If somebody knowingly opens a second account, themselves or through another person, every account they hold is closed.
Who may not play. You must be 18 or older, or older where your state says so. Our staff and the people who live with them may not enter paid contests. An athlete, coach, referee or other official may not enter a contest that is scored on games they take part in.
No scripts. Programs that pick, enter or trade for you are not allowed. The tools everybody has are on the draft screen: your queue, auto-draft from your queue, and loading your own rankings.
Experienced players are marked. A player who has entered more than 1,000 contests here, or won more than three prizes of $1,000 or more, carries an EXP mark beside their name in every draft room.
College games. Some states bar contests on college games. If you are in one of them, or live in one, college contests are not shown to you and cannot be entered.
Leaving. You can close your account under Account, Profile. Your balance stays yours and can be withdrawn whether the account is open or closed.
Why can't I see Buy, Sell or the Desk?
Each state decides what a fantasy contest may include, so those three are offered state by state. Where your state does not allow them - Colorado is one - they are switched off for you and the buttons are not shown. Drafting, holding your cards and getting paid work the same everywhere.
How do I make a complaint?
Write to us under Ask us something below and say it is a complaint. It can be about anything we do: your account, an entry, a score, a payout.
We look into it and answer you in writing, in that same thread, within ten days.
If you are in Colorado and our answer does not settle it, you may send your complaint in writing to the Colorado Division of Gaming within 30 days of our answer: 1707 Cole Blvd., Suite 300, Lakewood, CO 80401.