Reviews of FanDraft
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If you run a hard-core football fantasy league, FanDraft Football can help you kick up the realism during the spring draft. The program has a colorful and welcoming interface that looks just like the one the NFL live draft uses. The fantasy coaches can select people for their teams from a large selection of players. You can add, remove, or edit an athlete's entry in the player database. Since recruiting the right players is at least as important in fantasy leagues as in real life, fantasy football fans may really enjoy this program.
For a while now, I've wanted to have an electronic draft board for my leagues fantasy football draft. I wanted to get some great fantasy draft board software to help me run my draft like a true NFL style draft.
I did some... ok, quite a bit or research on the web and found what appeared to be, for all intents and purposes, the best draft software on the web. I found it from the folks over at Fandraft.com. I will say this now in full disclosure... this is NOT a paid advertisement, I received NO compensation for this post (despite all my best efforts), and paid the full retail price ($29.95) to order the draft board software. What follows here is a honest assessment of the software and its impact on the draft.
The ordering was easy, and the software was simple to install. It required nothing more than a download after purchase. There is an option to add a CD backup of the software, but I personally decided it was not needed. After downloading the software and putting in all my information, I gave it a couple of run-through's to get comfortable with it. This didn't seem too hard. A few hours before the draft, I hooked my laptop up to a digital projector and put it up on a screen. The projector and screen (as well as venue for the draft) came at the courtesy of my brother-in-law and draftmaster. Now, I have a 50' Plasma TV which would have worked just as well, but I choose the projector based on ease of set up and portability. (click here to read the full article)
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