WHAT IS IT?

In Draft Fantasy Premier League, managers join a league with other fantasy managers (usually between 8 and 12). To begin the season, those managers all participate in a draft where they take turns selecting Premier League players for their fantasy teams. Only one manager may "own" each player. From there, you can trade players, drop players from your team, and add available players as the season progresses.





WHY DRAFT INSTEAD OF THE OFFICIAL GAME?

Fantasy Premier League revolves mostly around the "Official Game" (otherwise known as OFPL), which is a salary cap game in where every single manager can, potentially, own any player in the league. On a podcast, which will remain nameless, one of two hosts commented, "We had a similarly low-scoring week this week, Clarence (not his real name), since you and I started basically the same team." While we appreciate the idea that one can play against literally everyone in the OFPL world in this format, we despise the fact that every manager ends up owning the same players. Plus, with the addition of the draft and ability to trade, the Draft game takes on an entirely new level of strategy that is as fun as it is addictive.





HOW DO I GET STARTED?

Get some friends together and start a league on one of the Draft sites below. If you don't have any/enough friends who want to try Draft, head on over to the Twitter Must-Follows page and ask one of the Draft community members to put out the call. We'll get you linked up with a league in no time.