1. Auction Style - This is 100% better than your traditional snake draft. Most people stay with the snake out of laziness or because they don't know any better. Snake drafts are much more prevalent in Fantasy Football discussions and existing leagues, so most people stay with what is familiar. Auction style keeps everyone in your league engaged throughout the process, whereas in a snake draft there is up to a 45 minute lag time between picks where everyone is basically falling asleep. Plus - any yay-hoo can do a snake draft. An auction draft takes real skill.
2. Have plenty of food and drinks. Make a real party of it. Choose something easy like pizza, or burgers/hot dogs/brats, etc.
3. Have a stats folder. This gives everyone the same information and helps level the playing field so that you don't have the annoying person that keeps asking random questions about who the starter is at "such and such" position. We run last year's stats, last year's points per week according to our rules, depth charts, and schedules to name a few things.
4. Have a big board - Use this to keep track of who is drafted and who is still available. We used to use the "top 300" list, but the big board summarizes all of the player movement much better.
5. Make sure everyone pays up at the party. None of this IOU crap. No cash - no entry. That way, when someone wins the league they get paid immediately. After all, if you're providing food and drinks, the least each person can do is to bring the league entrance fee.
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