draft pick

[pit1232]

how do you see your draft pick so you know how many you have i made some trades for draft pick and would like to see were i can fine them thank you

[cdcox]

Go to the draft page. Look in the far right column. You can type your team name into the search box and it will show all your picks.

[Kingswood]

how do you see your draft pick so you know how many you have i made some trades for draft pick and would like to see were i can fine them thank you

Did you read the manual at all? You ask a lot of questions and many of them can be answered there with minimal effort. It might help you improve as well.

[pit1232]

when to were it said draft and chick on that and nothing happen see that park is not up at this time

[Kingswood]

when to were it said draft and chick on that and nothing happen see that park is not up at this time

The manual is still alive and well.

Rookie Draft
What it is: Your opportunity to select rookie players and add them to your team.

When you can do it: The rookie draft occurs in July.

Where it is: Go to the Drafts menu and select "Rookie Draft". After the draft, your rookies can sign contracts by going to your team name on the menu and selecting "Manage Roster".

Each July, Sandbox has a rookie draft. This functions just like the NFL draft does for the most part, though without the ramblings of Mel Kiper and Mike Mayock. The rookie draft begins in July, and is "turned off" and inaccessible prior to that point.

The draft consists of seven rounds. The draft runs seven-days a week during normal waking hours in the continental US. Each owner has 1 hour to make their pick. Since there are 24 teams in a Sandbox league, this means that a total of 168 players will get drafted. Since the NFL draft consists of over 220 players in most years, the remainder will become available during either the Unlimited Free Agency process or the Limited Free Agency process. Players available are ONLY those who were drafted in the NFL. Undrafted rookies become available in the limited free agency phase or the unlimited free agency phase.

The order of the draft is based on the previous year's records.

To participate in the draft, click on "Drafts" in the menu bar, and select "Rookie Draft". You'll see three columns of players, as follows:

The leftmost column contains players who are eligible for the draft, along with their position and the order in which they were selected in the NFL draft. You can sort these by clicking on the various headers. The player names are clickable, but since they have no NFL statistics yet the links won't take you anywhere. (The links are because we're prepping them to be linked to statistics once they become available.)

If you see players that you're interested in drafting, you can click the "Move to Draft Board" arrow and the player will move to your draft board, which is the middle column.

The draft board is an important feature, because it does two things. First, it helps you organize and track the players you're interested in drafting. But more importantly, if you do not manually draft a player in your allotted time limit once your team's selection is due, the system will automatically draft the player at the top of your draft board. More on that in a moment.

Once a player is moved to the draft board, you can click and drag that player up and down the board as long as the board is not locked (the little checkbox above the draft board). You should lock the draft board any time you're not making edits, as a courtesy to other players.

The right most columns serve as the draft order and as the record of players that have been drafted. You can look in this column to see who's been drafted and whose picks are coming up. You can also click on the headers to sort by team, player name, and pick number.

When your team's turn arises, the following procedure is used to draft a player.

If you have the draft board locked, the top player on your board will be immediately taken as soon as you are on the clock. This is the most efficient approach and we encourage you to have your board ready and locked before your pick arrives. By placing several desired players on your draft board, you can be ready to make you pick even if you have to be away from the game for several hours. If you don't have players on your draft board, then you will have the opportunity to manually make your pick when you are on the clock.

If you do not have the draft board locked, the following process takes place. First, you may manually draft a player while you are on the clock by selecting the "draft" button. You must move the player off of your draft board onto the leftmost list of available players to do this. If your allotted time expires without making a manual pick, the top player on your draft board will be chosen even if the draft board is not locked. If you don't have players on your draft board, then the highest-NFL-drafted remaining player will be assigned to you.

If you turn your e-mail notifications on, you will receive an e-mail notifying you when your team is "on the clock" to draft.