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A fantasy draft is where you build your fantasy team in preparation for the season and its weekly management. In a public league, the draft occurs at a preset time determined by the league provider. In a private league, your league commissioner chooses a draft type and a draft date for your league and notifies the coaches, usually by email. (Chapter 4 explains the different draft formats.) Here are the three most common ways that a draft can be run:

 Live offline draft: In a live offline draft, all the coaches decide on a place and a time to meet and select their players. This old-fashioned way to start a season is the most fun, in my opinion, even though it isn’t always practical if your league members are spread across the country. Even so, many coaches plan an annual road trip to be at the draft in person, no matter where it’s being held.

 Live online draft: A live online draft is the most popular and the easiest way to gather your league to draft players. Your fantasy league website provider uses real-time technology to run the draft online. Each coach logs into the site at the specified draft time and uses the draft interface to select the available players they want to draft.

 Autopick draft: An autopick draft occurs online, but your league provider drafts each team for the league. Coaches don’t have to log in at a specific time or place, but no one has control over the actual draft. Public leagues often use this format because it’s hard to get 12 coaches to agree on a draft time when they don’t know each other.