Fantasy football draft season is nearly here, so you’re probably in the middle of your usual rhythm in mid-August: Going through the rankings, studying up on the sleepers and the vets who could be busts, coming up with a punishment for last place and choosing the perfect name for your squad.
Now, it’s time to think about how to determine the draft order. And while that could be done by taking all your league-mates’ names, writing them on slips of paper and pulling them out of a hat, you know you could do something to spice up the process.
Do something fun! Creative! Outside the box! We came up with ideas, thanks in part to people on Twitter:
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Simulate it in a video game
Someone did it with some WWE games. This is HILARIOUS.
Really watched a simulated wrestling match for a fantasy football draft order 😂 pic.twitter.com/ZyA4SACnoy
— AGPIII (@pieper34) August 15, 2022
Love it!!! Royal Rumble fantasy football draft order #FantasyFootball #fantasywrestling https://t.co/86swBwvanX
— Benjamin Martinez (@ON_a_HEATER) August 10, 2022
2
Get a celebrity on Cameo to do it
My son and his friends got Dave Wannstedt to announce their fantasy football draft order via Cameo lol pic.twitter.com/2drMlvmrNt
— HailToPitt (@HailToPitt68) August 7, 2022
@SaturdayJeff announcing my fantasy league draft order. #colts pic.twitter.com/9ydcOPRN0I
— Logan (@SchmitLogan12) August 10, 2022
Plenty of former coaches and players who can do it, I’m sure!
3
Let the league do it for you ... but you only learn about it when you enter the draft room
This has happened accidentally a couple of times in a league I was in … and while everyone was pretty mad about it, the chaos is part of the challenge!!
4
Any kind of athletic competition
Classic. Never gets old.
My fantasy football league with my buddies from high school and college turns 17 this year!
We had a cookout last night and played cornhole to determine draft order.
My heart is full man. ❤️🏆🏈 #lifelongfriends
— KIMBRO (@KimbroPlays) August 14, 2022
Our fantasy draft this year’s order is decided by 40 yard dash times on video 😂
— michael (@Mike_Tjr) August 13, 2022
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Any kind of non-athletic event
Also perfect.
To determine draft order this year, we are running a spelling bee consisting of names from players that will have an impact on fantasy football in 2022. As managers dial in to run the gauntlet, we'll be updating their results for all to see
— TacoCor🅿️ FFL (@TacoCorpPod) August 9, 2022
Wonderlic Test to determine Fantasy Football draft order, safe to say the pressure is on
— Sean Van (@SeanVan36) August 10, 2022
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Betting on an event
I love this.
To determine our fantasy football order, everyone in our league has made a guess on how long into the Hard Knocks: Detroit Lions premiere the word “Stafford” is said out loud pic.twitter.com/v44heZfwqh
— Dennis Flynn (@DFlyAwayHome) August 9, 2022
We do a point scoring system with the ncaa basketball tournament
— Mike Baerga (@Mikebaerga517) August 15, 2022
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Have a pet do it
Outside of my gimbal skills being terrible and Daisy skipping over mine, having your dog pick your fantasy league’s draft order is always fun. pic.twitter.com/V1L4DWNduO
— Mike Flanagan (@flano0) August 10, 2022
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Use last season's standings
See, last place person? Don’t feel so bad!
9
Something casino-related
Fantasy Draft Order Idea
Give everyone “$100” in poker chips.
Play five hands of black jack, however much $$ you have at the end of those five hands, that’s how many “ping pong balls” you get in the draft lottery.
Good idea or bad idea?
— McCade Pearson (@McCadeP8) August 8, 2018
There was really only one way to determine our fantasy football draft order at the casino… pic.twitter.com/e14pELnBTa
— Jesse Inman (@jesseinmanTV) September 7, 2021
Having our fantasy draft on a my boys bachelor party in New Orleans next week, and we’re deciding the draft order by entering the Casino with 100 bucks and who ever leave with the most money gets first pick.
— W.E.B. DaBoi (@tweetsbytyre) August 10, 2022
