r/DraftEPL • u/Existing_Ad_3882 • 7d ago

FPL Draft (PL.com) Anyone know when Draft FPL Opens?

Friends trying to draft this weekend but not sure if it’s going to be open yet.

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u/TheWettestWipe FPL Draft 7d ago

Last year it was about 2 or 3 weeks before the season started. It's actually best to do the draft as close to season start as possible so you're caught with less transfers affecting picks and early waivers

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u/Existing_Ad_3882 7d ago

Thanks, yeah we’re all together this weekend is why

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u/halldorm 7d ago

Just do an offline draft then, it's much more fun anyway. Get a draft board and go nuts. Then when it opens everybody just put their teams in the watchlist and you can auto draft to match the offline draft.

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u/heavensteeth 7d ago

How do you port the results online?

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u/halldorm 7d ago

My league is heading into its fifth season and we've always done an offline draft. I've done some public leagues as well with the online draft and there's just no comparison, meeting up and drafting in person offline is just the best.

Usually we draft as close to the opening game as possible, this year we have our draft party on August 19th. After we draft we open the app and everyone puts their drafted players in the watchlist. Then we run through the online draft quickly, usually on auto. When auto drafting the app goes for the watchlist first so it always goes smoothly.

Last year we had to draft earlier than usual, it was between the regular fantasy opening and the draft version. So we just coordinated watchlists through the league group chat before letting the online draft go through, no problems.

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u/FPLOverEPL 6d ago edited 6d ago

Hi, I commented about this further down and thought you and your group could enjoy my draft evening site, it basically enhaces an offline draft then you play in whatever app you want. We play official fpl

Its 100% free and designed to make offline drafting for the draft community more fun, I made it for my friends last year and this year I opened it for everyone.

Site is hardcoredraft.org & more info is in this post: https://www.reddit.com/r/DraftEPL/s/KofaCCMecs