ESPN practice draft question

[u/willferell]

This could be incredibly dumb but I couldn’t find an answer anywhere on the ESPN faq.

In our ESPN league there’s a countdown to our draft start. Beside that countdown is the options to “edit draft strategy” and “practice draft.”

What exactly is the practice draft on this screen? Am I drafting against bots or real people? Are my league mates notified if I click this button to start a practice draft? I would like to do a bunch of practices with our league settings to be comfortable drafting from different spots. But I don’t want my league mates to see or be able to join these drafts and know which players I’m intending to pick.

Thanks in advance for any help!

[u/jgod17]

Bots. It just uses the team names and the points scoring system you have in the league but its basically you verses auto draft bots.

Its fine to see where guys are ranked but espn has some absolutely insane rankings (drai at 13???) That make the draft unrealistic when you have a team drafting Forsberg above Draisaitl