Strat Draft

Pass the mouse over the menu item "Draft Players".  Two submenus appear, one for Batters and one for Pitchers.  Pass the mouse over the Pitchers menu item and from there select Starters.  You will then be presented with a screen similar to the one below.

The system has been setup with a few players so you can see the functionality that is provided. These may not coincide with the players that your league will make available for drafting, but merely allow you to see how the system functions. In the next few pages of this help for new users we will explore how to customize the players for your league.

Since your team currently occupies the first pick in the first round, you are presented with a draft button to the left of each player that when pressed will draft that player.  For now let's draft Pedro Martinez or someone else if you prefer.  After pressing the draft button to the left of his name you will move to the screen shown to the right.  Here you can choose to place a message on the draft board next to the players name.  There are a number of icons to choose from.  Click on "Yes" to complete the drafting of Pedro and the system will move back to the main screen as shown below, now with Pedro shown in the draft grid.

You can see the current status has advanced to pick number two in round number one. The "Team At Bat" has advanced to the next drafting team, and the "Team On Deck" has also been advanced.  Pedro occupies the first draft cell along with the drafter's message.  You could continue to practice a draft by logging in as each sample team to make more picks. The username for each sample team is simply "user" followed by the number of the sample team. The password is the same as the username. In our example then, Sample1 would have a username of user1 and a password of user1.

After you are satisfied with the results of the draft and feel confident that it is setup correctly for your league, you can reset the draft to its original state by pressing the "Reset Draft" menu item as shown below.

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