An auction board does two jobs: keep an honest record of who bought whom, and stop anyone bidding money they can't actually spend. Everything below serves one of those two.
1 The whole thing in three moves
Set the league up
Teams, budget, roster shape, and the master list everyone drafts from. Takes about a minute and you only do it once.
Draft
Type the player, type the price. The money math and the big board update themselves after every pick.
Share it
One link puts the live board on every manager's phone. They watch; only you can change anything.
2 Anatomy of a roster card
One card per manager. Everything you need mid-auction is on it.
Roster count — filled spots out of the total. Clicking the header opens this roster on its own.
Money left — a fuel gauge. Full and green at the start, draining through yellow to red.
Max bid — the most this team can pay for one player and still fill the roster. See below.
Orange slot — a receiver sitting in an RB slot. Allowed; just flagged so you notice.
Player search — type a name, an NFL team, or a position. Anything unrecognised is kept exactly as typed.
Price, then × — what they paid. The × wipes the slot.
3 Why max bid isn't just "money left"
Every roster spot has to be filled and nobody costs less than $1. So a dollar is quietly held back for every spot you still have to buy — and the max bid is what's left after that.
$15 left, 15 spots still to buy — so the max bid is now exactly $1, and the budget lands on zero with a full roster. That is the proof $185 was the true ceiling.
Red before you're broke. If the money left ever drops below the number of spots you still have to buy, the bar pins red and max bid reads $0 — that means the roster can no longer be filled, not merely that things are tight.
4 Four keystrokes per player
Eligible players sort first. An RB slot lists running backs above everyone else, but you can still take anyone.
Nobody gets drafted twice. Players already on a roster leave the list, and a name typed by hand that's already gone turns both rows red.
Undo covers 40 changes. Wrong team, wrong price, wrong player — back it out.
From the big board:Assign → puts a player on any roster's first eligible opening and drops you on the price box.
5 One master list, so paper and screen agree
Boards disagree — hard. Pick the one your league drafts from, and every number in the app follows it: the big board, the search order, the rank beside each pick, and the sheet you print.
They really do disagree. On PPR ADP, Nacua goes ahead of Chase. On Superflex, Josh Allen is the #2 pick overall. If your league prints ESPN's list, choose ESPN.
Import anything. Paste a list or load a CSV — numbers, teams and positions optional. Suffixes and defense naming are matched for you, so "Kenneth Walker" and "Kenneth Walker III" are the same man.
Refresh ADP pulls current numbers from thousands of live drafts. Preseason ADP moves daily; injuries move it hard.
6 Zoom out to scan, click a team to zoom in
⤢ Fit all — every roster on one screen, rows even. Best when you want to see who still has money.
Click a team — that roster on its own, with ‹ › to step through the league. Escape backs out. This is the one that works on a phone.
7 Projected standings, for the pressure
Press 📈 Standings and a table appears under the auction bar ranking every team on the best starting lineup it could field right now. It re-sorts after every sale, so the room can watch a manager slide four places for spending $70 on a third running back.
On the board — one line, always current, and viewers on the share link see it too.
Best legal lineup — starters only, flex filled optimally. Empty slots score zero, so a half-built roster ranks last by design.
Set the scoring on the setup screen. PPR, half PPR or standard picks which set of season projections the table runs on — it changes nothing else about the draft. Full table with every team's lineup lives on the League summary tab.
8 The league watches; only you can change it
Share → Start sharing gives you a view link. Send that one to the league.
The second link is not for them. The amber recovery link grants control, not just viewing. Mail it to yourself before draft night; if your laptop dies you open it on anything else and carry on where you stopped.
Stop sharing deletes the board from the server and kills the link immediately.
9 Three copies, none of them depending on the others
This browser
Every keystroke is saved locally. Close the tab, crash, reboot — nothing is lost.
A file you choose
Point Save at a file in OneDrive or Dropbox and every pick syncs off the machine within seconds.
The share service
While sharing is on, the board lands on the server within two seconds of every pick — the only copy that survives your computer dying.
Draft-night habit: turn sharing on even if you send nobody the link. It doubles as the backup, and the recovery link is what turns that backup into a board you can keep running.
10 Before the auction starts
Roster and budget match your league. Setup → check the chips at the bottom read exactly like your real lineup.
Master list matches the printed sheet. Otherwise "number 42" means two different players in the same room.
Refresh ADP if you're drafting off a market board.
Link a file in a synced folder.
Start sharing, open the view link on your phone, make one test pick, then clear it.
Mail yourself the recovery link.
Everything saves as you go. There is no submit button and nothing to lose by experimenting — make a throwaway league and poke at it.