Get it? It's a fantasy sports draft application, but it's spelled draught. Like draught beer. I like to watch football with a beer or two, and everyone loves a good pun. So there you go.

In my fantasy football and baseball leagues, we wanted to do a live draft, but we have players who live on both coasts, who work varying schedules, and some of whom have kids. Plus one of our rules is we allow keeping two to four players from year to year, to give some continuity.

Because of those two factors, it's impossible for us to use Yahoo!'s live draft or autodraft. So what does your trusty software engineer do? He codes up his own draft application, of course!

It's worked well for us for the last few years, so I thought I'd clean up the interface a bit and open it up to you, the public. It's free and has no ads or anything. Hopefully if you're in a similar situation as us, you will find it useful. It's still undergoing some updates, so if you find anything that doesn't work or you have any ideas on how to improve it, please let me know.

Technical details: This is written in Python using the Django framework running on my own lightweight single-threaded web server I wrote in C++. The front end is dynamic HTML and JavaScript, using the web technologies of AJAX and Comet.

Here is a link: Eddie's Fantasy Draught

Features

• Revolutionary three-tiered queue, to keep the draft moving. If you know you're not going to be around on your turn, you can set it up to draft some players automatically. The three tiers make sure you get only the players you want.
• Draft a large league on your own timeframe.
• Chat while the draft is going on.
• All stats available.
• League manager can enter "keepers" for each team before the draft.

To Get Started

1. Create an account.
2. Create a league.
3. Invite your league members to come draft.

Enjoy!