For years, the fantasy football industry has been devoid of innovation. Fantasy gamers were pitched a torrent of prop games – each a slight twist on the standard pick ‘em format. We are now emerging from that long winter.
Since 2020, fantasy footballers have evolved. Speed and brevity rule, and traditional fantasy drafts now feel tedious. Enter FastDraft.
If most people hate slow drafts, why not just draft faster?
FastDraft actually incentivizes fast drafting by leveraging the hidden competition at play in every draft room. The time clock. And Time to Pick is now a metric that matters.
Beyond pure speed, fantasy football enthusiasts are flocking to dynasty leaguesby the millions. The NFL Draft is now the second most watched U.S. sporting event after the Super Bowl. For many months, all football fans care about are NFL prospects and NFL rookies.
What is the best part of any fantasy league? The draft. Does the world need yet another pick ‘em contest. Probably not.
We polled fantasy fans, and they want 3 things:
FastDraft is bringing year-round fantasy football to the people with a platform that lets fantasy gamers draft who they want when they want.
Years ago, a fantasy gamer had a full 3 minutes to make each pick! Then the time to pick dropped to 2:00, then 1:30, then 1 minute. FastDraft shattered the old time clock, capping the maximum time to pick to 20 seconds
By stripping fantasy teams down to their bare essentials (draft 6, start 4 each week) and driving down the time to pick, you can feel confident that a draft will take 10 minutes or less to complete. Waiting for a coffee? Draft. In line to pick up your kid? Draft.
In collaboration with PlayerProfiler.com, search data shows that fantasy gamers primarily care about two types of players: Rookies and Superstars (sorry sleepers and truthers).
The FastDraft platform focuses just on players you care most about, offering rookie drafts for money throughout the offseason (Origins) and superstar-only drafts (All Flex) during the summer months.
From DFS to best ball, fantasy football tournament drafting is now more popular than individual leagues. As a result, concepts like “exposure” and “market share” are now common fantasy lexicon, and more fantasy enthusiasts are drafting like Wall Street traders. Most tournament enthusiasts are drafting to their portfolios, so FastDraft features a complete Portfolio experience showing player exposure by tournament and by tournament type.
Many would love to max enter best ball tournaments, but there just isn’t enough hours in the day to make it happen. FastDraft offers Turbo Draft, a cruise control for volume drafters. Recalibrate your Portfolio player exposures by submitting pre-draft ranks and the number of teams to be drafted, you will automatically join draft rooms as they open and draft teams based on your player preferences.
With a portfolio of fantasy teams in-hand, you have until Week 1 kickoff to set your four captain boosters (2x, 1.75x, 1.5x, and 1.25x) and watch your teams move up and down in the Standings from our Live Scoring feed each week.