Charles Curtis
July 24, 2024 7:55 am ET
Fantasy football draft season is nearly here.
So there’s a checklist you’re going through, especially if you’re running a league: Looking intothe best fantasy football team namesfor your squad, dreaming upa last-place punishment, and beginning to craft your spreadsheet with sleepers, busts and such
Now, it’s a good time to think about how to determine the draft order. And while that could be done by taking all your fellow managers’ names, writing them on slips of paper and pulling them out of a hat, you know you could do something better, more fun and definitely good for social media.
Thanks to Twitter, we’ve got the 2024 edition ofour now-annual list:
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Do a combine like these people did@espn Would your #fantasyfootball league do this? 🏈 (via @LM8_Rebel) #fantasy #fun
It’s a classic for a reason.
2
Do a creative race or physical challenge of some sort@yourrealtorkirstie Fantasy football 2023 draft order! #fantasyfootball #footballtiktok #nflfootball #football #nfl
This is a wild way to pick a draft order! 🌊
(via tuckergenal/TT) pic.twitter.com/Kn7l9jHybe
— Yahoo Fantasy Sports (@YahooFantasy) July 31, 2023
This is sort of like the combine but sort of not.
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Get an animal to do itDecided to let my cat Couscous pick our fantasy baseball draft order this year. It was a bit anticlimactic. pic.twitter.com/Rv6QBVE7JA
— Carter Woodiel (@CarterWoodiel) March 14, 2024
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Order a Cameo to get a celebrity to do itTY for all your CAMEO video requests for me to film a special video for your Fantasy Football Leagues for the upcoming 2024 Fantasy Football season. Click on this CAMEO linkhttps://t.co/kfAFQPSBCv for info on how to order a customized video for your Fantasy League draft &… pic.twitter.com/tQ50Lke07f
— Bruce Buffer (@brucebuffer) July 17, 2024
A worthy, memorable investment of money.
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Use a video game (specifically, a WWE title)if you can’t decided your fantasy draft order sim a battle royal on WWE & thank me later
— 👑💎 (@DayDreamahx7) July 10, 2024
We did a WWE battle royale tournament to determine the draft order in fantasy this year.
Shoutout Sheamus for securing me for the No. 1 pick! pic.twitter.com/KsX2wJtYW6
— Kole Emplit (@KoleEmplit) July 28, 2023
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Turn the last place punishment as a way to determine the draft orderOur fantasy football last place punishment is a beer mile.
– 4 quarter-mile laps
– One beer before each lap
– Everyone else bets on finishing time
– Draft order is determined by closest betsLeague record: 9 minutes 37 seconds
What's your league's punishment?
— Mark Palmer (@MarketPalmer_) July 10, 2024
A way to connect last season to this one.
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Use a competition that's based on an random luck eventI actually got this idea from a thread on this topic 6+ years ago. We had 12 teams. We all arrived at noon. First thing did was partner up based on pulling names. So 6 pairings. Each pair then pulled out of hats the name of a pizza delivery place and a type of pizza (pepperoni, meat lovers etc). Then at same time we all ordered off Uber eats. It was amazing to have 12 grown men standing on the curb shouting as we saw the first delivery guy round the corner. So the first pair got picks 1 and 2 then each pair just flipped a coin to see who got first or second. You could do 12 pizza orders and avoid pairing up but that seems excessive.
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Let people pick their draft spotI’ve heard of this one for years, and I love it, so here it goes: You have a hat full of names and when you pick one out, that person gets to pick WHICH selection they get. So if you get picked first, you could take the No. 3 pick if you choose. Drama!
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Use a fun random generatorI like the one at DraftOrders.com.
A few years ago, on a Saturday I decided to whip up a website to generate my Fantasy Football League's draft order with a fun little race. This year I decided to circle back and rebuild it in 3D with @threejs. pic.twitter.com/ajaPb09CUQ
— James O'Halloran (@jamespohalloran) April 5, 2024
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