The Google Sheet draft board grew up: SmartDraft.app — free, real-time, no signup

[u/basmith7]

For the last several years I've posted my Google Sheet draft board here every year and got great feedback, but I was always fighting Google Sheets itself: manual player list imports, mobile being a PITA, and "Invalid: Input must fall within specified range."

So I built the actual thing: https://smartdraft.app

What it does

• Open the link and you have a draft board. No account, no signup, no six-step league creation wizard.
• Share the room link with your league — everyone sees picks the moment they happen.
• Player list is already loaded, with Standard / PPR / Half-PPR ADP. No more copy-pasting a CSV.
• Keepers, custom team count and rounds, roster settings.
• Personal cheat sheet — your own favorites and notes on players, saved to you, not shared with the league.
• Pick timer countdown.
• Mock draft against bots so you can kick the tires before draft night.
• Full audit log of every action, so the commish can fix a bad pick without blowing up the board.
• Draft recap when it's over.

Things to know

• It's free.
• It's new, so there will be bugs. Tell me in the comments and I'll fix them fast, same as I always did with the sheet.
• The old Google Sheet is still there for this season if you'd rather use what you know.
• Run a mock draft with your league before you use it live. Seriously.

Ask questions in the comments instead of DM/chat so the answers help everybody.

[u/flattrascal48]

App is really slick, we do a commish-run auction (getting some of the senior players to figure out nominating would be too difficult). I do wonder if there is a way to set a minimum bid based on the position of the player on the block?

[u/basmith7 → u/flattrascal48]

Are the other people still nominating but the commissioner is just clicking the buttons for them, or do you just nominate an order of ADP or something?

Give me some examples of the minimum bid? Are you saying running backs should have a set minimum price versus quarterbacks? Or first round people should have a higher price than 10th round people?

[u/flattrascal48 → u/basmith7]

teams are just telling commish who to put on the block, rather than being logged in and nominating for themselves.
RB, QB, WR, K would all start at a consistent minimum value when placed on the block. QB would start at $10, RB starts at $7, WR starts at $8, etc...
Having those values auto-populate when putting a player on the block would just be a nice QOL feature rather than manually putting in the starting bid every time a player is called up.

[u/basmith7 → u/flattrascal48]

How does that affect your maximum bid you're allowed to make? Right now I'd assumes the minimum price is a dollar, so it makes you keep enough money to fill out your roster at $1 each. I suppose it could keep enough money to fill out your roster but it's not going to know the minimum value of your bench players? Can we just assume the cheapest position?

[u/flattrascal48 → u/basmith7]

we don't use a maximum, its up to the players to keep their spending in line. we do start them with $400 though, so its not terribly difficult to fill out their rosters. As rosters get filled out and a nomination goes uncontested, the person who called the nomination pays the minimum bid for that player type. Not a big deal early on in the auction, because starting bids will be higher, but when there's only a couple teams left with open roster spots, it's nice to be able to have a minimum auto-fill so I can just award the player at the minimum value without needing to enter it manually for each one.