Drafts & Tiers

Tiered picks

The tournament field is ranked by starting position and split evenly into as many tiers as your team size: favorites land in Tier 1, longshots in the last tier. Each roster must take exactly one golfer per tier, so no one can stack their team with only the top names, and every team is guaranteed at least one true longshot pick. Picking a second golfer from a tier you've already filled doesn't add them alongside your first pick - it swaps them in, since only one golfer per tier is ever allowed.

Create Your Team: Tiered

Below, the Tier 1 pick was swapped from Scheffler to McIlroy, and the Tier 2 pick from Rose to Griffin - the older pick in each tier is just gone, not benched or duplicated.

Create Your Team: Tiered (after a swap)

Tiered picks with a season bench

A season competition can combine Tiered picks with the "same team all season" roster mode and a bench. When it does, the tier rule only applies to your first teamSize picks - the ones that fill Tier 1 through the last tier, one each. Any bench slots beyond that (up to the commissioner's configured bench size) are unrestricted: pick anyone left in the field, including another golfer from a tier you already used.

Create Your Team: Tiered + Bench

With a team size of 5 and a bench of 2, the requirement becomes 7 golfers total. The tier grid works exactly like a single-tournament Tiered pool - fill Tier 1 through Tier 5, one each, swapping in place if you change your mind. Below the tier grid, a separate Bench section lists every golfer not already a starter, with its own counter; clicking there adds or removes a bench pick without touching your tier picks, so the two selections can never collide:

Create Your Team: Tiered + Bench

This is enforced on the server too, not just in the UI: the team-creation action only runs tier validation against the first teamSize golfers in the submitted list, so a bench pick from an already-used tier can never fail that check.

Live draft

Teams pick in order, chosen by the commissioner right before the draft starts: standard (the same order every round) or snake (the order reverses each round, so whoever picks last in round 1 picks first in round 2). Once a golfer is taken, no one else in the pool can have him. This is the closest thing to a real fantasy draft: total exclusivity, no repeats.

Draft: Standard order

Draft: Snake order

The difference only shows up after round 1. For a 3-team draft with round-1 order A, B, C:

Standard repeats round 1's order forever. Snake flips it on every even-numbered round, then flips back, so the team stuck picking last in round 1 immediately gets first pick in round 2 instead of waiting through two bad slots in a row.

Drafts don't require everyone online at the same time. Instead, each team ranks a wishlist of golfers ahead of time. When it's their turn, the draft automatically takes their highest-ranked golfer still available - the standard-order draft below finished all 9 picks (3 teams x 3 golfers) this way with no one watching the clock. Wishlists stay private the whole time - no other team can see anyone else's rankings, before or during the draft. Only actual picks show up on the board as they're made:

Draft: Standard order, completed

If a team's wishlist runs out mid-draft, the draft pauses on them and the commissioner can step in and pick on their behalf to keep things moving:

Draft: Snake order, paused