NFFC Will Make Primetime Draft Boards Publicly Available

[Greg Ambrosius]

One of the controversies in the NFBC this past spring was the availability of seeing draft boards of the Main Event early in the season. The NFBC doesn't provide those draft boards to the public, but apparently there is a lot of board sharing among groups of NFBC participants.

Some owners thought that was an unfair advantage, especially since we don't update the ADPs for each individual contest until five drafts are completed. We do this because we don't want people to see individual draft boards where possibly they could "scout" an individual's draft. We have always provided draft orders on the Message Boards for the Main Event and Primetimes and thus showcasing ADPs after one or only two drafts would likely expose some owners' top targeted players.

But the controversy got so loud that it spilled over to Twitter and one owner even tried to expose another owners' picks to get him back for board sharing. But before he could do that, the other owner just listed all of his Main Event picks himself. When that happened, it was time for us to step in and change some things, so here are the changes going forward, not only for the NFFC Primetime in 2024 but for the NFBC as well starting in 2025:

1) First of all, we aren't listing draft orders anymore for any contest. I know in the past people were interested in the spots that other owners got, but it's lost all of its usefulness going forward. Draft Orders for the Primetime or Main Event are no longer being posted on the Message Boards.

2) ADPs for any individual contest for any sport now starts after THREE finished drafts. So the NFFC Primetime ADPs will become available after the third Primetime draft.

3) And going forward, the NFC will now post full draft boards randomly throughout the drafting season. It seems unfair that some select groups of owners can share boards amongst themselves, so it makes sense for the NFFC and NFBC to just post Primetime and Main Event boards ourselves for all to see. We will do this on Twitter and on a special page on our Discord channel. This way everyone has access to the same information throughout the drafting season. And who knows, by publishing these finished draft boards it may spread the word about our contests and lure some other people to draft later in the season.

We welcome all thoughts on this new strategy, but we just felt it was time to take charge of our data and to let everyone have it, just like we did with our ADPs about six years ago. Make the data available and let everyone figure out how to use it. And if you really want to draft before any of this data is available, then jump into that contest's first or second draft because we definitely won't showcase anything before they are done.

Hope this makes sense. Thanks all and good luck in all your leagues this year.