What is Play the Draft?

Looking for something to do now that March Madness is over and Fantasy Football isn’t for another few months. Play only NFL Draft game approved and sponsored by the one and only Mel Kiper Jr. and compete with yours truly and Mel Kiper (among others) for a chance to pick the brains of Mel Kiper himself. Grand prize is a one hour conversation with the original draft guru and ESPN draft expert Mel Kiper.

Normally you’d have to pay $30 to enter, but I’ve been given, along with a few others like SI’s Tony Pauline and Don Banks, NFL.com’s Bucky Brooks, Gil Brandt, and Jason LaCanfora, ESPN’s Joe Schad, and Yahoo’s Doug Farrar, a free private league for all my readers on a first come, first serve basis. You can sign up for free at the following link. http://game.playthedraft.com/fbdraft/setup/affiliate_league_accept.asp?affiliateID=7.

How do you play?

The object of the game is simple. Find the undervalued players. Each player has a price, like a stock, and this price can change on a daily basis. Each draft slot also has a value, only this value is static. You’re given 12,000 to start and whoever “cashes out” with the most money at the end of the draft wins. For example, if you pay 1100 for a player and he goes 28^th overall, the 28^th overall pick is associated with a value of 1475, so you’ve made a net of 375.

Whoever has the highest final amount wins. And since the player values change on a daily basis, you can also make money by buying a player cheap and selling him at a higher price. Player values are based on an algorithm that takes into account big boards and mock drafts from across the DraftNik community.

If you’re still confused, you can go to this link for more information http://playthedraft.com/how-play or here for FAQ http://playthedraft.com/faqs. The static draft slot values are listed here http://playthedraft.com/cap-values and individual player values can be seen once you sign up.

Once again, you can sign up for free here http://game.playthedraft.com/fbdraft/setup/affiliate_league_accept.asp?affiliateID=7. It’s going to be a lot of fun and if you like the idea, you can sign up for a league of your own and play with your friends or your fantasy football league to hold you over until September by clicking here https://secure.playthedraft.com/signup/signup_basic.asp

I’ll also be publishing relevant content about this in the coming days, starting with my list of the most undervalued players, which you can read here http://www.footballfanspot.com/underratedplayers.htm