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Hello: How does autodraft work? Specifically, if the player I draft #1 is taken, does HAL chooes an equivalent player (i.e same postion) with a close to equal salary, or does HAL just choose a player with the same salary and ignore the players position, or does HAL just draft my number 2 player if my #1 pick is gone??

Example, I make Helms my number 1 pick, he is gone, does the computer try to give me Thome (if available-same position, similar salary) , or does it just default to any hitter with similar salary, or does it go down to my second pick , who could be Liriano (as an example)

Thanks

The Auto-Draft is the process by which players are placed onto the 12 teams in your league based on the player lists that each team filled out. The logic is as follows:


If a player was selected by only one team, that team gets him.
If a player was selected by more than one team:
The team that ranked that player highest gets him.
If more than one team tied for ranking that player the highest:
That player is randomly awarded to one of those teams that ranked him the same.
For each team that lost out on a player:
The team receives the next highest-priced player that is the same primary position of the original player, that was not selected by any team.

Socal explains it very well.

In regards to your example, while you may have drafted Helms intending to play him at 1B his primary position is 3B and you would get the next highest value 3B that was not selected by another team.

thanks guys!

Not that it really matters Stoney, but Helms is listed with 1b as his primary position.

:)

Damn, you're right. I looked at the def rating and saw 3 there. My bad. :oops: