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Available on: Licensed module — one-time license per league →

Draft & Keeper League

Draft a roster. Keep your studs. Run it for years.

A full season-long draft engine for any pool of names. Run a live snake draft or a budget auction — together in one sitting or stretched over days with overnight pauses and on-the-clock emails. Members build ranked prospect boards, draft on the clock, vote on picks, and score all season. Keepers carry year to year. An optional Death Pool flavor lets you draft famous people and score when they pass — Wikidata-checked, admin-confirmed, with a tombstone scoreboard.

Start this contest →How it works

Great for:Fantasy-style & keeper leaguesAuction draftsPrediction & reality-TV poolsOffice leagues drafted over a weekDeath pools (optional flavor)

Create the league

Name it, set roster size, keepers, the player pool (open or pre-loaded), and how picks are approved. Pick the Death Pool flavor if you want death-tracking.

Invite & draft

Teams sign up (with an optional cap that auto-closes), name & brand their team, and build a ranked prospect list. Run the live room — snake or auction, in one session or over days.

Score the season

Award points from your own scoring categories (or auto death-detection); standings update live and keepers carry to next season.

Licensing

A licensed module — not a monthly tier

The Draft & Keeper League is licensed per league (one-time, flexible term). The Death Pool is an optional paid add-on on top.

What’s included

Everything in the module

Draft formats

Live snake draft

Real-time room with an on-the-clock timer and auto-pick if it expires

Auction draft

Per-team budgets, nominations, live open bidding with a resetting timer

Extended (multi-day) draft

Long pick windows that pause overnight — emails each owner when they’re on the clock

Draft order

Commissioner-set (drag to arrange), random draw, worst-to-first, first-to-worst, or repeat last year

The live draft room

On-the-clock picks

Each owner picks when it’s their turn — or the commissioner picks for them

One-tap from your board

Draft straight from your ranked prospect list, or search & add anyone

Commissioner controls

Pause/resume, undo, adjust the clock, close the room, remove names

Everyone watches live

Participants join the room; the board and clock update in real time

Pick approval & voting

Notability voting

Optional 👍/👎 vote on each pick — no-vote counts as yes, majority rules on a timer

Commissioner approval

Or you approve/decline every pick yourself; rejected names are blocked and the team re-picks

Voter privacy

Counts are public; who voted is commissioner-only (or shown to all, your call)

Player pool & prospect boards

Open or closed pool

Pre-load eligible names, or let on-the-clock members add anyone live via Wikidata

Ranked prospect lists

Each member keeps multiple lists with notes, drag-to-rank — they carry across seasons

Auto-pick uses your board

Time out and the system drafts your top available prospect

Ownership

Exclusive (one team per name) or shared

Teams & sign-ups

Self sign-up

Anyone with the link can claim a team — with an optional team cap that auto-closes

Team identity

Name, logo, color, and a tagline per team

Invites

Commissioner invites by email — and participants can invite others if you allow it

On-the-clock emails

Each owner can opt in to an email when it’s their pick

One-tap Venmo/PayPal entry fees

Owners pay with one tap — amount prefilled — and you mark each team paid

Pay now or pay later

Optionally let owners claim a team now and pay later

Scoring & standings

Build your own scoring

Define scoring categories (label + points) and award them; start from templates

Live standings

Points, hits, and your tiebreaker order update automatically

Death-pool presets

Flat, age-weighted, or custom age brackets + uniqueness / first-blood / draft-position bonuses

Keepers & seasons

Multi-season

Run the same league year after year

Keepers

Protect up to Y names; cost models, max-years, and a franchise tag

Free agents

Un-kept names return to the pool each draft

Death Pool flavor

Draft famous people

Score when a rostered name passes away

Automatic detection

Names are checked against Wikidata a few times a day

Admin-confirmed

Every death is confirmed by you before points apply

Tombstone scoreboard

A graveyard standings view — a tombstone per hit with dates & points

Run it your way

Prizes

Define prizes per place (cash or items)

Branding

Your logo, banner, colors & font on the public league page

Announcements & polls

Post updates and run polls with your league

The complete guide

How a Draft & Keeper League works

A draft & keeper league lets your group draft any pool of names — athletes, celebrities, anything — onto teams, then score events all season and carry keepers year to year. It’s the engine behind fantasy leagues, celebrity drafts and death pools. Here’s how it works.

What is a draft & keeper league?

Members draft names onto their teams, the league scores real-world events by rules you set, and standings update all season. “Keeper” means you can protect a few names to carry into next season, so leagues build rivalries and history year over year. Because you supply the pool of names, it works for far more than fantasy football.

Snake draft vs. auction draft

Pick the draft format that fits your group:

	Snake draft	Auction draft
How it works	Take turns; order reverses each round	Bid a budget on each name
Roster cost	Equal — a pick each round	Salary cap — spend wisely
Feel	Fast and simple	Strategic; stars cost more

Run it live in a draft room, or take your time with an extended draft that runs over days with on-the-clock notifications.

Scoring your way

Flat scoring: every event is worth the same.
Age-weighted scoring: rarer or longer-odds outcomes pay more.
Custom scoring: define exactly what an “event” is worth for your league.

Keepers & multiple seasons

Carry a set number of names from one season to the next, so good drafting compounds and your league develops history. You control how many keepers each team gets and how they roll over.

Run your own draft & keeper league

Draft any pool of names, score all season, and keep your studs year to year.

✅ Live or extended (multi-day) drafts✅ Snake or auction, your scoring rules✅ Keepers carried season to season

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The Death Pool add-on

An optional Death Pool add-on turns the draft into the classic celebrity death pool: teams draft public figures and score when a drafted person passes away, detected and dated automatically so you’re not refereeing the news. It’s a long-running party-game format — and a darkly popular one — handled tastefully and hands-off.

Running it the easy way

ChooseASquare runs the draft room, the clock, scoring and keepers for you, and the league is licensed per league (a one-time, flexible term) rather than a monthly tier. Prefer a weekly contest? See Pick’Em or a last-one-standing Survivor pool.

FAQ

Draft & Keeper League, answered

What is the Draft & Keeper League?

A general season-long draft engine: build teams, draft a pool of names onto rosters, and score points as events happen through the season. Protect keepers and run it again next year. It’s far more than a death pool — that’s just one optional flavor.

Snake or auction? Live or over several days?

Your choice. Run a classic snake draft or a budget auction, and run it live in one session or as an “extended” draft that stretches over days — with overnight pauses and an email to each owner when they’re on the clock.

How does drafting actually work?

Open the live room. Each team picks when it’s on the clock (or you pick for them), one-tap from their ranked prospect list or by searching. Optionally turn on 👍/👎 notability voting or commissioner approval for each pick. A timer auto-picks the top available prospect if someone’s away.

How do I score it?

Build your own scoring categories (e.g. “Win +10”, “Eliminated −5”) and award points through the season — standings update live. Death pools can use automatic Wikidata death-detection with age-weighted or bracketed scoring instead.

How is it priced?

It’s a licensed module — a one-time license per league (flexible term). It isn’t part of the standard monthly tiers.

What’s the Death Pool flavor?

An optional flavor where you draft famous people and score when someone passes away. Rostered names are checked automatically against public records (Wikidata) a few times a day, every death is admin-confirmed before points apply, and a tombstone “graveyard” scoreboard shows each team’s hits. Private by default, no cash prizes.

Do keepers carry between seasons?

Yes. At each new season, teams protect up to your keeper limit from last year’s roster; everyone else returns to the free-agent pool for the draft.