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How to Play

HoopDraft is a college basketball tournament fantasy game. Instead of a bracket, you draft individual players and collect the points they score for real.

Snake drafting

Managers pick in order, then the order reverses every round. If you pick last in round 1, you pick first in round 2 — so everyone gets a fair shot at the best players.

One owner per player

Inside a league, each player can only be drafted once. As soon as someone picks a player, that player disappears from everyone else's available list.

Roster size

Your league sets how many players each manager drafts — 20 by default. Smaller leagues can use shorter rosters for testing.

1 real point = 1 HoopDraft point

Scoring is simple. Every point your drafted players actually score in a tournament game adds one point to your team total.

Cumulative all tournament long

Points add up across the whole tournament. Standings update automatically for everyone as new box scores come in.

Elimination

Players keep scoring as long as their team stays alive. Once their team is eliminated, everything they already scored still counts — they just can't add more.