What are some creative ways that you or your Fantasy Football League has done the random draft order?

Question

In the past I have numbered poker chips and drawn them from a hat, or used 12 cards from a regular deck of playing cards to draw randomly. Last year we did a ping pong lottery type to determine draft order based on last years record, however, we have too many new players in our league this year. Anyone else have any creative and fun ways to determine the draft order?? Random or otherwise. Thanks

Answer 1

Last year we found 14 pennies with dates from 2007 down to 1994 and drew them out of a hat, 1994 drafted 1st, 2007 14th.  Of course, with a 12 team league, playing cards work fine.

Answer 2

Use a bingo ball number the balls and roll them out of the ball.

Answer 3

Roll dice.  Everyone rolls 2 6-sided dice and highest total goes first.  There will be ties, so they roll again to determine which of the two is higher.

Answer 4

there is a program that you can use set up under Microsoft excel. i cant remember exactly what the formula is but by putting the team names in cells 1-12 you can generate a random draft.

Also if you have kids or small brothers/sisters let them draw the teams out of a hat. That makes everything completely random and the kids seem to get a kick out og helping. My 4 yr.old son loves to try and help me at draft time and by damned sometimes he is right

Answer 5

We did something different in our League, We had a NFL spelling Bee,  Make a list of 30 hard names from the NFL  then use 10 for the test, I let my wife pick the 10 and give the test. We all had fun with it.  In other years we have have done NFL triva (worked it like a game show). Just try and make it fun for all. Btw on the Spelling B I got 9 out of 10 2nd over all pick dam u Tj. Hu....forget it Who's your Mama!!!