Hey all, longtime commissioner here.

Every summer my league goes through the same mess: a 60-message group chat trying to find one night in August when a dozen of us can all show up to draft. I tried Doodle, I tried a shared calendar, I tried just picking a date and hoping. Something always fell apart. Someone never voted, someone forgot, someone showed up the wrong week.

So I built the thing I actually wanted: a scheduler made specifically for fantasy football drafts that finishes the job instead of just collecting votes.

Find the date without the group-chat chaos

• Members mark each possible night as preferred, neutral, or unavailable (three states, not just a yes/no), and they can block specific time windows too.
• It scores every candidate date from 0 to 100 based on who can make it and who actually wants it, then recommends the best night. You are not left staring at a grid doing the math yourself.
• Everything updates live. As people respond, you watch the availability fill in with no refresh needed.

Actually lock it in (the part Doodle skips)

• One click finalizes the date, time, location, and a note, and emails every member automatically.
• Everyone gets one-click add to Google Calendar plus a real .ics file for Apple and Outlook, so the draft lands on their calendar.
• You can nudge the people who have not responded yet with one button, so you stop chasing them by hand.
• It will auto email them as the draft approaches to remind them

Draft-day features Doodle could never do

• Import your Sleeper league by league ID or username and it pulls in your teams, owners, scoring, roster settings, and waiver rules, then auto-builds a rules page. It even seeds the availability window from your Sleeper draft date.
• One-click draft order lottery with an animated reveal and confetti for the number 1 pick. Re-roll as many times as you want before the draft.
• A draft-day hub with a live countdown, the details, add-to-calendar buttons, the draft order

Commissioner tools for the whole season

• Decision polls for the stuff you always argue about: PPR vs standard, buy-in amount, draft location. Live tallies, one vote per member.
• Dues tracking so you can see who has paid and who has not, with a Venmo, PayPal, or Stripe pay link for members.
• Real attendance analytics: a heatmap of availability plus per-member breakdowns, not just a summary row.

Built for how leagues actually work

• Members log in with no account and no password. They get a 6-digit code or a magic link by email and they are in. It is still hashed, expiring, and rate-limited under the hood.
• Your leagues persist season to season, and you can run more than one from a single dashboard. Every Doodle poll is a throwaway link. This is a home.
• It is mobile-first, installable, and there are no ads and no "upgrade to premium" nagging.

Why not just use Doodle?

Fair question. It is the first thing everyone asks.

>Doodle finds a time. This finds the time, tells everyone, and gets it on their calendar.

Here is the honest side-by-side:

Doodle	This app
Yes/no per time slot	Preferred, neutral, or unavailable, plus time-window blocks
Shows a tally, you decide	Scores every date from 0 to 100 and recommends the best one
Stops at "here is a time"	Locks the date, emails everyone, exports to calendars, nudges non-responders
Generic blank poll	Sleeper import, rules page, draft order lottery, dues, polls, draft-day hub
A disposable one-off link	A season-long home that remembers year to year
Free tier has ads and upgrade nags	No ads, no nagging

Basically, Doodle is great when you need a one-off poll with strangers. This is for when you are a commissioner running a league and you want the draft scheduled, confirmed, and remembered with the least possible nagging.

It is live, and I built it for my own league first. I would genuinely love feedback from other commissioners or just users.

https://fantasydraftscheduler.com

Thanks for reading.

Hey all, longtime commissioner here.

Every summer my league goes through the same mess: a 60-message group chat trying to find one night in August when a dozen of us can all show up to draft. I tried Doodle, I tried a shared calendar, I tried just picking a date and hoping. Something always fell apart. Someone never voted, someone forgot, someone showed up the wrong week.

So I built the thing I actually wanted: a scheduler made specifically for fantasy football drafts that finishes the job instead of just collecting votes.

Find the date without the group-chat chaos

• Members mark each possible night as preferred, neutral, or unavailable (three states, not just a yes/no), and they can block specific time windows too.
• It scores every candidate date from 0 to 100 based on who can make it and who actually wants it, then recommends the best night. You are not left staring at a grid doing the math yourself.
• Everything updates live. As people respond, you watch the availability fill in with no refresh needed.

Actually lock it in (the part Doodle skips)

• One click finalizes the date, time, location, and a note, and emails every member automatically.
• Everyone gets one-click add to Google Calendar plus a real .ics file for Apple and Outlook, so the draft lands on their calendar.
• You can nudge the people who have not responded yet with one button, so you stop chasing them by hand.
• It will auto email them as the draft approaches to remind them

Draft-day features Doodle could never do

• Import your Sleeper league by league ID or username and it pulls in your teams, owners, scoring, roster settings, and waiver rules, then auto-builds a rules page. It even seeds the availability window from your Sleeper draft date.
• One-click draft order lottery with an animated reveal and confetti for the number 1 pick. Re-roll as many times as you want before the draft.
• A draft-day hub with a live countdown, the details, add-to-calendar buttons, the draft order

Commissioner tools for the whole season

• Decision polls for the stuff you always argue about: PPR vs standard, buy-in amount, draft location. Live tallies, one vote per member.
• Dues tracking so you can see who has paid and who has not, with a Venmo, PayPal, or Stripe pay link for members.
• Real attendance analytics: a heatmap of availability plus per-member breakdowns, not just a summary row.

Built for how leagues actually work

• Members log in with no account and no password. They get a 6-digit code or a magic link by email and they are in. It is still hashed, expiring, and rate-limited under the hood.
• Your leagues persist season to season, and you can run more than one from a single dashboard. Every Doodle poll is a throwaway link. This is a home.
• It is mobile-first, installable, and there are no ads and no "upgrade to premium" nagging.

Why not just use Doodle?

Fair question. It is the first thing everyone asks.

>Doodle finds a time. This finds the time, tells everyone, and gets it on their calendar.

Here is the honest side-by-side:

Doodle	This app
Yes/no per time slot	Preferred, neutral, or unavailable, plus time-window blocks
Shows a tally, you decide	Scores every date from 0 to 100 and recommends the best one
Stops at "here is a time"	Locks the date, emails everyone, exports to calendars, nudges non-responders
Generic blank poll	Sleeper import, rules page, draft order lottery, dues, polls, draft-day hub
A disposable one-off link	A season-long home that remembers year to year
Free tier has ads and upgrade nags	No ads, no nagging

Basically, Doodle is great when you need a one-off poll with strangers. This is for when you are a commissioner running a league and you want the draft scheduled, confirmed, and remembered with the least possible nagging.

It is live, and I built it for my own league first. I would genuinely love feedback from other commissioners.

https://fantasydraftscheduler.com

Thanks for reading.