Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator

The Ultimate Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator

If you’re here, then you’re probably familiar with fantasy football mock drafts. But just in case you’re new to the concept, let’s quickly address what we’re talking about.

A mock draft is the warm-up before the game. It’s the bullpen session before the pitcher enters. It’s the stretching before you go for a run.

Any time you jump into an activity that presents a challenge, you want to be prepared. A fantasy football mock draft prepares you for the real thing. And the closer that mock draft comes to replicating your actual draft, the more prepared you’ll be.

That’s why you need a strong mock draft simulator.

Here’s What Makes a Mock Draft Simulator Vital

Practice makes perfect.

You’ve encountered that phrase. And if you’ve thought about it, then you know that it’s not about actually reaching perfection. The goal is to sharpen your skills as much as possible.

You can’t draft the perfect team. Because even if you wind up drafting a league-winning roster, you won’t know it for at least four months. So you’re not trying to be perfect. You’re just trying to draft better than the rest of your league.

And that’s the perfect we’re chasing. Not true perfection. Just better than everyone else you’re competing with. To do that, you need to build your drafting muscles in the right format.

How Does the Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator Work?

Our mock draft simulator doesn’t require any other actual drafters to join you. And it also doesn’t lazily assign players in the same order every time. In fact, it doesn’t even require you to be a Draft Sharks member.

You simply choose among a series of preset scoring formats and league sizes to get your fantasy football mock draft rolling. Select your draft position, and the simulator starts firing.

Once you’ve either hit “Start the Draft” or made your first pick, you’ll see players ranked by 3D Values. That’s our system for weighing player values across positions and specific to your format. But you won’t see players merely assigned in that order.

Leverage High-Level Draft Controls

Your Mock Draft Trainer comes equipped with an algorithm that changes up the strategies and selections of your opponents every time you draft. So you’ll never get the same mock draft experience from one draft to the next.

What you will get is smart player recommendations every time you’re on the clock.

What makes them smart? The 17 value indicators that your Draft War Room is calculating at all times.

Don’t like the last pick you made? You can undo it.

Hit “Undo My Last Pick” to redo your selection
Navigate to the Draft Grid to change any pick in the draft
Or click “Restart Mock Draft” to do the whole thing again

The Edit League Settings button also gives you control of other factors in your mock draft. Perhaps you realize a scoring setting you need to alter, or maybe you even want to draft from a different position? It’s all in there.

Practice as many times as you want. Try out different strategies. Make the high-risk pick you normally avoid to see how it works out. But also make sure that practice matches the real thing.

Practice the Right Way, or You’re Wasting Your Time

Did you find a preset format that matches your league exactly? If so, then you’re in good shape. But don’t overlook even the slight differences.

Fantasy football presents so many scoring and lineup variations. Do you start two WRs or three? How many flex spots does your league include? What’s the scoring for passing yards? How many points do you take away for fumbles? Or do you ignore those completely?

And do you play with defensive players?

You get it. Every variation -- even those that seem minor -- alters the value of every player in your fantasy football league. So every difference between the settings in your fantasy football mock draft and your actual league draft devalues the worth of your practice.

Find a Fantasy Football Mock Draft Simulator That Matches Your Settings

What you should be looking for is a mock draft that adheres exactly to the specifics of your league draft. You want a platform that can match your league’s settings. And not only that, you want a mock draft simulator that will give you different looks every time you draft.

The Draft Sharks Mock Draft Trainer delivers exactly that.

It starts with the league sync, which automatically imports lineup and scoring settings from your league. No approximation. We’re talking the exact format you’ll be conforming to on draft day.

Return yards?
Variations in reception scoring across positions?
Defensive players?

We’ve got you covered.

And the league sync will even pull in your draft position, as well as any keepers that your league has already set. So you can practice drafting from your precise starting point.

Enjoy These Features in Your Mock Draft

Here are some of the features you’ll find in your Draft War Room as you mock draft …

Consensus Projections

You’ll see Draft Sharks projections for every player, customized to your specific scoring settings. But you’ll also see a consensus projection from 30+ other fantasy sites.

Why? So you can see not only how we value that player, but also how the market values him.

Ceiling and Floor Projections

We’ve won multiple awards for the accuracy of our baseline player projections. But every player’s season includes a range of possible outcomes.

That’s why we add “ceiling” projections, to show how high a player can climb if everything breaks his way.

And if things break the other way? Well, that’s what the “floor” projection represents.

You’ll also see a “ceiling likelihood” for every player. That projects how likely that player is to maximize his upside.

Upside Mode

This key Draft War Room feature kicks in halfway through your fantasy football mock draft. It adds weight to those ceiling projections and ceiling likelihood to highlight those players with true breakout potential.

Why? Because those are the picks that win you championships.

You can also toggle Upside Mode off and on at any point throughout your draft.

Player Tiers

Rankings are great, but they’re also incomplete. Two players ranked consecutively could be nearly equal in value and fantasy outlook. Or they could sit on opposite sides of a value gap.

Player tiers work with the rankings in your mock draft simulator to better illustrate gaps in value by position. So you’ll know when it’s time to grab that next WR … and when you can afford to wait.

Strength of Schedule

This is an approximation of how difficult that player’s schedule will be for guys at his position. This aspect should definitely not drive your draft decisions. But it’s one more small edge that can break ties.