Asked and answered

Sleeper leagues today. ESPN and Yahoo are next, and not live yet. If you're on ESPN or Yahoo, the booking form has a waitlist option so you hear from us the moment that changes.

Almost certainly, but not always — and you should know before you pay, not after. What we broadcast today: standard one-quarterback leagues drafting snake (or straight-through) order on Sleeper. That is how most leagues play.

What we can't broadcast yet:

• Superflex and two-quarterback leagues. We price every pick against a one-quarterback board, so in your league the booth would call quarterbacks flying off the board and then grade those same picks a reach, in the same breath. We'd rather say so than grade your draft wrong.
• Auction drafts. Bidding has no clock and no reveal to build a broadcast around — none of the pacing that makes this a show exists there yet.
• Leagues that score individual defensive players (IDP). We have no scoring model for them, and airing half-right numbers is worse than saying no.
• Leagues we can't read closely enough to be sure. On Sleeper, connect with your league id rather than only the draft id — a draft id on its own doesn't carry your scoring settings, and without them we can't tell defensive-player scoring apart from ordinary team defense, so we stop instead of guessing.

If your league turns out to be one of these, you'll be told plainly on screen when you connect it. And if that happens, here is the promise we've already put in the product: "You have already paid for this, and it is fully refundable — no cancellation window applies; this one is on us." Use the contact form on the booking page and we'll refund it.

DraftCast is built for real leagues, not stadiums. Each broadcast is capped at 25 viewers total, host included — a deliberate limit that keeps the show an intimate broadcast instead of a public stream: your whole roster, partners, and the loudest group chat, comfortably. A watcher whose phone drops off keeps their seat for about half a minute, so walking through a dead spot doesn't cost anyone their place. Running an unusually large league? tell us on the booking form — we're tracking interest in larger broadcasts.

Just the share link. It opens the broadcast in any browser — no app to install, no account to create. Phones, laptops, tablets, the TV's browser: all of them get the full show. Each broadcast holds up to 25 people at once, host included — plenty for a league, their plus-ones, and the group chat.

Yes — exactly the same one. Every watcher receives the host's broadcast: the same graphics, the same calls, the same big moments, in the same order. Someone who opens the link at pick 40 chooses how to pick it up: drop straight into the live show where the room is, or start from the beginning and watch the draft catch up. Either way it's the host's broadcast, not a separate one assembled for them.

Yes — the booth speaks. Multiple recorded voices call the draft, and the players' names are read from a recorded name library, so the show says who was actually picked. Closed captions are available too: they're off by default and any watcher can switch them on for themselves.

The honest limit: the recorded booth now covers the whole show for an ordinary league, but a draft can still throw a line we have not recorded. On draft night that line is covered by a stand-in voice rather than a gap of silence, so the show never goes quiet. The clips on the clips page work the other way round on purpose: they fall silent instead, because we would rather show you a quiet clip than a stand-in voice pretending to be the finished product.

The commentary is AI-generated, read aloud by licensed synthetic voices — nobody sat in a booth and called your draft live. No real broadcaster's voice or likeness is imitated; the voices are their own, not a copy of anyone you'd recognize. What isn't synthetic is the script itself: every line is written against your actual draft — who's on the clock, who just got picked, what it means for their team — written against your draft rather than a generic script.

Yes. The broadcast has a scrubber: drag back over the part of the show you've been watching, then jump back to live with one button. You are moving back and forth through the very same show everyone else is watching, not a different one built for you. (Want the whole thing? Choose "from the beginning" when you open the link instead of dropping in live.)

Yes — open the share link in your TV's browser, or connect a laptop by HDMI. Both give you the full broadcast, not a mirrored phone screen. We don't have a dedicated Cast app yet (that's a "not yet"). AirPlay is different: there's no app to build there at all — Apple doesn't offer third parties a way to receive a real AirPlay stream, so mirroring or HDMI are the real options on Apple hardware, not a stand-in for an app we plan to build.

No. The commissioner presses "Go live" before the draft and "End broadcast" after it — that's the entire operator's manual. In between, the broadcast directs itself: reveals, graphics, commentary, and pacing all follow your draft automatically. You're free to actually draft your team.

The broadcast doesn't care what time it is — it follows the picks. And when the draft ends, there's a real sign-off act: a finale for the final pick, then a rolling end-card with the full board and team rankings that runs until the commissioner ends the show. No hard cut, no dead feed.

Not yet. A produced highlight reel of the night is being built, but it is not part of what you're buying today, so it isn't on the price list. We'd rather tell you that than take your money for it now.

What you do get after the last pick is the sign-off act: the finale, the completed board, and team rankings on a rolling end card until the commissioner ends the show.

We read your league's public draft feed. We store the picks from your draft and your league's basic details — nothing is scraped beyond what your platform already exposes. This site itself sets no cookies and runs no analytics, no trackers, and no third-party scripts of any kind. See the privacy policy.

No, and there never will be. No third-party ads in the show, no ad network on this site, no trackers, no sponsored segments. The broadcast is the product — we're not interested in renting out your league's attention.