Straight answers
Asked and answered
The questions every commissioner asks before handing us draft night — answered plainly, including the ones where the honest answer is "not yet."
Does it work with my platform?
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.
What do my leaguemates need?
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.
Do we all see the same broadcast?
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 drops straight into the live show, right where the room is.
Do I have to operate anything during the draft?
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.
Is my league data safe?
We read your league's public draft feed. We store the event stream from your draft and your league record — 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.
How big can our league be?
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. Running an unusually large league? tell us on the booking form — we're tracking interest in larger broadcasts.
What if the draft runs long?
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.
What happens after the draft?
Your league gets a produced recap video after the draft — the night's best moments cut into a highlight reel, built to be rewatched and forwarded. It's included in the one package, not an upsell.
Can we watch it on the TV?
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 placeholder for a future app.
Is there advertising in the broadcast?
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.