The most common reason for a dispersal draft is that an owner abandons their team, but the rest of the league wants to continue.
We don't have a specific option to do a dispersal draft and it will take some manual work, but we do have a way of making it work. Please follow the steps below closely and carefully.
Offseason Steps
In this example, we're going to pretend that our 12-team league wants to go down to 10 teams. Scroll down further to learn how to do a dispersal draft midseason.
We want those players from the 2 teams leaving to be made available in a draft for everybody else.
Step 1 - Make sure all Free Agent and Waiver Moves are locked.
You can find this by going to League Settings → General Settings → Scroll down to the bottom
Step 2 - This step requires some advanced actions.
If you're not comfortable making these changes or need some assistance, please contact us at [email protected].
On the mobile app, go to
Commish Settings
Then Roster And Draft Picks
Since we want to cut 2 teams, the 2 teams that are leaving must be moved to the bottom of this list, if they are not already.
choose the “switch players to a roster”
Tap the team that is currently in spot 11 and choose the “switch players to a roster”
Swap the players with the team you want to remove
Do the same thing for spot 12.
Go to Member Settings
Re-assign the owners to the correct teams.
After this, you should have the two teams you're dropping at the very bottom of the list, with their correct owners and players.
Step 3 - Go to league settings → member settings → Remove the 2 unwanted owners from the league.
Step 4 - Go to your league settings and decrease the number of teams from 12 to 10. This will drop all players from those 2 teams immediately.
Step 5 - Create a supplemental draft that includes all players. Set it to the desired number of rounds, set a draft order, and start drafting. The dropped players will be available in the player pool.
In-Season Steps
We don't have a way of cutting down your league size once the season has started.
You will have to keep the abandoned teams in your league. You can customize the schedule as needed, but they will still have an opponent each week.
Some leagues use this as a bye or an automatic win for teams, or some will adjust the abandoned team's points to the league median each week.
Dispersing their players
The best thing to do at this point would be to use a mock draftboard to help track this.
You'll want to create a mock draft board, invite your owners, and set a draft order.
While all players would be available in the mock draft, tell your owners that they can only draft players who were on the abandoned team. The draftboard will allow you to keep track of the picks and the order.
As commissioner, you can use the commish tools in the app to send the drafted players to the new team. You can do that while the draft is happening or at the end of it.
Please feel free to ask us for any assistance at [email protected]