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Team names appear after a commissioner or admin assigns you a draft slot. Until then you can browse the league, but you will not pick or appear on the board.

The league hub tabs are Drafts, Members & Invites, and Settings. Drafts lists live, upcoming, and completed rooms. Enter Draft Room opens that draft’s workspace — Room, Planner, Schedule, Standings, Kill Leaders, Transactions, and (staff) Settings. It is not the same page as the league hub.

Commissioners and admins can assign themselves a slot with Manage Roster & Order on an upcoming draft so they can draft and play. Change branding later from Members & Invites → Manage roles.

Each draft has its own clock on Loaded Dice (loaded-dice.xyz). A pick from that Draft Room or from Discord /pick writes the same roster row, advances the same on-clock team, and refreshes every open board for that draft without a reload. Concurrent drafts in the same league stay isolated.

Open Drafts in the league hub. Live rooms show Drafting Now and Enter Draft Room. That workspace always shows Room (PLANNING / LIVE / PAUSED, round, pick, and the turn clock, plus the Draft Board grid), Planner, Schedule, Standings, Kill Leaders, and Transactions. Staff also see Settings (and Setup while the draft is still planning). Spectators see the same ticker but cannot submit picks. A league is not a single draft — use the hub to pick the room.

Joining a league is not the same as taking a draft slot. Commissioners and admins open an upcoming draft’s Manage Roster & Order, check the members who should pick (they can include themselves), and drag or number the pick order. That step creates the Team rows the clock uses.

Participants can only be changed while the draft is still in setup. After Start, order is locked.

Snake (default): round 1 goes 1→N, round 2 goes N→1, and so on. Linear: every round stays 1→N. Commissioners set this when they configure the draft.

Teams that have already filled their roster (or cannot afford any remaining mon) are skipped so the draft can finish instead of looping.

The Draft Board is the round-by-round grid of participating teams, past picks, empty slots, and the on-the-clock highlight. It loads with the room even when no points CSV has been uploaded and even if the species pool is empty.

The species pool (search, type filters, tiers, and point costs) is a separate panel. Until a commissioner uploads a points CSV on that draft’s Settings, that pool stays locked with an upload prompt. Point CSV, timers, roster limits, and trade/FA rules are per draft/season, not per league. The CSV lock does not hide the Draft Board, Team Rosters, or Pick Queue.

Standard Live is 4 hours per pick. Async Slow Draft gives round 1 eight hours, then 4 hours. Speed Draft is 3 minutes. Commissioners can set custom hours/minutes per round.

Optional overnight pause (default 23:00–08:00 in the league timezone) does not consume timer hours. If a pick would expire at freeze time, autodraft still runs at the freeze instead of waiting until morning.

From a Draft Room, open the autodraft queue (coaches only) and add legal targets from the remaining pool. Drag the grip or use arrows — #1 is the next auto-pick if it is still legal when your clock expires.

In a flex-budget league the header shows remaining points and a budget-after-#1 preview. Unaffordable or already-taken species are skipped. Changes save immediately; you do not need to stay on the page.

A pick is legal only if the species is in the league sheet, not banned, not already drafted, under roster max, and (flex leagues) within remaining points.

On timer expiry the engine walks your queue in order and locks the first legal species. Illegal entries are skipped. Discord embeds announce autodrafts the same as a manual pick.

The Draft Planner is a private three-tab workspace: Pre-Draft Plan for targets before the clock, Matchup Prep for opponent scouting, and Live Match Assistant for the brought six plus the damage calculator.

Use Pre-Draft while the room is still in setup. After the schedule is published, open a matchup to scout speed and types, then switch to Live when the game is in progress.

Search this draft’s species pool and filter by type, point cost, and speed tier. Click a species to drop it into Must-Draft, Target, Backup / Value, or Do Not Draft. Drag between buckets to re-rank.

Must-Draft and Target feed the live budget bar (when this draft uses a flex point budget) and the type coverage matrix. Per-mon notes stay on this device for your team in this draft so a refresh does not wipe the board.

Matchup Prep compares your drafted roster to the opponent: types, base Speed bands, and private notes vs a selected opposing mon. Notes save on blur and stay on your team only.

Live Match Assistant: add up to six from your roster, drag to reorder, export a Showdown paste, and open the damage calculator. Discord /match plan still shows the opponent roster in an ephemeral embed; notes live on the web Draft Planner.

When you are on the clock, you get a mention in the linked draft channel (`<@user>`). Starting the draft pings the first coach. Each later pick pings whoever is next.

If you are not linked, the embed still posts but cannot mention you. The web clock is unchanged.

Commissioners (or server managers) run /draft-setup on a text or announcement channel, or paste the channel ID on Settings. Start embeds and pick embeds (sprite, cost, remaining budget, roster count) post there.

`/pick <species>` (autocomplete) locks a pick while you are on the clock. Invalid, banned, taken, or over-budget species are rejected the same way as a web pick.

If a Super Admin has placed a bot team in a test league, it appears on the board like any other coach. You cannot add, configure, or remove it.

League commissioners still start, pause, and set pick order from the Draft Room (Commissioner Controls) or Manage Roster & Order on the Drafts hub. That is separate from Super Admin simulation tools.