Feature
A mathematically fair turn order — even when partners take different numbers of picks. Enter each person's share, click Generate, and every turn lands where it should.
The problem
Season-ticket partners where one person takes 25 games and another takes 5. A sales team splitting leads by seniority. Co-owners dividing weeks at a cabin. Most groups don't split things evenly — but most draft orders assume they do.
The old way
Traditional draft orders give every partner the same number of turns in the same pattern. With unequal shares, that means awkward workarounds — extra rounds, skipped turns, or somebody quietly getting a worse deal.
The OnlineDraft way
The algorithm spreads every partner's turns evenly across the whole draft. A partner with half the picks selects roughly every other turn; a partner with a few picks still gets them spaced fairly from start to finish.
Beyond the snake
Snake drafts are the classic answer to fairness: the order reverses each round, so an early pick in one round becomes a late pick in the next. That works beautifully — but only when every partner takes the same number of picks. The algorithm keeps the same idea and extends it to any mix of shares. When shares happen to be equal, it produces a classic snake draft with a randomized start.
Balanced over time
Turns are whole numbers, so nobody can pick at exactly their ideal moment — someone has to go first. The algorithm judges each partner's entire schedule instead of any single pick: when a turn lands a little early, a later turn runs a little late to pay it back.
How it works
No math degree required — this is what happens in the seconds after you click Generate.
Each partner's pick count sets their ideal schedule: turns spaced evenly across the whole draft, with more picks meaning shorter gaps.
Every candidate order gets a fairness score measuring how far each partner's turns drift from that ideal schedule.
The algorithm assigns turns one at a time, searching several picks ahead so partners' ideal turns don't collide or pile up.
It builds the order several times and keeps the best score — an order that approaches the mathematical ideal for your exact mix of shares.
Built into every group. Open your Draft Order page, enter each partner's picks, and generate a fair order in one click.
Create your group for free, set each partner's share, and let the algorithm build the order.
