Free Draft Analyzer – Cheat Sheet for Your iPhone

The Draft Analyzer iPhone Cheat Sheet Presented by Champs Sports provides you with accurate player rankings and personalized draft pick recommendations to help you win your 2009 fantasy football draft using only your iPhone! You can easily adjust your league size, draft position and roster requirements. The pre-loaded player rankings are based on the standard ESPN and Yahoo scoring system.  If you have personalized your scoring rules, owner names and draft order in the Draft Analyzer Web you can quickly and easily download those settings to your iPhone.

Click here to view this app in the iTunes App Store

Champs Sports includes a great $10 off purchase of $50 or more at any of their retail stores around the US within the iPhone app.

The Draft Analyzer Pro – Mock Draft Simulator ($4.99) for fantasy football 2009 allows you to cruise through a full mock draft in a matter of minutes. You select the league size, your draft position and competition level then try to draft the best possible team. Ever wonder if you would have drafted a better team had you waited to pick your QB and drafted that stud WR earlier? Want to see if you can beat the RB-RB draft theory? Now you can quickly and easily test those strategies and many more in order to optimize your team for the 2009 fantasy football season.

Here is a link to this app in the iTunes App Store

If you have an ESPN Insider subscription, you get access to the Draft Analyzer with ESPN rankings, news and outlooks and ESPN integration (import ESPN leagues and synch with the on-line ESPN draft room for live or mock snake drafts…not for auctions though).  Click here to go to the ESPN Insider splash page for the Draft Analyzer.

The Draft Analyzer Desktop Companion 2009 is now available for download from here.  After you install the application, you will be prompted to enter your user name (typically email) and the name of the league you would like to download and draft with (only one league/draft at a time with the desktop version).  You can install the software on any number of machines without restrictions, but you need to do all league/draft set-up in the Draft Analyzer Web first.  This is a brand new Microsoft .Net 2.0 application that is lighter (1.2mb vs 18mb) and much faster than its Java predecessor.  This application is not Mac compatible like the Draft Analyzer Web is.

We are still working on importing customized projections from Excel and exporting draft results to Excel…should be done by end of Friday.

UPDATE for Vista Users:  If you have Windows Vista as your Operating System, be sure to TURN OFF your User Account Controls “UAC”.

1. From your Start Menu click “Control Panel.”
2. Then click “User Accounts.”
3. Once the User Accounts opens, click “Turn User Account Control on or off”.
4. In the next window UNcheck the box that says (“Use UAC to help protect your computer”) and click “OK”.

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The Draft Analyzer is now available on CBSSports.com.  If you purchase a license through CBSSports.com, you can automatically import your CBSSports.com Commissioner leagues and synch with your live on-line CBSSports.com draft.  You can use the web-based version with exciting new features for 2009 or download the desktop version (coming soon) with the old school layout used the past 5 years.

This is the 5th year the Draft Analyzer is available at CBSSports.com!

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Derrick Eckardt at FantasyEthos.com (great new fantasy sports industry blog) are running a fun contest for the best fantasy football team names.  Derrick Eckardt ran this contest last year with the Big Lead and some of the names posted by users were hilarious.  The 5 best names get the Draft Analyzer Ultimate package…if you can wait until after August 11th (when submissions are due) and think your name can take the prize, it may be worth entering.

Thank you to Fantasy Ethos and The Big Lead for letting us participate in this contest.

We finally launched the Draft Analyzer Web for Fantasy Football.  I will post more information over the coming days, but you can now purchase a license and sign-in using your email address and City (used in ckeckout) as your password.

We will have a desktop version this year (available mid-July) that will synch into the Web based version to download all the player rankings and settings required…so you can set-up your league and draft in the Web version (from work) and then easily access the data from the desktop version if you won’t have internet access during your draft.

Thank you!

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We are expecting to launch the Draft Analyzer for Fantasy Football 2009 on June 12th. The Draft Analyzer is now a web-based application (finally!!). We will continue to have a desktop version available if you do not have internet access during your draft.

After you purchase a license to the Draft Analyzer from www.draftanalyzer.com, you can immediately sign-in here using the email address and City you used at time of purchase (Your city is your password).  If you kept your email private, you will have to send an email to support at draftanalyzer.com with a proper email address.

Other common questions:

• Adding Owners – Go to Settings tab and click option to Edit/Add/Delete Owners.
• Keepers – Left-click a player and select the “Add to Roster” feature to add that player to an owners roster.
• Fixing a mistake – There are a variety of tools to help you quickly and easily fix a mistake:  Undo Last Pick, Skip Draft Pick, Remove from Roster, Add to Roster and Swap Player if you accidentally drafted the wrong player and didn’t realize it for a few rounds.

Best of luck with your draft.  Please let us know your feedback as we want to address every drafting need possible.

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The Draft Analyzer was launched as part of the ESPN Insider on Monday, March 9th.  If you are an ESPN Insider, you can access the Draft Analyzer here.

This is the first year the Draft Analyzer is available as a web-based application (vs. a downloadable application).  You don’t need to download, install or activate any software, but you do need internet access during your draft.  I could be wrong on this (let me know if I am), but I believe this is the first advanced draft software program to work on Macs natively (i.e. without requiring an installation of Windows).

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