# Create a live draft for Fantasy Baseball

> Host your fantasy baseball draft or auction with deep position eligibility, custom rating columns, and a salary cap locked in before first pitch. Real-time, synced for your whole league, and everyone you invite plays free.

Canonical: https://livedraftit.com/create-live-draft-for/fantasy-baseball

Host your fantasy baseball draft or auction with deep position eligibility, custom rating columns, and a salary cap locked in before first pitch. Run a snake draft, a budget auction, or a hybrid of both — all in real time. Free to set up, $9 to take a draft live, and everyone you invite plays free.

Invited players free · Snake · Auction · Hybrid · Synced live clocks

## A board tuned for fantasy baseball

Filter and sort players by position, team, and your own custom ratings so the right pick is always one tap away.

**Positions on the board:** SP, RP, C, 1B, 2B, 3B, SS, OF, DH

**Draft the biggest names:** Load players from across MLB — for example: Dodgers, Braves, Yankees, Astros, Orioles

## How to run a fantasy baseball draft

1. **Build your fantasy baseball board.** Upload a CSV of players from MLB with your own ranks and any rating columns you care about, or start from a template and edit it.
2. **Set the format and invite your league.** Choose a snake draft, a budget auction, or a hybrid of both, set the order or randomise it, then share one join link with your managers.
3. **Draft it live.** Every manager picks on the same synced clock. Auto-pick keeps the fantasy baseball draft moving if someone loses signal, and the commissioner can undo a pick or skip a turn if it goes wrong.

## What matters in a fantasy baseball draft

The board is only half of it — here is how fantasy baseball leagues usually approach draft day.

Baseball has the deepest pool in mainstream fantasy, which changes how the board should be built. A three-hundred-name list sorted by one overall rank is unusable on the clock — split it with rating columns for the categories you actually score, then filter as each run of positions dries up.

Pitchers and hitters are effectively two drafts happening at once. Most leagues that use an auction set an informal split of the budget between the two before bidding starts, because it is very easy to win every arm you wanted and find nothing left for a lineup.

Position eligibility swings more value here than anywhere else. A player who qualifies at both second base and the outfield is worth a round more than one who does not, so carry eligibility as its own column rather than trusting a single position label.

## The full draft engine, included

Every feature works for fantasy baseball out of the box. No add-ons, no per-seat fees. Every format, live chat, spectating, auto-pick, photos on the board and anonymous auction bidding are standard; the full list is on [the homepage](https://livedraftit.com/#features).

$9 to run one draft, or $49 once for every draft you ever host. Start with one and it counts toward Lifetime. Everyone you invite plays free, forever. No seats, no per-player fees, no account upsell. 30-day money-back guarantee — no reason required. Details: [pricing](https://livedraftit.com/pricing).

## Fantasy Baseball draft questions

### Can I run a Fantasy Baseball draft with my own rankings?

Absolutely. Upload a CSV of players with your own ranks and custom columns, or start from a Fantasy Baseball template and tweak it. Your board, your rules.

### Does LiveDraft-It support Fantasy Baseball auctions?

Yes. Run a full budget auction for your Fantasy Baseball pool with per-manager budgets, minimum bid increments, anti-snipe extensions and optional anonymous bidding — or mix an auction and a snake draft together with the hybrid format.

### Is there a Fantasy Baseball template I can use?

Browse the template marketplace for community and system Fantasy Baseball datasets, or build your own in minutes and optionally share it with everyone.

More questions about pricing, formats and invites are answered on [the homepage](https://livedraftit.com) and the [pricing page](https://livedraftit.com/pricing).

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