# Draft Order Randomizer

> Randomise your draft order in front of everyone. Paste your league, hit shuffle, and get an order nobody can argue with.

Canonical: https://livedraftit.com/tools/draft-order-randomizer

Randomise your draft order in front of everyone. Paste your league, hit shuffle, and get an order nobody can argue with.

Free · No sign-up · Same maths as the live draft

The tool itself is interactive and runs in the browser on [Draft Order Randomizer](https://livedraftit.com/tools/draft-order-randomizer).

## About the draft order randomizer

Draft order matters more than most leagues admit. In any format where the talent drops off sharply — fantasy football running backs, the front row of a Formula 1 grid, the top two players in an esports region — the first pick is worth measurably more than the last. That is exactly why the order should be settled somewhere everyone can see it.

The shuffle here is a Fisher–Yates shuffle, the same one the live draft uses when a commissioner hits "Randomize" in the lobby. Every ordering is equally likely; there is no weighting and no seeding. If your league wants a weighted lottery instead, do that separately and paste the result in as a fixed order.

A snake draft softens the advantage but does not remove it: picking first means picking last in round two, so the first manager gets the best player available and the worst of the second tier. A straight linear order does not compensate at all, which is why almost nobody runs one past a single round.

## Draft Order Randomizer questions

### Is this random enough to settle an argument?

It uses a Fisher–Yates shuffle over the browser’s random number generator, which produces every possible ordering with equal probability. It is the same shuffle the live draft lobby uses. For a league draft that is more than sufficient — the reason to do it live is that everyone watches it happen, not the statistics.

### Can I randomise the order inside a real draft instead?

Yes, and that is usually better. In a LiveDraft-It lobby the commissioner can randomise the seat order with everyone connected and watching, and the new order broadcasts to every screen at once — no screenshots, no "trust me".

### Does the order change between rounds?

That depends on the format, not on this tool. A snake draft reverses the order every round; a standard draft repeats the same order each round. Use the snake draft board generator to see the full grid either way.

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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