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Accepting Commissioners · August 2026

Fantasy Draft
Has Always Been
the Best Part.

The best online draft room for leagues that can't all be in the same room.

Ten owners. Three time zones. One room.

If you're the one who makes it happen, we built this for you.

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Everyone moved. Draft night didn't survive it.

It used to be somebody's basement. Then somebody moved for work, and somebody had a kid, and somebody's in Denver now.

You kept the league. You lost the night.

Some leagues fly everyone somewhere — there are resorts that sell draft weekends now. Most of us can't do that.

This is the room for the rest of us. Same faces, same two hours, no plane tickets.

How hybrid and remote drafts work →

You set the date. You send the reminders. You're the reason the league is still running.

Draft night is the payoff — the two hours everything else is built around. The existing tools have never matched that. We built something that does.

We handle the room. You handle your league. Everyone gets a seat, wherever they are.

Eight teams or fourteen, everyone in the same room.

NFL.com was your home. ESPN is not your only option.

Your league stays exactly where it is.

Draft Nirvana is the draft room, not a new home for your league. Import from the platform you already use, draft with us, and take the results back.

Copy and paste two pages — we read them, you confirm. Takes a couple of minutes.

CBS · RT Sports · ESPN · Yahoo · Sleeper · MyFantasyLeague

Drafting done, rosters hand back. See how import works →

Everyone joins free. Nothing to install.

No app. No plugin. No account for eleven other people to create.

They click the link and they're in the room — on camera, in the browser they already have open.

You do the work. Everyone else just shows up.

Everyone's face and the whole board, at once.

Draft Nirvana is built for a real screen. Not because we couldn't fit it on a phone — because you can't watch eleven people react to a pick through a keyhole.

Sit down at a laptop. The night deserves it.

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"A custom draft room designed for friends, by friends."

Gumbo League

Alpha · June 2026

Built for leagues that are a real group of friends.

The whole point is seeing each other — the groan when somebody reaches, the ribbing that lasts all season. That only works if you actually like these people.

And we're not here to win your draft for you. Research is yours. Arbitrage is yours. Subterfuge is very much yours. We just built the room.

Early access is limited. Commissioners go first.

We're not doing a broad launch. When the time comes, access goes to the people who were paying attention.

Or reach us directly:
hello@draftnirvana.com

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A few questions about your league. Takes two minutes.

Thirty years of draft nights. We know what the room is supposed to feel like.

Draft Nirvana was born out of 30+ years of fantasy sports — the kind of experience you only get from playing every format, on every platform, through every era of the game.

We've felt the electricity of draft day. We've also felt the frustration of software that hasn't kept up. We're fixing the latter. Permanently.

Richard Russell
Richard Russell
Chief Executive Officer
Helped build HOKA from $30M to $2B+. Commissioner of the Mama Gumbo League. He knows draft night from the inside.
Kent Hollrah
Kent Hollrah
Chief Product Officer
Former Disney Imagineer. Thirty years playing fantasy sports. Fifteen years designing the draft room no one had built yet.

Questions

Does Draft Nirvana work with my ESPN, Sleeper or Yahoo league?

Yes — along with CBS, RT Sports and MyFantasyLeague. You copy and paste two pages from wherever your league lives, we read them, you confirm. A couple of minutes.

Do we have to move our league?

No. Your league stays exactly where it is. We host draft night; everything else stays put.

What happens to our rosters after the draft?

They hand back to your platform when the draft's done.

Does Draft Nirvana work with my league format?

Redraft, keeper, dynasty and rookie-only drafts all work. Auction isn't supported today — worth knowing now rather than after you've signed up.

Do I need Zoom, a plugin, or a subscription to be on camera?

No. It runs in the browser. Your league clicks a link and they're in the room.

Does everyone in my league have to pay?

No. Everyone joins free.

Does anyone need to install anything?

No.

How many teams can draft at once?

Eight to fourteen.

Can we do a hybrid draft — some of us in the room, some remote?

Yes. That's most of our leagues. Put a laptop on the table for the people who are together and everyone else joins from wherever they are.

Do I need a computer, or will a phone work?

A laptop or desktop. You need the screen for everyone's faces and the full board at once — that's what makes it feel like one room.

How long does draft night take?

About as long as it always has. We didn't speed it up; the two hours are the point.