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Live Draft enables you to interactively enter your pool's draft selections on-line as they are made by your poolies.
There is no limit to the number of teams you can have drafting, but 20 teams is probably a reasonable upper limit based on screen size.
The best undrafted Players, Goalies, and Defense are displayed with drafted players removed as you draft.
Warnings are displayed if someone tries to select a player that has already been selected.
Remote poolies are able to follow along with the draft as it is happening (they can NOT make their selections on-line yet - that is coming for the 2026 Playoffs - they'll need to have a phone or chat connection to where you're drafting).

Remote Poolies

Remote poolies can watch the draft on numerous pages:

1. Draft Grid The draft grid page shows who has seleted which players, and who is drafting now. This page also has a list of the best undrafted players ranked by their stats from the last season (as well as any current injury information).
2. Top Undrafted The Top Undrafted players and goalies on each and every NHL team.
3. Playoff Predictor List For Playoff Drafts, TheHockeyPool's unique Playoff Predictor helps you create your draft list, then you can link that draft list to your pool's Live Draft, and the players on your list will be struck-out as the other Poolies shamelessly select players that rightfully should be yours!

All pages refresh automatically within seconds after a selection is made.

If the Live Draft is interrupted for any reason, you can re-start the Live Draft and it will pick up where it left off.
Players with injury reports are high-lighted in the Best Undrafted charts in yellow, and the injury report appears when you hover the cursor over the player. Additionally, the full known injury report is printed at the bottom of the page.

Snake Order / Ladder Order

In the example image below, the RED ARROW shows the active draft position, and draft direction.
The draft automatically reverses direction at the end of each round if 'Snake' order selected on the Admin page before starting Live Draft, or it can be switched to 'Ladder' where each round starts over with the position 1 poolie drafting.
The Undrafted players lists show the best available remaining players. For Playoff pools, this list is filtered to only show playoff-bound players/teams.
Goaltending teams can be drafted by entering the name of the NHL team.

There is a separate page that shows the Top un-drafted scorers and goalies on each team.

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Features that are not yet available, but coming soon:

• Remote poolies will be able to draft on-line. (2026 Playoffs)
• Customizable scoring and stat categories for the undrafted charts.
• Many other features, but we're looking for suggestions, too. Please send us feedback!