We recommend that all managers take advantage of our pre-rank feature. If you're signed up for a live draft, it's still a good idea to use this feature as these rankings are used to pick players if you can't make it to part or all of your draft.

When you do rank, it's important to remember that you do not want to rank players position by position (e.g., all quarterbacks, then all running backs, etc.).

The goal is to set up one master list where you rank players relative to one another regardless of position. With this master list, you select your top-rated player as long as he's available and you have an open roster spot.

Until you change the rankings, they default to our predetermined order. If you're happy with that order, you don't need to re-rank players.

Also, please remember that you do not need to rank all of the players. Anyone left unranked is added to the end of your rank list according to the default rankings. So, if you rank only 20 players—and most managers rank at least this many—player 21 automatically defaults to the best player left based on our default rankings; player 22 is the second best, etc.

If you want to exclude a player from draft consideration without ranking players ahead of him, you can highlight the player's name and click the left arrow to move him to the Excluded Players list. Excluded players are not drafted under any circumstances, provided that there are enough available players remaining to fill your roster.