As a few others have mentioned, it seems appropriate to tie a fantasy football draft with something NFL-centric. Linking it to the NCAA tournament or the MLB season is not really what many football enthusiasts want to do. If you're like me and your group of guys (and/or gals) is already formed, you can start now. Here's what I like to do with the NFL draft: I created a spreadsheet that lists the NFL teams in the order they will pick in the first round of the NFL Draft Everyone receives a copy of the spreadsheet about a month before the draft, and plugs in who they think will be drafted at that each draft position Note #1: This applies to the draft position, not necessarily the team which eventually drafts the player (i.e. the Bills trading up to take Watkins at #4 last year - Watkins is credited as being drafted 4th) Note #2: Some people will just copy mock drafts from Kiper/McShay/whoever, but others take the time to research each team's needs and actually find the players they think are the best fit Participants receive points based on how close they are to the actual pick (the scoring system I used: 10 points for a correct pick; 5 points for one pick away [i.e. Mike Evans was drafted 7th; whoever lists him at 6th or 8th would get 5 points], 3 points for 2 picks away, and 2 points for 3 picks away) Whoever scores the most points, gets first dibs on where they pick in the snake-style draft (i.e. they can pick 1st, or 5th, or 10th, or anything else). Second-place gets his choice of all remaining spots, and so on and so forth until last place gets stuck with the final draft position. Here is our spreadsheet from last year (shoot me a message if you'd like a template of the 2015 spreadsheet; it's nothing fancy, but it'll save you some time if you want to try this format). I'll admit that it's not the greatest or most unique idea in the world, but it gives people an opportunity to look into team needs -- knowledge which sometimes carries over to the actual fantasy draft. You can spend five minutes or five days working on it; the choice is yours. This will be our third year with this draft-order-determining format, and it always gives me an excuse to read about team needs for teams like the Rams and Panthers (I'm a Colts fan), and try to figure out the best players expected to be available when those teams draft.