Beginners Guide to Draft League
Volume 1: A cohesive guide on draft league structure, written by Rissoux. It's a great resource to learn the basics of the format, as well as to find a gateway into the wider community, you can find it here.
Volume 2: An in-depth analysis on drafting and tiering theory, as well as a discussion on the importance of role compression. Also written by
Rissoux, it also breaks down how the sub-forum successfully hosts massive tournaments and more. Find it
here.
Sample Draft Boards
These are draft boards created by the subforum staff, while we won't cover every format (there's just too many variations of draft to appease everyone), we will try provide them for all major formats, you're free to edit them to fit your own league.
SV Paldea Dex (Post-Home) - credit to the subforum staff.
SV 4v4 Doubles (Series 1) - credit to
charmdi.
SV National Dex - credit to Rissoux and the WPF staff.
SV National Dex LC - credit to
TRowePrice667.
SV National Dex Ubers - credit to
Nyx and the PICHU staff.
SS Galar Dex - credit to
King L5 and the DPL staff for the base.
SS National Dex - credit to
DOOR MONEY and the TH staff for the base.
USM - credit to
SlickPanther and the TBC staff for the base.
ORAS - credit to the subforum staff.
You can find it linked
here. Created by
abriel and
Nyx.
Prep Help Spreadsheet Templates
These are made by other individuals, and while their works are not affiliated with the subforum itself, they are valuable tools to help you with your prep. We've linked multiple different templates so that you can find the right one for you. For all of these sheets, you have to make your own copy (you do this by clicking
File -> Make a Copy).
[Gen 9] Teambuilding Sheet - by
Nyx
Techno's Prep Doc - by
Techno6377
TeamHawk - BaLLHaWKs Master Prep Doc - by BaLLHaWK#0007
League Spreadsheet Templates
A basic template for a 16 coach, 10 week-long draft league. A guide on how to use it can be found on the
Setup tab of the sheet. You can find it
here. Created by
Nyx.
Example Draft League Spreadsheets
These belong to unaffiliated draft leagues, they're great examples of how draft spreadsheets
can look, as well as giving some basic insight into rulesets and how others have successfully ran their leagues.
Leagues
TBC S6 Gallade
TH S6 Gengar
DGBA S16 Swarm
WPF S13 Deoxys
SBT S11 Rivals
Tours
Kick-off Drafting Doc (Pools 1-16)
Distortion Draft Tour I
Team Tours
DPL S7
PWS S3