DEV BLOG / SHOWCASE
Twenty players. One very small screen.
A look through the first Legacy Draft on Android, from the player pool to the roster taking shape.
Game screenshots
The draft is the bit of fantasy football I look forward to most. Everybody has a plan. Everybody thinks this is their year. Then somebody takes the player you want and your carefully considered strategy becomes a mildly panicked search for a running back.
That’s the feeling I want the first draft in Idleball to have. Your new franchise starts with twenty empty roster places. Twenty rounds later, those players are yours to manage, develop and occasionally blame for a decision that is entirely your own.
I’m looking through it on Android. A phone makes it fairly obvious how much information I’m trying to squeeze into a football game. My thumbs have questions.
What the phone menus cover
- Players: the available pool, with search and a way to open draft actions or a player’s details.
- Queue: a shortlist for the players I want to keep an eye on between picks.
- Roster: the team I’m actually building, including starters, reserves, salary costs and remaining cap room.
- Board: the rounds and the order around the league.
- Picks: the completed selections, so I can check which player belongs to which team.
- Filters and sorting: position, the order of the list and the watchlist, so I can find the part of the pool I need.
- Draft actions: scouting, help and simulation controls. I can make the selections myself or let the game handle the draft.
The starting lineup looks familiar to fantasy players: a quarterback, two running backs, two receivers, a tight end, a FLEX, a kicker and a defense/special teams unit.
The player pool, queue, board and pick log
Four views from the same initial Android draft. The captions identify the stage of each capture.
Looking inside a prospect
Filters and draft actions
Narrow the player pool, or open the controls for scouting, help and draft simulation.
A draft that fits in my pocket
The next part is what happens to the salary cap as the choices add up: following Chicago through the draft.
There are still layouts to keep an eye on as the lists get longer. My grand plan is for the next pick to be easier to find than my glasses. A modest target, but I can lose those while wearing them.