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About this tool
Run a snake draft with serpentine pick order and live selection tracking.
The Snake Draft Board builds a serpentine pick order from a seeded list of players, reversing direction every round so round 1 runs top-to-bottom, round 2 bottom-to-top, and so on. Enter your players in seed order and a round count, and you get a numbered board of every pick slot — players multiplied by rounds — with each selection you record slotted against the pick that owns it. It also cross-checks each recorded selection against the player whose turn it actually is and flags a mismatch.
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List 'Players in seed order', one per line, and set 'Rounds' (1 to 50).
Record picks as they happen in 'Recorded selections' as Player | selection, one line per pick in order.
Read the numbered board of players-times-rounds slots with Pick, Round, Player and Selection — empty slots show 'Open' and out-of-turn picks are flagged 'Player mismatch'.
Odd rounds run in seed order and even rounds reverse, so you never hand-write the turn list.
Each recorded selection is matched to the player who owned that slot and marked 'Player mismatch' if it was not theirs.
Every pick with no recorded selection shows as 'Open', so the board doubles as a live tracker mid-draft.
A snake draft reverses the pick order every round: if round 1 goes 1-2-3-4, round 2 goes 4-3-2-1, round 3 goes 1-2-3-4 again. It exists to offset the advantage of picking first, since the last seed in a round is immediately first in the next one.
Players multiplied by rounds. Four players over four rounds is 16 pick slots, and the board numbers all of them from 1 upward with their round attached.
One per line in the format 'Player | selection', in the order the picks happened. The board matches line 1 to pick 1, line 2 to pick 2, and so on, then compares the name you typed to the name the schedule expects.
It means the name on that recorded selection is not the player whose turn that pick slot belongs to — usually a pick taken out of order, or a line entered in the wrong sequence. Rows that line up correctly show 'Ready'.