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Free Fantasy Football Live Draft Kit

By Mark Petrozzella · August 1, 2026

We Made You a Four-Foot Draft Board. It Costs Nothing. It Will Cost You Something.

Every August, somewhere in America, a grown man stands in front of a wall holding a roll of painter's tape and a stack of paper, and he thinks to himself: this was a good idea.

We would like to be the reason that happens to you.

We built two things and we are giving both of them away. A printable fantasy football draft board that finishes at 48 by 30 inches, and a printable Super Bowl squares grid that finishes at 21 by 15. Both free. No email, no account, no "enter your details to unlock." The PDFs are right there. Take them.

Here they are, before we say another word, because we know how the internet works and you were going to scroll:

Right. Now the fun part.

A word about your printer

The draft board is 46 pages.

We are not going to pretend otherwise, hide it in a footnote, or call it "a comprehensive multi-sheet system." It is 46 pages. Eighteen sheets of board, twenty-seven sheets of player labels, and one sheet of instructions you will not read until the third seam does not line up.

So here is our honest advice, and it is the only advice on this page we feel strongly about: print it at work.

Print it at work. Print it at your mom's. Print it at the library where they charge ten cents a page and the machine sounds like a goose being asked a difficult question. Print it at the FedEx counter and make direct, unbroken eye contact with the employee the entire time.

What you should not do is print 46 pages on your own good ink and then tell people we cost you forty dollars. Because at that point you have spent more on a cartridge than a real draft board costs on Amazon, and you have made a worse one, and that is a bad outcome for everybody involved. Mostly you.

We did think about this, incidentally. The board is white. The labels are pale. We measured the ink coverage and got it down to two to three percent of the page, which is roughly the same as printing a page of text. The version we started with had solid navy headers and saturated colour labels and looked absolutely magnificent, and we killed it, because a draft board that eats a cartridge defeats the entire premise.

You are welcome. It is still 46 pages.

What actually comes in the box

The board. Eighteen sheets, six across and three down, taped together into 48 by 30 inches. That is four feet wide. Measure your wall before you begin. We say this as friends. There is nothing quite like taping seventeen sheets of paper to a wall and discovering that the light switch is going to live permanently in the middle of round nine.

Every box on it is pre-printed with its round and its true snake pick number. Not "Round 2, Team 3" — the actual pick. R2 PICK 22. So that at 9:40pm, when it is finally back around to Kevin and Kevin has gone to the bathroom, nobody has to count backwards on their fingers while eleven people shout different numbers.

The labels. 406 players, cut out with scissors like it is 1994 and we are all about to watch a VHS tape. Sorted into six piles by position — quarterbacks, running backs, receivers, tight ends, kickers, defenses — and alphabetical by last name inside each pile.

That last detail is the whole thing, actually. When somebody calls out "I'll take Robinson," you have about four seconds before the table turns on you. Alphabetical means you go straight to the R's. Rank order means you scan twenty-seven sheets while a man named Dave says "any day now" in a voice you have grown to resent.

Every starting quarterback is in there. Every starting kicker. All 32 defenses. Because a twelve-team league drafts twelve kickers whether anyone has bothered to rank them or not, and a label that is not in the pile does not go on the wall.

The squares grid, which is mercifully shorter

Good news: the Super Bowl squares kit is six pages. Not forty-six. Six. You can print this at home and still afford wings.

One hundred squares across four sheets, one page of instructions, and one sheet of twenty numbers you cut out and draw from a hat.

And that is the part everybody gets wrong, so we are going to be annoying about it: you sell all one hundred squares before you draw the numbers. That is the entire game. If the numbers go up first, whoever takes 7–0 knows exactly what he is doing, and by halftime so does everyone else, and the rest of the evening is a deposition.

Which is why the numbers live on their own sheet in our kit. Cut them out, fold them, put them in a hat or a bowl or a shoe, and draw them in front of everyone once every box has a name in it. The corner square of the grid literally says TAPE NUMBERS ON AFTER ALL SQUARES SELL, and the empty number lanes print a big grey question mark, so the board looks visibly unfinished until you have done it properly. We are not subtle. We have met people.

There are two versions, because one grid cannot do both jobs:

Each axis has a blank line next to the label so you can write the actual teams in once you know who is playing. Away goes across the top, because that is the order a score is written and spoken, and we are not animals.

The safety notice

Both kits ship with one. We take the safety of our users extremely seriously and we would ask you to observe the following before beginning assembly:

Should a seam misalign, do not panic. Step away from the board. Re-read the tile map on page one. Return only when you are calm.

FantasyDailies accepts no liability for paper cuts, tape adhered to hair, boards that will not fit through a doorway, disputes about whether 3–6 was ever a good square, or anything at all that happens in the third quarter.

Or — and we are just saying — do not do any of this

Look. We built the printables because they are fun and because somebody should, and we genuinely hope you tape one to a wall.

But we also run all of this for free, on a screen, where there is no tape.

Run your squares pool with us and the numbers draw themselves in front of everybody, the grid updates live on all one hundred phones, nobody has to be trusted with a marker, and the board does not live on one guy's kitchen wall in a house you are not currently in. You will notice this is a significant improvement on the current arrangement.

The same goes for the rest of it. Survivor pools, season pick'em, the gauntlet — all free, all running themselves, all keeping score without a human being having to remember anything. We never touch the money; that stays between you and your commissioner, which is exactly where it belongs and exactly where the arguments should stay too.

Start here if you would rather skip the tape entirely: office pools.

While the ink dries

A board is not a strategy. You are going to need something to draft off, and it turns out we have opinions.The Big Board — all 406 of these players ranked, with team power ratings and bye weeks, so you know which of your first three picks is on vacation in week 7

And when you have the board on the wall and the labels cut and the tape all over your hands, you will realise you still do not have a team name.

We built a button for that. Press it. It has thirty-four million answers and roughly a hundred of them are usable. That ratio is on purpose. The Concussion Protocols. Two Opinions, One Long Season. Bijan Mustard. Heartless Ambulance of the Recalled Diggers. Nobody is going to take that last one. That is not what it is for.

Everything on this page is free and always will be. Print it, tape it, argue over it. If somebody in your league does the taping, be nice to them — they had a 25-foot exclusion zone and a hard hat and they did it for you.

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