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Cactus League Professional Basketball AutoDraft For WindowsTM
Upgraded for Version 2008

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What is AutoDraft?

AutoDraft is an add-on utility for Cactus League Professional Basketball For Windows that allows you to quickly, easily and powerfully conduct a player draft for any league (even AutoMerged ones!). All you do is select the season and league you want to work with, indicate which teams should have players drafted automatically and which teams will be drafted manually and you're in business! The AutoDraft Module does all of the work by adding players to the rosters and maintaining the draft. 

Cactus League Draft Expert System

Cactus has developed a sophisticated Expert System that is used when the computer decides which players to draft. Not only does this expert system draft the best players for the teams, but it balances the teams to maximize chemistry and effectiveness. You'll find it challenging to draft a competitive team when you're drafting against the Cactus Expert System.

We Tried It Out

Just for fun, we used AutoMerge to create a player pool of all players from the 1961-62, 1971-72 ABA and 2003-04 seasons to use with AutoDraft. We also quickly created a 4 division league, with 4 teams in each division, for a total of 16 teams. Remember, you can use any stock league or any league you've created with AutoDraft.

We set the Draft Order to 'Random,' although there are other options: 'Actual' (using each team's actual records) and 'Manual' which allows you to determine the exact draft order. You can also tweak the draft order before you start, by dragging a team's name to a different location in the Draft Order window.

We let the Cactus Expert System select players for all but one of the teams and we drafted manually for the other.

Here are details of the main AutoDraft screen (click on the thumbnails to display a larger image): Here is how the screen looks before a draft starts: AutoDraft While you can easily have the Expert System make all selections automatically with just one click of the mouse, let's just see what it comes up with for the first selection of the draft. Click "AutoSelect" and: Now, let's see if this is the right decision for the first pick of this draft. We think so, but do you? To help you in making your selections you can sort the player pool any way you want and look at detailed statistics of every player . We've decided to manually draft for Team 14. All we have to do is click on a player's name and drag him to the Team Roster window and he instantly becomes part of the team . 

You Play Any Way You Want
Very Powerful, Very Detailed, Very Easy To Use
Use With Actual Leagues, Leagues You Create, Or AutoMerged Leagues

Like all other Cactus League products, AutoDraft is designed so you can use it your way. You can conduct a completely automatic draft in just a few seconds, but if you want to draft for one or more teams you can take all the time you want in your effort to build a champion.

Ordering Information

You can order "Download Only," "Download & CD," or "CD Only." Either way you will receive an e-mail with easy download and installation instructions, so you can be conducting your draft within minutes of installing it. You must own Cactus League Professional Basketball Version 2007 (or higher) to use AutoDraft.

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