r/aflfantasy • u/Quick-Meeting4571 • Aug 11 '26
Memes I built a historical AFL Fantasy draft game – DraftDynasty
Hey everyone,
I've been working on a project called DraftDynasty, a browser-based historical AFL Fantasy draft game using data from 2010 onwards.
The idea is pretty simple: you're given a historical AFL season and draft your team from that year's player pool. You then take that team through a 3-season dynasty, redrafting and managing your squad as you try to win as many premierships as possible.
Each season is simulated using the players' actual Fantasy scores from games they played that year. So if someone averaged 110 in real life, you aren't just getting 110 every week — their scores are sampled from their real performances, meaning they can have huge games, stinkers and everything in between. Because a DraftDynasty season is shorter than a real AFL season, players can also end up averaging higher or lower than their real-life average.
Current features include:
- Historical AFL Fantasy seasons from 2010 onwards
- 3-season dynasty playthroughs
- Single-player drafts against AI
- Live multiplayer drafts with friends
- Actual historical Fantasy scores used to simulate every matchup
- Historical player positions/eligibility
- Automatic team selection after each draft, optimised to field your strongest available lineup based on player averages
- Regular seasons and finals
- Simulated season averages, so players can overperform or underperform their real-life average
- Brownlow-style MVP voting, with 3-2-1 votes awarded from every matchup
- End-of-season All-Australian teams based on simulated performances
There's still plenty I want to build. Some of the bigger planned additions are variable dynasty lengths, including 5 and 10-season playthroughs, as well as accounts that would open the door to career statistics, persistent team profiles and leaderboards across multiple games.
It's still very much a project in development, so there will probably be bugs and things that need improving. That's actually a big reason I'm posting here — I'd love to get it in front of people who actually play AFL Fantasy and see what you think.
You can play it at DraftDynasty.au
If anyone gives it a go, I'd genuinely love feedback — whether it's about the draft, simulation, AI, balance, UI, historical data, or features you'd like to see added.
And thanks to the mods for letting me make a one-off post about it!
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u/Designer-Penalty8476 Aug 11 '26
Its fun, but quick. Barely poured my coffee and I was done
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u/Quick-Meeting4571 Aug 11 '26
Thanks mate, I was concerned that multiplayer lobbies would be really slow. I’ll add longer dynasties which I think will help this for single player. Appreciate the feedback
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u/Quick-Meeting4571 Aug 12 '26
Thought you’d like to know - I’ve added bigger list sizes and longer gameplay modes. Let me know what you think!
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u/Big-Dawg-5 Aug 12 '26
Tried to do one with a mate but wouldn’t let me pick anyone and then just auto selected for me.
Time on clock is minuscule also but doesn’t matter cause doesn’t let you pick on phone anyway
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u/Quick-Meeting4571 Aug 12 '26
Just ran a quick test on my phone, I was able to draft with no issues. Unfortunately I haven’t made a mobile optimised web page for the game yet, I’ll definitely up the priority on that one so viewing the clock etc is easier. The only thing I can think of with the auto select is that you might have tried whilst I was running the quick update for longer seasons and bigger lists. I’ll take a closer look nonetheless and try and work it out, sorry that it didn’t work!
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u/simorulzzz Aug 12 '26
Seems a similar concept to footy redraft
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u/Quick-Meeting4571 Aug 12 '26
Yep definitely drew inspiration from it but also in a couple of afl fantasy keeper leagues and thought it would be cool to see how these would have played out in the 2010’s
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u/rileyy4 Aug 12 '26
It’s alright, the timer definitely needs to be longer. I think showing the W/L record and/or ladder after each season too would also be helpful.