Draft: Most fantasy football teams are constructed via a draft, where owners take turns picking players for the upcoming season. Most drafts orders are constructed through a random drawing or are based on the previous year's results with the poorest teams drafting first.

 

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Draft: The measurement in feet from the waterline to the lowest point of a ship's keel. Typically, a cruise ship has a draft of about 25 feet.

Draft Dashers: People who enjoy drafting a fantasy football team, but disappear long before the season is over, abandoning their team.

Draft Sequence: The sequence generated by the hgp as of june 2000 that, while incomplete, offers a virtual road map to an estimated 95% of all human genes. Draft sequence data are mostly in the form of 10,0 . . . View Full Definition

Auction Draft: Owners take turns nominating players who are bid on by other owners. Each owner is given a spending limit (or salary cap) to complete its roster. This formula was popular in many early fanta . . . View Full Definition

Undrafted: A player who enters the NFL Draft but is not selected by any team in the draft's seven rounds. Undrafted players are free agents and can sign with whatever team he so chooses if that team is . . . View Full Definition

Mock Draft: A 'fake' draft that is not played out during the season that often is used to help determine average drafted position. NFL.com does a number of mock drafts during the season to help give fan . . . View Full Definition

Payable Through Drafts: A method of making payment that is used to maintain control over payments made on behalf of the firm by personnel in noncentral locations. The payer's bank delivers the payable through draft . . . View Full Definition

Bank Draft: A draft addressed to a bank.

Overdraft Protection: Overdraft protection is a bank line of credit. It’s activated if you have insufficient funds to cover a check written against your account, up to a predetermined limit. As with other forms o . . . View Full Definition

Overdraft: An overdraft is a withdrawal from a bank account that exceeds the funds you have available. If you overdraw your account and you have overdraft protection, the bank will transfer money up to . . . View Full Definition