RotoTells draft capture ← back to the board

Install the draft capture

A Chrome extension that watches your FanDraft or ESPN draft room and sends every completed pick — and every losing bid — to RotoTells as it happens. Nothing to build, nothing to configure. Two minutes.

Download the extension
packaged from the running server

Install it

  1. Unzip the download. You get a folder called rototells-capture. Leave it somewhere you won't delete it — Chrome loads it from where it sits.
  2. Open chrome://extensions in a new tab. (Chrome won't let this page link there, so paste it into the address bar yourself.)
  3. Turn on Developer mode, top right.
  4. Click Load unpacked and choose the folder you unzipped.
  5. Click the RotoTells icon in the toolbar, sign in, and pick your league. That's it — it stays attached from then on.
Developer mode is required because this extension isn't in the Chrome Web Store. Chrome may nag you about it once per restart; dismissing that is safe and it keeps working. Don't turn Developer mode off — the extension stops loading with it.

On draft night

  1. Open the draft room as you normally would. The capture attaches by itself and posts the team list up front.
  2. Map any unrecognised team to its owner once, on the board. It never guesses — a wrong owner is worse than no owner.
  3. Leave the tab open. If the connection drops, picks queue on your machine and send themselves when it comes back; nothing is lost.

If something looks wrong

  1. A red ! on the icon means your sign-in expired. Open the popup and log in again — the picks are still queued.
  2. The popup's bottom line always says what's attached, what's queued, and what's parked. Parked means a human has to decide something.
  3. Nothing appearing at all? Reload the draft room tab.