NFL Era Draft

Era Draft fixes one sim era each day - a decade whose style shapes the whole season - and hands you a wheel of franchise eras. Each spin lands on a real team from a real decade, the 1990s Cowboys or the 1970s Steelers, and you draft any one player from that roster into an open slot. Ten slots: a quarterback, a running back, two wide receivers, a tight end, an offensive lineman, a defensive lineman, a linebacker, a defensive back and a kicker. A man drafted out of position is taxed, and a man drafted from far outside the sim decade is taxed harder - the chips show every hit before you commit. You get two respins for the whole draft, and you can respin a respin. The tenth pick sims the season on the spot: a 14-, 16- or 17-game schedule depending on the era, a single-elimination bracket if you win half your games, and a fictional record beside a clear disclaimer. Your first run of the day is the scored one; after that, practice redrafts are unlimited until midnight.

• Read the sim era before your first pick. A 1970s sim weights the run game and run defense; a 2010s sim is won through the air.
• Draft in-era men where you can. The era tax compounds across ten slots, and a 1960s back in a 2020 sim gives up close to 40% of his value before kickoff.
• Position matters more than the name. A great receiver playing tight end keeps most of his value; a receiver at linebacker keeps three quarters of it.
• Do not forget the kicker. The tenth slot decides the close games, and a lineman trying field goals is worth half a real one.
• Save a respin for the back half. The defensive slots are where a bad wheel hurts most.
• Anchors lift the whole side. An OFF anchor raises the passing and running game together; a DEF anchor does the same for the defense.

Era Draft is sacked.gg's daily NFL fantasy sim, built on our own player database. Every franchise-era roster on the wheel is real - the men who wore that jersey in that decade - and every rating is sacked's own read of a player's seasons inside that decade, derived from Approximate Value, honors and his peak season's box-score line, never a career average smeared across eras. The season itself is a simulation and every result it prints is fictional; the page says so wherever a record appears. There is no coach to draft, because sacked holds no coaching data and nothing here is written from memory: the tenth spin is a kicker instead, a real slot the box scores support. The wheel is shared - everyone spins the same cells on the same day - so two players comparing drafts are comparing decisions, not luck.

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