Serpentine and fixed drafts are terms used in Fantasy basketball, a game that requires players to track the statistics of actual NBA players. With the help of the internet, players can draft players for their teams and monitor the stats of NBA players. Different leagues track different numbers of categories, and there are two main drafting strategies: serpentine draft and fixed draft.
Key Takeaways
- Serpentine draft, also known as snake draft, assigns positions for the teams and players are selected according to this order. The team with the last pick in the first round gets the first pick in the second round, and the order is reversed in each subsequent round.
- Fixed draft maintains the same order of picks in each round. The individual who drafts first in the first round will again be first in the second round, and so on.
- Snake draft is adopted to avoid giving undue advantage to the player getting the first pick in the first round, as they would get the last pick in the second round, with the order reversed in every subsequent round. In contrast, the order of picks remains the same in a fixed draft.
