100 Yard Rush

Randomizing your fantasy football draft using 100yardrush.com is simple and fun but with enough of a show to make you feel like you did something as The Commish.

This site is beautiful. When you first enter the 100yardrush site you’re greeted by a throwback to those late nights playing Techmo Bowl at sleepovers as a kid – with all of the bright 8-bit colors and pixelated characters but minus all the Cheeto dust on your fingers. 

Once you select the number of owner’s in your league, enter their names, click the mouse a few times to confirm everything and – BOOM – all of a sudden you’re watching a bunch of little tiny 2D runningbacks make their way across the field.

But how does it all work, you might ask? Well, algorithms. Someone way smarter than us set it up so that every 2 – 7 seconds (randomly selected), each player will move between 1 and 10 “yards” on the screen (also random), for the duration of said 2 – 7 seconds. That means a player can move 10 yards in 2 seconds giving them a strong lead, then immediately queue up for only 1 yard in 7 seconds, which will put them behind.

While this all happens in the background, the visual result is a race down the field you’ll find yourself cheering for. Eventually, the runningbacks make their way across the goalline to the finish – deciding your upcoming fantasy football draft order. 

The best part though is that the geniuses at 100yardrush figured out a way to give you a link to an exact copy of the race. That way, you don’t even need to run this as a live event. All you have to do is just copy the link, send it to the group chat, and let them watch the fun for themselves.