Card Drafting And Trading System And Method

A method of drafting, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing a box including a number of hidden cards, each of the cards to be drafted by users of a draft and having a unique card attribute value;
• providing a computer system operating the draft and maintaining user accounts for the users, the user accounts including preference lists of card attribute values for each user;
• providing a plurality of openings in the draft equal to the number of cards;
• the users acquiring the openings in the draft, thereby becoming draft participants;
• organizing the draft participants into a draft order, each draft participant occupying a spot in the draft order;
• assigning a unique spot attribute value to each spot in the draft order;
• allowing the draft participants to trade spots with each other;
• revealing the cards of the box, thereby revealing the card attribute value of each card;
• and
• issuing the cards to the spots.

A method of drafting, the method comprising the steps of:

• providing first and second boxes, the first and second boxes including first and second numbers of hidden cards, respectively, and having unique first and second box values of a plurality of box values, respectively, and each of the cards to be drafted by users of a draft and having a unique card attribute value within the respective first and second box;
• providing a computer system operating the draft and maintaining user accounts for the users, the user accounts including preference lists of card attribute values for each user;
• providing a plurality of first and second openings in the draft equal to the number of cards of the first and second boxes, respectively;
• the users acquiring the first and second openings in the draft, thereby becoming draft participants;
• organizing the draft participants into spots in first and second draft orders for the first and second boxes, respectively;
• assigning a spot attribute value to each spot, each spot attribute value being unique to the respective first or second box;
• allowing the draft participants to trade spots with each other between the first and second boxes;
• revealing the cards of the first and second boxes, thereby revealing the card attribute value of each card;
• and
• for each card of the first and second boxes, issuing the card to the draft participant occupying the spot with the spot attribute value that matches the card attribute value of the card.