AFL FANTASY DRAFT vs Slyder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AFL FANTASY DRAFT
This app revolutionizes the official AFL Fantasy Draft experience with a user-friendly platform for drafting and team management. It offers live drafting, injury replacements, flexible positions, and detailed league history to enhance gameplay.
- Live Draft with pause functionality
- Injury Replacement (IR) for player swaps
- Flex Position for an extra on-field spot
- Split Lockout for captains and team
- Customisable scoring systems
- Pre-Draft Trading of picks and players
- Mock Drafts for practice
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Revolutionise your AFL Fantasy Draft experience with the official AFL Fantasy Draft game! Are you ready to level up your AFL Fantasy game? Our new Draft platform is a game-changer, packed with features to make drafting and team management smoother, more exciting and fun! What's New? Draft board: Sleek, user-friendly visual layout. Live Draft: Start drafts anytime, pause as needed. Injury Replacement (IR): Swap injured players without dropping them. Flex Position: Add an extra on-field spot for any position. Split Lockout: Different lockout times for captains and the team. Assign Commissioners: Change or add league commissioners. Scoring Presets: Customisable scoring systems. Multiple Pre-Draft Lists: Plan for every scenario. Bye Rounds: Choose how many scoring players count. League History: Detailed data from past seasons. Pre-Draft Trading: Trade picks and players before the draft. Mock Drafts: Practice as much as you want. Improved Projections: Clearer projected scores and matchup probabilities. League Medal: Discover the most impactful player in your league. Get ready for an awesome ride with our brand new AFL Fantasy Draft platform!
Slyder
This platform offers a customizable AFL fantasy draft experience for individuals and groups. It includes features like Best Ball for automated lineup management and Slyder Survivor for competitive play. It also provides tools for trading, transactions, and mock drafts.
- Customizable draft platform
- Slyder Survivor competition
- Best Ball automated lineups
- Live draft visualization
- Editable RFA priority lists
- Mock Draft Lobby
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Welcome to Slyder — an accessible, multi-use AFL fantasy draft platform by Magic Sports and home of Slyder Survivor. Slyder enables you to play alone or with your friends, drafting on a highly customised draft platform, offering enhanced functionality and minimalist user experience. We’re more than just a place to play single season or keeper leagues amongst your friends. We’re a one stop shop for all fantasy drafters. Whether that’s with platforms you know and love, all-new gameplay options, or platform-agnostic resources, we’re really excited to be rolling out something different for the draft community. FREE AND FULLY FUNCTIONAL Our platform is completely free for you to create, join and customise your draft league. Save your league’s money for your overall kitty or the end of season function (or the 24 cheeseburgers for the wooden spooner…). We have tried to pack as much as we can into our platform to give your league the best draft experience possible. However, we aim to constantly evolve the platform and want to continue to add features that our users and their leagues want. SURVIVOR Outfoxed your mates? Now outlast the field. Play to become AFL draft world champion. Want to play draft but don’t have a league? It’s a hybrid between Draft and Classic - enjoy the thrill of drafting and owning a unique team as you do in Draft, but, in this free to enter competition, you get to take on the world and compete for an overall prize as you do in Classic. BESTBALL Taking the stress out of squad management. Best Ball automatically allocates the optimal lineup for each team every round based on fantasy scores. No need to set your team each week, worry about a low score on field or decide between which player to field, Best Ball takes the stress out of the weekly running of your draft fantasy team. THE LIVE DRAFT We’ve improved the live draft to give coaches a mixture of new and nostalgic: the ability to draft with a familiar queue, list, as well as the addition of the draft board visualiser (below). Other functionality includes: Commissioners now have the ability to start drafts earlier than scheduled Pause live draft Undo picks and fix any mistakes within the live draft One-click share your draft results on social media TRADING & TRANSACTIONS We’ve worked hard on how we can improve the trading and waiver experience, including the following: All-new editable RFA priority lists for IN and OUT (below) Set waivers to clear the date and time you want for your league Keeper leagues can trade future draft picks with players in a package deal or just by themselves Compare FA pickup, delisting and trade impact with stat comparer PLATFORM AGNOSTIC DRAFT TOOLS Even if we’re not your primary platform of choice, we’re committed to bringing value to coaches in the form of a number of platform-agnostic resources. MOCK DRAFTS The Slyder Mock Draft Lobby is a key feature of the platform and is a great tool for all AFL fantasy drafters, allowing you to go against other coaches or our educated computers. DRAFT INSIGHTS Pre-season and in-season draft content to give coaches who Magic Up the edge over the competition. These include: Feb Draft Report: A dynamic live report where all of the mock draft data is shared with coaches, including ADP’s by draft type (Season, Keeper-New and Keeper-Existing), as well as player draft position trends. Expert Draft Ranks: For Season and Keeper Weekly content: Weekly waiver recommendations OTHER Other platform enhancements that will be new for coaches: Fully customisable formations, including UTL positions Running multiple leagues? Easily switch between them with our league overview to access all your matchups Customised scoring for the bye rounds Live league ladders And more…
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Slyder at 100% against AFL FANTASY DRAFT's 3%. Slyder also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 16.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | AFL FANTASY DRAFT | Slyder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 1.0 (4 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 2.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 4 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | — |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Ad-supported |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 52 MB | 52 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Telstra Limited | Magic Sports Online Pty Ltd |
Customer experience
AFL FANTASY DRAFT
Slyder
Bugs and requests
AFL FANTASY DRAFT
Reported bugs
5 issues- Incorrect player scores and team totals
- Issues with captain/VC scoring
- Emergencies not appearing correctly
- Frequent crashes and login issues
- Inconsistent data across different screens
Requested features
4 requests- Revert to the previous app
- Improve navigation and simplify the UI
- Restore previous features like player stats and filtering
- Fix bugs and scoring issues
Slyder
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
AFL FANTASY DRAFT
No in-app purchases
Slyder
No in-app purchases








