How does the automated draft in fantasy football work?

In Auto-Pick drafts, you can either pre-rank your players or have the website do it for you.

The players are picked in order of their rank on the pre-ranking. If a player is taken by a team, he is crossed off on your list and the next best player available is taken for you.


However, the auto-draft takes into account the positions it picks and picks only to fill up your active roster first, then to fill up your bench. (ie., If it chooses Peyton Manning for you in the second round, when your turn comes up in the third round, if the highest ranked player not yet chosen is a Quarterback, the computer will skip over that player and go to the next best player to fill your actives list.)