

Read the player statements, review their role preferences, their shotcalling and drafting comfort, their availability to practice, look over their Dotabuffs, maybe even check for low priority history or if they have an esports profile on Dotabuff and how they’ve done in competitive ticketed events. There’s an infinite number of options to play around with as far as formatting goes.

This is the reason you format your sheet - make your priorities clearly visible and reviewable at any point. Some things I tend to do often with my personal draft sheets is making the names more readable, making the role preference columns thinner, reordering the columns so important things like roles, rank and Dotabuff links are easily available, and applying conditional formatting to the role preference column (1 being red, 5 being green, etc - this allows me to just glance at a player’s role comfort to get needed information. You don’t have to make it very fancy - the important thing is that you can get all the info you need onto it and, eventually, from it. Format your personal draft sheet to meet your needs.If you want to start your preparations early, be mindful of any possible changes made to the actual draft sheet - you don’t want to end up in a situation where a good player who just made the cutoff isn’t on your list, or a player you wanted got unvouched. You could also use the cheat sheet as a base to work on, but I’d recommend just reading that, since the actual draft sheet will include more info.


