No seat selected — pick a variant to highlight the players it may draft
Every seat, most recommended first. The percentage is how safe the seat is to
hand somebody — it blends the seat's best variant with its average variant,
because the owner picks the variant, not you. A seat of three decent options
beats one with a perfect option and two traps.
★ good fit, near a fair 8.3% win share
+ overpowered
− weak
✕ unplayable
·bold = best in seat
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green edge = in the recommended 12-team league
RecSeatVariants — click one to highlight the board
94%
Dome or Tundra
82%
Blue's Brothers
Blue as a genuine primary colour. Teal and aqua do not count, so Miami and Jacksonville are out.
79%
Short, Mid, or Tall
Graded against the player's own position: QB ('6\'1" or under', '6\'2"-6\'3"', '6\'4" or taller') · RB ('5\'9" or under', '5\'10"-5\'11"', '6\'0" or taller') · WR ('5\'11" or under', '6\'0"-6\'1"', '6\'2" or taller') · TE ('6\'3" or under', '6\'4"-6\'5"', '6\'6" or taller')
74%
Common Man
Surname in the 100 most common in the United States (2010 census).
71%
Short or Long Last Name
Letters only — apostrophes and hyphens do not count.
69%
AFC or NFC
67%
College Mascot
The animal band is the playable one. Bird-mascot schools cover barely a tenth of the pool, so that variant is offered mostly so you can see why it does not work; take Animals or Birds combined instead.
63%
East or West Time Zone
Central-time teams belong to neither seat, which is what keeps these two from simply being AFC/NFC in disguise.
63%
Pick a Region
Both divisions of that name, AFC and NFC.
61%
Big Ten + Big 12, SEC, or Anywhere Else
College conference under the 2026 alignment.
56%
Light, Mid, or Heavy
Graded against the player's own position: QB ('215 or under', '216-225', '226+') · RB ('210 or under', '211-220', '221+') · WR ('190 or under', '191-205', '206+') · TE ('245 or under', '246-250', '251+'). Stated in pounds rather than BMI — within a position the two orderings are nearly identical, and nobody can remember a BMI cutoff at a draft table.
50%
Draft Capital
Split three ways rather than two. A straight rounds-1-2 against everyone-else cut hands the first seat 50 of the top 60 players and the other seat 10, which is not a league. Three bands trade top-end talent against depth.
41%
Old, Young, or Prime
Age on opening day. Whole years, so nobody has to argue about birthdays.
29%
Even, Odd, or Prime
Jersey number. Prime is the specialist pick -- a third of the pool, but it overlaps heavily with Odd, so those two seats fight each other.
28%
All J's
25%
Birds or Animals
NFL team mascots. Birds is the smaller pool of the two -- five franchises against nine -- so it drafts thinner but faces less competition.
21%
Bye Week Early or Late
Byes run from week 5 to week 14, so the split is drawn between 9 and 10.
0%
Late Bloomers
Rookie season at 23 or older. Structurally the weakest seat in the set: players who reached the NFL late are under-represented at the very top of the board, and no cutoff fixes that.
0%
One Team Only
Never appeared on another franchise's regular-season roster. The loosest rule in the set — two thirds of the pool qualifies.