About QuarterDraft
Born from a spreadsheet. Built for the friends who made it fun.
Why QuarterDraft?
March Madness brackets are everywhere. You fill one out, compare it to a million other people's, and watch helplessly as your perfect picks collapse by the second round. It's fun, but it's passive.
QuarterDraft is different. Instead of predicting outcomes, you draft actual teams with a small group of friends. Every game your teams play in, you're invested. Every upset is personal. You're not rooting for a bracket... you're rooting for your teams.
Eight friends. Sixty-four teams. A snake draft. And a scoring system where seeds matter, so drafting a 12-seed Cinderella who makes a run can be just as valuable as picking a 1-seed favorite. It turns the entire tournament into something you share with the people you're watching it with.
How It Started
In 2011, a friend invited me into a new spin on March Madness: a draft-style game someone had built inside a Google Sheet. It had some clever formulas, a scoring system, and room for 8 players. We were all broke at the time, so we played "dime draft" instead, but I was hooked.
A few years later, I rebuilt the game in my own Google Sheet for a different group of friends. Over the years it grew. Color-coded boards, tricky automations, live-updating brackets. Each March I'd dust it off, tweak the formulas, and we'd run it again.
We played that way for 9 years. Eventually the ideas outgrew what spreadsheets could handle, so in 2025 I did what any reasonable person would do: I started building a website just for this one game.
The automation is nice, but the best part is that now anyone can play. Not just the people who happened to know a guy with a spreadsheet. I hope you and your friends enjoy it as much as we have.
Credit to Rufus for building the original formula-powered spreadsheet that started it all, and to Tom for the invitation that pulled me in.
Keeping It Free
QuarterDraft is free to use and I plan to keep it that way as long as possible. The guy helping me with development and maintenance is really cheap (yeah, that’s me), but there are real expenses for the domain, hosting, and other services that keep the site running.
If you'd like to help cover some of those costs, feel free to donate using that yellow donate button way over there in the corner. It's genuinely appreciated but never expected.