Managers prepare their team; the commissioner controls order, start, pause, and recovery.
Dynasty/redraft; all dates, rounds, clock, and timezone values are runtime-owned.
HELP TOPIC // draft
/draft-order-readiness-and-clock · corpus 0.1 · verified 43c1c50
Draft order, readiness, and clock
The scheduled meeting is not an automatic start; the commissioner intentionally opens pick one.
Sources
Who can use this answer.
Read the current gate
Admission, association, order, pool capacity, and readiness are shown in Draft.
The label carries the consequence.
Unscheduled, scheduled, readiness-open, ready, not-ready, order-incomplete, open, on-clock, paused, in-progress, complete, unavailable.
Use the runtime clock
Render exact configured meeting/start/pick time, timezone, and relative text.
Keep the right audience
Boards and manager controls are team-scoped; commissioner readouts avoid unnecessary identity detail.
Take the next safe step.
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Review seats, attendance, boards, pool health, order, and schedule.
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Managers mark ready/not ready and choose AUTO.
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Commissioner enters the runtime-required confirmation to start.
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Read exclusive NOT RUNNING, PAUSED, or RUNNING before controls.
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After refresh/restart reread persisted pick/deadline.
Know what changes.
What happens
Clock expiry/AUTO uses board first then authoritative best available; force advances the current pick.
What can be undone
Readiness is reversible before its gate; force/undo use explicit server-validated current-pick controls.
What you should see
Tape names player, pick, next actor, and AUTO/forced outcome.
Keep context. Do not replay blindly.
Stale, double, pool-insufficient, and unauthorized requests consume no player.
Refresh and follow commissioner recovery; never edit SQLite.
One concrete read.
Example: An absent manager's AUTO uses its available board before best available.
Runtime source: Draft config/lifecycle/order/picks, player pool, presence/readiness, commissioner service.
Corpus receipt: introduced 0.1; last verified 43c1c50dfbd493b01368d2c74959eb23de098749.