Hand-dyed blanks · screen printed · one dye day a week
Every team in your league gets its own dye. The pattern is generated from the team name, so the same team prints the same shirt — in October, and again next August. Two colours, one white resist, and the picks you actually made.
Try it → pick a team, then a product. The dye re-runs from the name, not from a random number, which is why it comes back identical.
Generating the first dye…
Team — the seed comes from this name
The tee prints on draft night, so it carries the roster and no record. The poster prints after the final week — that one gets your finish.
The flow
A league order is not twelve separate orders. The draft comes in once, the art generates for every team at once, and the commissioner approves one screen.
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Draftboard is the draft software this shop grew out of. Its league settings screen has an export key — paste it here once and we can read the board. If your draft lives somewhere else, upload the pick log as a CSV instead. Same output, one more step.
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We read the board, not a screenshot: round, pick number, position taken, and the roster each team walked away with. A 12-team, 16-round draft is 192 picks and lands in about four seconds.
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Each team name is hashed into a seed. The seed decides spiral or crumple, how many bands, and where the pinch lands; the team's two colours become the dye. Nothing is drawn by hand and nothing is random — re-run it in March and the shirt is the same shirt.
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The commissioner sees all twelve mockups on one page, sets a size per manager, and orders the set. Blanks go in the dye Tuesday, print Thursday, ship Friday — one box to one address, or twelve boxes to twelve.
What it does not do: it will not guess your colours. Two hex values per team, entered once by the commissioner, or we use the palette Draftboard already has stored. And it will not fix a team name — if a manager renames the team, the seed changes and so does the shirt. That is the trade for it being repeatable.
The catalogue
Prices are per item, before the league tiers below. The swatch on each card is the same generator you just used, run small — a different team on each one.
S–3XL · 2XL +$3 · 3XL +$5 · ring-spun cotton
Hand-dipped blank, then screen printed with a white underbase. Skip the underbase and the ink sinks into the wet colour and goes grey. The pattern jogs a few millimetres where the sleeve is sewn on, because the sleeve was a separate panel in the bucket — that jog is how you tell a dipped shirt from a printed one.
18 × 24 in · 230 gsm matte · unframed
The board itself as wall art: every round, every pick, in order. Giclée, not screen printed — sixteen rounds of 7pt type is finer than a mesh will hold. The dye is printed here rather than dipped, so the bands do line up cleanly across the sheet.
set of 4 · 3 mm neoprene · 12 oz cans
Dye sublimation onto neoprene, then sewn, so the seam lands the pattern about a millimetre out of register on every one. Positions and pick numbers only — a full roster sublimates too soft to read at that size.
S–3XL · 2XL +$4 · 3XL +$6 · 380 gsm fleece
Same dip, heavier blank. Fleece drinks more dye than jersey, so hoodies come out deeper and a little blotchier than the tees — we think that is the better version. Chest print only; the hood seam eats a back print.
24 × 36 in · cotton duck · brass grommets
Dyed panel with the team name and the finish chain-stitched, not printed. Sewn to order after the final week, one per season. It costs exactly what a tee and a poster cost together, because that is roughly the labour.
Every item carries the league name and the draft date. Rosters print as position and pick number — RB1 at 1.04, the rookie WR at 6.09 — because that is what a draft actually is.
Commissioners
Every shirt in a league order is a different design, so the discount is not from repeating the art. It is from one dye day, one screen setup, and one box. Tee pricing below; the other items scale on the same breaks.
| Tees | Per tee | Off each | Worked out |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 – 5 | $34.00 | — | one manager, one shirt |
| 6 – 11 | $31.00 | $3.00 | 6 × $31.00 = $186.00 |
| 12 – 23 | $28.50 | $5.50 | 12 × $28.50 = $342.00 |
| 24 – 47 | $26.50 | $7.50 | 24 × $26.50 = $636.00 |
| 48 + | $24.75 | $9.25 | 48 × $24.75 = $1,188.00 |
We knock $4.00 off the parts so the set splits to exactly $36.00 a manager — collecting a round number from eleven other people is the hard part of the job. Rush the whole set and it is $472.00.
Dye day is Tuesday. Orders that land by Sunday midnight go in that Tuesday's buckets, print Thursday, and ship Friday. Miss Sunday and you are on next week's dye — we would rather say that than pretend the bucket is always full.
Paste the Draftboard export key or drop a CSV. You get every team's mockup back on one page, usually the same evening, with nothing owed until the commissioner approves the set.
No account needed to see the mockups · seeds are kept, so reprints match