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All players, including returning alternate athletes, must fill out our application form here.
As we head into the second half of MLPA 2025, teams have the chance to remix their line-ups by dropping a player on their team in exchange for an available player from the draft pool. Will strategy impact our next events by bringing in fresh new talent or high-performing alternates? It’ll be exciting to see.
The format of MLPlay and the unique Dual Snake Draft were founded on the principles of new and exciting matchups and balanced teams. In the spirit of those founding principles, the details of these mid-season shuffle draft rules are as follows:
•Team Captains may drop 0 or 1 player back into the MLP Shuffle Draft Pool.
8/05/25: MLPA will open applications for new players to apply for the 2025 shuffle draft
12/06/25: Deadline for new applicants and existing alternate players to declare if they want to be considered for the Shuffle Draft
13/06/25: MLPA will send the Team Captains the new available player pool via email, which will not yet include players dropped back into the player pool.
14/06/25: Team Captains must email the Commissioner, Sange Carter, via email, with a player from their current team they want to place back into the player pool. *Note, if there are any public leaks, MLPA will not comment and/or disclose any players placed back into the player pool until after the deadline, and all players will be communicated to all teams/players from the MLPA Commissioner's Office at the exact same time.
15/06/25: MLPA will communicate with all Team Captains the final available draft pool, including new players added, alternate players eligible and any players who expressed their intent to participate via the application process. MLPA will also communicate in writing to all teams the order of the Shuffle Draft as determined by the Lottery, explained below.
17/06/25: MLPA will hold the shuffle draft as follows:
All teams that choose to drop a player will be entered into a lottery to choose from the available player pool. Only teams that chose to drop a player will be entered in the lottery.
LOTTERY RULES
Teams that dropped a player will be allotted “balls” in the lottery based on two criteria. Both of these rules are meant to provide a calculated risk/reward strategy by the team captain and introduce a little bit of excitement and variance.
1) Placement as of June 9 (Conclusion of Event 3 - Gold Coast Slam): The team in 12th place gets 12 balls, 11th place = 11 balls… 1st place = 1 ball. This rule helps teams with lower placements have a higher chance of securing a high draft pick in the supplemental draft. Placement order is at the bottom of this document in Appendix A.
2) Draft Pick Rank: To give the team a higher chance of getting a better draft pick in the supplemental draft if they drop a player who was drafted high in the original draft, the following calculation applies. 36 - draft pick #= balls. (Eg. 36-pick #11 = 25 balls)
Balls will be randomly selected from the hopper, or similarly random, fair mechanics, to determine the order of picks. Each team that previously dropped a player will subsequently choose players from the available draft pool until all 12 teams are complete with 4 players each.
After the Premier Shuffle Draft, 4 hours later, the Challenger Shuffle draft will occur.
APPENDIX A – TEAM PLACEMENT ORDER - to be determined June 8 at conclusion of Gold Coast Slam
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