Winning at Hidden mode

Drafting blind — how to pick well when the stat lines are withheld.

Hidden mode gives you the club and season and the names, but no stats. You are drafting on memory: you have to know who was actually good on the 2013 Žalgiris or the 2019 CSKA, not just recognise the names.

The single best habit is to anchor on the club-season. Recall who led that team — the go-to scorer, the floor general, the anchor inside — and draft those roles rather than the most familiar name. Familiarity is a trap; the player you remember hearing about is not always the player who produced.

Draft roles, not reputations

Since you cannot see the numbers, fall back on the same balance principle: try to leave each round with a different kind of player. A remembered scorer, a remembered playmaker, a remembered big. You will not always be right, but a spread of roles protects you from accidentally drafting five of the same thing blind.

Positions still show, so use them. If you know a club-season had a dominant center, that is a safe frontcourt pick even when you cannot recall the exact averages.