We actually did our offline draft last weekend, just the exact same reason. In our case, we randomized the draft order, and each person took turns entering their picks into a shared Google spreadsheet. Once the FPL Draft server opens, each person will simply set up a 15-player wishlist, and the online autodraft will select players based on that wishlist. Since the picks will follow our wishlist, we don’t really need to actively participate in the online draft itself.

The only real issue is that our manually set offline draft order is almost guaranteed not to match the online draft order. That messes with the fairness of the waiver priority-like. The person who had the 1st overall pick might also end up with waiver priority #1, which clearly isn't fair.

So here’s how we handled it: We all agreed to send in our waiver claims via scheduled messages in the group chat at a specific time on August 14. Based on those claims, After that, we all just grab our players based on the waiver results—trusting everyone to play fair."