At least it'll be more upfront this year... in theory. Last year Russell wasn't even announced until after the first round when you already wanted to be chock full of Stars...
If the clubs even know themselves , I still remember a few seasons ago when the commentators were talking to Ingram and they said it was his last game and he said news to me I still have another 3-4 games left 😀
Even the ones drafted on the 28th might not even be guaranteed to come here at all if they then get bigger offers from the SA & UAE.
Hopefully get them for a 2-3 week stint at least before they leave.
Plenty of easily accessible information out their though these days to keep track of it all.
Interestingly the replacement players need to have also nominated for the draft.
CSA T20 still haven't announced a start date (seen the 12th or 13th January mentioned) let alone when their player auction is taking place.
IPL owners involved won't be drafting Pakistani players by all accounts , NZ rarely release their contracted players (might be different now with IPL ownership involvement in SA/UAE) , Bangladesh are running the BPL at the same time.
Wait and see if their enough players to go around for all these tournaments clashing.