Never done FF before WTF?

Are there women in your league? Are they Christian? If so, you should draft Ray Rice with your first round pick. It will subliminally let them know who is in charge. If not, a safe bet would be Tim Tebow or Dwayne Johnson.

 

It is a celebrity league. JStokes and 11 random celebrities. A little birdie told me Gilbert Gottfried, Phil Donahue and Kathy Griffin are three of the owners.

 

Technically, our league's Draft format hasn't been finalized yet.

Can one of you guys explain the Draft auction thing? Maybe I can sway the commish if it's good.

 

Good call. I know people who look at bye weeks and will avoid drafting a player because their bye week overlaps. I don't do that because you are sacrificing your team and what you feel your best player is for one week. Not worth it to me

 

I heard Adam Wainright was the guy who had created the whole thing.

 

Okay let's say it's a 10 person league. Your team has 10 positions on it (for simplicity sake), QB, RB, RB, WR, WR, TE, DEF, K, BEN, BEN.

You start with 200 dollars.

The order of the draft is set. Person one selects LeSean McCoy and bids 1 dollar. Now anyone can bid on McCoy, with the max bid being 191 (9 dollars left so 1 dollar bid on the remaining 9 roster spots). If I bid $45 for LeSean and you bid $46 and nobody tops you, you get LeSean and lose 46 and I keep by 45 but don't get LeSean. The next person then selects a player to bid on and etc etc.

IT creates an interesting budget strategy, but also player selection strategy. Let's say no WR are selected and I skip over the top class and go DeSean Jackson. Maybe everyone will think there are better WR, I'll let Displaced get him for 20, I don't want to spend anymore. Then Fitz goes for 60, Calvin goes for 60, and so on and I get DeSean at a good value. Very interesting, I would recommend doing a mock draft for it (and I dislike mock drafts) just to understand how it works better

 

What if in you (#2 position) outbid me (#1 position)? Does it mean we effectively switched draft positions?

 

Wow, that sounds awesome. I don't think the majority of our league would be on board because they're kinda set in their ways; but I would definitely be down to try it.

There's also one issue. One of our guys will be in Europe during the Draft, so he's probably going to load up his queue and auto-draft most of his roster (I think it'll be like 3AM there when we're drafting here). So, that wouldn't be possible with the auction, right?

 

Treat FF like prediction. Mon thru Sun morning you're trying to predict which combo of your players will give you the highest points total. Once the games start you're just a fan, rooting for your team. You can no longer change your prediction, they are set, now just enjoy the games and look up how well your predictions worked out on Mon evening. Mental games, I know, but worked for me, at least most of the times

 

That is just nomination order.

If I was first in the order, I could put up Jeremy Kerley to be bid upon. Kerley would then become the first player picked in the draft.

The next person in the order might put up Santonio Holmes for bidding. That person might actually end up with Holmes because nobody else would probably make a bid.

When I did baseball auctions, I would put up guys I didn't want and force other owners to spend money early.

It is also possible for the same person to make the first 3 or 4 or 5 picks. I have been in auctions where some other owner gets 7 players before I won any.

 

My first post was in response to RuJFan's post. This one is in response to the post right after it.

Guys that miss an online auction will fuck it up. It is very annoying. In my baseball leagues, Yahoo would aggressively stock the draft dodgers with high priced starters and fill the remainder of the roster with $1 players. The owner would end up with something like 10 players totalling $247 and 13 players totalling $13.

The other owners will laugh at how Yahoo (if you are using Yahoo) stockpiles the Europe vacationer dude's team.

 

No then #2 puts a player up to bid even if he won the first bid from #1. Order doesn't change, so order matters less than the typical draft where you pick players

 

Thanks for the info, guys.

And yes, we use Yahoo. And like I said, I don't see the auction style getting voted in, but it's something to think about for the future.

For now, the only auction experience I have is purchasing property in Monopoly.

 

What do you guys think CJ's value (i.e. Round) is in a PPR league?

I usually try to target one Jet in the later rounds (excluding the DEF), and I'm thinking he might be my target this year.

 

Within first 6 rounds for Johnson

 

Just outta curiosity, what do you have against mock drafts?

 

Everyone leaves early or there's someone that makes stupid picks on purpose which throws off the whole point.

In the mock auction I did earlier, I had people bid basically all their money to the minimum on two guys then leave the draft. I was the only person who made it to the final 5-10 rounds of the mock, let alone the end.

I had the same problems with 2-3 people picking injured players on purpose or stuff like that which throws off the whole point. I think they are great if you end up in a great group, I just personally have not ended up in one when deciding to do mock drafts

 

^Ah, I got'cha. I did 4 mocks the other day on Yahoo. But they were just standard snake format, with 30 seconds between picks. In only one of them, can I recall a very questionable decision early on in the Draft, but for the most part, the people seem to be choosing realistically. I've been fortunate so far.