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07-17-2013, 03:01 PM | #16 |
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Oh.....and big reminder. Know the rules of an auction draft. *cough*Nzoner*cough*
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07-17-2013, 04:05 PM | #17 |
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Auction. A million times auction. As long as you're intense into fantasy sports. It's MUCH better if you're a nut about it. Like I am.
Auction/Keeper leagues are the best league. They're the premium, creme de la creme league for a fantasy owner. If you can compete in that, you can compete in ANY league. The keeper aspect takes it to a WHOLE other level, though you have to do escalating salaries (the leagues I'm in, you add $4 to the salary each year, and if I was setting up a league from scratch, I would do escalating keeper costs for a football league... year 1 you add $4 to a keeper, year 2 you add $8, year 3 you add $12, so that lucky strikes on young guys don't eat up their entire career at ridiculously low prices). Tips:
Why should you listen to me? Let me share some info from my baseball league... We play in a 12-team, 34-man roster league. 24 players (15 hitters, 9 pitchers) are purchased via a $300 salary cap. 10 players are acquired through a snake draft. You can keep 9 players each year. My team this year (keepers bolded) C - Russell Martin $1 C - Jarrod Saltalamacchia $1 1B - Adam LaRoche $12 2B - Robby Cano $36 SS - Troy Tulowitzki $39 3B - Chase Headley $1 CI - Manny Machado $7 MI - Ian Kinsler $36 OF - Mike Trout $8 OF - Bryce Harper $5 OF - Matt Kemp $28 OF - Allen Craig $8 OF - Jon Jay $1 DH - Jedd Gyorko $1 DH - Oscar Taveras $1 Bench - Ryan Ludwick Wilson Ramos Mitch Moreland Jed Lowrie P - Jordan Zimmermann $13 P - Shelby Miller $4 P - Chris Sale $4 [B]P - Jason Motte $13 (we drafted before his elbow exploded) P - Matt Moore $33 P - John Axford $17 P - Bobby Parnell $8 P - Vance Worley $1 P - Alex Cobb $15 Brandon Beachy was my only interesting bench pitcher. What's the point of that? To show you what a roster can look like going into a season if you're doing auction/keeper and know what you're doing. You want to balance picking a few young guns a year with getting veteran talent that will produce. But if you're good? You're going to succeed. P -
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07-21-2013, 04:39 PM | #19 |
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Wasn't last year's league pretty balanced, aside from a couple of teams who were run by owners who almost immediately lost interest in the league?
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07-21-2013, 04:50 PM | #20 |
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I kept trying, I just had a foolishly top-heavy roster. Teams losing interest happens in every league. Snake or Auction, sometimes your team just sucks.
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07-21-2013, 04:57 PM | #22 |
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Well, give it some thought, because I'm going to be putting it up for a vote soon. That way if people don't like the result and want to bow out, we have time to replace them with decent options.
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07-21-2013, 05:09 PM | #23 |
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I've done both. The auction is certainly more work during the draft. I like the snake draft so that I can relax and drink a beer between draft picks. With an auction, I can never relax until it's over.
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07-21-2013, 05:11 PM | #24 |
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The other thing about the snake - it's much quicker. Not a fan of these three hour snore fests we've been having.
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07-21-2013, 05:11 PM | #25 |
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Pretty certain I consume beverages in either style.
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08-05-2013, 02:34 PM | #26 |
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Doing auction for the first time. Any vets willing to share some strategy? Anyone know of a good draft app or something that you can use on draft day and helps you track players, player values, your budget, plus other teams rosters, and their budget as well? Not sure if anything like that exists, but it should.
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