Team 1 gave up (#8 of 12: 2013):
Year 2014 Draft Pick 2.12
Year 2015 Round 2 Draft Pick from team 1
Team 2 gave up (2013 champion):
Year 2014 Draft Pick 4.12
Year 2015 Round 1 Draft Pick team 2
Kinda disappointed that I didn't get the same offer from team 2. I had a better 2014 2nd.
The same thing happened in a draft I'm doing right now, where I had a specific guy targeted for the late second/early third. In my case, it was Ka'Deem Carey. I don't want to turn this into a Ka'Deem Carey discussion; I happen to be high on his long term prospects, and I needed a developmental RB, so I wanted to make sure I got him. I can totally understand people being underwhelmed with Carey's speed, but I'm a big believer in Trestman, and I like absolutely everything about that kid except his 40 yard dash time and some hopefully minor character issues. So for the sake of this discussion, imagine that you like Carey and don't want to miss out on him.I had two 2015 second rounders, both projected to be fairly late, and a 2015 fourth. As we approached the talent dropoff in the mid second, I was offering both 2015 seconds for the current pick. Once the last guy I liked was gone, I offered each team their choice of my second round picks and also a future fourth. Nobody bit.
But towards the very end of the second round, when we were two picks away from the Forte owner, I noticed that the guy before him had autodrafted, which meant that if I didn't get Carey now, the draft would jump right to the Forte owner, who might pounce on him as their backup, and I'd lose my chance. So I offered two future seconds for the current pick and a future third, and ended up accepting two future seconds for the current pick and a 2014 4th rounder, even though that was by far the highest offer I'd given any team up to that point.
To me, that made logical sense. Up until that point, there was no reason to overpay for a pick. If this guy didn't want to take a future second and fourth, I'd just ask the next guy and the next guy until it was too late. Even if someone took Carey, I could offer them two future seconds for him and have a decent chance of having the offer accepted. But when it got down to the last guy before an autodrafter and the Forte owner, I had to overpay or risk losing a guy I thought was worth more than two late future seconds. So the guy with the best position got the best offer. But to the guy who picked right before him, it must have seemed like I had been lowballing him.
To use an NFL analogy, the team with 1.32 this year got paid handsomely for the right to pick Bridgewater before Houston, and to control a player for 5 years instead of 4. To use a fantasy football analogy, if you see a dropoff around pick 17 this year (which is roughly the consensus), then you might get more desperate owners making bigger offers for 2.5 than they did for 2.1. It's an interesting case study of supply and demand.