I asked this question last year on a different forum, and recieved pretty good feedback. The question: When participating in an Auction Draft, what is the strategy/methodology that you like to use? To make things simple, let's just assume a standard 10/12 team redraft league.
Do you have a list of players you like for a current year, and wait until draft day to see how the bidding is going?
Are you the type of guy who sits back and looks for value all draft, passing up high priced studs and going with a more balanced mixed of moderate talent?
Are you the type of guy that goes Stars and Scubs...you know the players you want, and you will shell out just about any amount of $$$ to acquire them?
Do you go RB heavy or WR heavy, or a mixture of both? Do you take a stud QB, or do you settle with someone in the Rivers through Freeman range?
Any other strategies? I certainly did not touch on all of them above.
Last year, I went Stars and Scrubs and I came out the champion of my league. I was the first guy pretty much out of money about 30 minutes into the draft, but I had all the guys I tagged on my draft board. This strategy can be very risky, but if you are able to find value at the top of the pyramid, I think it is the best strategy to use in an Auction format.
The way I went about it was: I grabbed a stub QB first. I think that have a stud QB who will outscore other QB's in the league on a weekly basis is very valuable because only a handful of QB's possess that kind of talent. With the league shifting to more of an offensive focus, this reiterates my point on grabbing a stub QB even more.
Second, I wanted to make sure I had two top 10-15 WR's. I budgeted about 30-35% of my dollars to accomplish this. I did the same thing with RB's where I wanted one to be Top 3 caliber, and another RB2 with RB1 upside. I sort of failed on my RB2 picking F Gore, as he certainly did not have RB1 upside last year, but he was a good value on draft day so I went with it.
I plan on rolling with this same strategy again this year. If pick "safe" studs, who have had a history of consistently putting up points on a weekly basis, I think it gives you an edge on at least 70% of the rest of the league. The one caviat to this strategy is, you HAVE to be good at picking people up off the waiver wire or you may be setting yourself up for failure.
Let's here other strategies that some of you other FBG's like to use...
Do you have a list of players you like for a current year, and wait until draft day to see how the bidding is going?
Are you the type of guy who sits back and looks for value all draft, passing up high priced studs and going with a more balanced mixed of moderate talent?
Are you the type of guy that goes Stars and Scubs...you know the players you want, and you will shell out just about any amount of $$$ to acquire them?
Do you go RB heavy or WR heavy, or a mixture of both? Do you take a stud QB, or do you settle with someone in the Rivers through Freeman range?
Any other strategies? I certainly did not touch on all of them above.
Last year, I went Stars and Scrubs and I came out the champion of my league. I was the first guy pretty much out of money about 30 minutes into the draft, but I had all the guys I tagged on my draft board. This strategy can be very risky, but if you are able to find value at the top of the pyramid, I think it is the best strategy to use in an Auction format.
The way I went about it was: I grabbed a stub QB first. I think that have a stud QB who will outscore other QB's in the league on a weekly basis is very valuable because only a handful of QB's possess that kind of talent. With the league shifting to more of an offensive focus, this reiterates my point on grabbing a stub QB even more.
Second, I wanted to make sure I had two top 10-15 WR's. I budgeted about 30-35% of my dollars to accomplish this. I did the same thing with RB's where I wanted one to be Top 3 caliber, and another RB2 with RB1 upside. I sort of failed on my RB2 picking F Gore, as he certainly did not have RB1 upside last year, but he was a good value on draft day so I went with it.
I plan on rolling with this same strategy again this year. If pick "safe" studs, who have had a history of consistently putting up points on a weekly basis, I think it gives you an edge on at least 70% of the rest of the league. The one caviat to this strategy is, you HAVE to be good at picking people up off the waiver wire or you may be setting yourself up for failure.
Let's here other strategies that some of you other FBG's like to use...