Combo Auction & Std Draft (1 Viewer)

[Forgot My Crystal]

I have seen a lot of topics about draft position selection. If your league doesn't want to go completely to the auction approach you may want to try what we do by combining the auction approach for the first three rounds and then go the usual serpentine draft selection for the rest (16 rounds - 12 teams). The biggest reason we use it is so that everyone gets an opportunity to get whoever they want. If you really want LJ or LT and you don't get the 1.1 - 1.3 slot - you still have a chance to get them. It also brings a lot of added strategy to the draft. Everyone gets $100 for their 1st three picks. Players are put up for nomination in reverse draft order (12th spot - 1st spot), bids must be in at least $5 segments and if no one bids, the person nominating pays $5 for the player (so no junk nominations). If you spend all your $100 and don't have all three spots filled, you go down the bottom of the 3rd round. For example, if you drop $100 on LJ right out of the chute - you are going to get pick 35 and 36. The next guy that runs out of money gets pick 34 and so on. The strategy piece is the key as the first 3 picks are so important - who do you nominate? Do you bid a guy up - hoping that you don't get caught with a guy that you don't want or certainly at a price you don't want? It really hurts when you see a guy that should go high - end up going low ...

Rather than rolling the mocks over and over for those first 3 key rounds, it really adds a lot. After that we go back to the standard pick process - we don't have to continually track the dollars, etc.

What do you guys think?

 

[Anonymous Internet User]

I have seen a lot of topics about draft position selection. If your league doesn't want to go completely to the auction approach you may want to try what we do by combining the auction approach for the first three rounds and then go the usual serpentine draft selection for the rest (16 rounds - 12 teams). The biggest reason we use it is so that everyone gets an opportunity to get whoever they want. If you really want LJ or LT and you don't get the 1.1 - 1.3 slot - you still have a chance to get them. It also brings a lot of added strategy to the draft. Everyone gets $100 for their 1st three picks. Players are put up for nomination in reverse draft order (12th spot - 1st spot), bids must be in at least $5 segments and if no one bids, the person nominating pays $5 for the player (so no junk nominations). If you spend all your $100 and don't have all three spots filled, you go down the bottom of the 3rd round. For example, if you drop $100 on LJ right out of the chute - you are going to get pick 35 and 36. The next guy that runs out of money gets pick 34 and so on. The strategy piece is the key as the first 3 picks are so important - who do you nominate? Do you bid a guy up - hoping that you don't get caught with a guy that you don't want or certainly at a price you don't want? It really hurts when you see a guy that should go high - end up going low ... Rather than rolling the mocks over and over for those first 3 key rounds, it really adds a lot. After that we go back to the standard pick process - we don't have to continually track the dollars, etc. What do you guys think?

not sure i like it. how do you control roster size?someone could get more than three players in the first three rounds and still have all their regular picks from rounds 4 onwards. That means they have a larger roster than others. What fair way do you determine which picks they lose if you try to keep roster limits the same?

 

[Forgot My Crystal]

Team owners my only get 3 players during the auction portion. Roster size is a total of 16 (3 in the auction and 13 rounds in the regular selection).

 

[amphibianbri]

My league does something similar. We each have $50 ($1 minimum bid and .25 increments) to spend in an hour and fifteen minute bid period to start our draft. You win the bid, you throw out the next name. You can obtain as many players of your 18 man roster as possible (10 team league). Some guys blow it all on 2 or 3 players, and one guy actually got 12 players once. Then we serpentine draft until your roster is filled. Best of both worlds. Most of the time, about 50-60 players go in the auction portion.

 

[roadkill1292]

A sister league of ours does a hybrid. They buy 8 players via auction and then switch to a serpentine for the last 8. It speeds up the end of the night when you're mostly buying cheaper players anyway and they all seem to like it. I prefer a full out auction but to each their own.