Draft Preference (1 Viewer)

[Matt-X3]

Starting a dynasty league and I'm debating between an auction draft and a snake draft. The plan as of now is to do the first 13 rounds as an auction ($100 cap), and finish the draft off with a 13 round snake draft.

My question is when you do a dynasty start-up, do you prefer a snake draft, or do you prefer the auction style, and do you have any issues or advice for my plan to start off with an auction that goes to a snake draft?

Just so I don't get a ton of the "why not make the whole draft an auction" questions, the answer is that I would like to, but in my keeper auction draft, when we get to round 12-14 everyone is burnt out and it just seems like the last few rounds everyone just names off players for $1 and gets them relatively uncontested anyways.

Thanks for reading, and let me know your draft style preference.

 

[lbouchard]

auction is by far the fairest way

 

[packseasontix]

I ran my draft just like you said for dynasty, 5 players for auction and then bid on your draft position as well.

 

[Captain Hook]

sorry but you are going to read it anyway - ALL Auction - if you don't do that you negate many of the strategies and intracies of having the auction in the first place

 

[eric rymer]

if I was choosing between two startup leagues to join...it would be the one with the auction.

 

[ImTheScientist]

Auction is fair for all...snake is for noobs

 

[Matt-X3]

I agree that auction is better. Just looking for the input. Thanks guys.

@Hook: of course I'll read what you write. I asked because I was interested in what you guys thought and I appreciate the responses.

I'm still leaning to breaking it up into separate drafts, because a 25-28 round auction will get super tedious, and I have a bad feeling I'll have to split the draft into two days to accommodate everyones schedule.

I'd be interested in any more opinions. And thanks everyone.

 

[Manster]

I'm not a fan of the leagues with super deep benches. I like shallow benches with a blind bidding WW.

Like you said, the start up draft will be tedious, and then every player will be rostered. I know a lot of guys like to stash 4th string RB's on their roster for a rainy day, but I like a competitive WW. To each their own.

Maybe a compromise? like 20 rounds? Leaves some talent on the WW.

Do and auction or a snake with round reversal.

 

[Pip's Invitation]

I would strongly consider making the cap $200 or $250 instead of $100. You get much more variation in bidding that way. With a $100 cap, you can predict within about $3 what everyone will go for, and the last 20-30% of the draft will be all $1 players. Makes the auction much less interesting than it should be.

 

[Captain Hook]

I'm still leaning to breaking it up into separate drafts, because a 25-28 round auction will get super tedious, and I have a bad feeling I'll have to split the draft into two days to accommodate everyones schedule.

Get a STRONG auctioneer who is not an owner in the league who will move things along and you can easily do as many rounds as you want in a reasonable amount of time..........Look either your league wants to have an auction league or they don't.........IF they do it won't be a problem

 

[GregR]

I would strongly consider making the cap $200 or $250 instead of $100. You get much more variation in bidding that way. With a $100 cap, you can predict within about $3 what everyone will go for, and the last 20-30% of the draft will be all $1 players. Makes the auction much less interesting than it should be.

Agree with this. I played with different cap figures when I made my own league and I came to the conclusion that a price of about $10 per roster spot was a good number to aim for.

 

[GregR]

Just so I don't get a ton of the "why not make the whole draft an auction" questions, the answer is that I would like to, but in my keeper auction draft, when we get to round 12-14 everyone is burnt out and it just seems like the last few rounds everyone just names off players for $1 and gets them relatively uncontested anyways.

Sorry, I know you don't want a lot of these comments, but if you want wise advice, it needs to be said.Everyone names off $1 players... and the owners who were shrewd enough to keep a little money back take any of those $1 players that they want for an extra $1. And few will bid against them because doing so means paying $3 which at that point in the draft could have gotten you your pick on 2 other players. That's huge, especially in a dynasty league.

As Hook said, you're killing some of the best strategies and people's ability to auction wisely if you take away the end of the auction. The end of an auction shouldn't be an afterthought, and the end of dynasty auction especially isn't. That's where you get backup guys like Frank Gore, Arian Foster, Miles Austin, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, etc, and then can watch them develop into fantasy studs.

I would personally find a better way of handling that last half hour of auction if you don't want to have people having to stick around for it. Switching it to a slow auction on the website or letting people finish off rosters in blind bidding waivers using remaining cap space would both be far better options than a serpentine draft since it would preserve auction strategies that a draft would kill.

 

[stugnut]

I agree that auction is better. Just looking for the input. Thanks guys. @Hook: of course I'll read what you write. I asked because I was interested in what you guys thought and I appreciate the responses.I'm still leaning to breaking it up into separate drafts, because a 25-28 round auction will get super tedious, and I have a bad feeling I'll have to split the draft into two days to accommodate everyones schedule.I'd be interested in any more opinions. And thanks everyone.

Our 12 team, 25 man roster auction draft took about 3.5 hours last year. The key is to have a dedicated auctioneer that keeps the draft moving.

 

[Captain Hook]

Just so I don't get a ton of the "why not make the whole draft an auction" questions, the answer is that I would like to, but in my keeper auction draft, when we get to round 12-14 everyone is burnt out and it just seems like the last few rounds everyone just names off players for $1 and gets them relatively uncontested anyways.

Sorry, I know you don't want a lot of these comments, but if you want wise advice, it needs to be said.Everyone names off $1 players... and the owners who were shrewd enough to keep a little money back take any of those $1 players that they want for an extra $1. And few will bid against them because doing so means paying $3 which at that point in the draft could have gotten you your pick on 2 other players. That's huge, especially in a dynasty league.

As Hook said, you're killing some of the best strategies and people's ability to auction wisely if you take away the end of the auction. The end of an auction shouldn't be an afterthought, and the end of dynasty auction especially isn't. That's where you get backup guys like Frank Gore, Arian Foster, Miles Austin, Tom Brady, Aaron Rodgers, etc, and then can watch them develop into fantasy studs.

I would personally find a better way of handling that last half hour of auction if you don't want to have people having to stick around for it. Switching it to a slow auction on the website or letting people finish off rosters in blind bidding waivers using remaining cap space would both be far better options than a serpentine draft since it would preserve auction strategies that a draft would kill.

Years ago I wrote an article about FF Auction Draft .... "The Power of $2"