Dynasty Auction League (1 Viewer)

[twistd]

I'm looking at starting a dynasty league. In redraft I vastly prefer auctions to drafts. I understand how you could do an auction for the initial dispersement of players in a dynasty league, but most of the leagues I have seen or heard of do a rookie draft every year. That does give the weaker teams an advantage in improving their team and allows you to trade future draft picks. To keep a league together you have to allow the weaker teams a chance to build a team up.

Is anyone in a league that does a rookie auction every year? If so, how do you give an advantage to the weaker teams to help them try to improve? I thought perhaps that you could scale the auction money in such a way that the weaker teams have an advantage. Say that in a twelve team league the first place team would get $1000 whereas you might scale the money up from there. In that format the last place team might get $1550 increasing the money by $50 each slot. So the first place team gets $1000, then the second place team gets $1050, and so on. Is that enough of an advantage for the weaker teams, or is it too much? I'd like to hear thoughts on this, and if anyone is currently in a dynasty league that does the rookie draft as an auction I would like to hear how you handle it.

 

[Cjw_55106]

Doesn't really answer your question, but we are starting a dynasty league (techinically an Empire league) this year and after the initial auction, we will simply have a standard rookie draft starting in 2015.

I think the issue with a rookie auction is this: team A is the champion and has a pretty set roster. It doesn't hurt him at all to bid 1000 on Watkins. Sure, he might not get him, but lesser teams are forced to spend all they have on one guy and in the end, he won't get the top studs, but he'll get 4-5 lottery tickets while the worst teams get one shot. Sure, their shot is a lot better than the better teams, but not as good as if they got the 1st and 13th picks.

 

[twistd]

That may be the way I have to go, the rookie draft. You have to find a way to help the weaker teams get stronger. You are right, having the first pick in the draft and the 13th pick can be a pretty sizable advantage. I'm trying to create a way where you can give the weaker teams that same advantage in an auction. Maybe that isn't possible.

 

[Bamac]

I'd also go with a traditional rookie draft. Especially because draft picks create a better trade market the rookie auction $.

 

[snellman]

Doesn't help a lot, but here is a link to an auction dynasty league that I am in:

http://www15.myfantasyleague.com/2014/home/38364#0

Pretty complicated set of rules, we do a rookie draft every year with rookie picks have assigned salary amounts.

 

[jeter23]

I am in several leagues that used a startup auction and we have an annual rookie auction. We use a tiered system where the 1.01 is worth X, 1.02 worth a little less and so on. I love this system as it allows all owners the chance to get a player.

 

[Lash]

http://football11.myfantasyleague.com/2014/mb/topic_show.pl?bid=201442246&tid=3982573

We do a rookie auction every year and you can carry over funds year to year

The formula is in the post above

We don't assign values to any draft pick hut the formula allows the weaker teams the most "power" in the auction

Seems to work for us

 

[FreeBaGeL]

We do open bidding on free agents during the year and on restricted free agents (we do contracts) each offseason. The amount of cash given to each team to spend on this stuff is determined by their finish the year before.

I would think you could do the same, and also include rookies at auction with that same money. We do a 1 round rookie draft in our league and then after that all other rookies become free agents that anyone can bid on. You could just skip the 1 round rookie draft and go straight to essentially making every rookie a free agent.

 

[JamesTheScot]

I'd suggest turning the league into a contract league if you want to auction. It's easy to mesh an auction and contract system seamlessly so both veterans and rookies are acquired via the same process even if not at the same time or event.

 

[GregR]

I'd suggest turning the league into a contract league if you want to auction. It's easy to mesh an auction and contract system seamlessly so both veterans and rookies are acquired via the same process even if not at the same time or event.

I agree. And contracts add a lot. We stick with a rookie draft in part so draft picks exist to help balance trading, but have a vet auction. Rookie salaries assigned by averages of vet salaries.