Dynasty Start-Up auction...follow along if you'd like (1 Viewer)

[lynx4ben]

Very happy with Wayne at $64. At this price, he is the 11th most expensive WR. Colston may push him to 12th ($2 under at $62). I know you pay for youth in a dynasty start-up, but I think Wayne is a lock for top 11/top 12 numbers over the next 3 years. At $20+ under the other WR1s, it allows me to gain elsewhere. So far, still surprised at the price of picks. 7 picks for over $260 at this point.

Agreed on Wayne. I wanted to outbid you but was the high bidder on too much at the time including crabtree at just over 60 as well.

 

[TheWick]

Thought Gore went awful cheap he should be up in the $70 range. TE prices got driven up a bit as people tried to grab the last few consistant ones left.

 

[Coin Flip]

Tomorrow we get to nominate 2 players....the board is gonna fill up

 

[Grahamburn]

Where are you guys at with this?

 

[TheWick]

Here are the final results...sorry about not keeping up with it. Got busy

http://football20.myfantasyleague.com/2010...924&O=102#0

 

[D'OHtis]

Steals on Matt Ryan, Matt Stafford . (Especially considering Kolb went for high 40's)

1.08 goes for less than 1.11 I really like Welker at that price. Heck, you could have paired him and Edelman for around $35 (steal).

Some solid low risk gambles on Reggie Bush and Darren McFadden as well.

 

[Kree]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?

Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

 

[TheWick]

We allow 1 nomination per day per team...here are our by-laws see if this helps

Initial Auction: Will use a proxy style (Ebay style) of bidding. The only difference from Ebay is that the clock will reset IF AND ONLY IF the HIGH BIDDER changes.

For Example:

You are targeting getting Adrian Peterson and decide to nominate him for auction. Your second important decision is to decide what your MAXIMUM bid for him would be. You decide to place a maximum bid of $160 for him. At that time, MFL will show that the bid on Peterson is $1 (the minimum). Another team comes and bids $100 for Peterson. Since he did not eclipse your Maximum bid, MFL will then move your bid to $101 (the next minimum increment). You will still hold the rights to Peterson and the clock will continue to tick WITHOUT resetting back to 24 hours. A Third team comes and bids $120...you guessed it, you still have the high bid and your new bid is now .... $121! The clock does not reset and keeps ticking... A new bid comes in at 170...this eclipsed your maximum bid so this new owner is now the NEW HIGH BIDDER at $161...the clock is reset back to 24 hours and the process continues until the HIGH BIDDER does not change for 24 hours. Let's say there are no more bids on Peterson for 24 hours...he is sold at $161 (not 170)

We will continue this process until all owners have filled up their 22 man rosters with a minimum of $1 per player without going over the $400 cap.

The tricky part is bidding with your available cap room. For example, you have spent $350 and have 15 roster spots filled...thus have $50 left over with 5 roster spots to fill...you nominate Garcon with a maximum bid of $30...you cannot bid more than $17 on your next auction...why $17 and not $20? You need to have enough $$ to be able to fill the last 3 roster spots at $1.

For the 1st NINE days of the auction, beginning at MIDNIGHT ET, each owner can and should nominate 1 player per day. If you miss your nomination for the day, you can not make it up the next day.

Beginning on day TEN, you will nominate 2 players per day. You should continue to nominate as long as you have less than 22 Total "Won" Players AND Winning Bids. At some point, you are going to get down to only needing 1 player. If you have a high bid on 1 player, then that will count as your final roster spot until someone outbids you. This should continue until every team is completely filled.

If you nominate more than the allotted players per day, each extra nominations will cost your team 10 Bidding Bucks per violation. It is extremely time consuming to track down who had the extra nominations so please be aware of your nominations. Remember each day at Midnight ET, the nomination count is reset. On Day 17, you can nominate as many players as you like to fill up your 22 man roster.

The minimum bid on a player is $1 and will be in increments of $1. In addition, MFL will NOT let you bid more than what would allow you to have enough to fill your roster at a minimum of $1 per player.

For the initial auction, rookie draft picks will be auctioned off. Rookie picks 1.01 thru 3.12 have been loaded on the site and are eligible for nomination at any time. They were all assigned the position of PK. They can be found on either the QB list or the full available players list.

Teams will be required to "buy" 22 players in the auction.

Starting Lineup(s): 1QB 1-3RB 2-5WR 1-2 TE 3 Flex (Flex RB WR or TE) 1PK 1DT 10 total weekly starters (although you have flex options you will not be able to start greater than 3 total RBs or 2 total TE’s) You could however start as many as 5 WR.

Lineup changes can be made up until game time of the player's game that week.

Scoring System: 1PPR League Including RB's (see scoring for exact details)

Exact scoring system can be found in the "REPORTS"..."RULES"..."LEAGUE SCORING"

 

[lynx4ben]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

Everyone could nominate one player per day for 9 days then two per day after that. Any position.

 

[Kree]

THanks for that, extremely helpful and definitely sounds the way to go.

Also, thanks for the write up Wick, but are you informed if your next big (in your AP example) was unsuccessful?

 

[TheWick]

THanks for that, extremely helpful and definitely sounds the way to go.Also, thanks for the write up Wick, but are you informed if your next big (in your AP example) was unsuccessful?

Yes if Team B bids on AP for $140 let say when Team A has a "proxy" bid of $160, the auction price of AP will jump to $140 but the clock will not reset as Team A will still be the high bidder.

 

[Kree]

Ah so it will simple say Team A $141 and the time remaining will stay at 13 hours (f.e)

Awesome, again thanks for the advice.

 

[TheWick]

Ah so it will simple say Team A $141 and the time remaining will stay at 13 hours (f.e)

Awesome, again thanks for the advice.

Correct and you're welcome...have fun with it

I can't seem to find the auction results on the league site any longer but here is a link to the final teams and the auction values

http://football20.myfantasyleague.com/2010...5924&O=07#0

 

[doctor_d]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

The two leauges I am in operate in this way: Everyone is expected to have 3 nominations active. Let's say I id on AP, MJD and Chris Johnson, I do not nominate anymore until one of them is actually won by a team. I may win other players that someone else has nominated but as long as those three are still in active auctions I do not nominate anymore

 

[doctor_d]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

As far as being told to nominate studs first or WR's first, I would not like that. That is part of the strategy, I may throw out some decoys to let the feeding frenzy go wild or I may throw out a good player that I don't particularly want but I want to gauge the value that others see.I have succeeded in the decoys and have been burnt by them too !

 

[doctor_d]

Ah so it will simple say Team A $141 and the time remaining will stay at 13 hours (f.e)

Awesome, again thanks for the advice.

Correct and you're welcome...have fun with it

I can't seem to find the auction results on the league site any longer but here is a link to the final teams and the auction values

http://football20.myfantasyleague.com/2010...5924&O=07#0

It was interesting to see how people who spent more than 25% on one player did like the person who spent so much on AP. I expected to see a bad team surrounding AP but they did really well IMO considering that so much was spent on one player

 

[TheWick]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

As far as being told to nominate studs first or WR's first, I would not like that. That is part of the strategy, I may throw out some decoys to let the feeding frenzy go wild or I may throw out a good player that I don't particularly want but I want to gauge the value that others see.I have succeeded in the decoys and have been burnt by them too !

I almost always throw out players I do not want...seems to work better to get everyone's money flowing on those players before you pounce.

 

[Kree]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

As far as being told to nominate studs first or WR's first, I would not like that. That is part of the strategy, I may throw out some decoys to let the feeding frenzy go wild or I may throw out a good player that I don't particularly want but I want to gauge the value that others see.I have succeeded in the decoys and have been burnt by them too !

Sorry for the confusion, but what I meant was that it was suggestedby a fellow league member that to break up the bidding we separate the players into position and bid on the positions one by one. I didn't like it because its more difficult to cross-guage spending between positions and I am guessing it would be easy to overspend in one position based on everyone elses bids and then being forced to underspend in another.

 

[Kree]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

As far as being told to nominate studs first or WR's first, I would not like that. That is part of the strategy, I may throw out some decoys to let the feeding frenzy go wild or I may throw out a good player that I don't particularly want but I want to gauge the value that others see.I have succeeded in the decoys and have been burnt by them too !

I almost always throw out players I do not want...seems to work better to get everyone's money flowing on those players before you pounce.

Just wondering on the strategy involved in the nomination process. If you nominate an under the radar player early, ala Rice last year (If you bid early enough) and people are waiting to save money on the uberstuds that haven't been nominated yet, is that necessarily a viable strategy to ensuring you get the under the radar players that you covet, or does it normally come back to bite you with those types of players being at the forefront of the draft too early doe everyone to see and try and get value on?

 

[TheWick]

Probably not the right place to ask, but I am about to start a new slow auction league, and was wondering when it comes to online drafts is there any specific way the players are divided in terms of bidding blocks? ie WRs first, or studs first f.e. Was just discussion with my fellow newb auctioners about the best way to go about it. Is everyone free game form the get go or should everyone have like 12 opening bids allowed over the first 2 days or something like that? How did you guys start it up?Thanks in advance, any help appreciated.

As far as being told to nominate studs first or WR's first, I would not like that. That is part of the strategy, I may throw out some decoys to let the feeding frenzy go wild or I may throw out a good player that I don't particularly want but I want to gauge the value that others see.I have succeeded in the decoys and have been burnt by them too !

I almost always throw out players I do not want...seems to work better to get everyone's money flowing on those players before you pounce.

Just wondering on the strategy involved in the nomination process. If you nominate an under the radar player early, ala Rice last year (If you bid early enough) and people are waiting to save money on the uberstuds that haven't been nominated yet, is that necessarily a viable strategy to ensuring you get the under the radar players that you covet, or does it normally come back to bite you with those types of players being at the forefront of the draft too early doe everyone to see and try and get value on?

I always try and keep the guys I really want for when alot of money is on the table. Your plan could be viable also...but usually there is overspending at the beginning, bargains in the middle, and if people have money left they will overspend at the end also.

 

[Kree]

Hmm, the bargains normally springing from when people think they have already overspent and then decide they NEED to save money just to fill up their rosters?

 

[TheWick]

Hmm, the bargains normally springing from when people think they have already overspent and then decide they NEED to save money just to fill up their rosters?

Thats what I think anyway...lol...I've only done 2-3 of these but thats how I usually approach it.