How do I switch keeper league to auction format? (1 Viewer)

[jswalker1981]

I would like to switch my league from a standard draft keeper league to an auction format. Right now we give up a pick two rounds higher than where they picked the previous year (no keepers from rds 1-3). How do I switch to an auction format while still having values for the keepers?

Do I let teams bid on keepers but give the owner final bid? Do I give each player their average auction value? Do I come up with a value for each draft round?

I'd like to switch my league over, but how to switch keepers, and future keeper rules are what I think would stop the transition. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

 

[Captain Hook]

I would like to switch my league from a standard draft keeper league to an auction format. Right now we give up a pick two rounds higher than where they picked the previous year (no keepers from rds 1-3). How do I switch to an auction format while still having values for the keepers?Do I let teams bid on keepers but give the owner final bid? Do I give each player their average auction value? Do I come up with a value for each draft round? I'd like to switch my league over, but how to switch keepers, and future keeper rules are what I think would stop the transition. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Really putting the cart in front of the horse and asking the horse to push.....butThe only REAL way to convert is to convertSo first question - you say YOU would like to switch.....What about the rest of the league?IF everyone agrees the the easiest, fairest way is to start all over this year as an auction league(but I suspect you will not be able to get everyone to agree to that)

 

[jswalker1981]

That's why I asking for any suggestions that let me transition to an auction league that will still let us have our previous keepers. Some guys want to make the move to auction, but want to keep players they specifically drafted to be kept.

 

[Jersey35]

That's why I asking for any suggestions that let me transition to an auction league that will still let us have our previous keepers. Some guys want to make the move to auction, but want to keep players they specifically drafted to be kept.

There's probably no *perfect* answer to this, but an easy way would be to establish the round they were drafted in. Count the number of draft rounds you used in your last draft (say 20, for simplicity). Work out a formula that feels right for the value of each round - something like 1=20, 2=19, 3=18, 4=17... 19=2, 20=1. If you assume free agents are worth $1, then a 20th round draft choice should be worth at least $2. So take that $2 and multiply it by the value you've assigned to each round, i.e 1st rounders are worth $40, whereas 20th rounders would be kept for $2. So assign those values to the players based on what round they were drafted in - or if keeping a player has previously "cost" a team a future pick, then base the salary on what that pick would be.

 

[Jeff Pasquino]

I would like to switch my league from a standard draft keeper league to an auction format. Right now we give up a pick two rounds higher than where they picked the previous year (no keepers from rds 1-3). How do I switch to an auction format while still having values for the keepers?Do I let teams bid on keepers but give the owner final bid? Do I give each player their average auction value? Do I come up with a value for each draft round? I'd like to switch my league over, but how to switch keepers, and future keeper rules are what I think would stop the transition. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Use their VBD from last year and a formula.For example, look here:http://subscribers.footballguys.com/players/historical-rb-2010.phpThere's your Top 23 RBs and their VBD values. Take those and the QB, WR and TE values and add them up. That's Step 1.2. Now take your league size (roster size x # of teams). 3. Determine the auction budget you'd like to use. Say $200 (Bigger is better, but stay in $1 increments).4. Determine the league auction budget (auction budget x # of teams).5. Determine the "extra" auction bucks for your league. That is the league auction budget minus the league size.So as an example - 20 roster spots, 12 teams. That's a 240 spot league. If you want $200 a team, that's $2400. Subtract $2400-240 and you get $2260 "extra" bucks (if every player was $1, rosters would be $20 each - so every team has $180 extra bucks).6. More math. Take the total of all four positional VBDs (QB ,RB, WR and TE) and divide that total into your "extra" auction bucks to get the VBD dollar value. Another example - let's say the VBD adds up to 1130. That would mean every VBD point is worth $2 ($2260 in first example / 1130).7. Final step - Take each keeper player's VBD from last year and use this formula:VBD value / VBD dollar value + $1 (since every player must cost $1, you have to add $1 to the extra value).Final example: Adrian Peterson's VBD is 101. Let's say the value is $2 as we have above. ADP's keeper value is thus 101/2 + 1 = $51.

 

[Jersey35]

I would like to switch my league from a standard draft keeper league to an auction format. Right now we give up a pick two rounds higher than where they picked the previous year (no keepers from rds 1-3). How do I switch to an auction format while still having values for the keepers?Do I let teams bid on keepers but give the owner final bid? Do I give each player their average auction value? Do I come up with a value for each draft round? I'd like to switch my league over, but how to switch keepers, and future keeper rules are what I think would stop the transition. Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Use their VBD from last year and a formula.For example, look here:http://subscribers.footballguys.com/players/historical-rb-2010.phpThere's your Top 23 RBs and their VBD values. Take those and the QB, WR and TE values and add them up. That's Step 1.2. Now take your league size (roster size x # of teams). 3. Determine the auction budget you'd like to use. Say $200 (Bigger is better, but stay in $1 increments).4. Determine the league auction budget (auction budget x # of teams).5. Determine the "extra" auction bucks for your league. That is the league auction budget minus the league size.So as an example - 20 roster spots, 12 teams. That's a 240 spot league. If you want $200 a team, that's $2400. Subtract $2400-240 and you get $2260 "extra" bucks (if every player was $1, rosters would be $20 each - so every team has $180 extra bucks).6. More math. Take the total of all four positional VBDs (QB ,RB, WR and TE) and divide that total into your "extra" auction bucks to get the VBD dollar value. Another example - let's say the VBD adds up to 1130. That would mean every VBD point is worth $2 ($2260 in first example / 1130).7. Final step - Take each keeper player's VBD from last year and use this formula:VBD value / VBD dollar value + $1 (since every player must cost $1, you have to add $1 to the extra value).Final example: Adrian Peterson's VBD is 101. Let's say the value is $2 as we have above. ADP's keeper value is thus 101/2 + 1 = $51.

This is, of course, the right way to do it - and is also useful as a strategy for determining what you should bid on players in your upcoming auction draft - simply use your projections for players' stats in 2011 instead of your 2010 year-end stats.