When will auctions overtake drafting as the standard for FFB? (1 Viewer)

[Rovers]

What Hook said. I'll add that sometimes, a draft is nice in that you don't have to pay attention constantly for 3 hours. Mainly, though, it's that the majority of FF players are less sophisticated that what you see on this board, and an auction is too complicated. That, and auctioning in person is tougher than a draft.

I have to chuckle at the auction folks who think dynasty and IDP leagues are somehow "less sophisticated". These types of leagues are plenty sophisticated. 40 man rosters with IDP is probably more "sophisticated" than an offense only auction. That is, if the defensive scoring system is strong enough to start taking stud LB's in the 4th and 5th rounds of a redraft and there are 9 IDP starters. I get a kick out of "How the world should work" opinions. Thankfully, simple redrafts, keeper leagues, dynasty, IDP and auctions are all out there. Each has it's own appeal... and it's own shortcomings. No one system is intristically better than any other.

 

[King of the Wolfies]

i love auctions and really have no interest in snake drafts any more. for those that like pick trading, you still can trade nomination picks. being able to control who gets nominated is a HUGE advantage in auctions. you can get some great bargains if you can get people to over spend. players that might have minimal value from a snake draft might have big value as a $1 bench player with potential.

 

[Ysatnaf_Gnik]

What Hook said. I'll add that sometimes, a draft is nice in that you don't have to pay attention constantly for 3 hours. Mainly, though, it's that the majority of FF players are less sophisticated that what you see on this board, and an auction is too complicated. That, and auctioning in person is tougher than a draft.

I have to chuckle at the auction folks who think dynasty and IDP leagues are somehow "less sophisticated".

I don't think he said anything about Dynasty or IDP being less sophisticated....Our league is an Auction with a 53-man rosters + 8 PS spots, full IDP, Dynasty, Contracts and Salary Cap. IMO, this what FF is all about.

 

[FUBAR]

What Hook said. I'll add that sometimes, a draft is nice in that you don't have to pay attention constantly for 3 hours. Mainly, though, it's that the majority of FF players are less sophisticated that what you see on this board, and an auction is too complicated. That, and auctioning in person is tougher than a draft.

I have to chuckle at the auction folks who think dynasty and IDP leagues are somehow "less sophisticated". These types of leagues are plenty sophisticated. 40 man rosters with IDP is probably more "sophisticated" than an offense only auction. That is, if the defensive scoring system is strong enough to start taking stud LB's in the 4th and 5th rounds of a redraft and there are 9 IDP starters.

I get a kick out of "How the world should work" opinions. Thankfully, simple redrafts, keeper leagues, dynasty, IDP and auctions are all out there. Each has it's own appeal... and it's own shortcomings. No one system is intristically better than any other.

Are you suggesting that a dynasty/IDP league either can't have auctions or it wouldn't add anything? I agree with the rest, there is a place for all types.

 

[FUBAR]

I'll echo the I've done both and like both but adding one thing. Also I didn't read every post so someone may have already mentioned it.I love my auction redraft and that got me to do an auction dynasty. I came away underwhelmed...With the four dynasty drafts that I've done in regular fashion there has always been a large amount of trading in draft. I think that is the absolute most fun part of fantasy football for me. Playing GM and making the moves in the draft to secure your favorite future studs for the next X years is a blast. Also do you build for a run this year or trade down to pick up a first round rookie pick next year?I missed that when I did the auction dynasty. Although I still had a ton of fun because I love auctions, I'm starting to think that future dynasties will continue to be a plain ole draft for me.

If you do a traditional Dynasty League where you keep players forever until you trade them or they retire then I would agree that you should keep a traditional draft with no serpentine. An auction in that case would be artificial. If you do a Dynasty League with salary caps, fixed contract lengths, blind bid waivers, etc. then auction is the only way to do it. When I started my Dynasty League 7 years ago I worried that weak teams early on would lose interest without a reasonable amount of player turnover so I opted for the latter type. With the salary cap it maintains a real competitive balance and the auction and blind bid waivers set a fair market price for the players. Only sharks can pick up solid starters a year early for the salary minimum. I did keep a traditional draft for rookies with a set pay scale just to give the worst teams a chance at improving but we do it right after the NFL draft so you still don't know if they'll make camp or not which makes it interesting.

I started a league this off season which has a rookie auction incorporated, I'm curious to see how it works out. No contract lengths but escalating salaries. The rookie draft certainly helps the weaker teams while really my only concern about the rookie auction is whether the cap becomes more problematic for the weaker teams trying to get the better rookie, thus paying more for them. Taxi squad will help that some, instead of having a highly priced rookie on the roster, they can sit on the TS for a year or two before they either are worth rostering or dropped. The salary cap is the same for all teams but the weaker get more rookie auction $ to use. Should be fun although the in long run this concept could prove to be a mistake, in any event it will be interesting.