Any ol’ time is alright by me.
I’ve set the draft day and time to Monday, Sept. 2 (Labor Day) at 3:30 PM CDT.
The Astros play the Reds starting at 3:10 PM, so I figure we can draft as we watch the game.
Also, if you haven’t already, please let me know if you prefer our usual pick draft format using snake order, or would like to try an auction style format. For now, I have it set to a pick format.
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I’d love to do an auction
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I’m in on the auction. It was very entertaining, but will roll with Snake as well.
I don’t know what an auction draft is. Is there a guy yelling gibberish while escalating the price until only one bidder is left?
That’s just Chuck shouting in spanish
Will an auction draft do damage to my already woeful preparation? IE: can you autodraft?
I’ve never done an auction draft before but I’m game to try it if that’s what the people want
Either draft is fine, but in my experience the auction draft offers considerably more opportunity for shit talking and mockery. Whether that results in a plus or a minus is a matter of personal preference.
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An auction draft is where each of us has a set draft budget, say $200 (fake dollars) and owners take turns nominating players to bid on. Once a player is nominated, anyone has the ability to bid and win the player.
For example, let’s say Christian McCaffrey is nominated. The bidding starts and owners will keep typing the appropriate section on Yahoo’s draft tool the dollar amount they want to bid. If someone bids $50, you have to bid $51 or higher within a few seconds to beat that bid. Whomever wins him has that amount deducted from their auction dollar budget to fill out the rest of their roster. So, if you have a $200 draft budget and win McCaffrey for $60, you have $140 to use to win players and build the rest of your team during the draft.
Basically, you use your draft budget to bid on players and fill out your roster.
Yeah, that’s not gonna be my first choice of draft types.
Like I said, we can do either and I do not care, but the auction draft is way more fun.
One year in one of my leagues the most annoying dude in there had to auto draft and, predictably and annoyingly, he ended up with the best team. So if the consensus is to do the auction, you can sit it out by choice or by logistics and end up just fine, but it is absolutely more fun. And, like I also said, you get to ridicule how much everyone else is paying for all their players, and that’s hard to put a price on.
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Yes, you can auto draft and set up your maximum bids for players in advance. From my experience, if you don’t set your maximum bids on players in advance, Yahoo ends up overpaying for a couple of really good players and leaving little money to fill out the renainder of your roster during the draft.
That’s fair, Marty. I proposed the idea to gauge the interest from everyone because Jared brought it up. We will not implement it unless a strong majority wants to try it.
I’d prefer it stays snake as well. Reminds me too much of baseball drafting which I was never good at.
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Since we don’t have a strong majority wanting to try an auction draft, we will continue with our usual pick format with a snake format.
No experience in auction drafting but open to trying. Snake is all I’ve ever done.
No prob at all. Thanks for the consideration.
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Thank you for your feedback, @Tralfaz. This discussion is about the draft format for the OWA Fantasy Football league. Would you like to play in the league this season?
We are going to use our traditional snake order draft pick format and the draft is on Sept. 2 (Labor Day) at 3:30 Central time.