Fantasy Football Auction Drafts: What I learned
The fantasy football season is coming to an end once again, and after finishing my first-ever auction draft league, I’m here to tell you what I learned and thought of the draft format.
I can’t believe I’ve only been at Vendetta for just under a year now, and with the fantasy football year almost over, I have some very strong opinions regarding the auction draft.
This year was the first time I have ever done an auction draft in fantasy football, I have always been a snake draft type of guy.
I would say I am a strong fantasy player. I have finished each of my leagues in the top four almost every year that I have played fantasy (10-12 man leagues). By the way, I’m finishing in the top four this year. You could say I know my way around football. I mean it might be my profession in the future, so I hope so.
But I never even thought of doing an auction draft. My team may have caught the injury bug, but it happens. This season I bought Austin Ekeler, Nick Chubb, Mark Andrews, Deshaun Watson and Justin Jefferson. All players who ended up missing a ton of games. But I adapted to the salary cap and made some moves. One of them was trading away Justin Jefferson to James Herrick. Side note: I absolutely fleeced him on this trade. After all, I changed my name to team injury-prone by the end of the season.
Injuries are unpredictable in football, and it happens. Look at Florida State with Jordan Travis, it sucks, but you have to deal with it. But I won’t get into that in this article. We’re talking about auction drafts today.
As said before, I have never done an auction draft in my life, and it was news to me right before the draft for the Vendetta league that we were doing one. We had $250 to spend on 20 some players for our roster. You had to be smart with your money because if you spent all the money during the draft, you couldn’t pick up any players.
I gotta say: I liked that idea behind the salary cap and managing your money and players. It seemed like you really had to be conscious of your decisions when drafting and picking up players in free agency. Also, if you were to make a trade, the salary cap would have to work too. It made you feel like a general manager.
But, when there are pros, there are always cons. The downside of the draft was the length. Oh my gosh, did the draft take long–almost three hours long. It just felt like it was dragged on. But, outside of the time, I really didn’t think there were any cons.
I wouldn’t do an auction draft every year, but I would certainly recommend that everyone does it at least once.
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