The mullet is not new to fantasy leagues, and he usually holds his own. But, this is the first year one of the leagues (NBA) has gone auction. Any advice? Ed O. keep out......
It's Blazer related, Mr. Police Board Man Who Always Tries To Police The Board But Can't Because He Can't. I will be drafting Blazers, yo.
What good would a Mullet be if it weren't for a genuine offense? So, as I understand the auction-draft, each team is allotted $200 to draft players.
I've never heard of Basketball auction, but it's a great format for football. Essentially, if you want to spend half your money to get the one player you covet, then you can. My recommendation would be to target players who aren't particularly popular (think an Andrew Bogut) that throw up really good numbers. If you know your friends are big fans of a specific player or team, they'll probably be willing to overpay for them. It's a lot like poker. You want others to overspend and you want to get good deals. As in any fantasy draft, I'd recommend that you take care of PG and C positions first. There are quite a few talent PF eligible players and simply a ton of quality SG/SF players (pretty much one per team) that you can probably get for a good value. But depth at the PG and (especially!) C positions is big. If you don't get a top 5 center than you're not looking at a exciting player there. And yes I know what I'm talking about. I used to write on some fantasy basketball blogs, specializing in H2H leagues (I don't have nearly the sure win strategy for Roto as I do for H2H...it's easy to figure out a strategy for the H2H leagues that wins).
Thanks for the advice...so, it isn't worth it going after a Durant or James? Granted, in fantasy sports, I guess a team of average to good players will perform better than a team filled with bench players w/ only one star. Ed O. would never peak. I've known him for over 30 years...btw, that pic of the girlies is really off the charts...
I tried that last year and ended up spending about 140 of my 200 points (which in your case would be $$) on Lebron/Gasol. Had to pick up players for cheap and ended up with a really really badly balanced team. Top two teams were teams that didn't spend over 30 points on a single player, no superstars just really good solid players.
The best strategy in an auction draft is to divide your $200 by each stat category to begin with so Points get $20, Rebounds $20, etc. Then using the total number of starting players you'll have multiplied by the number of managers, you know the range that each stat category will go down. So Points might go from #1 with 2,500 pts to the 8th starter (for say 10 managers) or #80 has like 1,000 pts. So now you have your range in pts for your $20 and you usually would want to assign values for those 80 slots so they total $20. You have incremental ratings (instead of straight-line) so if you have a guy like Durant scoring say 2,500 pts at #1, but the next best is at say 1,250, then #2 - #80 are all clustered closely together, then in that case you would give Durant $10 and the other 79 guys would divide the remaining $10. Obviously that's an exaggeration, but that's the weighted average you want to give the guys on top so represent the value they have over guys that are all getting 20ppg and don't really matter much over one another. So then you do this theory for each stat category (I was using 10 stat categories in my example) and once you've assigned them all, you have your true value for each player given your league depth and categories. Then you simply take value during the draft. If guys are paying $70 for Durant and you have him at $47, you simply got to pass. At some point you want to spend just enough to use most all of your money on starters since those are generally the guys getting stats every day, so you don't want to take money home with you, and have to pay for someone, but look for the value. Look for that Dirk at $35 where you have him valued at $32 for you money and everyone else has taken a top 8 guy and you need to get yours at some point. Not sure I explained that great (it's a math mind thing). But take it for what it is. Goal is to maximize your knowledge of who has value and what mistakes others are making by using up their payroll on other players and leaving you good value out there to get incredible value in your 3rd-8th guys.
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