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GAF Justice League (F2P Fantasy Football) 2017 |OT| 28-3
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Captain Zyrain
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Hopefully someone will show up for a last minute entry.. But it is what it is.
I've had to run a ghost team in other leagues in the past. I wish I saw this earlier.. But I'll see if anyone I know here wants to participates.
Did my first mock auction draft today.. Holy crap its way different. Glad I did though so I can sort of figure out what to do tomorrow.
How does waivers etc work during the year? Is it based of money we save from the draft? Or is there a new pool of $$$ to work with during the season?
I've had to run a ghost team in other leagues in the past. I wish I saw this earlier.. But I'll see if anyone I know here wants to participates.
Did my first mock auction draft today.. Holy crap its way different. Glad I did though so I can sort of figure out what to do tomorrow.
How does waivers etc work during the year? Is it based of money we save from the draft? Or is there a new pool of $$$ to work with during the season?
I love auction, it involves a different mindset.
New pool of money. $100-200 depending on the league. Usually, it is $100. You bid on the player through wires. Whatever amount you want.
The Outsider
Member
I can transfer control of a team after the draft, if necessary. It's not ideal, but it is better than the alternative. I think we actually ended up doing just that last year.
As far as the waivers...
Yep. New pool of money. $100 for the season. Use it wisely!
Captain Zyrain
Member
Awesome.. Thanks.. Figured as much, but wasn't sure if you needed to hold back any draft money for the season.
Looking forward to it!
Looking forward to it!
The Outsider
Member
13 right now. My team (Cap's Kooky Quartet) is a placeholder. Will be transferring commissioner tools over to KingV and then my team will get removed, bringing it down to an even 12.
Ahh ok! Thanks.
The Outsider
Member
All leagues are officially set up! Thank you everyone for registering on time and making this a smooth process.
And here's your official notice:
DRAFT IS TODAY.
AUGUST 27TH. 5PM EDT.
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.
Oh, and uh... good luck!
And here's your official notice:
DRAFT IS TODAY.
AUGUST 27TH. 5PM EDT.
BE THERE OR BE SQUARE.
Oh, and uh... good luck!
You're not the only one. This is gonna be fun.
Advice:
Have a strategy: There's two main ways I think about auction drafts - Stars and Scrubs and Balanced. Stars and Scrubs is spending a ton of money on 3 or so players and then building around them a team of 3-5 dollar players. With this you may spend 180 dollars to get David Johnson, Mike Evans, and A.J. Green but now you have 12 roster spots and 20 dollars to fill them. A dollar for kickers/defends leaves you with 10 spots at 18 dollars for an average of 1.8 dollars per player. These are just whatever numbers thrown out. Balanced is going "Okay, I'll spend 120 on skill positions (WR/RB), 15~ on a QB (This is Matt Ryan territory), and fill out the rest". This leaves you with 65 dollars to grab some talent for your bench so you aren't dependent on a few guys every week.
Know who you're going for and how much you wanna spend: If you're going for, say, Julio Jones and he usually goes for 60 dollars you can say "I'll go as high as 71 on Julio". You may go a bit over but know when to bow out. You're not gonna get every player you want.
Don't always nominate a player you actually want: If it's your turn to nominate and, say, Miller is still at play, who you want on your team, you may want to nominate someone like Isiah Crowell to get an RB spot/money off the table. This is especially effective early on when people have a ton of money and are willing to overspend a bit.
Don't be afraid to spend: You may think you spent a few bucks too much on a player but it's better to overspend by 6 bucks than to leave the draft with 15 dollars left over that could've went to upgrading a position.
Read the room: Some people value WRs over RB, some will wait forever on QB, some will scramble and overspend on top QBs, what have you. Look at the teams they have so far, it may be a player and you with 90 bucks left over that's the most in the league ATM but they've got 4 RBs on their team so you throw out an RB you want and they're less likely to bid.
DO NOT BID ON A PLAYER UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY WANT THEM!!!!: This gets people all the time. Somebody is being drafted way below the dollar amount you think they should, let's say Gordon is going for 35 when usually he goes for 50, you may want to bid to drive up the cost on the owner that wants him and to get a few more bucks out of them. You don't really want Gordon, you don't believe in him or whatever, but you don't want him to go that low. Well the bid is now 42 and you're in the lead and the other owner stops bidding. You're now stuck with a player you didn't want just because you wanted to drive up the price a bit.
Have a strategy: There's two main ways I think about auction drafts - Stars and Scrubs and Balanced. Stars and Scrubs is spending a ton of money on 3 or so players and then building around them a team of 3-5 dollar players. With this you may spend 180 dollars to get David Johnson, Mike Evans, and A.J. Green but now you have 12 roster spots and 20 dollars to fill them. A dollar for kickers/defends leaves you with 10 spots at 18 dollars for an average of 1.8 dollars per player. These are just whatever numbers thrown out. Balanced is going "Okay, I'll spend 120 on skill positions (WR/RB), 15~ on a QB (This is Matt Ryan territory), and fill out the rest". This leaves you with 65 dollars to grab some talent for your bench so you aren't dependent on a few guys every week.
Know who you're going for and how much you wanna spend: If you're going for, say, Julio Jones and he usually goes for 60 dollars you can say "I'll go as high as 71 on Julio". You may go a bit over but know when to bow out. You're not gonna get every player you want.
Don't always nominate a player you actually want: If it's your turn to nominate and, say, Miller is still at play, who you want on your team, you may want to nominate someone like Isiah Crowell to get an RB spot/money off the table. This is especially effective early on when people have a ton of money and are willing to overspend a bit.
Don't be afraid to spend: You may think you spent a few bucks too much on a player but it's better to overspend by 6 bucks than to leave the draft with 15 dollars left over that could've went to upgrading a position.
Read the room: Some people value WRs over RB, some will wait forever on QB, some will scramble and overspend on top QBs, what have you. Look at the teams they have so far, it may be a player and you with 90 bucks left over that's the most in the league ATM but they've got 4 RBs on their team so you throw out an RB you want and they're less likely to bid.
DO NOT BID ON A PLAYER UNLESS YOU ACTUALLY WANT THEM!!!!: This gets people all the time. Somebody is being drafted way below the dollar amount you think they should, let's say Gordon is going for 35 when usually he goes for 50, you may want to bid to drive up the cost on the owner that wants him and to get a few more bucks out of them. You don't really want Gordon, you don't believe in him or whatever, but you don't want him to go that low. Well the bid is now 42 and you're in the lead and the other owner stops bidding. You're now stuck with a player you didn't want just because you wanted to drive up the price a bit.
Yeah, it's fantastic, long as they don't bow out and leave you holding the bag lol.
The Outsider
Member
We've still a got bit of time, so I'd honestly recommend doing at least a round or two of a mock auction draft to at least get familiar with how it works. It's very different than your usual snake draft, but I had a great experience with it last year.
The Outsider
Member
200 for the draft. Don't worry about saving any money by the end, the money only works toward your draft.
Everyone will get a fresh 100 dollars for bidding on free agents for the duration of the season.
youngplaya21
Member
Draft starts in less than 30 minutes, and the draft room is now open! Good luck to everyone!
The Outsider
Member
We're live! Good luck all!
cr_blah_blah
Member
Our illustrious Champion, Kelik, is the only one who couldn't make the JLP draft. Big money being thrown around. *eyes the $71 I somehow spent on Bell*
cr_blah_blah
Member
Kelika Bot is ravaging our budgets.
I did trying to play for hunt, Only thing I'm unhappy with is my RB2.
The Outsider
Member
Look like all leagues have concluded their drafts.
Thank you to everyone for participating. Here's to another fantastic season of football!
Thank you to everyone for participating. Here's to another fantastic season of football!
FUBAR McDangles
Member
All three leagues share any discussion in this thread, yeah?
youngplaya21
Member
I don't feel too confident about the WR's on my team at all but overall my team is alright. No real room for error though unfortunately
kylecoley182
Banned
I have a better team than last year !
Rawr Its Ry
Member
I had a vague plan going into the draft. It ended up worse T_T
Changed my team name to FrankGoreWaifuPillow as well.
Changed my team name to FrankGoreWaifuPillow as well.
Captain Zyrain
Member
For some reason I bidded $45 on Elliot when I was joking to everyone at home that no one should bet that for him.. and I won.
My one big mistake. And I ended up with $18 or something left over. Not my best work, but it was my first real auction draft.. its exciting! Thankfully ended up with McFadden for $1 so hopefully I'm covered.
My one big mistake. And I ended up with $18 or something left over. Not my best work, but it was my first real auction draft.. its exciting! Thankfully ended up with McFadden for $1 so hopefully I'm covered.
The Outsider
Member
Mhm! Helps to specify what league you're talking about that, for those that don't pay attention.
McFadden went for 20+ in GJLP. Madness.
Captain Zyrain
Member
Wow! This was in GJLP: The Revenege. Aka 3. Buncha n00bs!
Crazymoogle
Member
The 10 team thing really blew up my auction values. Totally forgot it wasn't 12. Now I have a bunch of could be good players, no room for waivers and I left a bunch of money on the table :lol
Captain Zyrain
Member
Gah!! I didn't notice till just now they dropped the teams to 10. All my mock drafts were 12-teams.
Note to self.. Don't drink and draft as much. This was my 2nd draft of the day.
Oof.
The Outsider
Member
Sorry, guys, I think my announcement about 10 teams might have been buried at the bottom of last page. Didn't think to reiterate for the draft today.
Hustler
Member
I drafted McFadden for $6, 9th pick overall.....
Rawr Its Ry
Member
I (FrankGoreWaifuPillow) am open to trades in regards to either on my QBs in GJLP. Looking for a rb specifically but open to anything.
GLJ2 had a few people not show up. The auto draft were animals. I'm still giggling over how travis Kelce went for $40 as the auto drafters bid him up over each other.
I always end up trying to price enforce and blowing too much early by doing it. It sort of worked out this year as I ended up with with David Johnson for $68... even though my plan was to load up on three or four RB2/3's and hope their roles expanded through the year.
I also ended up with too many WRs. Last year, trading in GJL3 didn't work too well, I think because everybody approached trades very zero sum because for the most part we don't actually know each other.
Edit: ^ good luck trading QBs. They are usually terrible trade bait because the pool is so deep
I always end up trying to price enforce and blowing too much early by doing it. It sort of worked out this year as I ended up with with David Johnson for $68... even though my plan was to load up on three or four RB2/3's and hope their roles expanded through the year.
I also ended up with too many WRs. Last year, trading in GJL3 didn't work too well, I think because everybody approached trades very zero sum because for the most part we don't actually know each other.
Edit: ^ good luck trading QBs. They are usually terrible trade bait because the pool is so deep
Honestly, if you are sharp with waivers, the landscape will change a lot in the first 2 weeks. There's dudes that are better than expected, that we don't know about yet, and guys that seemed like decent bets that are obviously not going to be used at all.
Im winning gl2 easily
Rad Shadow
Banned
Gl2
The bidding for hunt was intense, and he ended up being my most expensive player. Ha
Fun times.
The bidding for hunt was intense, and he ended up being my most expensive player. Ha
Fun times.
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