I'm still in the "nominate guys I don't want" group. Getting money from my opponents for players I won't go high on makes sense. Studs and duds doesn't work for me. I like to budget for each position and go from there. I love kelce, he has a huge advantage over the #2 TE. But his price, wow. Id rather have a $20 TE and a $40 wr/RB than $ 60 for travis
We believe it’s still a fine strategy to nominate guys you don’t want especially if you are going for value and not studs & duds. The only issue with that is, if there is another person in your league that has that same strategy as you then you could be bid up on your value players that won’t be values anymore. Every auction league is a little different based on how aggressive your other league owners are, our advice would be to stay flexible and flow with the draft.
I think it depends on what type of owners are in your league. I used to implement that strategy to get money out of the other owner's pockets early, but what I noticed was that when I went to nominate my preferred players, they tended to go for more than their value because it was later in the draft, there's always 2 or 3 owners who still had a lot of cash (14 team league), owners were afraid on missing out on filling their roster/missing out on players in a certain tier and they already saw elite players at that position go earlier in the draft, so they get desperate/aggressive later in the draft. Maybe that's just my league, though. Regardless, hope you have a great fantasy football season!
@@Se7enDueceJoe has this strategy for the longest time and after experiencing as much as he did, he decided to pivot because now values becomes expensive!
Lol why would you pay $20 when a $1 TE could possibly score as much as your mediocre TE, that has no chance of catching Kelce. You’ve got to pay to play.
Good show guys. Always good to talk about auction strategies because the drafts are so different than snake drafts. I have three auction drafts coming up. Some great reminders here.
Thanks JT! We agree that auction strategies are good to talk about, since there isn't much auction content out there. Every auction draft will be very different! The different strategies is one of the reasons we prefer auction to snake drafts. Good luck on your upcoming drafts!
Pretty good show, Boys. This is the best Auction strategy: I want to drain the pockets of other managers as much as possible early, so I nominate QB's and other high cost players that I am not going to pay top dollar for. Never nominate guys you do not want like Nelson Agohlor - you get stuck with them. Obviously you have to pay up for ballers and you should because there are only X amount of high scorers and so many slots you can play each week. Spend your $60 for Jefferson or Chase and save money on RB's. WR's less likely to go down due to injury for a long time. Every team is going to run the ball 50% of the time, so a solid back up for a decent team should always be on your radar after getting your horses. Last year, I murdered by picking up Jamaal Williams in week 3. The Lions had momentum and I knee that Vegas was offering even odds for Swift or Penny being the first starting RB on IR. Stacking is not smart unless you can steal on player. Instead, you should target your studs then get a qb with multiple great receivers. Burrow,Tua, and Trevor Lawrence did well last year because of this- Engram had a great year vs a 2nd great receiver. My 1st place teams last year all had Kelce. He went for $61 yesterday in a draft and that is a bit high for his risk curve due to age. Same for CMC. I LOVE these guys but dropping almost 30% of your budget on a high risk for injury player...is risky.
At the end of drafts, you definitely don't want to continue nominating players you don't want because you could waste a roster spot on them for a $1 bid We tend to agree with a lot of what you said! We definitely would advise not chasing a stack and only if it comes at a value! We would slightly disagree with you about Travis Kelce. He has defied the odds for so long and the points above replacement value that he has compared to other positions is arguably the highest. You can make an argument that $60 is more well spent for Travis Kelce vs Ja'Marr Chase.
@frontofficepros I wish I could claim to be a genius or something, but all the kids spent their lunch money, and I had $16 left and was sopping it up with 4 spots to go. Probably could have gotten Lamar vs Lawrence but, you never know how things will work out.
First year playing dynasty, ans it's an auction draft.. any tips? I'm clueless as to what I should do.. should I play it safe and punt on this year and just draft young high ceiling players?
Our suggestion would be to target building block players that are young and have a high ceiling. Some examples of target players would be Garrett Wilson, Chris Olave, Bijan Robinson, Jahmyr Gibbs, etc. Those players will cost you most of your budget but it will create a strong foundation for you that should allow you to have a larger window to compete and possibly win a championship.
@@frontofficepros I definitely will. My draft is coming up in a couple weeks. I'm trying to cram study as much as I can. I was thinking about spending most my money on justin herbert and t law (it's a 2 qb league) and then studd WRs, olave, Wilson, ridley, and really only drafting cheap rbs, and if I do good this year, great, but I'll be set up next year to draft a good young RB coming into the league
We think you have a very interesting strategy. By drafting the likes of Herbert and T-Law you have a strong floor every week. Just need to focus on going for breakouts which we believe the guys you mentioned are (Wilson, Olave, and Ridley) @@peglegwally
I’m in a super flex, does that change your strategy significantly? Usually top 5-7 QBs are as expensive as the top WR/RBs. My plan is to go for double stack with any combo of Lawrence/Ridley, Geoff/St. Brown, Cousins/Jefferson paired with Lamar/Andrews, Hurts/Geodert so I have at least 1 high upside passing and 1 rushing with WR and TE 1 covered. If it gets to rich maybe Fields/Moore as a fall back. Might be spending a little to much on 1/4th my lineup but I like having the studs over the quantity, Thoughts?
The strategy definitely changes significantly because the value of the QB position goes WAY up. We would definitely recommend at least drafting one QB1 for your roster. As for your specific example, we tend to agree about studs over quantity, however, we think you are focusing too much on getting a double stack. Stacks are a great strategy in DFS because if they hit on a given week you'll do well in a tournament. Every league is different in an auction league so you could be able to pull this off but unless you get the 2nd stack for a value we wouldn't recommend it. If you are dead set on doing this strategy, we would recommend going house money and draft players who could breakout with Lawrence/Ridley and Lamar/Andrews. We do like your fallback option with Fields/DJ Moore.
So sounds like you do more of the value approach when it comes to auction? It makes total sense to clear out that money if you have no intention on going for the high cost players
