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Auction superflex values12/15/2023 ![]() ![]() The first thing I did was to graph some historical data. Let’s take a look at the value curve for my favorite auction format: $200 budget, 12 teams, 20 players per team, non-Superflex PPR. The curve will start out at a high price but quickly decrease initially until it becomes nearly flat somewhere around the halfway point of ADP. The shape of this curve is similar regardless of what sort of league you’re in. What is the value curve? Very simply, it’s the relationship between ADP and price on a graph where ADP is the x-axis and price is the y-axis. These curves exist for every league, whether anyone involved realizes it or not. The core of any good auction strategy is understanding the value curve for your auction. Part I: Understanding Auction Pricing The Value Curve Therefore, good preparation is critical to ensure you walk away from the action like this: Of course, with maximum flexibility, the downside is that there are also a lot more ways to screw up your team than in a traditional draft. In these drafts, fantasy gamers are powerless to stop their opponents from rostering the very players you need to build your best team. The best thing about auctions is they are a far more exciting and fun way to fill your roster with players than a boring old snake draft where you spend most of your time crossing players off a list and waiting helplessly and impatiently for your turn to pick again. The real key to winning auctions is to maximize the flexibility this format gives you while targeting your auction budget in a way that will maximize the firepower on your roster when the auction’s done and the season starts. You’ll be a better bidder when you go into the auction realizing that your diminishing budget will limit which players you can roster as the auction proceeds. So while lots of auction strategy guides will assert you have access to every player, that’s only partially true. In fact, one simple way to think about auctions is to think of them as a draft where everyone has the ability to “force” a trade to get the players they want, but this trading power diminishes as they spend their budget. If you’re willing to spend what it takes to land him, you can get him. You can absolutely ensure Jefferson ends up on your roster in an auction. In a non-superflex draft, unless you’re allowed to trade picks, you simply won’t have access to Justin Jefferson if you have the 10 th pick. However, in an auction draft you gain far more control than ever before in what players you can access. Auction Draft vs Snake DraftĪs with any other draft, if you don’t pick the right players you won’t win the league. This is winning the psychological battle that takes place in every auction, whether the participants realize it or not. In Part IV, we get to the REALLY fun part. I’ll show you how to handle each of these aspects along with some general tips to use throughout the auction. Then in Part III, we’ll cover the four main sections of every auction (Pre-Game, Early Action, Midgame Strategy, and the Endgame). ![]()
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