With football season starting today, I decided to do an espn auction draft and share with everypony how exactly you are suppose to do an auction draft and win your league easily....a few starting points for an auction draft you start with $200 and you bid on players the pony that ends up with the highest bid ends up with that player its really not that difficult....from my experience these drafts go similarly to snake drafts in that you just take what people give you pretty much, but you have the ability to form a super team in an auction draft that you are just not capable of in a snake draft....I will be writing in this blog during the draft so will go through my thought process on making a dominant team...
I had the second nomination and nominated 3 kickers the first 3 times it came around to me....all of them went to somepony else for $2
I got Adrian Peterson for $63 which was quite a bit but after watching the first couple of picks go by these ponies showed that they were all willing to pay a lot for a player so I had to make a move imo
I then got Arian Foster for $50 thanks to his hamstring problems, which is less than what I feel I should have got him for making up for the 3 or 4 that I over spent on Peterson easily
Next I got Peyton Hillis for $24, I really didn't want to spend that much money in this spot...but Hillis was the last real running back that I saw left on the board and his bye week fit in with Peterson and Foster...
haha...somepony just accidently bid $113 for Schaub (he already has Vick)
Needing Wide Receivers at this point and with not many good ones left I got Dez Bryant for $17 and then got Roy Williams the next pick for $5 followed by Brandon Lloyd for $8.
I then got my 4th running back in Cedric Benson for $11...and now planning on saving up some money to make sure that I can get Matt Ryan
Missed out on Matt Ryan he went for $15 when he was projected at $10 by some guy that I guess wanted him as a backup
Looks like Joe Flacco is my starter for now...got him for $1 and have the highest maximum bid at this point...which means that I also got Marshawn Lynch and Mark Ingram for $4 after that..
I finished with Steve Smith, Lance Kendricks, San Francisco Def, Billy Cundiff, Daniel Thomas, and Kevin Kolb
now there are a couple of little tricks that I did in the draft to help get my position there was somepony that didn't show up which means they auto bid up to the projected value this makes it harder to get steals in the draft so one of the ways is try to dump players on them so that their roster fills up and you can get steals later (they ended up with $103 leftover)
Another was looking at who they already had on their team...for example I let DeSean Jackson go for $20 to a team that was expressing interest in Matt Ryan over the chat (didn't end up helping my case there), but they also had spent $49 and $45 on Andre Johnson and Roddy White as well as $54 on Ray Rice...this meant that they were gonna be practically out of money and would no longer be a threat to other players that I wanted to get (they currently have two RBs on their roster Ray Rice and James Starks).
which to make things a lot easier means that my team ends up like this
QB- Joe Flacco, Kevin Kolb
RB- Adrian Peterson, Arian Foster, Peyton Hillis, Cedric Benson, Marshawn Lynch, Mark Ingram, Daniel Thomas
WR- Dez Bryant, Roy Williams, Brandon Lloyd, Steve Smith
TE- Lance Kendricks
K- Billy Cundiff
DEF- San Francisco
tho this draft didn't really go as well as I had planned on it I am still pretty happy with my team...my projected stats r not looking as good as they should as Kendricks is not projected to do anything and I feel that San Francisco's defense will do better than expected...as well as hoping that Flacco can get the passing game going now that he has a deep threat in Evans
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