![]() ![]() And if I had to find that extra money later, so be it. But I always like to go with my QB first so I can buy that freedom and knowledge of a few extra dollars. And if that happened and my fallback became a $5 Dak Prescott (he went for $4), I’d have money to shift around. I wanted to get the temperature of the room, but I also had several options beyond Mayfield as fallbacks if he went for more than $11. This was essentially the reason I threw out (and subsequently won) Mayfield with my first nomination. Because I saved the $5 on Mayfield, I had a comfort cushion to bid up elsewhere. In this particular case, it was Odell Beckham Jr., who I thought would be about $46 but I eventually won for $50. ![]() So I now have an extra $5 to play with, which made me more comfortable if a bidding war opened up on one of my high-priced targets. For instance, I was willing to pay $11 for Baker Mayfield. I also look at it like multiverse theory, where if I don’t get someone I want, it sends me down a totally different timeline, where I reallocate money on the fly and create a team different than what I expected going in. Going into a draft, I know exactly who I want on my team and how much I’m willing to pay. So I printed out positional ranks from an unlocked SiriusXM computer (where we drafted), grabbed a pen and a Sharpie (always have to bring a red Sharpie to drafts and suctions auctions), took a blank sheet of paper to keep track of my players, brought another blank sheet and printout because my buddy Dennis Esser had the same strategy as me…and off we went. And then it’s just an issue of money management. The rest I can bid on at my pleasure while other people call them out. And it’s why I truly enjoy this format - I’m responsible for really having to bring up 16 names, at most. Players and roles and numbers are all ingrained in my head. Some would say, since I didn’t customize sheets or bring a laptop, that I did no prep for this auction but I feel like all my work here since May has been prep. But I figured I’d drop some notes in here on my experience at this auction, for a little more color than just a bunch of players and dollar values. Auction strategyįeel free to skip ahead to “The Prices” if you just want the nitty gritty. The person slicing your turkey isn’t going to always hit that “0.50” on the scale when you ask for half a pound, but it’ll land in the area, and you’ll know just about how much you’re going to pay, even if it isn’t exact. In short, think of auction analysis kind of like you’re buying cold cuts at the super market. ![]()
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