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There are a few days each year that I look forward to, and my live fantasy baseball auction draft is one of them. If youve never done an auction, especially one in person, you are mi sing out. Watching your leaguemates sweat out whether to bid $20 on CarlosCarrascoafter you bid $19in a 15th-floor conference room on Sixth Avenue is pricele s. The scratching of heads, the sighs, andthe flipping of papers all add to the fun of the day.For those who are new to auctions, I will cover some of the basic concepts,then go into some different strategies to use.MORE FANTASY ALARM: Robert Hagg Men Jersey | BASICSEach team is given a budget, traditionally $260, to bid on 23 players. Your bench is filled by a snake draft of however many rounds you decide from the remaining players after the auction is over. Someone is chosen to start the bidding and will nominate a player to be bid upon. Bidding continues until everyone else pa ses on increasing the bid further. When doing an auction online, there is a timer that will start after each bid, which serves asyour auctioneer.You will have to keep track of how many dollars you have left and how many players you still need to fill out your roster. Teams cant nominate a player they dont have room for, and they cant bid more than a certain amount,as you must have at least one dollar left for each unfilled roster spot. So, if you have $15 left and fourroster spots, your max bid is $12, which would leave you with $3for three spots.2021 FANTASY BASEBALL RANKINGS: | | | | | | | | AUCTION VALUES vs. PRICINGWhen you look at draft guides to research how much you should spend on players as you begin your draft prep, you will notice all sites refer to it as auction values. These are predictions of the portion Bobby Clarke Women Jersey of the $260that the players stats will be worth. My approach is different. The only players that have value are the ones who will be bid upon. If the player will not be bid upon, then his value is zero. Also, players cant have a negative value in my opinion. You dont get a refund if you bid on those players. In a 12-team league with 23 players on each roster,276 players will be selected. These are the only players that will have a value in my system. If you add up all the values, it will come out to $3,120 spent (or however much the total teams multiplied by your starting budget comes out to).I have been doing auctions since 1991, and by sticking to this, it has allowed me to be very succe sful in my auction drafts. I can come close to predicting what each player will go for in my auction. Is it 100 percentaccurate? Of course not. You cannot predict what order players will be nominated. Aplayer who you might not have valued highly could be the last player in a Bill Barber Jersey tier to be bid upon. This can drive his price up.MORE FANTASY BASEBALL: | | PRE-AUCTION PREPPrepping for your auction is the most crucial step to being succe sful. This exercise is much easier in a league that you are in year after year, as you learn how high your leaguemates will go on certain players. In an online league where you are with random players, it is difficult to accurately predict the player pricing, but most people will tend to stay relatively close to what you find in draft guides. Some sites, such as the NFBC, will track average auction values, and these can serve as a guide to their auctions.The first step is to rank your players by position. When you have the 276 players ranked who you would bid on, then you should a sign what you are willing to pay for them. Put your initial price down for each player, then add them all up. How close are you to $3,120? Keep adjusting until its $3,120. When you are done, you will be going to your auction with a tool that will make it easier for you. You will instantly know if a player is a bargain or if hes way overpriced and you should drop from the bidding.This step is especially crucial in keeper leagues. No site can know who is kept in your league and for how much. When choosing keepers, most will keep players that were acquired at bargain prices. This will change the prices of the players who are up for auction. For instance, if 36 players are kept at an average discount of $10, thats $360 that must be added to the remaining 240 players. It doesnt matter what their value is, their price has just gone up and you have to figure out how to divide that amount between the remaining players.DRAFT STRATEGY: | BUDGETINGAnother way to prep is to create a budget. When I develop my values, I usually budget 65 percentfor hitting and 35 percentfor pitching, so thats about $170 on hitting and$90 on pitching. Some go further and break down how they will spread out that amount amongst the 14 hitters and nine pitchers. Its up to you how you want to spend your money. Some go top heavy and get several top-tier guys and a bunch of $1-5 players;some like to Radko Gudas Men Jersey acquire multiple players in the $10-20 range for a more balanced team. The beauty of an auction is that you can have both Mike Trout and Jacob deGrom on your team. This would never happen in a snake draft.DOMINATE YOUR DRAFT: BIDDING STRATEGIESThere are several ways to skin this cat and none are wrong, but one thing you should never do is leave your auction with any money left over! This is a cardinal rule, and if you have money remaining at the end you were not aggre sive enough on some of your bids.You should nominate players you either really want or have absolutely no interest in. With the latter, the goal is to sap your competition of as much as po sible so you have le s competition when bidding on players you actually want.The important thing here is to vary what you do throughout the auction. Do not let your opponents know whether its a player you want or not. At the end of the auction this is hard to do, as you dont want to get stuck with a player you dont want, even for just a dollar bid.You should also vary how much your opening bid is. If you nominate Mookie Betts and you want him, start the bidding near what you are willing to spend. This will eliminate a lot of people bidding who arent interested. If you dont want him, start relatively low (and dont be the annoying person who starts a $40player at a dollar) and allow multiple people to jump in. Then, of course, do the opposite later in the draft.2021 FANTASY SLEEPERS | | | | | | | You Luke Schenn Men Jersey also need a plan for to spend your money. Some like to load their team up early; others like to let their competition spend first in the hopes of finding bargains later on. Waiting on bargains as a strategy has its pitfalls. Many times what happens is that there will be multiple people going after that last good reliever or starter and this will drive up the price. Good bye bargain!Although there are