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Catfish Noodlin posted:Do we need to Toxx for this? Good idea, let's do that.  on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season.Also, we are on for 7:00 PM ET tomorrow! Looking forward to it. Nomination order is currently set to be randomized, unless someone has an idea otherwise. Post any questions you have about league format, auctions or otherwise in this thread, I'm happy to help anyone prepare in advance (just don't take my players).
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Sep 6, 2016 16:39
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season.
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Sep 6, 2016 16:50
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. Looking forward to the draft, watched a few rounds of a co-worker's auction last week to get an idea of how it works. Are we doing a hangouts group or anything?
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Sep 6, 2016 16:52
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dphi posted:
Probably just the ESPN auction room chatroom, which worked pretty well last year, but if folks would prefer to use GroupMe or Google hangouts, I'm open.
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Sep 6, 2016 17:08
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. Google hangouts would be good just for the voice chat. I'm so stoked for the draft. I'm swinging by Tired Hands tonight to pick up more cans of Trendler Pilsner because that seems like a good football beer. Oh, one question, what happens if you run out of money during the draft?
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Sep 6, 2016 18:14
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HatfulOfHollow posted:
The system won't let you run out of money until your roster spots are full, with $1 minimum being automatically held per spot. So if you spend $190 on a few players, you'll have $10/number of roster spots left to go. At a certain point in the draft, enough roster spots are filled and enough $ has been spent across the board that it just becomes 'nominate and win the player you want for $1' to fill out your last spots. It speeds up pretty quickly.
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Sep 6, 2016 18:37
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. Once more unto the overreach
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Sep 6, 2016 18:43
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. Ugh, I'm way, way behind on research because of work. I've not even been casually following fantasy news or even real NFL news. I'm basically going to be drafting off last year, and it's probably gonna suck. Teddy Bridgewater #1 QB overall! I feel like that young man is really gonna make huge strides this year.
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Sep 6, 2016 20:27
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. I'll also send it out in a more timely fashion this year for fucks sake Hamhandler fucked around with this message at 20:31 on Sep 6, 2016 |
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Sep 6, 2016 20:28
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Retemnav posted:
Bridgewater's a lock, but people are pretty excited by Manziel's transformational comeback as well - tough choice there. Romo's always sneaky dependable too.
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Sep 6, 2016 22:16
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. So pumped. I've noticed that my 12 team auction was way easier than my 14 team one this year. That extra $400 in the pot really matters. So, I'm excited to see how tooth-and-nail the fight for players will be with 16 Are we going to goonchat or something?
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Sep 6, 2016 23:13
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on myself to put together a 50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. See ya'll tomorrow night! Make sure to be drinking something good.
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season.
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Sep 7, 2016 12:57
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Drunk Nerds posted:Are we going to goonchat or something? Unless someone has a better idea, I'll make a Google hangouts and post the link in here
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*desperately looks up 16-team auction draft strategies*
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Sep 7, 2016 15:33
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I plan to be out of money by my 3rd player because I have no idea what I'm doing. But I'll win the league anyway because all the fantasy megapoints allstars will get hurt in the first week and I'll have drafted their unknown backups for $1 each.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I plan to be out of money by my 3rd player because I have no idea what I'm doing. But I'll win the league anyway because all the fantasy megapoints allstars will get hurt in the first week and I'll have drafted their unknown backups for $1 each.
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Sep 7, 2016 15:46
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Yeah I've never been in a league this large, let alone an auction. Still trying to wrap my head around how to budget for it and coming to terms with the fact that I will probably have to be content starting someone like Braxton Miller 
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dphi posted:Are you ditching your strategy of Draft All Eagles? It worked out pretty great last year! Last year every round someone would take the player I wanted right before my pick and I'd go into panic mode and draft the next available Eagle because I'd rather be stuck with the devil I know. At least this time I can just overpay for the players I want. But don't worry, I'm still planning on taking a bunch of Eagles this year! deedee megadoodoo fucked around with this message at 15:57 on Sep 7, 2016 |
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Sep 7, 2016 15:54
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Mikey Purp posted:Yeah I've never been in a league this large, let alone an auction. Still trying to wrap my head around how to budget for it and coming to terms with the fact that I will probably have to be content starting someone like Braxton Miller It's going to be total chaos. I advise everyone to drink several beers during the draft to help your jangled nerves.
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Sep 7, 2016 15:58
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It's my birthday, so I get a first round freebie pick right? I heard good things about Peyton Manning this season.
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Avenged posted:I heard good things about Peyton Manning this season. He's a superbowl champion! How could you go wrong? Personally, I'm hoping I get Marshawn Lynch. I'm thinking that Beast Mode is gonna have a great year!
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HatfulOfHollow posted:It worked out pretty great last year! That's the beauty of auction: Someone will never, ever snake the player you wanted. You want a guy,? Get him.
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on myself and may I ever be ashamed if I can't put together a lousy $50 box of local beer to whomever I am required . Can't wait for tonight, got a 32oz bottle of Craft Malt Liquor ready to help me make bad decisions.
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on myself to put together a $50 box of local beer and ship to one of the league winners at the end of the season. Looking forward to drafting tonight!
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Sep 7, 2016 22:02
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Picked up a crowler from Great Notion, also drank a few too many glasses while there so I expect to make some Bad Decisions tonight as well. Yay beer!
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Sep 7, 2016 22:52
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Golden Road's Wolf Pup, here. Only session IPA that really manages to pack a hoppy punch GOOGLE HANGOUTS LINK https://hangouts.google.com/hangouts/_/5qx6rkamnfabnkwkzbxkbqea6ie?authuser=0&hl=en
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Drunk Nerds posted:Golden Road's Wolf Pup, here. Only session IPA that really manages to pack a hoppy punch I've been drinking a lot of it. It's so potent for a session.
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Sep 7, 2016 23:06
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I'm in the hangout. Tonight's draft is brought to you by Manor Hill Grisette, Union Craft Brewing Old Pro Gose, and Tired Hands Trendler Pilsner.
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Sep 7, 2016 23:37
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I'm boring today, so several Revolution Mosaic Heroes are my poison.
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Super loving fun, you guys. I laughed my rear end off. Thanks for having me in the league, I hope everyone has a competitive season
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I completely hosed myself on this draft. There is a definite learning curve to auction drafting. Even with the cheat sheets (which were basically useless) the people who had auctioned before had a huge advantage.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:I completely hosed myself on this draft. There is a definite learning curve to auction drafting. Even with the cheat sheets (which were basically useless) the people who had auctioned before had a huge advantage. Couldn't disagree more(well, actually, I do agree that all cheat sheets proved useless). You have the best wrs in the league and a top 3 TE. You rounded it out with a running qb(rg3) and some high catch volume rbs, to give you a high floor in your b-listers, which is exactly what you want. Your bench is unimpressive, but in a 16 team 7 bench spot league literally EVERYONE's bench is doodoo. You made a plan beforehand, stuck with it, and rounded out your team expertly. The only way that this auction went badly for you is if you didn't have fun doing it
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Drunk Nerds posted:Couldn't disagree more(well, actually, I do agree that all cheat sheets proved useless). You have the best wrs in the league and a top 3 TE. You rounded it out with a running qb(rg3) and some high catch volume rbs, to give you a high floor in your b-listers, which is exactly what you want. Your bench is unimpressive, but in a 16 team 7 bench spot league literally EVERYONE's bench is doodoo. Yeah, I was mostly just bummed about how the end of the draft wasn't very interactive. I spent too much money early on so I had 3 great players that I spent a ton of money on which limited my maximum bid from that point on to $1 so I just had to wait until the end to round out my team. If I could do it over I wouldn't have spent so much on Olsen and Decker so I could've added some more value players in the later rounds rather than getting stuck with a bunch of $1 players that may or may not ever actually score any points. I'm mostly concerned about my RBs.
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HatfulOfHollow posted:Yeah, I was mostly just bummed about how the end of the draft wasn't very interactive. I spent too much money early on so I had 3 great players that I spent a ton of money on which limited my maximum bid from that point on to $1 so I just had to wait until the end to round out my team. One of the things I noticed this year is that, due to the growing popularity of internet auction coverage, $1 sleepers aren't a thing anymore. For about 15 years, getting $1 players has been a quite viable auction option, but now that everyone is trying it, $1 won't buy poo poo anymore. As such, I'd estimate 2/3 of people in auctions, this year, leaned on getting $1 players and found out the hard way that this no longer works. So it's not "I hosed up my auction" but rather "An overwhelmingly popular and successful strategy just departed, leaving 60-70% of players in the lurch." The good news is that you still got a few deec players with $1 bids, which is more than most got. Since this was such a viable option up until this year, It will take a few years for the mainstream curve to notice this and buck a trend that has been viable since the beginning of fantasy football auctions, so you are going to be ahead of the game next year when you don't lean on getting good players for $1, but everyone else is like "look man this has worked for 16 of the last 17 years, so I'm sticking with it!" Drunk Nerds fucked around with this message at 05:15 on Sep 8, 2016 |
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That was a blast. Thanks everyone for showing up on time, drinking some good beer and rocking the draft!
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I really liked the auction format. I'd do some things differently next time around, but I certainly see how you can use the format to your advantage if you know what you're doing. Also I'll learn how to click the nominate button in a timely and efficient manner next time.
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So...I can't add anyone to my roster BEFORE the games tonight? Waiver's clear 9/9 at 3 AM?
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