re: First Auction Draft tonight... advice please

You need to take a little time before the draft and figure out how much you're willing to spend for each position. So for example, if you want to spend $120 on your top two RBs, then you know you have $180 to budget for the rest of your team. Then if you want to spend $25 on a QB, you know you're down to $155 for the rest of your team, etc.

So how much you spend on your most expensive player is relative. Again, in the $120 RB1&2 scenario, you could spend $60 on Jamaal Charles and $60 on CJ Spiller, or you could spend $80 on AP and know that your RB2 will have to be closer to $40 (all hypothetical numbers, I haven't done an auction draft with a $300 purse, mine's always been $200).

And once you have this done, just remember that each draft is different so you need to be fluid with your budget. If you spend $126 on your RBs when you budgeted for $120, that's ok. Just make adjustments in other areas to compensate. And if you end up only spending $116, you know you have a little more to play with other places.

And follow the Average Draft Price as a general guideline for players, but don't follow it to the letter. If you REALLY like someone like, say Matt Forte, and his ADP is $38, but you expect big things from him, then it's ok if you go a little more than that for him. Spending the extra few bucks to get the guy you love will almost always end in having a better team at the end of the draft.