LSUtiga2121

Buffalo Trace

Consider it done:

C: Posey, Flowers
1B: Bellinger
2B: Daniel Murphy
3B: Solarte
SS: Dansby Swanson
1B/3B: Todd Frazier
2B/SS: Brandon Phillips
OF: Trout, Ian Desmond, Aaron Judge, Corey Dickerson, Bradley Zimmer
UTIL: Freddy Galvis
DL: Josh Donaldson, Freddie Freeman

P:
Michael Fulmer
John Lackey
Michael Wacha
Mike Lake
Jason Vargas
Scott Feldman
Julio Teheran
Danny Salazar
Jessie Hahn
Joe Biagini
Antonio Senzatela
Joakim Soria
Adam Warren
Anthony Swarzak

DL: Aaron Sanchez


His roster is the last place roster, so he doesn't have many assets to trade with. Best assets for him are:

Salvador Perez
Miguel Cabrera
Kipnis
Rendon
Harrison
Andrus
Kemp
Justin Upton
Schwarber
Brantley
Puig
Tulowitzki
Justin Turner
Yonder Alonzo

Gerrit Cole
Steven Matz
Kenta Maeda


As you can see, I was not doing well with saves at the beginning of the season, so I have ceded that category and focused on obtaining starting pitchers to dominate the W and K categories

12-team roto league, with standard 5 scoring categories for hitting and pitching. I am doing well with AVG, HR, R, K, W. Desperately need SB, ERA, and WHIP help

Currently, I have been offered to -

GIVE: Mike Trout
RECEIVE: Josh Harrison, Anthony Rendon, and Gerritt Cole.

My counter was going to be for -

GIVE: Mike Trout
RECEIVE: Elvis Andrus, Cole, and Harrison OR Rendon (not both).

Any thoughts or comments as to what direction I should go (if any, bc holding onto Trout wouldn't be too bad either) would be greatly appreciated.

First, to answer the question about the auction draft: yes, one player goes up on block at a time. Bidding occurs in EBay-fashion, where if you up bid after the clock has tucked under 5 seconds, it will put more time in the clock and start to countdown again. Winning bid is the last one made before the clock is allowed to run out without a higher bid coming on top. I promise, it'll take 1 or 2 players and you'll see how intuitively is. There is a draft "order" - but the order essentially means that when its your turn up, you are the one picking who goes up on the auction block for bidding.

Now, to scoring - we are essentially doing a format where there are 6 categories that matter for batters (Avg, HRs, Runs, SBs, RBIs, and strikeouts [want low]) and 5 for pitchers (ERA, Wins, Ks, WHIP, and Saves). Each week, owners are matched up head to head, similar to a fantasy football season schedule. Values are totaled for the course of a week for the matchup. At the end of the week, whichever of the two owners facing each other "wins" the most categories, they'll receive the win for the week. I.e., If I beat my first opponent 8 categories to 3, I would win the matchup and be 1-0.

I chose this scoring method for a variety of reasons. I mimics a traditional format that tabulates 5 batting categories and 5 pitching categories over the course of a year (termed "rotisserie"). However, that format usually lends itself to owners getting fatigued quickly if they start slow because they don't want to take the time and effort that it takes to chip away and come back in the standings, So, I chose H2H instead of rotisserie. This way, owners are kept closer in the standings longer, which will hopefully keep everyone interested for the season. I added one extra batting category to the weekly scoring in order to avoid 5-5 category "ties" that often happen in this format...because ties blow.

There are the variations on the H2H format that can be explored if we keep the league on a yearly basis. For instance, in the example I gave above - instead of me being 1-0 after a first week win, we could count each category individually, which means I'd be 8-3 after the first week, and my opponent would be 3-8. Also, we could do away with categories and just give point values for different events (single, double, triple, HR, win or save for pitcher, etc.). This would make it even more analogous to fantasy football. With that said, I thought the setup for this year should be one that was simple to grasp and kept the standings tight to keep interest up.

Now that we have a full league- is there any owner who cannot draft Monday? If someone cannot make it and cannot find someone to draft on their behalf, please let me know. The auction draft really works best with all 12 owners present. If a replacement owner needs to be added or found, I'd rather know now and not Monday night.

Looking forward to opening day!

In, in, and in.

Leaves us needing either LSU31Always email address if he still wants to join (he hasn't responded since first post) or a final owner.

In and in

Your draft budget and free agent budget for the year are completely separate.

For the draft, everyone starts with $260 (ESPN default). You spend what you want by bidding and winning the player on the auction block. If you don't win that player, you get back the money you bid, the only owner charged is the owner that wins that player. Very similar to eBay, to make it clearer. It's intuitive, you'll see on Monday. However, there is no benefit to keeping money for the end of the draft, as that money does not carry over to your free agent budget for the year.

For the free agent budget, that begins after the draft. I don't mind increasing it if everyone would prefer more starting money for the year. I like the smaller budget just because it makes bidding on free agents everyday more competitive. As a reference - I've done this in the past years with a separate league. I was by far the most active in terms of picking up and dropping players. I was able to make 75 transactions for the year at a budget of $100, again bc most players will be had for $1 since you will be the only one bidding on that player. I can't imagine making more transactions than that for the year, but perhaps I'll up the budget to $125, just in case someone wants to make even more moves over the course of the season.

I think the system works better than a traditional add/drop free agent system bc it forces you to be, maybe not more frugal, but more selective and purposeful in your transactions. It also gives you some more control over your selections and rewards foresight and ability to ascertain talent.

Emails sent, let me know if you don't receive them.

In case of the need to reschedule - how does Monday night look for everyone?

So far, I have the league count at 8. In order to make for a good, competitive league, I'd like to have at least 10 participants, with 12 being ideal.

With that, I tentatively have the draft scheduled for 8:30 tonight; however, I may push it back to Monday night (Opening Day night) if we don't have a full membership by this afternoon. I have a feeling that we'll easily fill the remaining spots when more people are on TD this weekend.

Usually no longer than a traditional draft, in total. Your auction strategy usually dictates how attentive you have to be to the draft throughout.

I will say this - I have converted my two main fantasy football leagues to auction drafts and - despite initial whining and reluctance - all the owners universally will now tell you that they much prefer the auction draft. Really gives you a sens of picking your "own team" since you can essentially choose (with limits, due to the budget) the precise players you want across the board, and not be stuck with a certain selection based on your draft position and who is still available at the time of your pick.

For instance, if you really want to draft Trout, Kershaw, and Harper - you can have the trio on your team. Just don't expect to have much money leftover afterwards to nab any other players until the late rounds when you'll fill your roster with the bargain-bin players. Or perhaps you'd like to draft the top 3 SPs. Or, if there is a player anywhere on the draft board that you truly value and are confident in his ability to have a great season - he can drafted onto your roster. You always seem to come out pretty satisfied with your roster because it's the players YOU chose.