![]() You can either recall the motto of the boy scouts or Scar standing on the ledge singing about his ruthless takeover of Pride Rock, but being prepared is key to anything and fantasy drafting is no exception. As you can probably tell, I have a real issue with time and right now, I'm wasting yours. Be decisive and for the love of Pete, resist the urge to purposely sit until the last second before posting a bid. Of the auction variety, salary-cap leagues are probably my personal favorite with being a good platform for that application. It's engaging, offers variety, and a tremendous way to open up free agency for the season. Basically, we employ a two-round linear rookie draft and then follow that up with a two-round, live auction format for remaining FAs using our yearly-allocated FAAB. We use a hybrid model in one of my dynasty leagues and it's super fun. Auctions offer much more variance and force a manager to constantly apply strategic thought almost on every player being considered. Snake drafts are fine, more structured, and predictable, but much less strategic than auctions and one tends to feel less in "control" in snake formats as they hold on for dear life until the worst person in the world continues to snipe them on the turn. People are busy and it's hard to nail down a dedicated time to labor through 25+ rounds amongst 12-16 (or more people) and folks believe they need to scour the 4 corners of the internet to find that one nugget that will help them decide which WR to take in the 3rd rd BUT, sheesh, do we really need to drain an 8-hour clock to the last moment just to select Ceedee Lamb? I can't even imagine a slow auction draft and in the immortal words of Dirty Harry, "a man has to know his limitations" and a slow, auction draft is beyond mine. Slow drafts are the rage now and I suppose I can see the draw, but they either bring out the worst in people or the worst in me.both are possible I guess. ![]() I'm not a rush junkie or anything, but I just love change. I love drafting and trading-the idea of building and chasing drives me maintaining and managing rosters and lineups are just too tedious and uneventful for me. ![]() Navigating Fantasy Auction Drafts like Marco Polo
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