general salary draft tips

How to Dominate Your Auction Draft | 2021 Fantasy Football ¹

overview

Practice with mock drafts - builds out a player baseline of value and price
Create tiers (or download pre-made ones)
- .i.e. who's RB1 vs RB2
- you need to create tiers based on natural cut-offs of point output based on last year or the last few years of data
- or projections for rookies, though you need to be careful of rookie projections, depending on the position
- can identify by noticeable changes in projected price when ranking players by position
Create a plan and a backup plan
- someone will most likely draft that key player that you wanted to build your roster around. Have a backup plan when that happens
positional hierarchy
1. RB - most consistent points, larger drop off
2. WR
3. TE
4. QB
building out a team
- when doing a mock draft, look at prices and calculate a team based on those prices
- get an idea of the type of team you can put together
identify league draft patterns
- only if you draft with the same people for a couple years
- try to identify their preferences and who "pays up" for certain positions
decide on your strategy for a salary cap
- for a snake draft let the draft come to you

Golden rule for salary cap strategies: Nominate the most expensive player you do not want.

Get your opponents to spend as quickly as possible so you have the most leverage for the players you do want in later rounds.

You will probably have to over pay for top tier players but more than $5 starts to get dangerious for later on in the draft.

Keep your max bid in mind. It is your remaining budget minus open roster spots.

$maxbid = budget_r - roster_o$

Get as close to $0 by the end of the draft. At least only around $5.

Bottom line: You need top players to win (duh) which means the aggressive to balanced approach is the