Understand AND WIN AUCTION DRAFTS with Draft Auctioneer
Actual Auctioneers assisting you in taking advantage of the auction process and helping you win your Auction Draft League!
Only Auction Drafts!
Welcome to Draft Auctioneer!
Tired of fantasy websites focusing on snake drafts, and only giving limited information on auction drafts? Then this is the site for you. We are only about auction drafts, all the time. From setting up your first auction draft, to developing nomination and bidding strategies, to game theory and auction psychology, this is the place to build and improve your auction draft game. Our goal is to take our thousands of hours of auction experience and help you apply it to win your auction draft. Our family of auctioneers has conducted thousands of auctions across America and Canada, and also owns and operates the oldest continually operated auction school in the world, the Reppert School of Auctioneering, since 1921. We know auctions and want to share our knowledge and expertise with you!
understanding auctions
Knowing about Average Auction Values and Value Tiers
Many websites will put out lists of Average Auction Values, or AAV's. This is similar to Average Draft Position, or ADP. While we have including some links to sites below that have AAV's, unlike ADP, they are much less predictive. In a snake draft, most drafts will follow fairly close to ADP. In auctions, however, this is not the case. The same group of people drafting in back-to-back draft auctions will most likely have different prices. This means that AAV is best to determine the general consensus of how player values are stacked, as opposed to what they should bring in any single draft auction. So, we recommend using AAV to build your own value tiers to use at your auction draft. Check out our Auction Budget page for more information on how to plan for setting up your best fantasy league team.
Player Tiers & Auction Fee Ranges
Click on the sites for their auction values and rankings.
developing tiers
Learn How to Develop Your Own Auction Value Tiers
In order to have a successful auction draft, you need to be able to split players into value tiers in order to build a balanced team that can take you to your league championship. The simple way to do this, is to break players down from ADP, and place them into value tiers. A first round pick should be worth a certain price range, while a second round pick should be less. In reality, tiers can actually be much smaller or larger than an entire round of 10 to 16 players. The actual goal is to group players with similar values, so you can then in theory purchase the cheapest player in that group, leaving you more money to spend at other positions and/or roster spots. Below is a sample spreadsheet I create every year for my auction drafts, which gets changed sightly depending on the rules and scoring system of the leagues in which I have auction drafts. It is important to include all active players in your tiers, even if you do not like certain players, as you need to know other players competing managers may be considering. I go through and either bold players I like more and strike-through ones I do not like, or just leave them alone, which allows me to differentiate who I prefer in a given tier. The goal of your auction draft should be to get as many top tier players as you can on your team, and the purpose of this site is to help you accomplish that goal.
Sample Auction Budget Tier Worksheet
Sample Tiers 1-4
Sample Tiers 1-4
Sample Tiers 1-4
These tiers are designed to demonstrate one way of dividing players before your auction draft. An easy way to do this, is to take your favorite rankings site and just make a tier every round of players based on your league size. Always remember it is hard to win a fantasy league without first, second and third round talents on your team. The ideal is to be okay with 2, 3, or 4 players in a given tier, and then try to get the cheapest one at your auction. This can happen if you nominate and bid properly at your auction. By saving a few dollars in each tier, you can build a stronger starting squad and bench.
Sample Tiers 5-7
Sample Tiers 1-4
Sample Tiers 1-4
Each of us as fantasy managers have players we like more or less than everyone else, but it is helpful to know what the rough consensus of players is in the market. This enables us to target players that are underrated and build stronger teams.