Understand AND WIN AUCTION DRAFTS with Draft Auctioneer
Actual licensed auctioneers helping you take advantage of the auction process and help 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.
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 totally difference 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 a 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 spreadsheet I create every year for my auction drafts, which gets changes sightly depending on the rules and scoring system of the leagues in which I have auction drafts.
