2014 Fantasy Football: 5 Tips For Your Auction Draft

It isn’t exactly easy to do mock rafts in auction leagues, but it is possible. I often try to make a projected team full of players of like, but make sure to keep it under the league’s salary. For the most part, you will be able to see how your team could potentially look like when it is all said and done.

Another important tip for building a successful auction strategy is to make a minimum/maximum money list for each player. List out all of the top-tier players and write down the most amount of money you would spend on each player. It will help you budget your money and form a clearer draft strategy.

In fantasy football auction drafts, owners tend to lock onto one guy and pay whatever it takes to land them. However, it isn’t worth falling in love with one player, because there are simply too many other options. If you can’t land one of the elite backs for a reasonable price tag, don’t feel bad about lading the next guy on the list for five bucks cheaper.

In every auction draft, there is a point when every player can be drafted for a only dollar. I like to call this period of the draft the Dollar Derby, because no owner can spend more than one dollar on any single player. This is the perfect spot to lock up some cheap studs, so make a list of a handful of players that will likely fall to the end of the draft.

The quarterback position has become increasingly deep in recent fantasy seasons. There are 10-plus reliable fantasy options and it simply doesn’t make sense to spend big on a quarterback in auctions anymore. Let someone else call out $50 for Peyton Manning this summer.