Fantasy Football 2016: Tips for Surviving an Auction Draft

You’ve been competing in fantasy football leagues with your friends for what seems like forever. You have added different scoring modifiers—yardage bonuses and a point per reception. You have augmented rosters to include flex positions. Yet when it comes to draft day, you’re still deploying the old-school “snake” template. It’s time to switch things up and try an auction draft. In this piece, we discuss how to best navigate auctions in fantasy football. 

My first fantasy football draft happened back in middle school, and it involved acquiring a young Emmitt Smith. It was nice to have the second overall pick that year and be able to net such a coveted superstar tailback (Barry Sanders went first, of course). In an auction draft, however, everyone in my league would have had the right to bid on Smith and his prodigious fantasy value. It wouldn’t have simply been my right to get Smith sitting in the second spot; I’d have to outbid my peers with the highest price for his services behind that legendary offensive line. 

So how do auction drafts work? Auctions are set up so that each manager has a preset budget (often $200) to spend on a specific number of players (16-man …

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