Auction Market Values — REVISED!

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March 22, 2017

Nobody knows whether the great novelist Joseph Conrad played Fantasy baseball. He died in 1924, so perhaps not, but a passage in one of his novels suggests that he envisioned it. In The Secret Agent, a character entertains the “horrible notion that ages of atrocious pain and mental torture could be contained between two successive winks of an eye.” We can now attest to the accuracy of that notion, because we had such an experience in a Fantasy baseball auction last Sunday. We had neglected to stock our catching staff, and, as a result, between those two successive winks we were compelled to place a $7 bid on Francisco Cervelli. “Pain” and “torture” were indeed the centerpieces of our experience in that instant.

We were going to report on the above-referenced auction in this week’s installment, but frankly it’s just too embarrassing. Consistently undervaluing catchers until we were stuck with a $7 Cervelli and a $2 Jason Castro was just the most egregious of our errors. But our loss is your gain, because we decided to write something useful for a change: a review of auction market prices.

The auction we botched was one of four overseen last week by Andy Saxton of NFBC. The rules were the same as a standard-issue NFBC draft: mixed-league player pool, 23 players, 5×5. The only difference was the bidding, with the classic $260-per-team budget, in lieu of the usual snake draft. Andy kindly provided us with the round-by-round auction results for each league, and we used them to try to  come up with a dollar value reflecting not, God knows, our valuation of each player, and not even a player’s average auction price, which can be misleading, but rather his auction market value. The results, position by position, are below. First, though, a few comments and explanations:
–The numbers don’t add up in a double-entry-bookkeeping way, for good reasons. There should be 210 hitters and 135 pitchers. There are a couple fewer than that because we didn’t want to spend time choosing among the many players who were taken for $1 in only one of the four leagues. If a guy you like isn’t listed below, chances are someone in one of the leagues took him for $1, and that you can get him for the same amount. If you think we’ve erroneously omitted a player, let us know in the Comments section below and we’ll repair the damage.

–There should also be $3900 allocated. There’s about $140 less than that. That’s because (1) in most leagues, several teams leave money, sometimes quite a bit of money, on the table; (2) if they don’t leave it on the table, they do things like pay $11 for Max Kepler with their last pick; and (3) like us, a lot of owners leave themselves short at one position or in one category or another, and pay exorbitant prices in the endgame to compensate.  We tried to identify and ignore these outliers. The numbers in parentheses are the top and bottom prices for each player; an x means he received no bids in at least one auction.

–We haven’t listed players at multiple positions, but they qualify at the positions they’re listed at by anyone’s standards. The exception is Eric Thames, who was an outfielder in Korea and is treated as one by most stat services, but is a first baseman as far as NFBC and the Brewers are concerned.

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–Price distinctions of a dollar or two in either direction probably don’t make much difference in terms of what the next auction is likely to pay for any given player.  Certainly, There’s not much difference among, say, $7, $8, and $9 players at a given position. If your projections are so accurate and your valuation system so precise that you can reliably distinguish among such players, you have our unqualified admiration and our lacerating envy. Most of us can’t. And here’s a Fun Question: Roughly 400 players were bid on in at least one of the four auctions. Guess how many players went for exactly the same price in all four, and guess what that price was. The answer is at the bottom of this post.

–Bargains, insofar as they exist, often seem pretty inadvertent. An example, from the auction we did: Brad Miller for $3. He went in the sixth round of the draft, so people (a) had plenty of money, (b) had plenty of room on their rosters, and (c) weren’t nodding off yet. We would bet that at least half a dozen owners were in the same boat we were in, i.e. they had Miller valued at $6 or $7, either liked him or at least had no aversion to him, but found that he didn’t fit what they were trying to do in light of what they’d already done. We, and most other owners, would rather see someone else get Miller for $3 than get him for $4 when we don’t need him.

–This is, insofar as possible, a snapshot of auction market values as of the morning of Monday, March 20th. We thus didn’t use the prices paid for Ian Desmond or Tom Murphy before they got hurt last week.  (We think, by the way, that it’s magical thinking to assert that Desmond will be back at the end of April. Mid-May, maybe, if things go right.) You’ll notice a question mark after the  $12 we’ve assigned to J.D. Martinez.  That was what he cost in the only one of the four drafts that occurred after his injury. And of course, things have changed a bit since Monday morning–no one’s going to pay $7 for Didi Gregorius, for example–and will change some more by Saturday, when Tout Wars holds its annual Mixed-League Auction, featuring Jeff Zimmerman of Fangraphs. It will be entertaining and instructive to see how these prices compare to those.

–Note, finally, the Kershaw Barrier. The auction market thinks he’s the most valuable player in Fantasyland. The draft market has him third, behind Mike Trout and Mookie Betts. People evidently resist selecting a pitcher first, even when they will pay more for him than they will for anyone else.

HITTERS

Catchers

  1. Posey 28 (25-30)
  2. Sanchez 23 (23-24)
  3. Lucroy 23 (21-25)
  4. Contreras 19 (16-21)
  5. Realmuto 15 (15-16)
  6. Grandal 14 (11-16)
  7. Gattis 11 (9-12)
  8. Perez 11 (9-12)
  9. B. McCann 9 (7-10)
  10. Castillo 9 (7-11)
  11. Martin 9 (8-9)
  12. Wieters 9 (8-10)
  13. Vogt 8 (6-10)
  14. Molina 8 (7-9)
  15. Rupp 7 (5-9)
  16. Zunino 7 (4-9)
  17. d’Arnaud 5 (3-8)
  18. Gomes 4 (3-5)
  19. Cervelli 4 (3-7)
  20. Leon 3 (1-5)
  21. Mesoraco 3 (1-4)
  22. Murphy 3 (1-11)
  23. J. McCann 3 (1-7)
  24. Bandy 2 (1-3)
  25. Hedges 2 (1-3)
  26. Wolters 2 (2-3)
  27. Ramos 2 (1-2)
  28. Flowers 1 (1-3)
  29. Norris 1 (1-3)
  30. Castro 1 (1-3)

First Basemen

  1. Goldschmidt 39 (37-40)
  2. Rizzo 31 (30-31)
  3. Cabrera 31 (31-32)
  4. Votto 30 (26-33)
  5. Encarnacion 29 (27-30)
  6. Freeman 27 (23-29)
  7. Abreu 25 (23-29)
  8. Myers 22 (21-24)
  9. Davis 21 (16-23)
  10. H.Ramirez 18 (15-23)
  11. Hosmer 14 (13-16)
  12. Pujols 12 (8-14)
  13. Belt 12 (4-14)
  14. Santana 11 (10-11)
  15. A. Gonzalez 8 (7-10)
  16. Joseph 8 (6-11)
  17. Napoli 5 (2-9)
  18. Cron 4 (2-7)
  19. Bour 3 (x-4)
  20. Bird 3 (x-4)
  21. Moreland 2 (1-6)
  22. Bell 1 (x-3)
  23. Park 1 (x-1)

Second Basemen

  1. Altuve 36 (36-37)
  2. T. Turner 33 (29-35)
  3. Gordon 25 (23-27)
  4. Cano 24 (21-26)
  5. Dozier 22 (21-23)
  6. Murphy 21 (20-23)
  7. Odor 21 (19-23)
  8. Carpenter 19 (16-23)
  9. Kinsler 15 (14-16)
  10. Le Mahieu 15 (14-17)
  11. Pedroia 9 (7-12)
  12. Schoop 8 (6-10)
  13. Forsythe 8 (4-13)
  14. Zobrist 6 (5-8)
  15. Castro 6 (3-10)
  16. Walker 5 (3-7)
  17. Travis 4 (1-11)
  18. Kipnis 4 (2-9)
  19. Gyorko 3 (1-5)
  20. C. Hernandez 3 (x-5)
  21. Harrison 2 (1-4)
  22. Wong 1 (x-2)
  23. Phillips 1 (x-2)
  24. Schimpf  1 (x-2)
  25. Panik 1 (x-1)

Third Basemen

  1. Arenado 41 (41-42)
  2. Bryant 39 (36-41)
  3. Machado 39 (38-42)
  4. Donaldson 30 (28-33)
  5. K. Seager 19 (19-20)
  6. J. Ramirez 17 (14-19)
  7. Bregman 17 (16-18)
  8. Frazier 17 (15-20)
  9. Beltre 16 (15-18)
  10. Franco 15 (13-17)
  11. Longoria 15 (14-16)
  12. Rendon 15 (13-16)
  13. Turner 13 (12-15)
  14. Sano 12 (10-16)
  15. Lamb 11 (8-13)
  16. Moustakas 10 (5-17)
  17. Castellanos 9 (5-13)
  18. Healy 9 (6-20)
  19. Drury 5 (2-8)
  20. H. Perez 5 (2-7)
  21. Gurriel 4 (x-8)
  22. Kang 3 (2-5)
  23. Reyes 3 (2-5)
  24. Suarez 1 (x-6)
  25. Sandoval 1 (x-3)
  26. Solarte 1 (x-2)
  27. Duffy 1 (1-2)
  28. Moncada 1 (x-3)
  29. Headley 1 (x-1)

Shortstops

  1. Correa 32 (28-35)
  2. Villar 28 (28-29)
  3. C. Seager 27 (26-28)
  4. Story 26 (25-27)
  5. Lindor 23 (22-24)
  6. Bogaerts 22 (18-24)
  7. Segura 20 (18-22)
  8. Peraza 20 (17-22)
  9. Nunez 12 (11-13)
  10. Anderson 12 (8-15)
  11. Russell 11 (9-12)
  12. Baez 11 (8-15)
  13. Andrus 9 (8-10)
  14. Diaz 9 (9-10)
  15. Semien 9 (7-11)
  16. Tulowitzki 8 (5-10)
  17. Swanson 6 (4-7)
  18. B. Miller 6 (3-7)
  19. A. Cabrera 5 (3-6)
  20. Gregorius 4 (2-7)
  21. Crawford 3 (3-4)
  22. Arcia 2 (1-3)
  23. Owings 2 (x-3)
  24. A. Escobar 1 (1-1)
  25. Saladino 1 (x-1)
  26. Espinosa 1 (x-1)

DHs

  1. Morales 12 (7-13)
  2. V. Martinez 4 (3-6)

Outfielders

  1. Trout 44 (43-45)
  2. Betts 40 (38-41)
  3. Harper 36 (32-38)
  4. Blackmon 32 (29-35)
  5. Marte 30 (27-31)
  6. Pollock 27 (23-31)
  7. Braun 26 (23-28)
  8. Polanco 25 (22-29)
  9. Cruz 25 (23-27)
  10. Stanton 25 (22-28)
  11. Hamilton 25 (24-26)
  12. Cespedes 25 (22-28)
  13. Springer 24 (22-27)
  14. C. Gonzalez 23 (20-25)
  15. Yelich 22 (20-24)
  16. Upton 20 (18-23)
  17. McCutcheon 20 (18-21)
  18. A. Jones 19 (17-20)
  19. Kemp 18 (15-20)
  20. Trumbo 18 (15-20)
  21. Bautista 17 (14-19)
  22. Schwarber 15 (13-17)
  23. C. Gomez 15 (12-18)
  24. K. Davis 15 (14-16)
  25. Cain 14 (12-16)
  26. Herrera 13 (9-16)
  27. Benintendi 13 (10-15)
  28. Piscotty 13 (11-14)
  29. Desmond 13 (9-23)
  30. Broxton 13 (9-17)
  31. Kiermaier 13 (9-15)
  32. Eaton 12 (9-16)
  33. Buxton 11 (9-12)
  34. Thames 11 (8-14)
  35. J.D. Martinez 11? (11-24)
  36. Pederson 9 (5-13)
  37. Bradley 9 (8-10)
  38. Duvall 8 (6-10)
  39. Calhoun 8 (7-10)
  40. R. Davis 8 (5-10)
  41. Dahl 7 (4-11)
  42. Ozuna 7 (6-9)
  43. Grichuk 7 (5-9)
  44. Inciarte 7 (6-8)
  45. Puig 6 (4-9)
  46. D. Santana 6 (4-8)
  47. Dyson 6 (3-9)
  48. Fowler 6 (4-8)
  49. Tomas 5 (4-6)
  50. Kepler 5 (3-11)
  51. Mazara 5 (3-7)
  52. Pence 5 (4-7)
  53. Ellsbury 4 (3-6)
  54. Holliday 3 (1-7)
  55. L. Martin 3 (1-5)
  56. Beltran 3 (2-5)
  57. Peralta 3 (1-4)
  58. Brantley 3 (1-7)
  59. Bruce 3 (1-5)
  60. M. Cabrera 2 (2-3)
  61. Choo 2 (1-4)
  62. Conforto 2 (1-3)
  63. C. Dickerson 2 (1-3)
  64. Heyward 2 (1-6)
  65. Jankowski 2 (1-4)
  66. Margot 2 (1-3)
  67. Renfroe 2 (1-4)
  68. Gardner 2 (x-3)
  69. Pillar 2 (1-3)
  70. Soler 1 (x-3)
  71. Reddick 1 (x-1)
  72. Maybin 1 (1-1)
  73. M. Smith 1 (x-1)
  74. Werth 1 (x-1)
  75. Gordon 1 (1-2)
  76. Granderson 1 (1-2)
  77. Haniger 1 (1-2)
  78. Saunders 1 (1-5)

PITCHERS

Starting Pitchers

  1. Kershaw 46 (46-48)
  2. Bumgarner 35 (34-36)
  3. Syndergaard 35 (31-36)
  4. Scherzer 33 (32-36)
  5. Sale 32 (29-34)
  6. Kluber 29 (26-31)
  7. Darvish 29 (25-31)
  8. Cueto 27 (27-28)
  9. Carrasco 27 (22-34)
  10. Archer 27 (24-28)
  11. Arrieta 25 (24-26)
  12. Verlander 24 (23-25)
  13. de Grom 24 (22-25)
  14. Lester 24 (23-25)
  15. Strasburg 22 (21-23)
  16. C. Martinez 22 (19-24)
  17. Tanaka 21 (20-23)
  18. Hendricks 20 (15-21)
  19. Duffy 17 (16-18)
  20. Cole 15 (14-16)
  21. Maeda 15 (12-17)
  22. Hill 15 (14-16)
  23. Hamels 15 (11-20)
  24. Salazar 15 (13-18)
  25. Teheran 15 (13-17)
  26. Quintana 14 (13-16)
  27. Aa. Sanchez 13 (9-14)
  28. Stroman 13 (12-15)
  29. Taillon 13 (11-14)
  30. Paxton 13 (12-14)
  31. Greinke 12 (9-15)
  32. Price 11 (10-14)
  33. F. Hernandez 11 (8-15)
  34. Porcello 10 (6-11)
  35. Velasquez 10 (4-18)
  36. Keuchel 10 (5-13)
  37. Matz 10 (9-11)
  38. McCullers 10 (8-12)
  39. Gausman 9 (7-10)
  40. Fulmer 9 (8-10)
  41. Nola 9 (7-12)
  42. Smyly 9 (6-11)
  43. Shoemaker 9 (6-13)
  44. Gausman 9 (7-10)
  45. Lackey 8 (7-11)
  46. Maenaea 8 (7-11)
  47. Moore 8 (6-11)
  48. Pineda 8 (6-9)
  49. J. Ross 8 (5-10)
  50. Urias 8 (6-9)
  51. Walker 7 (5-9)
  52. Rodon 7 (5-9)
  53. Roark 7 (5-8)
  54. J. Gray 7 (2-10)
  55. Harvey 7 (2-9)
  56. Happ 7 (5-10)
  57. Samardzjia 6 (4-9)
  58. Odorizzi 6 (4-8)
  59. Cotton 6 (3-7)
  60. Richards 5 (3-6)
  61. Ray 5 (3-7)
  62. Eickhoff 5 (3-6)
  63. Snell 4 (2-8)
  64. Wainwright 4 (1-5)
  65. Estrada 4 (1-6)
  66. Liriano 4 (3-6)
  67. D. Norris 3 (2-5)
  68. Nova 3 (2-4)
  69. Wacha 3 (2-5)
  70. S. Gray 3 (1-6)
  71. G. Gonzalez 3 (2-4)
  72. Gsellman 3 (1-5)
  73. Lynn 3 (2-4)
  74. Musgrove 2 (x-4)
  75. Pomeranz 2 (1-4)
  76. Bundy 2 (1-3)
  77. Davies 2 (1-2)
  78. Iwakuma 2 (1-3)
  79. Kennedy 2 (1-4)
  80. Hellickson 2 (1-3)
  81. Guerra 2 (1-3)
  82. Chen 1 (x-1)
  83. Finnegan 1 (x-3)
  84. Foltynewicz 1 (x-3)
  85. Glasnow 1 (x-3)
  86. Leake 1 (x-1)
  87. McHugh 1 (1-2)
  88. S. Miller 1 (x-1)
  89. Montgomery 1 (x-2)
  90. E. Rodriguez 1 (x-1)
  91. Skaggs 1 (x-1)
  92. Zimmermann 1 (x-5)
  93. Conley 1 (x-2)
  94. Ryu 1 (x-1)
  95. Hammel 1 (x-2)
  96. E. Santana 1 (1-2)

Relief Pitchers

  1. Chapman 22 (20-25)
  2. Jansen 21 (20-22)
  3. Britton 19 (19-20)
  4. Diaz 19 (17-22)
  5. Melancon 18 (17-19)
  6. Oh 18 (17-19)
  7. Kimbrel 17 (16-18)
  8. Giles 17 (16-18)
  9. Osuna 17 (16-18)
  10. Colome 15 (14-18)
  11. Davis 15 (14-17)
  12. Herrera 15 (14-17)
  13. Allen 14 (14-15)
  14. Familia 13 (12-14)
  15. Robertson 12 (11-18)
  16. F. Rodriguez 11 (9-12)
  17. Dyson 11 (9-13)
  18. Bedrosian 10 (9-10)
  19. Ramos 9 (8-15)
  20. Johnson 9 (7-11)
  21. Iglesias 8 (3-10)
  22. Miller 8 (7-9)
  23. Watson 8 (3-11)
  24. Feliz 6 (5-6)
  25. Kelley 6 (4-10)
  26. Holland 5 (x-10)
  27. Ottavino 4 (1-8)
  28. Reed 4 (3-5)
  29. Kintzler 4 (3-5)
  30. Madsen 4 (2-5)
  31. Maurer 4 (3-5)
  32. Rodney 4 (3-5)
  33. Gomez 3 (3-4)
  34. N. Jones 2 (2-3)
  35. Betances 2 (1-5)
  36. Neris 2 (1-2)
  37. Bush 1 (x-2)
  38. Glover 1 (x-3)
  39. Capps 1 (x-1)

[Answer to Fun Question: Two players. Alcides Escobar and Cameron Maybin went for $1 in all four auctions.]





 

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sivjosh
9 years ago

Is Tulo missing? Seems like he is better than a $1 guy.

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sivjosh
9 years ago
Reply to  sivjosh

How about Oh, the Cardinals closer?

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TheSuburbsGuy
9 years ago

Looks like Swanson got accidentally dropped as well.

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  TheSuburbsGuy

Sure enough. Thanks to both for the quick spot. Tulo 8 (5-10); Swanson 6 (4-7).

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cbauer
9 years ago
Reply to  The Birchwood Brothers

cool. thanks for the article! its a nice reference tool

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cbauer
9 years ago

possible omission- Tulo?

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jfree
9 years ago

Tulo is on the waiver wire?

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misterjohnnyMember since 2016
9 years ago

I would love to see this for -only leagues.

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whammo211
9 years ago

Seung Hwan Oh?

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jbona3Member since 2016
9 years ago

Market values are always tough to predict but I’m surprised the upper echelon of players, with the exception of Trout/Kershaw didn’t crack the mid-40’s. That having been said, I have an bidding behavior question to pose and I’m interested in anyone’s thoughts or insight they may have.

The Key Question: How does the number of possible and expected bidders influence auction value?

Context: I’m in a 12 team Keeper league (auction) and we’ve had an interesting bifurcation in the league, 6 teams have 75%+ of their budget spent on keepers, and the other 6 teams at less than 45% (save for 1 at 62%). So there will be at most six teams actively bidding on guys like Goldschmidt, Rizzo, Sale, Miggy, Springer, etc (all of which were thrown back). I think it’s reasonable to expect that only 2-4 teams will be actively bidding on any one player due to preference, roster make up, and so on. Given that there’s a limited pool of bidders for higher cost guys, is there an expectation that this results in a lower than expected auction value or higher than expected auction value?

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merlin401
9 years ago
Reply to  jbona3

It doesn’t effect anything really. Basically those who have locked in their keepers don’t have to worry about a bidding war as the top tier ends, while the rest of the people bidding do. In the end, its still the same number of slots for the same number of players, but the bidders have a higher risk of getting stuck.

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OTMHeartBBCMember since 2025
9 years ago
Reply to  jbona3

I think this is because these are all “pros” drafting who show restraint. Amatuers in auctions get carried away and will bust on trout like 60$

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jfree
9 years ago
Reply to  jbona3

What I’ve usually found in that scenario is that whatever star is nominated early gets underpriced. Opposite for prospects. Owners with a lot of money usually also have a lot of holes too and they find it hard to commit their budget to a specific core player strategy to build around as long as there are other core player strategies. It’s the post-core players where the bidding gets ramped up. The exception is an owner with lots of money and not many actual slots to fill – esp in a league that trades. Bidding for trade/rental can be very different from projection/playing.

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calebwMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  jfree

In my experience the market rate should be affected more by the amount of $$ remaining in the pool rather than by the number of owners. However, once you are down to 2 owners bidding on a player, psychology can have a big impact, especially if you have some owners who are bad at spending their whole budgets. (In other words, they don’t recognize that their $$ situation makes the best available player “worth” however much it will cost to get him.)

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merlin401
9 years ago

Major disrespect to the Seager family here: Misspelled the last name for Kyle and wrong first initial for Corey.

But in all seriousness, this is helpful, thanks!

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dpratMember since 2017
9 years ago

Pollock?

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  dprat

Pollock 27 (23-31).

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VottomanEmpireMember since 2025
9 years ago

Any sign of G. Polanco? S. Oh?

Also, I had a thought about the Kershaw Barrier. The opportunity cost does differ between auction and snake draft leagues, because your draft capital is divided in a more regimented fashion in a snake draft league. So, in a snake draft league, by taking Kershaw #1, you resign yourself to devoting no higher than the #24 pick worth of draft capital to your best hitter, costing you the excellent production of many top hitters. However, in an auction draft, you can pursue a stars-and-scrubs approach and pay top dollar for Kershaw AND still shell out for 1-2 elite hitters as well. Hence, Kershaw’s value may be higher to drafters when they still have the strategic flexibility choose to pursue an elite hitter alongside him.

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  VottomanEmpire

Likewise thanks. Polanco 25 (22-29); Oh 18 (17-19).

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BPhippsMember since 2017
9 years ago

I am preparing now for the Vegas NFBC and I am very interested to know, what was the average hitting/pitching split and what were the ranges between leagues ?

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RotoholicMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  BPhipps

Auction results for last season are still visible, I believe. I tallied up the results for 10 NFBC Auction Championships and the average split was 63.1/36.9 with a pretty tight spread. The extremes were: 65/35 and 61.9/38.1.

EDIT: From the data here from these 4 auctions, and adding in random $1 players to fill up to the 210/135 roster count total, the split seems to be 63.8/36.2.

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Joseph
9 years ago

FYI – Thames qualifies at OF for the NFBC – not at 1B.

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  Joseph

Interesting, because we were informed before the auction I described that Thames qualified at 1B but not OF. But I guess that wasn’t NFBC but rather RT Sports, where the first part of the auction was held.

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wily moMember since 2020
9 years ago
Reply to  Joseph

btw, article says thames played OF in korea – i don’t think this is the case, AFAIK he played mostly or only first base over there. suspect all of the OF eligibility he’s being given this spring is coming from stat services defaulting to his most recent US season

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CubFan
9 years ago

Can’t seem to find Benintendi’s name.

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  CubFan

Benintendi: 13 (10-15).

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rickybench
9 years ago

Thanks for posting this as it was such a nice treat to find coming home from work. I realize this question will be hard to answer without knowing all the specifics of any particular league, but is there a certain percentage I could add to the player values if I’m trying to apply your findings to my AL-only league auction?

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  rickybench

Someone asks the same question above, and we’ve been asking it of one another as well. The short answer is: we don’t think so.

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MattMember since 2016
9 years ago

MIA – Dietrich until Prado is back
PIT – will be Freese at least initially. Kang hasn’t returned to the U.S. yet.

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The Birchwood BrothersMember since 2016
9 years ago
Reply to  Matt

True, but no one bid on either, though both were taken in reserve rounds.

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Thomas
9 years ago

Good article, Bros.

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