Beat the Shift Podcast – Auction Strategy Episode w/ Glenn Colton

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February 11, 2022

The Auction Strategy Episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.

Guest: Glenn Colton

Strategy Section

  • Auction Strategy
    • Online auctions vs. live auctions
    • Having a partner in an auction
    • Auction preparation vs. snake draft preparation
    • Scouting prior to an auction
    • Constructing auction values
    • How strict should you be to your values?
      • When should you bid over your values?
    • Hitter vs. Pitcher % split in auctions
    • Closer market premiums in 2022
    • Auction values for unsigned free agents in mono leagues
      • Playing in multiple leagues – hedging bets
    • Constructing market value dollars
      • Converting ADP to dollars
    • Constructing an auction plan
      • Finding the hotspots
  • Nomination Strategy
    • Nominating players you want vs. players you don’t want
      • Pacing yourself through the auction
    • Plan A / Plan B nomination
    • Economic Box nomination
    • Blocking a position nomination
  • Bidding Tactics
    • Freeze bidding
    • Starting bids for players
    • Incremental bidding vs. jump bidding
    • Bidding on the 9’s, bidding on the 0’s
    • Price enforcing

Injury Guru’s Trivia of the Week

ATC Player Discussion

Mailbag

  • How to balance value with categorical needs?
    • Can you find speed on the waiver wire?

 

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Ariel is the 2019 FSWA Baseball Writer of the Year. Ariel is also the winner of the 2020 FSWA Baseball Article of the Year award. He is the creator of the ATC (Average Total Cost) Projection System. Ariel was ranked by FantasyPros as the #1 fantasy baseball expert in 2019. His ATC Projections were ranked as the #1 most accurate projection system over the past three years (2019-2021). Ariel also writes for CBS Sports, SportsLine, RotoBaller, and is the host of the Beat the Shift Podcast (@Beat_Shift_Pod). Ariel is a member of the inaugural Tout Wars Draft & Hold league, a member of the inaugural Mixed LABR Auction league and plays high stakes contests in the NFBC. Ariel is the 2020 Tout Wars Head to Head League Champion. Ariel Cohen is a fellow of the Casualty Actuarial Society (CAS) and the Society of Actuaries (SOA). He is a Vice President of Risk Management for a large international insurance and reinsurance company. Follow Ariel on Twitter at @ATCNY.

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Alex Sontymember
2 years ago

I never nominate a guy I want early.

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Ariel Cohenmember
2 years ago
Reply to  Alex Sonty

Over the years, I have found this to be a poor tactic on the whole. At worst, you should be nominating a player that you ‘want’ some 30-40% of the time early on. But typically, the figure is closer to 60-70% for me.

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Ariel Cohenmember
2 years ago
Reply to  Alex Sonty

You are throwing away numerous purposeful nominations by doing so. In the show we give a number of examples of reasons why.

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Alex Sontymember
2 years ago
Reply to  Ariel Cohen

Oh, I listened. I think this is a leak, for sure. Reconsidering greatly.

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Ariel Cohenmember
2 years ago
Reply to  Alex Sonty

Awesome!

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