Beat the Shift Podcast – Auction Strategy Episode w/ Jeff Erickson
The Auction Strategy episode of the Beat the Shift Podcast – a baseball podcast for fantasy baseball players.
Guest: Jeff Erickson
Strategy Section – Auction Strategy
- General Auction Strategy
- Rules to live by
- Differences to snake drafts
- Online vs. in-person auctions
- Time of day
- Other players’ tendancies
- Looking around at the auction table
- Most important items to keep track of during an auction
- Nomination Strategy
- Have a purpose
- Reasons for nominating who you are most interested in buying
- Plan A / Plan B nomination
- Market Values
- Assessing the market
- AAVs / ADP$
- Hotspots
- What to pay for players
- Strike Prices
- Paying more for players who fit your team’s build
- Money plan
- Hitter / Pitcher % Split
- Stars & Scrubs vs. Spread the Risk
- Unorthodox strategies
- Money management
- Pacing yourself in the auction
- Buying out of “the break”
- In-draft adjustments
- Tracking scarcities
- Tracking inflation
- Bidding
- General procedure
- Starting bid
- +2 bids
- Bidding often
- Timing of bids
- Price enforcing
- Other tidbits
- Pay attention to the other bids
- Clogging the DH spot
- Shohei Ohtani is still pitcher eligible
- Need to get bargains
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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.
In 2016, I decided to try punting wins & strikeouts. In 5 leagues (all 10 team only leagues), I won 3, finished 2nd in 1 & 5 in the other. Tried it again in 2017 & my best finish was 5th. I found out the strategy can work, but the margin for error is very small.