Difficulty: Moderately Challenging
Things You’ll Need:
- Paper
- Pen
- Fantasy Baseball magazines
- Snacks
- Coffee
Step1
Do your research. You should have a pretty good idea of every player that will be auctioned off.
Step2
Prepare a breakfast, lunch, snacks, coffee, or whatever you need to bring to the auction. Auctions can take a long time; you don’t want to be running on empty by the halfway point.
Step3
Familiarize yourself with the league’s rules. Does your league use K-BB instead of K’s? Are you starting the auction with $260 or $240 to buy your entire roster? You need to know.
Step4
Nominate players that you can see on your team. There’s a chance that no one will raise the price and you’ll be stuck with them. For players that you don’t want make sure to nominate them for a very low price that you know will be raised.
Step5
Make note of players that your other league mates are particularly interested in. If one of your league mates is bidding like crazy for one player but you end up with him, you might be able to trade him to that league mate later in the year.
Step6
Spend approximately $100 of a $260 budget on pitching. Pitchers are much more likely to injure themselves, so you want to spend the majority of your budget on safe hitters.
Step7
Spend a few dollars at the end of an auction on middle relievers that might become closers. They can help you with strikeouts, ERA and WHIP with the possibility to get saves later in the year.
Step8
Write down everyone’s roster. Late in the draft when you see everyone has, say, a catcher you should be able to get one cheap because your league mates have no use for him.
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