I had my first auction draft of the year. It's a 15 team 5x5 standard categories except OPS instead of AVG. 50 players per team, 25 active with a 25 player bench. Daily transactions, no IL spots. For the draft, we have an auction for 30 players with a budget of $280 and then a snake draft for the remaining 20 players with the round determining the salary. There are no contracts for players, major leaguers salaries increase by $3 and rookie eligible players don't have their salaries increased. I had the strongest keeper list going into the draft, and I identified the five best hitters in the draft: Trout, Acuna, Soto, Turner and Freeman. I wanted to get two of them for about $100-$A110. I succeeded in doing that and was able to wait out the middle of the draft where players went for way more than they should and then filled out my roster once inflation disappeared. The asterisk denotes the keepers. Here's what I got:
At the very end of the draft, almost everyone was down to dollar days except for me with a $4 max bid and one other team with a $4 max bid as well. I was waiting on Buehler and I pretty much knew that the other team with $4 was waiting on Puk. He figured I wanted Puk as well. I did but not as much as Buehler. Someone called out Put and he immediately went to $4. So now, I can take the next three players from anyone. That's how I got Winn McCullers and Holliday. Holliday was called out by the guy that got Puk. He was hoping I wouldn't say $2 to save my last extra dollar to make sure I got Buehler. There was one more people to call out a name before me so I gambled that he wouldn't call Buehler. I was right and got Holliday and Buehler. Needless to say, the owner was not too pleased.
I'm happy with this team. With daily transactions you need a lot of starters and I do wish I had one more starter better than Efflin but I can fix that as the season progresses. I'm light on saves but also something I can fix during the season.
C | Varsho,Daulton* | $10 |
C | Contreras,Willson* | $14 |
1B | Tellez,Rowdy* | $8 |
CR | Freeman,Freddie | $46 |
3B | Villar,David | $1 |
2B | Chisholm,Jazz* | $11 |
MI | Lowe,Brandon* | $16 |
SS | Estrada,Thairo* | $4 |
OF | Harris,Michael* | $8 |
OF | O Neill,Tyler* | $7 |
OF | Acuna,Ronald | $56 |
OF | Winker,Jesse | $11 |
OF | Grisham,Trent | $8 |
DH | Santana,Carlos | $4 |
UT | Friedl,T.J. | $4 |
P | Rodon,Carlos* | $7 |
P | Strider,Spencer* | $5 |
P | Glasnow,Tyler* | $11 |
P | Kirby,George* | $5 |
P | McKenzie,Triston* | $9 |
P | Lodolo,Nick* | $8 |
P | Eflin,Zach | $4 |
P | Hendriks,Liam | $5 |
P | Leclerc,Jose* | $5 |
P | Diaz,Alexis* | $5 |
BN | Winn,Masyn | $2 |
BN | McCullers,Lance | $2 |
BN | Holliday,Jackson | $2 |
BN | Buehler,Walker | $1 |
BN | Garcia,Luis V. | $1 |
Draft | Vesia,Alex | $10 |
Draft | Garrett,Braxton | $9 |
Draft | Neris,Hector | $8 |
Draft | Lorenzen,Michael | $7 |
Draft | Crawford,J.P. | $6 |
Draft | Amador,Adael | $5 |
Draft | Collier,Cam | $5 |
Draft | Encarnacion-Strand,Christian | $5 |
Draft | Hall,D.L.* | $5 |
Draft | Henderson,Gunnar* | $5 |
Draft | Abel,Mick* | $5 |
Draft | Casas,Triston* | $4 |
Draft | Auer,Mason | $3 |
Draft | Arias,Roderick | $2 |
Draft | Mize,Casey | $1 |
Draft | Perez,Eury* | $1 |
Draft | Moreno,Gabriel* | $1 |
Draft | Busch,Michael* | $1 |
Draft | Peguero,Liover* | $1 |
Draft | Pepiot,Ryan* | $1 |
At the very end of the draft, almost everyone was down to dollar days except for me with a $4 max bid and one other team with a $4 max bid as well. I was waiting on Buehler and I pretty much knew that the other team with $4 was waiting on Puk. He figured I wanted Puk as well. I did but not as much as Buehler. Someone called out Put and he immediately went to $4. So now, I can take the next three players from anyone. That's how I got Winn McCullers and Holliday. Holliday was called out by the guy that got Puk. He was hoping I wouldn't say $2 to save my last extra dollar to make sure I got Buehler. There was one more people to call out a name before me so I gambled that he wouldn't call Buehler. I was right and got Holliday and Buehler. Needless to say, the owner was not too pleased.
I'm happy with this team. With daily transactions you need a lot of starters and I do wish I had one more starter better than Efflin but I can fix that as the season progresses. I'm light on saves but also something I can fix during the season.
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