Looking For Feedback On Auction Leagues

ultimatefs · Post by **ultimatefs** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 7:46 am

Originally posted by Greg Ambrosius:
Now if I could just get Zaleski to help me manage my LABR team during the year while I'm pumping out fantasy football rankings and ratings, then I'd have a shot at a LABR League title!

LOL... You tried that one year, pay wasn't enough.

On LABR, I played in AL for four years. Tons of fun, but there are 2-3 owners that do it for reasons other than winning. One "rookie" service guy drafted many rookies so he could claim he picked "the" guy the next year. Be careful with those values when they are published.

Dyv · Post by **Dyv** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:12 am

Originally posted by UFS:
quote:Originally posted by Dyv:
I like all the formats - Auction is fun and the main event is fun as well. Unfortunately with the auction you would get the perception from 90% of fantasy football gamers that it's some obscure little cottage game. I've always been fascinated with why so many fantasy players just won't budge off the first format introduced to the hobby.

Baseball has majority auctions.
Football has majority snake.

And only about 20-30% willing to try the other.

Football was way behind baseball until the 1994 baseball strike. Now it's something like 6 to 1 football. [/QUOTE]Baseball has majority auctions? I don't think that's accurate... 99% of online leagues have to be snake, and I don't know many 'home leagues' for auction baseball. Football, on the other hand there are tons of office leagues and such.

Fact is I think the industry is probably 95% snake and 5% 'other' not necessarily all auction.

Dave

Tom Kessenich · Post by **Tom Kessenich** » Wed Oct 27, 2004 8:21 am

My main baseball league has been an auction (NL-only) since its inception. I joined up back in 89. I've always gotten the impression that baseball was more auction-driven as opposed to football. That's just a guess, though, no scientific analysis was used to come to that conclusion.

wlfskp · Post by **wlfskp** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 7:51 am

I am with Tom my main baseball league (not including NFBC) is an auction keeper league that I have been in for 10 years and it has always been auction.

ultimatefs · Post by **ultimatefs** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 8:33 am

I pretty sure that auctions are prevelant in private roto leagues for baseball too. Greg might have some numbers from the latest FSTA survey.

The number of snakes has risen each year, but I don't think it has or will ever pass auctions in baseball.

Walla Walla · Post by **Walla Walla** » Thu Oct 28, 2004 3:58 pm

The old leagues are mostly auction because thats the only way the game was played (Baseball).
seven or eight years ago Espn, Yahoo and many others started offering snake drafts on line. For most of us who never knew enough fantasy players to put together a league this was a God send! The draw back of course was the auction leagues started to fall back. While snake drafts have been pretty much figured out on the internet the auctions haven't. Fantasy football became big because of the internet. It started with a snake and never really was big in auction.