Auction Values

28. August 2008  - Published by Jim Humbert
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Last week I participated in my first fantasy football auction. Of the twelve teams in the league all have played fantasy sports for years but few have done an auction. We had a $200 cap and will be able to keep players based on their salaries. While there were many surprises throughout the day one of the more interesting things was how each position ended up being ranked. Here is the top five in dollar values for each offensive position based on our auction:

RUNNING BACK
1 - LaDainian Tomlinson $53
2 - Adrian Peterson $51
3 - Steven Jackson $50
4 - Marion Barber - $48
5 - Brian Westbrook - $46

QUARTERBACK
1 - Tom Brady $41
2 - Drew Brees $35
3 - Peyton Manning $33
3 - Tony Romo $33
5 - Carson Palmer $20

WIDE RECEIVER
1 - Braylon Edwards $35
2 - Randy Moss $31
2 - Terrell Owens $31
2 - Reggie Wayne $31
5 - Larry Fitzgerald $29 

TIGHT END
1 - Jason Witten $18
2 - Antonio Gates $16
2 - Kellen Winslow $16
4 - Dallas Clark $15
5 - Jeremy Shockey $12

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Comments

Dan Clasgens
Dan Clasgens
8/28/2008 11:54:05 AM #
It is important to emphasize that this is a KEEPER FORMAT. Contract are tied to players based off what you pay...there is no penalty to drop players (cap hit).

$1-$3 = 1 year
$4-$9 = 2 years
$10-$19 = 3 years
$20-$29 = 4 years
$30 or above = 5 years

I think that those that spent that much money on RB's will be strapped working under a budget. However, it was fair market value. I thought out of all the positions, tight end was the biggest surprise. While I agree with the order of rankings I thought the $$$ amounts were a bit high. Quarterbacks were about what I expected. The biggest surprise to me was how much Edwards went for at receiver.
Jimmy Dinsmore
Jimmy Dinsmore
8/29/2008 7:00:01 AM #
Look at the drop in price on QBs. No tier has a bigger drop and emphasizes what's been said on here before, that you can pass on Brady (and Manning/Romo) and wait for someone else to fall. Those who got QBs for under $20 opened up the cap space needed. And as the owner who bid $48 for Barber, I'll say that is probably too high but he was the last elite RB to be bid on and we had the money to go get him and had to have an elite RB. That was the other surprise. With all the talk of how awesome WRs are and what a year they had, RBs still ruled the auction.
Adam Bartel
Adam Bartel
8/31/2008 11:10:18 AM #
It's hard to use one league's results as a barometer of how auction values should bear out.  In the league I drafted in last week, Randy Moss was only the 5th highest valued receiver.  That happened because he was one of the early calls, and as the rounds went on people starting panicking that they needed a top-tier receiver and ending up overspending just to get their hands on one.  Same thing with RB's, Westbrook and Stephen Jackson went for only a buck or two less than the top 2 because of panic bidding.

Based on Dan's comment, though, some of the values do surprise me.  Do you really want to lock in Tomlinson for five years at $53?  I wouldn't even want to lock him in for 2 at that price.  Braylon's price makes a little more sense in this context, since he's got a lot more years ahead of him than Moss.
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