Rookie Auction

[Cult of Dionysus]

Here's a concept that I've been mulling over for a few months now. Rookie auctions.

I find that rookie drafts are way too predictable, especially if they occur after the NFL Draft. One solution would be to award rookie auction funds to teams, rather than rookie picks. The funds would have to be allocated on a sliding scale, from worst to first. I'm struggling to determine what the right amount would be. But if you'd hit the sweet spot, it would make for a really great auction.

Assuming a 12 team league: 22 (worst team) / 20 / 18 / 16 / 14 / 12 / 10 / 8 / 6 / 4 / 3 / 2 (champ)

Not sure how that would pan out...

[whaley88]

This is exactly how my league runs our rookie and devy drafts. I'll get with the commish and pass off our sliding scale.

Edit. We actually place money value on the draft picks that way when you trade picks yu are trading a set amount of money based off of the original owners placing.

[Cult of Dionysus]

Can you post a link to the league?

[MEuRaH]

Pretty awesome idea. However, it defeats the purpose of giving the worst team the best player.

For example, if I was the worst team all year and I had X funds, there's a possibility that a playoff team traded his way into 3 firsts, and by simple addition, now has more funds than I do, and can take the best player unless I make more trades.

Of course there are ways around this, I get it. It's about your philosophy as a league player. Do you believe that the worst team should get the 1.01, or do you think that person should still have to earn it? I dunno.

[MEuRaH]

btw, you're about to hit post 1,000. A special moment.

[akbfrosty]

If you buy into the chart MEuRaH created, you could assign draft points in a similar way where people get 1st round points, 2nd round points, 3rd round points and 4th round points all added together rather than picks. You could even weight the points in certain ways depending how you want to distribute them. If two teams are tied for last record wise, split up the 1.01 and 1.02 points in a logical way based on tiebreakers rather than give all the 1st pick points to one team and all the 2nd pick points to the other team.

In-season trading could get tricky-ish if you trade more points than you actually end up with at the end of the year, so you might have to put a cap to prevent it or some sort of (harsh) penalty to punish it.

If none of this makes sense, I can try to clarify it further as this was a bit rambly.

[Cult of Dionysus]

Pretty awesome idea. However, it defeats the purpose of giving the worst team the best player.

For example, if I was the worst team all year and I had X funds, there's a possibility that a playoff team traded his way into 3 firsts, and by simple addition, now has more funds than I do, and can take the best player unless I make more trades.

Of course there are ways around this, I get it. It's about your philosophy as a league player. Do you believe that the worst team should get the 1.01, or do you think that person should still have to earn it? I dunno.

Yup, my 1,000 is quoting you.



I actually did not think at all about trading of rookie funds. But you are right, if that's allowed, then it can cause a lot of problems... Trading future picks is one of the best parts of dynasty football. So prohibiting that sort of activity really doesn't sit well with me, but it's probably the only way to prevent a bad team from getting pushed down the order due to no fault of their own.

[HawkeyeState]

We are trying to implement this in a new salary cap auction league startup this year and are struggling hard with the rookie money scaling

[MARKinMI]

Ryan McDowell has been doing this for a few years in some of his leagues and seems to have a well tested out system in place. I'd get a hold of him If you're looking for help with rookie auctions. Here's his twitter: https://twitter.com/RyanMc23

[BradysBunch]

When I first saw this title, I thought what a great idea! Then reading and thinking how I have 5 first rounders next year. If there is a team with the worst record and he can't get the first pick, I don't think that would be right. The whole point in my view (currently) is that the bad teams should get better through the draft...Kind of like the NFL

[srlarson]

We did this a couple years, rookie auction,......we gave all teams $100 except the Champ you got $80...we did not allow trading to this money. It was ok when we were able to get together for the draft, we tried once remote....and have not gone to Traditional rookie drafts, that can be staggered and not have to find a time where everyone is able to get together. we give 24 hrs per pick...

[clarion contrarion]

I like the concept and for a couple reasons
1) its a new concept for me . I was in a league a few years ago that was going to do that but the league puked after year 1
2) it would be much harder to tank with a guarantee of getting the 1:1 , thus perhaps keeping more teams engaged throughout the season.

[clarion contrarion]

Pretty awesome idea. However, it defeats the purpose of giving the worst team the best player.

For example, if I was the worst team all year and I had X funds, there's a possibility that a playoff team traded his way into 3 firsts, and by simple addition, now has more funds than I do, and can take the best player unless I make more trades.

Of course there are ways around this, I get it. It's about your philosophy as a league player. Do you believe that the worst team should get the 1.01, or do you think that person should still have to earn it? I dunno.

Yup, my 1,000 is quoting you.



I actually did not think at all about trading of rookie funds. But you are right, if that's allowed, then it can cause a lot of problems... Trading future picks is one of the best parts of dynasty football. So prohibiting that sort of activity really doesn't sit well with me, but it's probably the only way to prevent a bad team from getting pushed down the order due to no fault of their own.

The point of trading future picks is a great one perhaps a points bank where by all say 2018 or 2019 picks are assigned a par dollar value and then $ is added or deducted as the picks are earned , could be an accounting nightmare but would add some serious flavor when the bill comes due or dividend is paid depending or appreciation or depreciation of the future asset.