Why does anyone still do a draft?

[Duckus]

I am amazed how many people still do drafts when auctions are far superior in my mind. Auctions are fast paced, exciting, and require a lot of skill and knowledge.

You have to constantly keep your salary cap in mind, target players, and fight for 2 hours straight. You don’t just pick and fall asleep for 30 minutes while the draft snakes around.

You can blow all your salary on 2-3 big-time players, bluff and raise the price for your opponents, or try and focus your team on depth and spread the money around. It allows you to play the game in many different ways and is great strategically.

I am in my 5th year of a keep league with a group of 16 friends. Best league I have ever been in. We just moved to auction starting last year and it is by far better.

Switch the auction – by far the better of the two!

[SkinsNut73]

I like the idea of an auction league because if there is a player I really want, I can get him as long as I'm willing to pay whatever it takes. However, I tend to enjoy the regular draft league I am in much more.

I never fall asleep for 30 minutes while it snakes back around. You are always strategizing for the next pick...watching who your opponents are taking and keeping track of their needs...trying to land those nice value picks which will ultimately help strengthen your team...swiping the player out from under the nose of the guy picking behind you and hearing him "mother ****" you as you write the pick on the board...just as exciting in my opinion.

[Arsenic]

Wow.. The auction sounds complicated as hell.

I shouldve done more research, leading up to my draft. Hopefully luck is on my side.

[twenty-eight]

I've always wanted to give an auction draft a shot. The draft is definitely the best part of fantasy football.

[stoshuaj]

because it takes dedication, perspective, time, and a marginal amount of thought. those attributes are not normally associated with the average football fan

[Heidenreich]

because it takes dedication, perspective, time, and a marginal amount of thought. those attributes are not normally associated with the average football fan

Agreed.

I would love to do an auction league, but I can't find 10 people dedicated enough to participate.

Add that to the fact that the 4 I know are uber sports nerds who would take it WAY to seriously, it never happens.....