WEBVTT 1 00:00:01.040 --> 00:00:08.560 Welcome to the Auction Brief. There's a joy in these 2 00:00:08.599 --> 00:00:12.919 games or not, taking you on a journey through fantasy football, 3 00:00:13.279 --> 00:00:18.640 the law, and life. We saw your It depends on 4 00:00:18.679 --> 00:00:23.039 how much you want. And now you're legal analyst and 5 00:00:23.120 --> 00:00:26.800 auction draft expert here to help you dominate your fantasy drafts. 6 00:00:27.160 --> 00:00:36.560 Your host, Drew Davenport, there are full hearts. Hey, everybody, 7 00:00:36.759 --> 00:00:40.000 welcome in to the Auction Brief. As the lady said, 8 00:00:40.200 --> 00:00:42.359 I'm your host, Drew Davenport, and thank you so much 9 00:00:42.359 --> 00:00:45.520 for joining me for another episode of the Auction Brief. 10 00:00:45.920 --> 00:00:49.439 As the calendar turns to August in just a couple 11 00:00:49.439 --> 00:00:53.079 of days, guess what. As I'm recording this right now, 12 00:00:54.000 --> 00:00:58.479 all thirty two NFL teams are in training camp. Folks, 13 00:00:59.320 --> 00:01:03.200 allow yourselves a moment of celebration. We made it. Football 14 00:01:03.320 --> 00:01:06.200 is officially back. We have the Hall of Fame game 15 00:01:06.280 --> 00:01:08.680 coming up next week. A week from today, there'll be 16 00:01:08.799 --> 00:01:15.040 real football on your television screen. That's incredible, So celebrate 17 00:01:15.159 --> 00:01:17.640 that for a second. Take a deep breath because we've 18 00:01:17.680 --> 00:01:21.000 got four weeks left to push through to the finish. 19 00:01:21.200 --> 00:01:23.879 There's only actually three weeks left of the Auction Brief, 20 00:01:24.239 --> 00:01:26.079 but I'll be ripping off par sheets over there at 21 00:01:26.120 --> 00:01:29.359 the Patreon, I'll be putting out content there. I'll be 22 00:01:29.879 --> 00:01:33.120 continuing to push forward to help you with your auction drafts. 23 00:01:33.159 --> 00:01:36.120 But folks, time is running short, so we're going to 24 00:01:36.159 --> 00:01:39.040 get down to business quickly. Today. I want to go 25 00:01:39.120 --> 00:01:42.040 through my usual plugs, and then I want to talk 26 00:01:42.120 --> 00:01:45.159 about an actual auction that just happened with a bunch 27 00:01:45.200 --> 00:01:49.400 of experts. It's hard to argue that this is one 28 00:01:49.439 --> 00:01:52.359 of the most helpful things that we can possibly do 29 00:01:52.480 --> 00:01:56.599 on this show because it involves real people playing out 30 00:01:56.599 --> 00:02:03.000 a draft with intelligent drafters, people who know values cold 31 00:02:03.879 --> 00:02:06.000 and generally know what they're doing in a draft room, 32 00:02:06.040 --> 00:02:09.919 even if they aren't auction specialists. This is an episode 33 00:02:09.919 --> 00:02:13.439 that is just absolute gold. In my opinion. You can't 34 00:02:13.479 --> 00:02:17.400 get much better than this, because it's going to give 35 00:02:17.439 --> 00:02:19.879 you a really nice baseline. Because, as you'll see when 36 00:02:19.879 --> 00:02:23.360 I go through all of the things that happened in 37 00:02:23.400 --> 00:02:28.280 this draft, there weren't many wacky things that happened, and 38 00:02:28.759 --> 00:02:32.680 I think that's a great thing for our conversation because 39 00:02:32.719 --> 00:02:35.879 those wacky outliers that happen in some rooms that isn't 40 00:02:35.919 --> 00:02:38.120 necessarily helping you to kind of figure out what you're 41 00:02:38.159 --> 00:02:43.199 supposed to be doing instead. The sort of linear way 42 00:02:43.280 --> 00:02:46.680 that this auction played out on Saturday is actually a 43 00:02:46.719 --> 00:02:49.000 great baseline for you because it's kind of right up 44 00:02:49.039 --> 00:02:51.319 the middle, and it's where you should start with your 45 00:02:51.319 --> 00:02:54.680 preparation and thinking about values for some of these players. 46 00:02:55.039 --> 00:02:57.479 So I'm excited about this. Today we're going to take 47 00:02:57.479 --> 00:03:01.840 a chronological walk through the Kings Classic auction, and I've 48 00:03:01.840 --> 00:03:05.120 got four themes that I isolated from the auction that 49 00:03:05.159 --> 00:03:07.960 I think you can lay over everything that happened, and folks, 50 00:03:08.039 --> 00:03:09.680 we are going to walk through it, and I'm going 51 00:03:09.719 --> 00:03:11.240 to do my best to get you out of here 52 00:03:11.479 --> 00:03:14.360 in the allotted time. But as people have said, they'd 53 00:03:14.439 --> 00:03:16.599 rather hear the content if it takes longer, and if 54 00:03:16.599 --> 00:03:18.759 it takes an hour, it takes an hour. But I 55 00:03:18.800 --> 00:03:20.680 think that we can rip through it here in about 56 00:03:20.680 --> 00:03:23.439 forty five minutes. I think that you need to remember 57 00:03:23.800 --> 00:03:27.319 that you can't possibly get all of this information in 58 00:03:27.360 --> 00:03:30.759 your head through one listening of the show. And I'm 59 00:03:30.759 --> 00:03:33.840 not here to make some sort of silly plan to 60 00:03:33.879 --> 00:03:36.280 increase my downloads, because once you download the show once, 61 00:03:36.319 --> 00:03:38.439 I don't get a second download for listening to it again. 62 00:03:39.000 --> 00:03:41.199 So I'm not telling you that you have to listen twice, 63 00:03:41.680 --> 00:03:43.520 but I don't think it can hurt because a lot 64 00:03:43.560 --> 00:03:45.800 of this stuff is going to be difficult to take 65 00:03:45.840 --> 00:03:48.520 in because we're going to move so quick. And that's 66 00:03:48.560 --> 00:03:50.919 not because I'm trying to get done in forty five minutes. 67 00:03:50.960 --> 00:03:52.759 It's just that how often can you say what a 68 00:03:52.960 --> 00:03:55.919 player's price is before you move on? And it's hard 69 00:03:55.919 --> 00:03:59.199 for you guys to listen to that and internalize it 70 00:03:59.319 --> 00:04:01.840 when I'm moving on to another point already. So I 71 00:04:01.840 --> 00:04:04.159 don't think it's a bad idea. If you listen to 72 00:04:04.159 --> 00:04:06.120 this show twice, it might be one of the only 73 00:04:06.159 --> 00:04:09.479 ones of the summer that you really need to have 74 00:04:10.199 --> 00:04:12.800 a couple run throughs at it. So we'll talk about 75 00:04:12.840 --> 00:04:14.840 those themes in just a minute. Let me get the 76 00:04:14.879 --> 00:04:17.120 preliminary stuff out of the way. First of all, I 77 00:04:17.160 --> 00:04:19.759 have to say right off the top, the Salary Cap 78 00:04:19.759 --> 00:04:23.519 Summit is in just four days. We start Sunday night 79 00:04:23.560 --> 00:04:26.199 at seven pm, We go Monday night at seven pm, 80 00:04:26.199 --> 00:04:29.120 and then we go Tuesday night at seven pm. Sunday 81 00:04:29.120 --> 00:04:33.399 and Monday are the live auctions with my live commentary 82 00:04:33.439 --> 00:04:35.240 on my YouTube channel. You'll be able to find all 83 00:04:35.279 --> 00:04:39.160 that information on my Twitter account and I'll be advertising 84 00:04:39.199 --> 00:04:41.680 that like crazy. But you can find my YouTube channel 85 00:04:41.720 --> 00:04:45.279 easily enough by searching the auction brief and putting in 86 00:04:45.279 --> 00:04:48.800 my name. But that's Sunday and Monday, live auctions with 87 00:04:48.879 --> 00:04:51.920 live commentary for two to two and a half hours. 88 00:04:51.959 --> 00:04:55.399 I'm going to be running my FWM and then Tuesday 89 00:04:55.439 --> 00:05:00.519 night we've got Doug Orth, Dave Richard, Jim Coventry, Matt Cruise, 90 00:05:01.360 --> 00:05:06.600 and I'm missing somebody important. It'll come to me later. 91 00:05:06.639 --> 00:05:10.160 But we have a great lineup of auction drafters who 92 00:05:10.199 --> 00:05:12.560 know with oh, Scott Pianowski. How can I forget Scott? 93 00:05:12.759 --> 00:05:14.519 We just had him on the show a couple of 94 00:05:14.639 --> 00:05:16.600 days ago. But all of those folks are going to 95 00:05:16.639 --> 00:05:19.120 come in and we're going to talk about auctions, everything 96 00:05:19.160 --> 00:05:22.600 from strategies to what they think this year, how they're 97 00:05:22.600 --> 00:05:25.600 approaching auctions, how can we make auctions bigger, how can 98 00:05:25.639 --> 00:05:29.480 we make them better? Everything that has to do with auctions. 99 00:05:29.480 --> 00:05:31.920 It's going to be a two hour auction panel, So folks, 100 00:05:32.040 --> 00:05:35.199 do not miss the salary cap summit. All right, let's 101 00:05:35.240 --> 00:05:37.199 do a quick run through of the other stuff. Don't forget. 102 00:05:37.240 --> 00:05:39.639 You can find me on Twitter at Drew Davenport FF. 103 00:05:39.759 --> 00:05:42.160 You can find me at the Fantasy Football Lawyer on 104 00:05:42.199 --> 00:05:45.000 the Patreon network. Just four bucks a month, and if 105 00:05:45.040 --> 00:05:48.079 you want to be in the salary Cap drafts, a 106 00:05:48.120 --> 00:05:49.920 lot of the spots already taken, but you can still 107 00:05:49.920 --> 00:05:51.480 get in there. You have to be a member of 108 00:05:51.519 --> 00:05:53.560 the Patreon Just go in there. It's just four bucks 109 00:05:54.279 --> 00:05:57.040 and then you can put your interest on the post 110 00:05:57.160 --> 00:05:59.759 about the Salary Cap Summit leagues and hopefully you can 111 00:05:59.759 --> 00:06:01.879 get it there on one of those nights Sunday or Monday. 112 00:06:01.959 --> 00:06:04.519 And it is a league that will play out for 113 00:06:04.600 --> 00:06:06.720 the full season. You're not just doing a draft, you're 114 00:06:06.720 --> 00:06:09.199 doing a full league there. So a lot of the 115 00:06:09.199 --> 00:06:11.920 guys who did it last year threw in some money, 116 00:06:12.360 --> 00:06:15.120 donated to charity, had some fun. So I think that 117 00:06:15.319 --> 00:06:19.560 the same thing can happen this time around. So last 118 00:06:19.560 --> 00:06:21.879 but not least, don't forget them with FJA fantasy draft 119 00:06:21.920 --> 00:06:24.959 boards again this summer. It's ten percent off your order 120 00:06:25.160 --> 00:06:27.399 if you use my code auction brief. They're the best 121 00:06:27.480 --> 00:06:30.680 draft boards in the business. Get over there, order your boards. Now. 122 00:06:30.720 --> 00:06:33.680 We're getting into August here and you need to get 123 00:06:33.680 --> 00:06:35.639 those boards ordered so they get here. They are the 124 00:06:35.680 --> 00:06:38.000 best boards in the business. Use my code auction brief 125 00:06:38.000 --> 00:06:40.680 for ten percent off. All right, that's going to do 126 00:06:40.720 --> 00:06:43.399 it for the preliminary stuff today, Let's get into this 127 00:06:43.480 --> 00:06:46.279 auction from Saturday and let's see what we can learn 128 00:06:47.399 --> 00:06:52.000 auction talk. So with anything that I do, there's a 129 00:06:52.000 --> 00:06:53.680 little bit of setup work here that we got to 130 00:06:53.680 --> 00:06:56.800 get through. It's not this fun stuff, but it's really 131 00:06:56.839 --> 00:06:59.920 important to understanding what happened in the draft. And I 132 00:07:00.199 --> 00:07:02.800 know that going through mock drafts sometimes can be a 133 00:07:02.839 --> 00:07:05.959 little bit tiresome, but I think this is completely different 134 00:07:06.319 --> 00:07:08.879 than a snake draft or even a mock auction. This 135 00:07:08.959 --> 00:07:13.040 is real, live ammunition, and that's why it's so valuable. 136 00:07:13.480 --> 00:07:15.240 And I'm not here to just be like, hey, check 137 00:07:15.240 --> 00:07:18.040 out my team. But I have to do this from 138 00:07:18.040 --> 00:07:22.279 the perspective of myself because I can't get anyone else's head, 139 00:07:22.600 --> 00:07:24.720 and I have to talk about my team, to tell 140 00:07:24.720 --> 00:07:26.639 you how I did things and how I played it, 141 00:07:27.000 --> 00:07:29.040 and I think that's really valuable stuff. And I've been 142 00:07:29.160 --> 00:07:32.240 told in the past that people like hearing what I've 143 00:07:32.279 --> 00:07:34.839 done in an auction and so, and you know how 144 00:07:34.879 --> 00:07:36.720 I think about stuff, and that's why the salary Cap 145 00:07:36.759 --> 00:07:39.920 Summit was so successful last year. So that's what we're 146 00:07:39.959 --> 00:07:41.519 going to do here. You're going to go inside my 147 00:07:41.639 --> 00:07:44.319 mind as I walk through this draft, and we're going 148 00:07:44.399 --> 00:07:47.199 to do it in chronological order. But let's get some 149 00:07:47.240 --> 00:07:49.279 setup work done here. I want to tell you about 150 00:07:49.279 --> 00:07:53.040 who the players were, what the scoring and roster requirements are, 151 00:07:53.360 --> 00:07:56.240 what my approach was, and what my par sheets looked like. 152 00:07:57.160 --> 00:07:59.160 And then I'm going to tell you four themes that 153 00:07:59.240 --> 00:08:01.920 came out of this thing. And then you can be 154 00:08:01.959 --> 00:08:03.839 thinking about those themes as we go through, because I'm 155 00:08:03.839 --> 00:08:05.839 not really going to spend much time on them. I'm 156 00:08:05.879 --> 00:08:08.600 just going to tell you, hey, here's the general themes, 157 00:08:08.920 --> 00:08:11.759 and then you'll see them develop as we walk through 158 00:08:11.759 --> 00:08:14.120 the draft. All right, So let's get a little bit 159 00:08:14.160 --> 00:08:17.360 of this setup work done and move into the meat 160 00:08:17.439 --> 00:08:20.439 of the auction. All right, Just generally, don't forget this 161 00:08:20.600 --> 00:08:23.680 is an expert league. We have a two hundred dollars cap. 162 00:08:23.720 --> 00:08:27.399 We go really deep in our starting lineups. The players 163 00:08:27.439 --> 00:08:31.319 in the room are JJ Zacharieson, Jeff Ratcliffe, Doug Orth, 164 00:08:31.680 --> 00:08:37.480 Scott Pianowski, Colby Conway, Matt Harmon, Jim Coventry, Marcus Grant, 165 00:08:37.480 --> 00:08:41.799 and Michael Florio shared a team. Andy Barns, Patrick Dhugherty, 166 00:08:42.080 --> 00:08:48.159 Hutchinson Brown, Brad Evans and Brian Drake and Jamison Hutchinson 167 00:08:48.240 --> 00:08:50.480 did three quarters of the auction for Drake when he 168 00:08:50.519 --> 00:08:53.960 went on the air. So, folks, that's an incredible lineup. 169 00:08:54.000 --> 00:08:56.080 It's tough. We don't need to belabor the point. These 170 00:08:56.200 --> 00:08:58.480 guys know what they're doing. And like I said to 171 00:08:59.240 --> 00:09:03.000 Scott on Tuesday on discussions with Drew, not all these 172 00:09:03.039 --> 00:09:06.159 guys do auctions very often. Some of them this is 173 00:09:06.200 --> 00:09:10.600 their only auction every year. But they really know fantasy football, 174 00:09:10.639 --> 00:09:15.399 so that helps to make up for whatever skill they 175 00:09:15.480 --> 00:09:19.200 lack in auctions. They're just really good at fantasy football, 176 00:09:19.240 --> 00:09:22.080 so they know values really well and they're rarely going 177 00:09:22.159 --> 00:09:24.080 to get out of line. It's going to be a 178 00:09:24.120 --> 00:09:27.799 pretty solid group regardless. And we'll hear a little bit 179 00:09:27.799 --> 00:09:31.360 more about that and a little bit but don't forget 180 00:09:31.440 --> 00:09:34.000 how deep we go here. We start three wide receivers 181 00:09:34.039 --> 00:09:36.639 and we have to have three flexes with two running backs. 182 00:09:36.919 --> 00:09:39.120 It's a one QB league. But when you go three 183 00:09:39.120 --> 00:09:44.080 flexes deep, as Pianowski pointed out on Tuesday. Just the 184 00:09:44.120 --> 00:09:47.799 starting receivers themselves is forty two, and then when you 185 00:09:47.799 --> 00:09:51.080 figure you're starting some flexes, you're going fifty to sixty 186 00:09:51.120 --> 00:09:56.360 wide receivers deep every week. So this is a real 187 00:09:56.879 --> 00:10:01.639 exercise in how we approach a different form. And something 188 00:10:01.679 --> 00:10:04.000 that people talk about all the time that you just 189 00:10:04.080 --> 00:10:07.159 have to remember is that when you have this deep 190 00:10:07.159 --> 00:10:10.519 of a format, things change drastically. And one of the 191 00:10:10.519 --> 00:10:13.960 things that changes is that the top prices tend to 192 00:10:14.000 --> 00:10:16.679 be a little bit lower than normal. And while that 193 00:10:16.799 --> 00:10:21.720 sounds counterintuitive, it's actually quite logical because the top prices 194 00:10:22.240 --> 00:10:25.360 come down as people get nervous about filling out the 195 00:10:25.360 --> 00:10:28.519 back of the roster for those flex spots. That's what 196 00:10:28.559 --> 00:10:31.679 we saw in this room, and it's what I've seen 197 00:10:32.559 --> 00:10:36.320 historically when I've been in drafts with a smart people 198 00:10:36.600 --> 00:10:40.320 and b deep rosters. The top prices get shaved off 199 00:10:40.360 --> 00:10:42.559 a little bit, and that's what happened here. I think 200 00:10:42.600 --> 00:10:46.399 I probably underestimated that just to touch I know this 201 00:10:46.440 --> 00:10:47.960 in my head, but I should have thought about it 202 00:10:48.039 --> 00:10:51.120 just a little bit more. I was in on Jumior 203 00:10:51.120 --> 00:10:54.360 Gibbs and Bjohn Robinson in the mid fifties and was 204 00:10:54.399 --> 00:10:57.399 mixing it up there and ultimately backed off. But if 205 00:10:57.440 --> 00:10:59.039 I had thought about it a little bit harder, I 206 00:10:59.039 --> 00:11:02.039 wouldn't even have been at that point, because I think 207 00:11:02.080 --> 00:11:04.320 that's pretty normal that the top prices come down a 208 00:11:04.360 --> 00:11:06.559 little bit in such a deep league. So now we 209 00:11:06.799 --> 00:11:09.559 know what the league is all about. Let me tell 210 00:11:09.559 --> 00:11:12.320 you a little bit about my par sheet and my approach, 211 00:11:12.360 --> 00:11:14.000 and I'm going to give you what my team is, 212 00:11:14.440 --> 00:11:16.480 and then we can walk through how we got there 213 00:11:16.799 --> 00:11:19.480 with the themes that were present in the room. Typically, 214 00:11:19.559 --> 00:11:21.440 I'm only going to make two par sheets when I 215 00:11:21.440 --> 00:11:23.679 go into a draft. I know people like to do more, 216 00:11:24.120 --> 00:11:26.120 and sometimes I will do more, and this is one 217 00:11:26.120 --> 00:11:29.320 of those situations where I decided to do that. And 218 00:11:29.360 --> 00:11:32.080 the reason for that was that I really felt like 219 00:11:32.080 --> 00:11:34.840 there might be an opportunity to get a top level quarterback. 220 00:11:34.919 --> 00:11:37.000 We've had this conversation before. I'm not going to go 221 00:11:37.039 --> 00:11:39.320 over it again. I think in a room where people 222 00:11:39.360 --> 00:11:43.399 play quarterback chicken, you can sometimes find really good quarterbacks 223 00:11:43.399 --> 00:11:47.720 for cheap. I did in this draft. However, I also 224 00:11:47.879 --> 00:11:50.360 was thinking about Josh Allen when I made up my 225 00:11:50.360 --> 00:11:53.120 first par sheet, so I allotted twenty one dollars for 226 00:11:53.200 --> 00:11:55.480 Josh Allen on my first par sheet. And it's kind 227 00:11:55.480 --> 00:11:57.399 of funny that I didn't actually bid twenty one when 228 00:11:57.440 --> 00:12:00.320 I had the chance to for Allan. But i'll tell 229 00:12:00.320 --> 00:12:02.080 you why in a little bit. So I made a 230 00:12:02.120 --> 00:12:04.559 QB PAR sheet that was twenty one dollars to try 231 00:12:04.600 --> 00:12:07.080 to get Josh Allen. I made another PAR sheet that 232 00:12:07.279 --> 00:12:10.440 was in case brock Bowers went too cheap. And when 233 00:12:10.440 --> 00:12:12.759 I say too cheap, I meant if I can get 234 00:12:12.799 --> 00:12:16.039 the guy below thirty five, preferably thirty one, thirty two, 235 00:12:16.120 --> 00:12:19.559 maybe even thirty, I was going to run with it. Now, 236 00:12:19.600 --> 00:12:21.399 I didn't think that was going to happen in this room. 237 00:12:21.480 --> 00:12:24.080 It didn't, but I wanted to be prepared, so that's 238 00:12:24.080 --> 00:12:27.399 why I had three par sheets instead of the normal two. 239 00:12:27.559 --> 00:12:30.720 My last PAR sheet was a cheap quarterback par sheet 240 00:12:30.759 --> 00:12:33.080 and that's the one I ended up using. And I 241 00:12:33.080 --> 00:12:34.679 got to say, this is kind of funny. I just 242 00:12:34.679 --> 00:12:37.919 got a kick out of this. This is really just anecdotal, 243 00:12:38.399 --> 00:12:40.120 but I thought it was pretty funny. I've been doing 244 00:12:40.159 --> 00:12:41.799 a lot of par sheets in the last couple of 245 00:12:41.840 --> 00:12:45.559 years and it started to become pretty instinctual. So I'm 246 00:12:45.600 --> 00:12:48.720 sitting in my hotel room, as is the tradition, about 247 00:12:48.759 --> 00:12:50.759 three or four o'clock in the morning on Friday night 248 00:12:51.039 --> 00:12:52.759 when I have to be at the King's Classic at ten, 249 00:12:53.080 --> 00:12:55.360 and I'm doing my par sheets. And I'm not putting 250 00:12:55.399 --> 00:12:58.879 that off because I think I'm too good and I'm 251 00:12:58.919 --> 00:13:00.960 not ignoring my own advice to prepare. But I've been 252 00:13:01.000 --> 00:13:03.320 thinking about my par sheets for weeks, so I've already 253 00:13:03.320 --> 00:13:05.639 got the ideas in my head. And here's the funny part. 254 00:13:05.919 --> 00:13:08.759 After I do my quarterback and tight end heavy par sheets, 255 00:13:09.000 --> 00:13:11.360 I go, Okay, here's what I think I want to 256 00:13:11.399 --> 00:13:14.679 do if that other stuff doesn't work out. And I 257 00:13:14.720 --> 00:13:16.840 went down and I took my first pass at the 258 00:13:16.879 --> 00:13:20.159 bar sheet. And Folks, in all the years I've been 259 00:13:20.159 --> 00:13:23.639 doing par sheets, I have never once taken a first 260 00:13:23.639 --> 00:13:25.840 pass at a par sheet and been dead on two 261 00:13:25.879 --> 00:13:29.200 hundred dollars. And that's what happened. I've been drinking all night. 262 00:13:29.399 --> 00:13:32.240 I'm sitting in my hotel room, tired of sack, just 263 00:13:32.360 --> 00:13:34.159 partying all night, three thirty in the morning, and I 264 00:13:34.320 --> 00:13:36.159 just ripped a two hundred dollars par sheet on the 265 00:13:36.159 --> 00:13:39.159 first guess and I didn't touch it. I didn't touch 266 00:13:39.200 --> 00:13:41.360 it because I liked it that much and I was 267 00:13:41.440 --> 00:13:44.399 that tuned in and I said to myself, I think 268 00:13:44.440 --> 00:13:46.440 it's just time to go to bed, and so it 269 00:13:46.519 --> 00:13:50.120 was pretty funny. I enjoyed it a lot, and this 270 00:13:50.200 --> 00:13:53.000 par sheet ended up being pretty darn good. And you'll 271 00:13:53.039 --> 00:13:55.919 see that I wavered from it with i'mon Ross Saint Brown. 272 00:13:55.960 --> 00:13:59.320 But otherwise this was a pretty strong par sheet and 273 00:13:59.360 --> 00:14:02.799 it was pretty accurate. Despite feeling that maybe I didn't 274 00:14:02.840 --> 00:14:05.279 really do what I wanted to do at times, it 275 00:14:05.360 --> 00:14:08.720 was pretty accurate. And part of that is something that 276 00:14:08.759 --> 00:14:10.399 I preach about all the time, is that you have 277 00:14:10.480 --> 00:14:12.720 to go back and look at what actually happened. And 278 00:14:12.759 --> 00:14:14.519 I had this conversation at dinner, because we go to 279 00:14:14.600 --> 00:14:18.519 dinner right after this all ends, and it's a bunch 280 00:14:18.559 --> 00:14:20.279 of guys that were in the room. JJ Winner was 281 00:14:20.320 --> 00:14:23.080 watching the draft, Jamison was in the draft, Pianowski's in 282 00:14:23.080 --> 00:14:25.759 the draft, Drake is in the draft. All these guys 283 00:14:26.240 --> 00:14:29.840 are having their impressions, and those impressions are really important 284 00:14:29.879 --> 00:14:33.759 to what actually happened, because sometimes you think something happened 285 00:14:33.960 --> 00:14:36.519 and it didn't actually go down that way. So it's 286 00:14:36.679 --> 00:14:39.159 really important to have these post mortems about what you did, 287 00:14:39.679 --> 00:14:42.600 all right. So that's the setup and my par sheet 288 00:14:42.679 --> 00:14:45.759 for the cheap quarterback that I that I put down 289 00:14:46.120 --> 00:14:48.480 that was perfect. The first time I went through was 290 00:14:48.519 --> 00:14:53.200 the following quarterback three bucks, running back one forty four, 291 00:14:53.759 --> 00:14:56.720 running back two twenty eight. And you'll notice that's a 292 00:14:56.720 --> 00:14:59.200 little bit different than my normal build. I normally dump 293 00:14:59.200 --> 00:15:01.480 out of RB two, but I think the value is 294 00:15:01.519 --> 00:15:03.559 there in the mid tiers at running back, where we 295 00:15:03.919 --> 00:15:06.720 usually call it the dead zone. I think that that's 296 00:15:06.720 --> 00:15:08.759 now switched to a wide receiver dead zone. We'll talk 297 00:15:08.799 --> 00:15:11.200 about that in a minute. So RB two twenty eight, 298 00:15:12.120 --> 00:15:15.919 wide receiver one thirty two, wide receiver two twenty six, 299 00:15:16.360 --> 00:15:22.559 wide receiver three eighteen, tight end five flexes eleven, nine 300 00:15:22.679 --> 00:15:27.120 and eight, and then my bench six, four, three and 301 00:15:27.159 --> 00:15:30.120 then one one one. So I'm putting almost no money 302 00:15:30.120 --> 00:15:33.200 into my bench. And that's something that has changed a 303 00:15:33.200 --> 00:15:36.120 little bit for me over the years, not only in 304 00:15:36.159 --> 00:15:38.799 deep leagues like the King's Classic, but in most leagues. 305 00:15:38.879 --> 00:15:41.120 In most of my pars sheet builds. You're going to 306 00:15:41.200 --> 00:15:44.159 notice this year that I do not care about your bench, 307 00:15:44.279 --> 00:15:47.240 and I've cared less and less about that over the years. 308 00:15:47.679 --> 00:15:50.200 That's something that I'm shifting away from and if I 309 00:15:50.240 --> 00:15:52.399 can save money on my starters and feel good, Okay, 310 00:15:52.480 --> 00:15:55.000 that's fine. Let's get some depth. But for the most part, 311 00:15:55.080 --> 00:15:57.480 I just don't care. I want to be aggressive on 312 00:15:57.519 --> 00:15:59.519 the waiver wire early and I want to be able 313 00:15:59.519 --> 00:16:01.960 to cut people. All right. So that's it right there, 314 00:16:02.000 --> 00:16:05.200 as far as the setup with my parshiet, Let's talk 315 00:16:05.240 --> 00:16:08.399 a little bit about what were the themes that I 316 00:16:08.480 --> 00:16:12.559 pulled from the draft. And then after I finished talking 317 00:16:12.639 --> 00:16:14.279 about them, you're going to think, well, we didn't discuss 318 00:16:14.320 --> 00:16:16.480 that very much. And that's exactly right, because I want 319 00:16:16.519 --> 00:16:18.480 you to just take those themes and I want you 320 00:16:18.519 --> 00:16:22.159 to think about them as we roll through the draft chronologically. 321 00:16:22.840 --> 00:16:25.679 All right, Let's talk about four themes I pulled from 322 00:16:25.720 --> 00:16:36.600 the King's Classic auction on Saturday. The first theme is 323 00:16:36.639 --> 00:16:39.200 one that we beat to death on Tuesday with Scott Pianowski. 324 00:16:39.200 --> 00:16:41.120 But I have to say it again, this was a 325 00:16:41.159 --> 00:16:45.080 tight conservative room. And so what we have to decide 326 00:16:45.440 --> 00:16:48.159 when this is happening in the room is how are 327 00:16:48.200 --> 00:16:52.919 we preceding the rest of the auction Because you find 328 00:16:52.960 --> 00:16:55.600 out really early on that this is a tight conservative group, 329 00:16:56.039 --> 00:16:59.159 and what are you going to do when you notice 330 00:16:59.200 --> 00:17:01.559 that that's what's going on in the draft room. This 331 00:17:01.639 --> 00:17:04.240 is really important stuff. How do I approach a tight 332 00:17:04.279 --> 00:17:08.200 conservative room? And my idea was that I was going 333 00:17:08.240 --> 00:17:10.680 to strike early and not have any regrets about going 334 00:17:10.720 --> 00:17:13.559 for top level players, because, as I said at the 335 00:17:13.599 --> 00:17:16.440 beginning of the summer, it's all about the high level 336 00:17:16.480 --> 00:17:20.079 producers that are going to win you fantasy titles, and 337 00:17:20.160 --> 00:17:22.880 getting a bunch of eight dollar guys isn't necessarily going 338 00:17:22.920 --> 00:17:25.200 to do it for you. You have to have difference makers. 339 00:17:25.599 --> 00:17:27.640 So in a tight conservative room, I think we need 340 00:17:27.640 --> 00:17:31.079 to be ready to strike. So the theme of this 341 00:17:31.200 --> 00:17:33.960 draft was it was a tight conservative group that really 342 00:17:34.039 --> 00:17:37.480 knew their values. The second theme I pulled out of 343 00:17:37.480 --> 00:17:42.160 it was that I think that in a typical online auction, 344 00:17:42.759 --> 00:17:46.799 you're getting a countdown clock at ten to nine, eight seven, 345 00:17:47.160 --> 00:17:50.119 so people know when they have to bid. But as 346 00:17:50.160 --> 00:17:53.160 we're doing a live auction in the King's Classic with 347 00:17:53.839 --> 00:17:58.279 a professional auctioneer, it changed his things, okay, and it 348 00:17:58.400 --> 00:18:02.200 changed that draft. Now Matt Cruzy, friend of the show, 349 00:18:02.240 --> 00:18:03.920 He's going to be on the Salary Cap summit on 350 00:18:04.000 --> 00:18:07.240 Monday night or excuse me night, Tuesday night. The fourth 351 00:18:07.559 --> 00:18:09.559 and we're going to talk about this a little bit 352 00:18:09.599 --> 00:18:12.519 with him, but him and I have had the conversation before. 353 00:18:12.680 --> 00:18:14.960 He knows where I stand on this stuff, and so 354 00:18:15.039 --> 00:18:18.279 this opinion won't be a surprise to him. But I 355 00:18:18.279 --> 00:18:20.799 think there was a lack of poker against each other. 356 00:18:21.119 --> 00:18:24.279 I think there was a lack of headbutting against each 357 00:18:24.279 --> 00:18:27.519 other in the draft, and I think I can attribute 358 00:18:27.559 --> 00:18:32.279 that to the time everyone had to think about their bids. 359 00:18:32.799 --> 00:18:35.240 One of the benefits that I've always said that we 360 00:18:35.319 --> 00:18:38.599 have as people who are more prepared, who have a parshet, 361 00:18:38.759 --> 00:18:42.720 and who study more the craft of auction drafting, I 362 00:18:42.720 --> 00:18:45.599 think one of our benefits is that we can force 363 00:18:45.640 --> 00:18:48.799 people into mistakes by using the pace of the auction 364 00:18:49.000 --> 00:18:52.039 to do it. And that pace, a lot of times 365 00:18:52.279 --> 00:18:55.960 involves that countdown, the going once, the going twice, The 366 00:18:55.960 --> 00:18:59.079 beeping of the clock in front of you online gives 367 00:18:59.079 --> 00:19:02.240 you that pressure, builds that anxiety and forces you to 368 00:19:02.279 --> 00:19:05.720 make decisions. I think what ended up happening with the 369 00:19:05.759 --> 00:19:08.759 live auctioneer was that there was a lot of time 370 00:19:08.799 --> 00:19:12.720 to think after people were out. He gave everyone time 371 00:19:12.759 --> 00:19:15.319 to bid, and that's okay, that's a style we all 372 00:19:15.359 --> 00:19:19.519 have to adjust to and we all have the same auctioneer. 373 00:19:19.559 --> 00:19:22.000 It's not like that's something that's unique to me. But 374 00:19:22.079 --> 00:19:24.400 I believe it nerved a little bit of my skill 375 00:19:25.319 --> 00:19:29.200 and ability to manipulate the auction room because everyone had 376 00:19:29.240 --> 00:19:32.599 a lot of time to think, and I believe that 377 00:19:32.640 --> 00:19:36.240 contributed to the stability and the pricing as well. We 378 00:19:36.400 --> 00:19:38.759 just didn't see a lot of wacky stuff. And again, 379 00:19:38.839 --> 00:19:41.480 it's smart guys, and if you give them time to think, 380 00:19:41.720 --> 00:19:44.519 they're not going to do wacky things. If you pressure them, 381 00:19:44.640 --> 00:19:47.720 they might, they might make mistakes. So I think that 382 00:19:47.839 --> 00:19:49.480 was a theme of the draft too, and I think 383 00:19:49.680 --> 00:19:53.680 overall the stable pricing was a result of it. The 384 00:19:53.720 --> 00:19:57.240 third theme I noticed was that despite the fact that 385 00:19:57.240 --> 00:20:01.240 we've spent the whole summer talking about how personnel is 386 00:20:01.359 --> 00:20:04.119 changing in the NFL and how wide receiver twos are 387 00:20:04.240 --> 00:20:09.319 less valuable than ever before, the prices did not reflect 388 00:20:09.319 --> 00:20:11.960 that in this auction. And I'm going to tell you 389 00:20:12.039 --> 00:20:14.799 I don't think the prices are reflecting that in general 390 00:20:15.160 --> 00:20:17.799 in the MOX that we're doing either. So I think 391 00:20:17.839 --> 00:20:20.079 one of the big things I'm going to be hammering 392 00:20:20.200 --> 00:20:22.920 in my drafts and in my draft plan coming up 393 00:20:23.000 --> 00:20:27.319 for football guys that I'm writing soon is that running 394 00:20:27.319 --> 00:20:30.880 backs showed greater fantasy utility last year than they ever 395 00:20:30.960 --> 00:20:37.039 have and wide receiver twos tanked yet dot dot dot 396 00:20:37.400 --> 00:20:41.440 prices didn't reflect that, and they aren't reflecting that. And 397 00:20:41.519 --> 00:20:44.640 there's our edge. I believe there is our edge. Look, 398 00:20:44.680 --> 00:20:47.880 I just did a quick glance at last year. But 399 00:20:47.960 --> 00:20:50.319 the wide receiver twenty four last year averaged twelve and 400 00:20:50.359 --> 00:20:54.000 a half PPR points per game. The running back twenty 401 00:20:54.000 --> 00:20:58.200