Silent Auction

SUPER 16  – Two leagues in the Association held two very different drafts this Sunday as the Super 16 and AF’s Fantasy Circus each held their annual event.  The Super 16 – AF’s NFL ‘reenactment‘ league – kicked off their 6th season with a keeper draft that, for the first time ever allowed uneven keepers to be held.  The S-16 is a 16 team league in which each team represents an NFL squad.  Operating with both offense, and high scoring IDP, the league allows teams to start off with keepers selected from the NFL team they represent, and then to fill out the remainder of their rosters through the draft.  In past years, the number of keepers were mandated at 10 total, but starting in 2017, the teams were able to keep as many – or as few – hometeam keepers as they desired.

The new keeper rule led to some widely diverging strategies, with some teams holding onto as many as 13 hometeam players, while a few teams kept only 6.  The way the S16 draft was set up, all 16 teams had a pick each round until their roster filled and they were done.  The teams that held onto more hometeam keepers, of course, filled their rosters first, and beginning with round 12, each round of the draft narrowed to fewer and fewer teams picking until it got down to just The Indy-structibles, Who Dat Saints, and The Eagle has landed, who all kept only 6 hometeam players, left picking in the final rounds.  An unintended affect of the uneven keepers – with all keeper selections placed at the end of the draft instead of the beginning – was that the draft tracker was was stuck on the final round 25 of the draft; making teams have to focus more closely on the progression of the draft.  The result was a virtually silent draft as teams got to the business of filling their hometeam rosters.  Follow this link for full Super 16 Draft results

FANTASY CIRCUS – The atmosphere at the Fantasy Circus draft was just the opposite of the businesslike atmosphere of the Super-16 draft…it was more of a circus.  The Fantasy Circus draft is an auction, and the overwhelming majority of this year’s performers showed up – those that didn’t, suffered at the hands of the auto-draft function…with perhaps a little encouragement from the rest of the drafters.  With 16 different teams, there were just as many strategies, some teams trying to strike a balance throughout the draft, some teams spending big early on studs, and others sitting back and waiting to pounce.  The competition in the Circus is broken down into two groups of 8 who will play each other in a single round robin schedule in Weeks 1-7.  Teams must be in the top half of their group at the end of that Round 1 in order to advance to Round 2.  The 8 teams that are eliminated after Week 7 will have their rosters cleared onto the Waiver Wire for the advancing teams to pilfer, so those that make it to the Circus’s second act may have rosters that look very different than they do coming out of the draft.  Follow this link for the full Fantasy Circus Draft results.