What is an 'online auction' draft in fantasy football?
Online auction drafts are when you get together with a group of owners, usually from all around the country, but instead of drafting your fantasy football team, you do an auction online. There are only a couple of sites that do this: fantasyauctioner.com, mockdraftcentral, auctiondraft.com - just look it up by goggling it. You'll find online auctions. Basically, you get together and instead of drafting, you auction it. Everyone has a certain amount of money. It's really cool. With the systems they set up, you can see how much money you have left, and there will be a timer. Usually it will be really quick - five or seven seconds. During an online auction draft, there will also be the 'going once, going twice' stage. To pick the player you have to have a big amount on that player. You start the bidding on LaDainian Tomlinson at $30. Someone somewhere else goes $31, and you just keep adding money to that or putting how much money you want to bid. The site will say, 'going once, going twice' and then every player in the league will get sold, until every team in your fantasy football league is filled up and you have all the roster requirements, just like in a regular league. Online auction drafts are a little more intense than other drafts. They take some quick thinking and will probably take a little longer - just as a warning going into it.
