Episode 232: How To Win Your Auction Draft
Establish The Run Fantasy Football
Fantasy Football
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2021
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Chris Eibl is one of the most successful high-stakes auction players in the game, winning so much he got inducted into the NFFC Hall of Fame. He sits down with Adam Levitan and Mike Leone to discuss optimal auction strategy and how it applies to this year's fantasy landscape.
Show Notes
In this episode, we discuss:
- Chris' background
- Stars and Scrubs?
- The bench in auction
- Players undervalued in auction relative to snake
Links mentioned in the episode:
- Silva’s Top 150 - https://establishtherun.com/evan-silvas-fantasy-football-top-150/
- ETR’s Underdog Best Ball Top 300 Rankings - https://establishtherun.com/etrs-top-300-for-underdogfantasy/
- 2021 Rankings Homepage - https://establishtherun.com/2021-draft-kit-rankings-homepage/
- Subscriber-Only Discord Instructions - https://establishtherun.com/my-account/discord/
- Chris Eibl's Auction Strategy Article - https://establishtherun.com/6-common-auction-mistakes-and-how-to-avoid-them/
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Timestamps:
Chris’ background in Auction Drafts (2:15) | Biggest strategy differences (4:06) | How to prepare for an Auction Draft (8:41) | The Stars and Scrubs Approach (11:16) | How to get your “stars” (13:30) | Handling “buzz” guys (18:41) | The Nomination process (21:41) | Handling “boring” guys (22:57) | Auction Drafts: Endgame (26:06) |
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 232 of the official established the run dot com podcast. |
| 0:22.0 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:23.0 | I am joined by the one and only Michael Leoni and today we have a very very special guest. |
| 0:29.8 | This is a young man who has conquered the high stakes auction league streets. |
| 0:34.6 | He's in the NFFC Hall of Fame, which frankly I can't even believe is actually a thing, |
| 0:38.8 | but I found out the NFFC Hall of Fame is actually a thing. |
| 0:42.0 | He's won at least one high stakes auction draft every year since 2012. |
| 0:48.0 | It is. |
| 0:49.0 | Chris Ible. |
| 0:50.0 | Chris. |
| 0:51.0 | How's it going today? |
| 0:52.0 | It's going great. |
| 0:53.0 | Thank you for having me. |
| 0:54.0 | I decided to talk about auctions. |
| 0:56.1 | Okay. |
| 0:57.1 | This man has auction in his blood. |
| 0:58.4 | Leoni has it going today? |
| 0:59.6 | It's going well. |
| 1:01.4 | You know, we were scrambling over here a little bit. |
| 1:04.6 | Some technology fails just trying to get those out of the way before our FFPC draft tonight. |
| 1:10.0 | You got two fancy equipment. |
| 1:12.9 | You know what I mean? |
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