Welcome to the Roadwire Fantasy Baseball podcast brought to you by fan tracks. I'm your host James

Anderson and today I've got my buddy Mark Winneker. We're going to talk auctions and I know we talked

auctions last week but it's that time of year. Auctions are so much fun. And Mark is a much more seasoned auction player

than I am. We're going to go through some of the auctions he's already completed, what he was

looking to do in those and how it all turned out. And then he's going to kind of go over my big

option that I completed. And we'll talk about some areas where I maybe went

wrong and could have made some better decisions. But first, Mark, since like I said,

you're a seasoned auction player. Why don't you give the people an idea of just kind of how many

NFBC auctions you've done in your life.

Hey, James.

I really appreciate you having me back on.

I have done 51 NFBC auctions starting in 2015. That includes four NL only and 2AL only.

And I really miss those,

but it's gotten so much tougher with the way the

teams, you know, deploy their personnel now to make those really viable, at least for me,

as far as the amount of work. But interesting story, back in 2015, before the NFBC had

software of their own for auctions, we would auction on

RT Sports and then they would have to move all the results over to the NFBC platform.

And Todd Zola and Andy Saxon used to coordinate and facilitate those.

We would actually do the seven-round

reserve draft via email. So that just tells you how far the NFPC has come with their software,

and now it's all in one spot and much easier, and I don't have to bug Zola to tell people to pick their 27th round pick.

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