How To Dominate Your Auction Draft (Episode 604 with Adam Levitan, Evan Silva, Jack Haan, and Chris Eibl)
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Fantasy Football
4.7 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 17 August 2023
⏱️ 49 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan and Evan Silva are joined by Jack Haan and Chris Eibl to talk through optimal strategies and tips for auction drafts.
In this episode, we discuss:
Everything you need to know about auction drafts
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Timestamps:
(2:36) - How to prepare for an auction draft
(6:09) - Recent trends in auction drafts
(8:32) - Gaps between elite to middle tier
(12:46) - Can you take a preferred approach?
(16:59) - What materials to bring to a draft?
(20:50) - Attaching certain dollar amounts for starters and bench
(23:31) - How to build a RB room
(28:19) - TE drafting strategy
(31:26) - Deviating from plans for value
(33:26) - Nomination strategy
(39:46) - Who are the better value players this season?
(43:29) - Who are the worst value players this season?
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, and welcome to episode 604 of the official established the run dot com podcast. |
| 0:20.2 | My name is Adam Levittin as always joined by Evan Silva. |
| 0:22.8 | And today we have two very very special guests to old friends of the show that annually |
| 0:29.8 | emerge from their bunker of high stake Spanish football auction drafts where they where |
| 0:34.6 | they have been incredibly successful to talk all things auction with us. |
| 0:39.4 | It is, of course, Chris Eibel and Jack Hunt who are not promoting anything. |
| 0:43.4 | They're just high stakes players here to help Jack has gone today. |
| 0:47.3 | Let's go and well. |
| 0:48.3 | Thank you guys. |
| 0:49.3 | Chris has gone today, buddy, doing well excited to talk about my favorite topic. |
| 0:53.9 | Yes, favorite topic auction draft great time to be alive. |
| 0:57.7 | Evan has gone today. |
| 0:59.6 | It's going really well. |
| 1:01.0 | Always a good opportunity to learn from two of the best. |
| 1:04.8 | Just hear them rap about auction strategy and all that kind of stuff. |
| 1:07.9 | And I think that this has become one of our most popular shows because auction content |
| 1:12.3 | is not, you know, I feel like it's underrepresented and so this one's always popular. |
| 1:21.3 | And a ton of people do auction drafts and I would say it's just more fair period, like |
| 1:26.0 | and I think that's why they're popular. |
| 1:27.6 | If I want my crack at Tony Pollard, I don't want to have to have a certain pick. |
| 1:31.2 | If I want my crack at Christian McCaffer, I don't want to have to have a certain pick. |
| 1:34.8 | I want to come up with a strategy for to talk about all that today. |
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