How To Win Your Auction Draft This Season (Episode 894 with Adam Levitan and NFFC Hall of Famer Chris Eibl)
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4.8 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 13 August 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Adam Levitan sits down with a legend of the Fantasy Football Auction Draft industry, NFFC Hall of Famer Chris Eibl, to discuss everything you need to know to win your Auction Drafts in the 2025 Fantasy Football season.
In this episode, we discuss:
- What trends are emerging in 2025 Auction Drafts
- A complete guide to nominating players
- How strategies change for Superflex Auction draft leagues
- How to ensure you win the end game of drafts
- What Chris thinks is the best way to split your budget between starters and bench players
Timestamps:
0:00 - Intro
1:31 - 2025 Fantasy Football Auction Landscape
5:42 - Stars & Scrubs
8:20 - A Guide For Positional Spending
10:38 - Starters vs Bench Spending Allocation
12:32 - Adapt or Pivot in Inflated Value Drafts
14:37 - How Rookie RB Class Impacts 2025 Auction Drafts
16:28 - Strategies For Drafting Quarterbacks
18:13 - Strategies For Drafting Tight Ends
20:16 - A Guide to Nominating
21:50 - When To Bid Over Target Price
22:50 - Unique Trends in 2025 Auction Drafts
24:41 - Which Players Are Being Overvalued or Undervalued?
27:21 - End Game Strategies
28:33 - Chris’ Biggest Disagreements From ETR Rankings
31:05 - Superflex in Auction Drafts
34:25 - Listener Questions
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to episode 894 of the official Establish the Run.com podcast. |
| 0:21.8 | My name is Adam Levittan. |
| 0:22.8 | I am one of the co-founders here at ETR, and today we have a very, very special guest back |
| 0:28.7 | for his much anticipated annual visit. |
| 0:32.3 | This is a young man who is in the NFFC Hall of Fame, |
| 0:36.0 | has won at least 12 auction titles on FFC on NFFC alone that I know of. |
| 0:42.0 | One of the most successful auction players ever high-stakes season-long grinder. |
| 0:47.1 | It is Chris Eible. |
| 0:50.1 | Chris, thanks for doing the show again. |
| 0:51.8 | How's it going? |
| 0:53.1 | Doing great. |
| 0:53.9 | Thank you, Adam. I always appreciate |
| 0:55.3 | you having me on each year. And this should be a fun warm up for my trip to Vegas and New York |
| 1:02.3 | to participate in a bunch of high-stakes auctions and drafts all over the country. |
| 1:06.9 | Yes, what a life. Chris is about to embark on yet another trip around the country |
| 1:10.7 | to draft fantasy football teams against other people. What a life. Chris is about to embark on yet another trip around the country to draft fantasy football teams against other people. What a life. On today's show, we're going to talk all things auction drafts, general strategy, how to apply it to this year's landscape, how to prepare. We'll get into some super flex talk, and we will take your listener |
| 1:29.2 | questions. I want to start, Chris, with a high level view of 2025. We saw so much flow through |
| 1:38.1 | running back last year that really affected the fantasy football landscape from a high level, a macro view. How are you thinking about |
| 1:46.1 | 2025 with auction in mind? Yeah, the 2025 landscape is different in maybe a couple of ways. |
| 1:53.5 | We have a top tier of players that's maybe five or six deep. That's a little more thin than usual. |
| 1:59.0 | So you're seeing those same top six guys go at the |
| 2:01.6 | end of at the top of every draft. And I think you're starting each auction with an initial |
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