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Not only did I lose the $7 savings I had, but I lost $8 for my TE budget slot to boot. Now I would have to regroup with a $2 TE and $1 players the rest of the way. I even questioned it when they posted that I only had $2 that I could bid on a player now because I guess I was in shock that I did this to myself.
If I would have stayed the course as planned—Chad Ochocinco went for $12 and Chris Cooley for $8—I could have theoretically had $17 to play with for the rest of my bench slots which would have been awesome and I would have had a killer team.
Just goes to show what I said earlier: you must stick to your budget throughout the draft and not get carried away at pushing the bid on players that you do not want.
As it turned out I was glad to get Ladell Betts for $1 to back up Clinton Portis and get Chris Chambers for my WR3 for $1. John Carlson at TE for $2 is a huge downgrade from Chris Cooley for sure, but he’s not bad for the price tag.
It disappoints me because I was so close to pulling off what in my mind would have been the perfect draft. Overall I am still pleased with my team and I feel it will be competitive in this 12-team league for several years while LT and Clinton Portis are still productive players.
Hopefully this provides an understanding of what an auction drafting experience feels like. Auction drafts have a lot of twists and turns in them, but overall they are a lot of fun. I highly recommend every fantasy player try it. Once you do, you will probably want to do away with the snake draft forever.
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