Save Cash for a Rough Patch

Auction fantasy football is a lot like chess. As such every player knows the significance of each player they choose. As such your salary cap and your spending will literally make or break your season. Some say the game is won PRIOR to it even beginning.

Regardless of how much experience your competitors have in auction fantasy football they will still act like a typical auction with human interaction. Especially considering the money they are spending isn’t ‘real’. Therefore, people will spend more money than they should in the first half of the auction, when they have that nice lump sum of a salary cap sitting in their pocket. If you can manage to hold out wait until about two-thirds through the auction start to begin spending aggressively, you’ll take control of the board. Remember that fantasy football is no different then real life, if you spend all your money and get stuck you’ll be like the rest of those guys that were selling mortgage leads back in the day.

This is about the time people can only pay the bare minimum for the rest of their rosters and you have all that money saved up! Be a smart bidder and let those sharks take each other out as they overvalue the players.

With that being said though, make sure that you do purchase some quality starters along the way. The last thing that you want to do is end up finishing the auction with no power players on your roster and a bunch of crap players but alot of money in your camp. You can’t take that money with you so be sure to spend it all!