Richard Gordon/Charles Levitz Win NFBC Auction Championship

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:58 am

Congratulations to the tag team of Richard Gordon of Las Vegas, Nevada and Charles Levitz for winning the second annual NFBC Auction Championship and the $15,000 grand prize. This was a phenomenal accomplishment for Richard and Charles, who last year finished second to Jeff Dobies in the Auction Championship, missing out by one-half of a point in 2010. This year they edged Lindy Hinkelman and 133 other owners for the overall title.

This is an incredible story that we'll tell in full later, but let me tell you that Richard and Charles have been with the NFBC since 2005 always drafting in Las Vegas. They first entered our Main Event and auctions before finally concentrating their efforts on the mixed auction leagues in 2010. They had great success last year and then decided to do three mixed auction leagues this year in Las Vegas. They did the first weekend Mixed Auction League in Las Vegas together, but a death in the family took Richard away from Las Vegas the second weekend.

Rather than get out of the two mixed auction leagues that second weekend, Charles took the reigns at the auction table that weekend after going over strategy with Richard. Their game plan obviously worked as their 4 pm Auction team won the league title and the overall title by 74.5 points. GREAT JOB GUYS.

Kudos to Richard and Charles, a perfect tag team in 2011.

Greg Ambrosius · Post by **Greg Ambrosius** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 2:59 am

Here's a look at the Top 25 teams in the NFBC Auction Championship. Congratulations to all of you:

NFBC Auction Championship Overall Standings:

1 LEVITZ/GORDON TM 3 Richard Gordon Las Vegas March 25 4 pm Auction League 615.5 534.0 1,149.5 +3.0

2 Beaver Cleaver Lindy Hinkelman Las Vegas March 25 9 a.m. Auction League 558.5 516.5 1,075.0 +9.0

3 Round 2 Ante Meich New York March 25 10 am Auction 641.5 418.0 1,059.5 -12.5

4 Team Zirlin Brian Zirlin Atlantic City Auction League 525.0 533.5 1,058.5 +26.5

5 Team Jurney Robert Jurney Las Vegas March 27 10 am Auction League 642.5 404.5 1,047.0 -2.0

6 Eric's Liver (Formerly Red Sox Nation) Jason Duponte New York March 25 10 am Auction 488.0 539.0 1,027.0 -2.5

7 Awkward Comments James Stanard Las Vegas March 25 4 pm Auction League 484.5 526.0 1,010.5 +4.0

8 Brothers Longood Ross Longood Las Vegas March 27 10 am Auction League 546.5 458.5 1,005.0 -4.5

9 Round 2 ($1300) Ante Meich New York March 25 $1,300 Auction League 465.5 511.0 976.5 +6.5

10 The Vig Aaron J. Smith Las Vegas March 25 4 pm Auction League 463.0 508.5 971.5 +2.0

11 Zefurs.$ KJ Duke Las Vegas March 18 Auction 491.0 480.0 971.0 -4.5

12 PhillyCheeseSteaks- Auc John Hogan Atlantic City Auction League 387.5 566.5 954.0 +8.0

13 SchtinyTs Mitchell Einhorn New York March 27 Auction League 563.0 389.5 952.5 -12.0

Daniel Einhorn

14 Sackofpotatoes I Ken Magner New York March 25 10 am Auction 494.0 455.0 949.0 -4.5

15 Cocktails and Dreams Chad Schroeder Las Vegas March 18 Auction 574.0 369.5 943.5 -3.0

16 Strike Force Auction Mark Bendar Atlantic City Auction League 453.0 479.5 932.5 -11.5

17 Bawlmer Yard Dawgs Christopher Hartman Atlantic City Auction League 625.0 307.0 932.0 -4.0

Gary St. Ours

18 Bo's Gems Larry Bodin New York March 25 10 am Auction 405.0 517.5 922.5 -20.5

Marc Perlmutter

19 Chest Auction Kent Stermon Las Vegas March 18 Auction 483.5 435.0 918.5 +10.0

20 Frozen Ropes Zwei Eddy Betancourt New York March 25 10 am Auction 319.0 598.0 917.0 -5.0

21 Mudhens Jon Stadtmueller Las Vegas March 27 10 am Auction League 501.5 400.0 901.5 +5.0

22 WW Bombers Ted Cohan Las Vegas March 25 9 a.m. Auction League 415.5 452.5 868.0 -1.0

23 Edwards Kings Auction Wayne Edwards Las Vegas March 25 4 pm Auction League 442.5 418.5 861.0 -12.5

24 Glenneration X Glenn Lowy Atlantic City Auction League 515.5 340.0 855.5 +2.5

25 Team Meltzer Marc Meltzer Las Vegas March 27 10 am Auction League 475.0 374.5 849.5 -4.5

Edwards Kings · Post by **Edwards Kings** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 3:17 am

Congratulations Richard and Charles!

Quite an accomplishment coming from such a league this year as all will surely notice that there were three teams in the Top 10 from the Las Vegas March 25 4 pm Auction League!

Bob Enzyte · Post by **Bob Enzyte** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:48 am

Richard and Charles, congratulations on winning the auction championship. I didn't think it was possible to win an overall by punting a category, but you proved me wrong. Great job.

Richie · Post by **Richie** » Thu Sep 29, 2011 5:12 am

Thank you all.

It was not easy deciding to punt saves because, as you know, you gotta do well everywhere else, no exceptions. When you exclude one category, there are 1215 points available to be gotten. We ended up with 1175 points. That means we got 96% of all available points we aimed for. We will never do that again, I believe. 9 starters at all times and we ended up in the top 5 in ERA and top 2 in ratio. Can't imagine that will happen again.