Win $12,500 In The 2024 NFBC Online Auction Championship

[Greg Ambrosius]

We are excited to announce today that our fourth annual NFBC Online Auction Championship returns with a bigger prize pool and a bigger grand prize. That's right, after a successful first three seasons in which each season hit our max total number of teams, our grand prize will jump $2,500 this year to $12,500 and we will be paying the Top 20 overall once again.

We believe we have the very best online auction software in the industry and our NFBC players have been enjoying it for the last four years now. In 2019, we debuted with just private online auction leagues and then in 2020 we had a great start to the online auction season before we had to refund everyone and shut it down due to Covid-19. Then in 2021 we debuted the national contest and finished with 32 full leagues and 480 teams for a robust kickoff to this national contest. In 2022, we maxed out with 44 full leagues and 660 teams and last year we finished with 56 leagues and 840 teams.

Now let's kick it up another notch and really have some fun with a $12,500 grand prize.

All leagues in the NFBC Online Auction Championship will be 15-team leagues with 23 players acquired through the auction and 7 players acquired through a serpentine draft that will be held right after the auction at 1 minute per pick. We will offer $150, $250 and $500 leagues with the same amount from each league going toward the overall prize pool. The software is fantastic and these online auctions run smoothly and finish in a timely fashion.

We now have more than $30,000 in guaranteed overall prizes for this contest and we are projecting an 80 percent payout. These will be 15-team, mixed auction leagues with FAAB, the same format as the Auction Championship (23 players per team, $260 with 7 man reserves) but at lower price points. A total of $450 from each league goes toward the overall prize pool and we'll pay the Top 3 in each league, including $900 to first place.

Here's the Contest links and Lobby link:

https://nfc.shgn.com/gametypes/baseball/414
https://nfc.shgn.com/rules/2004#
https://nfc.shgn.com/lobby#414

Here's the Overall Prize Pool:

2024 NFBC Online Auction Championship:
1st - $12,500
2nd - $3,100
3rd - $2,000
4th - $1,750
5th - $1,500
6th - $1,250
7th - $1,000
8th - $800
9th - $750
10th - $700
11th - $600
12th - $550
13th - $500
14th - $450
15th - $400
16th - $300
17th - $250
18th - $200
19th - $175
20th - $150

Here's the league prizes:
$150 League:
1st - $900
2nd - $300
3rd - $150

$250 League:
1st - $1,600
2nd - $700
3rd - $250

$500 League:
1st - $3,500
2nd - $1,500
3rd - $550

We will still offer one $500 Draft Champions Online Auction with prizes similar to last year. This is just one private league and it's not part of our National Championship. Here are the league prizes again for the Draft Champions Online Auction:

$500 DC Auction League:
1st - $4,000
2nd $1,500
3rd - $500

Before we get started in the online auction room, let's acknowledge last year's overall winner in the 2022 NFBC Online Auction Championship. Lucas Biery of Bloomington, Indiana beat that record field of 840 teams to win the $10,000 grand prize. Lucas, Gregg Martin (2022) and Zach Waxman (2021) have now won our first three NFBC Online Auction Championship titles.

Now for the big question: Who is going to win the 2024 NFBC Online Auction Championship title and the record $12,500 grand prize? Will it be you? We'll find out soon enough as these online auctions will start in full in January.

Enjoy and good luck.