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There is a rumour that auction values have not been kept/tracked and will not be added to any league pages. If I have been misinformed, please disregard the rest of this post.



I am *genuinely* surprised. Everyone in my draft in Vegas assumed the values were being kept.



But in the spirit of Easter, instead of simply complaining, I'll offer to help do something about it.



I will enter every price paid for every auction league into a database and reference every player by fanball ID as well as team id for easy incorporation into the site. I will do this on my time, or will outsource the data entry as appropriate.



All I need is a high rez photo of each of the draft boards. It shouldn't be too hard to coordinate some photo taking among the various auction locations - assuming the data has not been destroyed.



If the big boards were thrown away, and the auction prices were not kept, and there is no way to recover the auction values...that would really be too bad. Epic fail.



Hopefully yours,



Josh

Why would u consider it an epic fail? There were deviations of up to 25% on some values between auctions. The salaries of each player is zero once the auction portion is done.

Josh, I didn't tell you in an email that the values weren't kept. I told you they aren't displayed on your team pages and they never were in the past with STATS. I believe we have those in Excel files for the Fanball facilitators who kept them. I also have the smaller boards from the auctions in Las Vegas in my office with dollar values. But we do not have these on your team pages.



As you said, maybe next year we create a field for that, but honestly I think each owner leaves the auction with those values and once the auction is done it's the rosters that matter the most.

Mad Cow,



I view them as having the same utility as past year's ADP. With 9 leagues the spread becomes information, not noise.



Greg,



Actually I haven't discussed the issue privately with anyone. Larry over in the Ask NFBC forum said the values weren't kept. That's why I put the disclaimer up.



For me there is value in the data and for reviewing how teams (and owners) spent their cash, what strategies they used, and can be used to create values *for next year*.



My offer stands to create a database if you have access to the data. I will make it freely available to anyone who wants it.



[ April 03, 2010, 06:08 PM: Message edited by: hermsmeyer ]