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You guys know how much I enjoy the NFBC. And the NFBC is BOOMING. Look at all these sign ups!
There's a slow draft league a day started. A day!
And despite this, the NFBC is missing out on something.
This isn't a complaint about no dashes in the draft room or something like that.
Damn, I do hate those lack of dashes though.
This is something that could be of use to the NFBC.

Auctions.
I have never done an auction. I would LOVE to do an auction.
But I can't.
We all work our way up through home leagues, yahoo, CBS, ESPN and all them other letters in roto leagues.
It's why we'll play roto. We've had practice for what we're doing now.
But there is no practice for auctions.
I know there's a site online for auctions, but after being in the NFBC, that doesn't interest me much.

Several new members and even long time members would like to do auctions. The problem is I, and more likely, WE, do not want to jump in an auction with no experience for a lot of money.
There has to be some way newbies could get involved in these auctions.
Myself, I listened to Jeff Dobies talking about auctions on the Sirius XM show about strategies and such. It was entertaining and Jeff did a great job. At the same time, I thought about all the fellas in the NFBC that would like to do an auction but are shut out in that it would be an all or nothing venture for pocketbooks. It seems to me that if there were some kind of lower cost training ground that it could be a growing part of the NFBC engine.

These slow roto drafts are rolling off the assembly line at record pace.
In the meantime, auctions have to wait.
I don't have a solution.
Maybe a STATS Auction room to go with a draft room. I don't know.
I know that we need low cost auctions like these slow drafts. Once the logistics are figured out on those, you can bet that a lot of folks would be signing up for auctions too.
I know I would.

Agree 100% Dough. Run $150 to $200 Auction Leagues on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday nights? Huge potential if done right.

Sign me up...

I completely agree as well. Although I have played fantasy baseball for a number of years, and eventually "graduated" to the NFBC two years ago, I have never done an auction. I would love to, but not at $1,000 or $1,300 (or more) per league. Even if I could swing that amount on fantasy baseball (and I probably am getting close with all of these 50-round draft championship leagues I seem unable to resist), I would never pay that much to play in a league with which I am unfamilar with the format.

As Dan suggests, if there was a way to do auctions on-line, at a lower price point, I definitely would participate. While I am sure that nothing beats 12 or 15 participants in the room, having on on-line auction option, at a lower price point, would make the format more popular. To the NFBC folks, if you build the software, people will come (said in James Earl Jones voice).

Dan,

Thanks for the kind words and I agree. I will say one thing. Auctions are far and away the best! They require a great deal of strategy because you aren't only tracking players but you need to track money too. To your point I believe that if the NFBC wants to grow the auction space they definitely need that proving ground. I believe that coming up with an online Auction Draft room will allow for those $150 and $250 price points that you talk about. I have done online auctions before and they seemed to work well. I hope Greg and Tom read this and maybe work on this for next year because it is a worthy discussion and could be possibly bring many more new players to the NFBC.

Auctions are the best! But they really have to be live to enjoy them. The person running the auction can have as much to do with the draft as the players. It can really screw you up if the auctioneer counts going once, going twice, sold, at different tempos. There's just not that many that can do it well. The NFBC wouldn't be able to get enough auctioneers to cover the amount of auctions a low entry fee would create. If you really want to do an auction I'd say go for a single league auction next year. Brady is the auctioneer for those two leagues. He is the master that keeps the best auction players coming back.
Also if you tell him it's your first time I'll bet he looks your way each time before calling sold! Best for Auction advice is Mastersball. Perry Van Hook is very good. I only beat him twice for the title. Oops. Many fantasy players put it this way.
Drafts are chess where Auctions are Poker. Both take skill.