Loving and Hating FAAB
Posted: Sun May 10, 2015 10:21 pm
I love faab. Well....I love faab as much as somebody can love faab.
Sometimes I sit around on Sunday, watching baseball and avoiding starting the whole faab process.
Procratinating.
We need a certain mindset to do faab. Without it, we usually feel like a failure.
I always wonder who the smart people are in faab. Chris Colabello went for over $200 in at least two drafts. In two others, there were only one bid and it was for a minimal amount.
Who is right?
The big bidders?
The low bidders?
The non bidders?
We won't know till he plays and performs, under performs, or gets hurt.
One thing about faab is that nobody says they got 'value'.
That's because the season is here and value has to be proven.
Immediacy replaces any displaced 'value'.
Unlike a draft where the season is far off and we need to clain some type of victory to ourselves until starting.
Faab is for real men. There is no adp. No comparisons.
It's a little like going to an auction, only unlike in a real life auction, we know exactly how much money is in each bidders pocket. And, some of the bidders have totally different ideas on the worth of a player.
Such as Chris Colabello.
I had three bids in a Main Event team.
Lobstein- $49
C Young- $48
Colabello- $26
No second place bids on any of them.
And you know what?
I feel great.
Would a bid within a few dollars of each of these players make me feel better?
Not really. It would only tell me that somebody else has good taste!
I never feel like I waste money. I pay what I feel a player is worth. If it is too much for the other 14's tastes, so be it.
Trying to be cute and paying less for a player wanted, usually results in losing that player.
I don't care about second place bids. Unless I'm the second place bid. THEN, I care and I am angry.
If we bid on a player, we want that player. It is very seldom when we're happy to get a second or third player in a thread.
The player is the important thing.
The money can always be worked out later. The player, cannot.
Lobstein, Young, and Colabello are players that I want, but don't consider 'game changers'. Integral to my roster, but by no means, do I think of them as 'must starts' for the rest of the season.
That is a game changer.
The fellas that bid over $200 think of him more as a game changer. Bei a smaller bidder of him, I hope they're right.
The non-bidders don't think it has a chance of happening.
Faab can be both the best part and worst part of the NFBC.
It takes time. We have to put forth the time in roster construction, positional values, standings, category needs, near term needs, far away needs, players to drop, money to invest, money in our account, and a lot more.
All of that takes time to best represent handling the faab process.
It can be a pain in the ass.
We also feel exhileration. We may not have to even look at a player's name on our roster. I almost threw a party when I rid myself of Kendall Graveman. Gravedigger, more like it.
We also feel the expectation that the new players can, in no way, be worse than the players dropped.
In a way, we feel that same 'value' that everybody talks about on draft day.
We just know we're correct in who we selected from the faab heap.
Most of the time, we're not. But, we feel like we are.
No matter.
On Monday, when we can use our new players, we are confident that this week will be better than last.
And it's a little bit better feeling when we got the players we really wanted.
Sometimes I sit around on Sunday, watching baseball and avoiding starting the whole faab process.
Procratinating.
We need a certain mindset to do faab. Without it, we usually feel like a failure.
I always wonder who the smart people are in faab. Chris Colabello went for over $200 in at least two drafts. In two others, there were only one bid and it was for a minimal amount.
Who is right?
The big bidders?
The low bidders?
The non bidders?
We won't know till he plays and performs, under performs, or gets hurt.
One thing about faab is that nobody says they got 'value'.
That's because the season is here and value has to be proven.
Immediacy replaces any displaced 'value'.
Unlike a draft where the season is far off and we need to clain some type of victory to ourselves until starting.
Faab is for real men. There is no adp. No comparisons.
It's a little like going to an auction, only unlike in a real life auction, we know exactly how much money is in each bidders pocket. And, some of the bidders have totally different ideas on the worth of a player.
Such as Chris Colabello.
I had three bids in a Main Event team.
Lobstein- $49
C Young- $48
Colabello- $26
No second place bids on any of them.
And you know what?
I feel great.
Would a bid within a few dollars of each of these players make me feel better?
Not really. It would only tell me that somebody else has good taste!
I never feel like I waste money. I pay what I feel a player is worth. If it is too much for the other 14's tastes, so be it.
Trying to be cute and paying less for a player wanted, usually results in losing that player.
I don't care about second place bids. Unless I'm the second place bid. THEN, I care and I am angry.
If we bid on a player, we want that player. It is very seldom when we're happy to get a second or third player in a thread.
The player is the important thing.
The money can always be worked out later. The player, cannot.
Lobstein, Young, and Colabello are players that I want, but don't consider 'game changers'. Integral to my roster, but by no means, do I think of them as 'must starts' for the rest of the season.
That is a game changer.
The fellas that bid over $200 think of him more as a game changer. Bei a smaller bidder of him, I hope they're right.
The non-bidders don't think it has a chance of happening.
Faab can be both the best part and worst part of the NFBC.
It takes time. We have to put forth the time in roster construction, positional values, standings, category needs, near term needs, far away needs, players to drop, money to invest, money in our account, and a lot more.
All of that takes time to best represent handling the faab process.
It can be a pain in the ass.
We also feel exhileration. We may not have to even look at a player's name on our roster. I almost threw a party when I rid myself of Kendall Graveman. Gravedigger, more like it.
We also feel the expectation that the new players can, in no way, be worse than the players dropped.
In a way, we feel that same 'value' that everybody talks about on draft day.
We just know we're correct in who we selected from the faab heap.
Most of the time, we're not. But, we feel like we are.
No matter.
On Monday, when we can use our new players, we are confident that this week will be better than last.
And it's a little bit better feeling when we got the players we really wanted.