NFBC Online Auction Leagues Offered In 2016

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NFBC Online Auction Leagues Offered In 2016

Post by Greg Ambrosius » Mon Dec 07, 2015 3:42 pm

One of the unique growth areas last year in the NFBC was the Online Auctions that were pushed and supported by Todd Zola and Andy Saxton. They pushed these and helped us run them on RT Sports last year and I believe we finished with almost 20 different leagues.

I reached out to Mark and Tim at RT Sports last year to make sure it was okay to use their online auction software for baseball and football and they were very cool about it. Tim said he was honored to have the NFBC guys using their software and to continue using it when needed. So I'm very much behind this format if folks want to do these again this year.

Some people will question why we just don't build this ourselves, but it's not an easy project to finish with all we have going on here. We've always had a great relationship with RT Sports and this is a solution for now. We will pay those who help us with these auctions and will continue to transfer the results to our system and run those leagues here.

Last year we offered the following Online Auctions, with the reserve rounds drafting on the NFBC site:
$125 DC
$250 DC
$500 DC

We can also duplicate 30-round Satellite Leagues at $125 and $250 as well, or a 12-teamer at $150 or $250. What we'd do there is host the online auction for the first 23 rounds and finish the reserve draft via email or on our site. We can figure out those last 7 rounds pretty easily.

Hope this helps. Thanks again to Andy and Todd for creating the Online Auctions and again we are very supportive of these private leagues. We don't have a set schedule for any of these online auctions at this point, but we can create signup threads if needed. Maybe we can even pick a day or two of the week that becomes our "online auction" offering. Let us know and we'll get it done.

Thanks again all. It should be another great year of auctions in the NFBC.
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Re: NFBC Online Auction Leagues Offered In 2016

Post by Yah Mule » Mon Dec 07, 2015 4:38 pm

Sign me up for the first one regardless of price or format.

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Post by KJ Duke » Mon Dec 07, 2015 5:44 pm

Yah Mule wrote:Sign me up for the first one regardless of price or format.
One team league. $50,000 entry, pays back 80%.

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Post by Yah Mule » Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:05 pm

KJ Duke wrote:
Yah Mule wrote:Sign me up for the first one regardless of price or format.
One team league. $50,000 entry, pays back 80%.

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1. Jim Jeck.
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Gook luck !!
I'm not bidding against myself. I saw what happened to Ben Cherington.

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Post by ChipChopChip » Mon Dec 07, 2015 6:16 pm

I would like to have my name put on the $250 league

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Post by Bjs2025 » Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:40 am

Count me down as supremely interested in these leagues, preferably the satellites and not DC's. Any consideration for AL/NL only? Thanks

Brian

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Post by Greg Ambrosius » Tue Dec 08, 2015 9:56 am

Bjs2025 wrote:Count me down as supremely interested in these leagues, preferably the satellites and not DC's. Any consideration for AL/NL only? Thanks

Brian
We do not have this set up for AL/NL only auctions, just the mixed auctions. Thanks.
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Re: NFBC Online Auction Leagues Offered In 2016

Post by Bjs2025 » Thu Dec 10, 2015 7:10 am

Wow, just checked RT sports and it looks like a couple of leagues have been created, one to draft January 9. Are they up and running? Glad NFBC uses their draft software for auctions, it's very reliable.

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Re: NFBC Online Auction Leagues Offered In 2016

Post by 76erfan » Thu Dec 10, 2015 8:01 am

When you try and crate a mock draft auction, you get an error saying you cannot create auctions until January 15, 2016

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