If I could do the draft again, I'd have not drafted Lowry and saved that money to flex in the early middle rounds. I thought Capela for $1 was pretty criminal - he could be a beast in the paint for years to come, even if he's a bad FT shooter! If there’s one thing you could change about your draft, what would it be? Which player do you feel you got your biggest bargain on, and why? So that's how, in an effort to squeeze cash out of whoever wanted him, I ended up paying $46 for Lowry. I quickly hit bid without noticing that someone had just thrown $45 down on Lowry a split second earlier. Whilst rummaging through the cutlery drawer for a bottle opener (opening the customary draft beer), I saw the clock was running down on what I thought was unders for Lowry. Paying $46 for Lowry was, unfortunately, a case of user error.
I'm happy to have got Durant at around the market rate - after that, though, I came a bit unstuck. My plan was to take a strong, easily tradable asset with the bulk of my cap, then sit back and be patient, looking for undervalued guys. You spent 57% of your salary cap on your first 2 players (Durant at pick 2 for $68 and Lowry at pick 10 for $46). Jacob Win Now: 2nd Future: 6th Overall: 1st PICK There’s also a quick Q&A with each team, to give you a better understanding of everybody's thought process during and after the draft. I’ve ranked each team’s draft with a win-now rating, a future outlook rating, and then combined them for an overall rating. I thought it would be fun to document our draft, given this is the first time any of us has taken part in an auction dynasty league (I clearly need to find more exciting things to do with my spare time). Each team has to keep at least one rookie on their active roster at all times (just to make things interesting) and we get to keep 10 players at the end of the season. We opted for an auction draft, given how unfair snake drafts can be in certain scenarios, with each team getting a $200 budget in a standard nine-category H2H format, since this is how we’ve always played our re-draft league. I’ve been playing fantasy basketball with the same core group of people in a re-draft league since the days of Shawn Marion being a first-round pick, and it never occurred to us to start a dynasty league.