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Originally Posted by Northendzone
my favourite pool used to involve a draft/bid system on players with a $20 payroll.
the festivities were started off by throwing out the name of the prior years highest scorer, and then the bidding would start. Usually everyone's first purchased player went for around $6.
some interesting strategies emerge, throw out the name of some 3rd line guy in an attempt to start a bidding war to get rivals to spend part of their payroll. try and drive up the price of a guy to a high amount in order to get a rival to spend a larger part of their payroll. if nobody bidded on a guy whose name you therew out, then the guy became part of your team for the minimum bid amount of $0.50 or the amount you started the bidding at. We would only count top 18 on each team and at Christmas we would have a waiver draft to give guys a shot at dropping guys with injuries or who were underperforming.
We used no goalies, and a point was worth one point.
the initial draft was time consuming, but fun. and the waiver draft involved pizza
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Auction drafts are by far the most fun. Anyone who hasn't done one try it! Usually its 200 pts to bid, minimum 1 pt.
Also, head to head is way better then most points for the season. You can change your lineup every week, and teams aren't out as early/keeps people interested.
We do a FA budget of 100 points, and waivers can run whenever, as long as at least once a week, to add and drop guys. Secret bid on FA's using your 100 point for the year budget.
ESPN has free pool that is decent to use for Head to head, and has snake or auction options! Give it a try! You won't regret it!