Auction Brief with Drew Davenport

The summer is drawing to a close for the Auction Brief, but not before your Fantasy Football Lawyer Drew Davenport provides one final call to action in the episode everyone has been waiting for: The Auction Manifesto. Your host weaves a 70 minute tale of every concept and idea that has been discussed this summer into a coherent, chronological walkthrough of auction theory and the skills that make you an auction master. Don't miss the long-awaited Auction Manifesto as Drew hammers home everything you need to crush your auction on draft day. Enjoy, and let's go win a title!

In the second-to-last episode of the draft season the Auction Brief gets into the weeds about how the auction draft room shifts as the draft goes on. Your host dives into how to spot the Inflection Points that tell you when and how to act so that you aren't caught unaware during your auction. After Drew breaks down Inflection Points he welcomes guest Bob Harris to Discussions with Drew for a thorough conversation about the King's Classic drafts from the perspective of two different draft rooms happening simultaneously. Bob then leaves you with his favorite targets, fades, and late round values for your drafts. Don't miss this dynamite episode of the Auction Brief!

The Auction Brief is barrelling towards the end of draft season with a foot on the gas. This week Drew Davenport starts the show with all the information you need on Vikings WR Jordan Addison and why you should be paying attention to the latest developments. Then your host drops his 7 Winning Auction Moves that he's pulled together from his 25 years of auction experience to help you dominate your auction draft room. After that, Brian Drake comes in for another fun and informational segment of Discussions with Drew. The two talk about their favorite players, how to attack bigger leagues, and play a fun game of "What are we doing here?" It's another dynamite episode of the best auction podcast on the internet. Let's go win some titles!

The Fantasy Hitman Mike Wright of the Fantasy Footballers joins the Auction Brief this week as the red-hot summer for the show continues. Before Discussions with Drew, your host takes you through some Do's and Don'ts of Bidding in an auction and helps you understand what should drive your bidding thought process. After a thorough walk through bidding strategies, Drew then welcomes in fantasy star Mike Wright to the show for Discussions with Drew. The two play a game of "This or That" as they pick between two players in the first four round rounds with similar value. Breece Hall or Bijan Robinson? Saquon Barkley or Jonathan Taylor? After that Drew and Mike take a look at some training camp narratives and whether we should believe what we are hearing right now as practices get underway. The Auction Brief is rolling on with plenty of actionable information every step of the way. There's just 3 episodes left so get ready for auction draft season!

The Auction Brief continues to hit topics that get you primed and ready for your 2024 Fantasy Football drafts. Your host leads off the show discussing instinct and how you get better at the game of fantasy football and follows that up with an in-depth look at how Nominations in an auction room are critical to success. Drew takes the listener through early, middle, and late-stage nomination approaches, plus talks about the common nomination mistakes you'll see from your fellow drafters. Then the Auction Brief welcomes in Matt Schauf from Draftsharks to break down our biggest questions heading into training camp. What should we think about the Minnesota QB room? Is there any value in the Cleveland or New Orleans RB rooms? What offenses does he expect to surprise or disappoint? What players is he currently chasing and fading in drafts right now? Don't miss another monster episode of one of the most unique podcasts in the entire fantasy football space!

The Auction Brief continues to deliver high level fantasy content and conversation as we get to the brink of training camp. Drew Davenport starts the episode with an FF Legal Update on Vikings WR Jordan Addison and what he's facing after his recent DUI arrest. Then, your host takes you inside his head on how he prepares for an auction and gives you dozens of actionable tips to help you prepare for your auction drafts. After that, Drew welcomes in Yahoo and Reception Perception's Matt Harmon to dive deep on receivers like Brandon Aiyuk, Stefon Diggs, Zay Flowers, and many more! We are getting you prepared to draft on the Auction Brief and this episode is no exception - come here for all fantasy talk (auction or not!) that will help you crush your fantasy drafts. @DrewDavenportFF @MattHarmon_BYB

The Auction Brief is in mid-summer form as Episode 6 goes for over 2 hours about important fantasy concepts and player evaluations that are going to help you crush your fantasy football drafts! Your host starts off the show by giving an amateur lesson in reading your opponents in an auction room both through physical tells and through game play decisions. Then, Drew gives you 4 players you should be thinking about in your auctions as guys that could slip in price during your draft to allow you to compile a loaded roster. Then, the show shifts to Discussions with Drew as guest Ian Hartitiz from Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life joins the Auction Brief to tell you his favorite targets and fades, plus his opinion on a wide variety of fantasy players like Chris Olave, Devonta Smith, Jaylen Waddle, Diontae Johnson, Jonathan Brooks, and many more! This is an episode that you don't want to miss during your fantasy football draft prep!

Your host Drew Davenport takes the gloves off in Episode 5 with a 2-hour odyssey through the deepest auction concepts you can imagine. Drew leads off the show with a long awaited update on Rashee Rice, and then launches into Five Ways the Fantasy Industry has Failed Auction Drafters. Your host walks you through the reasons why we need a big paradigm shift for how we view and prepare to win auction drafts. Then, in Discussions with Drew, the Auction Brief welcomes Yahoo Hall of Fame writer Scott Pianowski to break down the Steelers passing game, the Giants passing game, plus the Cowboys and Chargers' backfields. But, these two couldn't get together without spending quite a bit of time talking about all the nuanced advice that you could want when it comes to auction drafting too. This episode of the Auction Brief has a little something for everyone - a legal update, actionable player evaluations, and tons of in-depth auction strategy. Enjoy this 4th of July episode of the Auction Brief!

The Auction Brief dives into the deep end of auction content in Episode 4 with an entire show devoted to making you better in your auction drafts. First, your host Drew Davenport walks you through the foundations of auction drafting as he builds on the first three backward-looking episodes to start pouring the foundation for your 2024 Auction House. Drew takes you through a birds-eye view of how you should start to orient your process and begin to train your thoughts for auction success. Then, in Discussions with Drew, the Auction Brief Listener League Champion Ryan Baas stops by to tell you how he took down one of the toughest auction leagues around. This is an episode that fantasy football auction drafters won't want to miss!

The Auction Brief success continues to build off of two huge episodes to start the summer. Episode 3 is no different as J.J. Zachariason joins the show to share his knowledge with you. But first, your host Drew Davenport starts the show by giving you his 7 Fantasy Football Commandments that you can use to play the game better. The, in Discussions with Drew, the Late Round QB joins the program and shows you why he is one of the smartest minds in the business. JJ dives into fantasy football game theory on drafting wide receivers, what running backs show the propensity for success, and so much more! Drew and JJ also discuss some of the tougher situations to parse this summer, including what to do with Zamir White, Javonte Williams, the Patriots' backfield, and the gridlocked Packers' wide receiver corps. They end their talk focusing on 4 guys that JJ is either fading or drafting in current drafts. You don't want to miss who he picked, and you don't want to miss another great episode of the Auction Brief!

The Auction Brief is fully underway as Episode 2 dives deeper into what we can expect from some big name players in 2024 and what lessons we should be heeding from 2023. Discussions with Drew welcomes guest Mike Clay from ESPN and the two break down what you should think about the Detroit backfield, the Miami backfield, and whether the prices on Bijan Robinson and Jonathan Taylor are appropriate. Then, Mike leaves you with 2 players he's fading and 2 players he thinks are values right now as we look at things in the middle of June. Before Discussions with Drew you don't want to miss your host walking back through his favorite lessons from 2023 and what they can teach us about how to succeed in fantasy football this year. It's another chock-full episode with actionable information in this week's dynamite episode of the Auction Brief!

Join your host, Fantasy Football Lawyer Drew Davenport, in the first episode of the summer for the Auction Brief! This episode is jammed full of actionable information to get your draft preparation off to a roaring start. The show begins with your host talking about three essential foundations of draft preparation for the season and how those are necessary for fantasy success, particularly in auctions. Then Drew breaks out a Legal Update on Rashee Rice, Dak Prescott, and Brandon McManus before launching into talk about what was right and wrong with his player evaluation process in 2023. Before wrapping up the opening segment, Drew spends time going over his biggest player hits and misses and what 3 lessons he learned from those results. Finally, Marcas Grant from the NFL Network hops on for Discussions with Drew and breaks down cloudy situations and players with difficult evaluations. Listen to conversations about the Bills WRs, the Bears' RBs, the Washington backfield, the Houston WR corps, plus Joe Burrow, Justin Jefferson, Derrick Henry, and many more! Don't miss this fantastic opening episode of the Auction Brief!

It's the moment the Auction Brief has been building towards all summer long. The Auction Manifesto: Everything you Need to Know about Auctions before your draft. Drew goes back over all the lessons from Season 3 of the show this summer and walks you step-by-step through an auction from the moment you start preparing to the moment you break it down after it's over. Your host leaves no stone unturned as he tells you how to prepare, how to start the draft, how to follow the flow, tips and tricks on bidding and nominations, how to grind in the room, how to read people and situations, how to spot inflection points, and how to finish your draft like a killer. It's all here in one episode. If you only have 90 minutes to prepare for your auction draft then this is the episode for you! Happy Draft Season! @DrewDavenportFF

The Auction Brief continues to go hard at prepping you for your auction drafts coming soon. Your host Drew Davenport is fresh off the King's Classic Expert Auction and he's got 4 Lessons you need to remember from his experience at the draft. But he doesn't stop there as he tells you his pre-draft strategy, whether he executed his plan, and then winds his way through the draft to give you the flow of the draft while pointing out when the inflection points hit along the way. You don't want to miss this recap of the King's Classic auction draft! Then on Discussions with Drew 4for4's John Daigle joins the show to hit all the hot topics of the moment. Can you trust Breece Hall? What do we do with Rhamondre Stevenson? Is Jonathan Taylor a buy low? And then, before signing off, Daigle runs through his flag plant guys, his fades, and his late round gems. It's all here on another information packed episode of the Auction Brief! @DrewDavenportFF @notJDaigle

The Auction Brief continues to try to get your ready for your auction drafts coming up fast! Your host Drew Davenport takes the Top 3 questions he's getting in his Inbox this time of the year and tackles each one in turn. First up it's a conversation about how he approaches Superflex Auctions, what percentage of his budge he uses, who he's targeting, and how many he's going to draft. Then your host talks about how you should think about choosing your keepers in your auction leagues. Drew takes you through the thought process that lets you decide who you should be keeping based on 4 different factors. Then finally, Drew builds off the idea of "Dropping the Hammer" from last week by talking about how you know you should be dropping the hammer, or not. After Drew finishes up, he then welcomes Howard Bender to the show for Discussions with Drew and the two of them hit big camp news and hype before playing a game of "Who would you rather?" with similarly priced players in ADP. It's another jam-packed episode of the Auction Brief to get you ready for your fantasy drafts. @DrewDavenportFF @rotobuzzguy

The Auction Brief can't be derailed for long. Your host Drew Davenport returns from illness to drop this week's episode a few days late.You don't want to miss this special 50th Episode of the Auction Brief that tells you how you can become a KILLER in the auction draft room. Drew first takes you through 4 ways you can focus on becoming a killer when you enter your draft room, including his breakdown on what to do with Market Price Enforcing and bidding people up. After that, Discussions with Drew welcomes Matt Schauf to the show and he delivers as he always does. The duo discusses the Chiefs WRs, the 49ers QB situation, Najee Harris, Jameson Williams, Sam LaPorta, and many more situations you're grappling with as you go to your drafts. Enjoy this very special episode of the Auction Brief and get ready to emerge as a killer! @DrewDavenportFF @SchaufDS

The last episode for the month of July hammers away at auction strategy with over 100 minutes on theory, concrete examples, and tips for success. Your host starts the show with his 9 Illustrations of Auction Concepts from a real auction draft room. This topic manages to blend the theories you've heard about for 3 years with actual circumstances from a mock draft room and how to use that information to make your auction game grow stronger. Then Drew welcomes 3 Listener League team mangers from last year to discuss their success in a tough auction draft room and what they're thinking about doing in 2023 to have another big year. Enjoy another fantastic episode of the Auction Brief as we roll into August! @DrewDavenportFF

The Auction Brief marks the eve of training camp with a deep dive into some players that have Asymmetrical Risk right now in drafts. These players are being drafted at or below their floors and have situations that have either remained the same or been improved and yet still aren't being drafted high enough. Your host walks you through 9+ targets he's looking at as we sit here at the official start of the 2023 NFL season with players reporting to camp. After Drew hits his favorite price inequities he then invites John Bosch, auction guru, into Discussions with Drew and the two of them have a deep, long, winding discussion through auction tips, tricks, and strategies they employ in auction rooms pulled from their hundreds of auction drafts. You don't want to miss this week's Auction Brief as we head into the height of draft season! @DrewDavenportFF

Just 2 weeks away from training camp has the Auction Brief in high gear. Drew starts the show by talking about how we tend to make the same mistakes every summer and we don't learn from the poor results. So, he resolves to change that this year by pointing out his 7 Fantasy Draft Season Resolutions and how they can make us better drafters this year. After that your host has Brian Drake on for Discussions with Drew to talk about specific fantasy players and who he is drafting and fading this year. Plus, the two play a game of "Would you rather" with players at similar ADP to tell you who has the edge on some tough calls in your drafts. It's another stellar episode of the Auction Brief hitting fantasy theory, specific players, and so much more to help you win at fantasy football and dominate your drafts. @DrewDavenportFF @DrakeFantasy

Episode 6 of the Auction Brief begins with your host Drew Davenport opining on the fact that life, and fantasy football, don't always have to be as hard as it seems. He wanders through the idea that often the meta-concepts will take us most of the way in fantasy football and that losing ourselves in the weeds can end up negatively impacting our results. He then plays an auction game where he envisions 3 hypothetical scenarios that come up during an auction draft and what your move should be in each one. Once he's finished, the Auction Brief brings on guest Josh Larky from the 33rd Team and the two have a spirited conversation about Best Ball strategies including common mistakes, should we stack, and how big of a deal is Week 17 correlation? Then the two dive into players Josh likes, doesn't like and he plants his flag on some of his favorite players from a couple AFC teams that should be a fantasy goldmine. Drew and Josh then end by talking about what we should do with the Chiefs WRs, the Jaguars WRs, Greg Dulcich, and so much more! The great episodes roll on here at the Auction Brief as we hit July! Stay tuned and enjoy! @DrewDavenportFF @jlarkytweets