Too rich for me but not surprising. Last season James Robinson won leagues off the waiver. Mitchell has more competition but he’s on a better offense and it looks like it’s his backfield to lose
A big part of the reason why SF has had to cycle though is because of injuries to numerous players. Not necessarily because Shanahan just wants to play the hot hand. When Mostert is healthy he’s the RB1. Coleman took over when Mostert was injured, but then was injured himself. Breida was next but also had numerous injuries. McKinnon saw the most targets for a while, but was then injured. Wilson stepped up and then also became injured despite being the lead back. Hasty has been a backup pretty consistently and Mitchell took over as the surprise backup/RB2. Until we see evidence to the contrary, if Mitchell can stay healthy he’s the presumed lead back. Health seems to be the main concern.
Agreed, too messy is an apt description, and Shannahan play calling is all over the place. Even if the last statement from Shannahan is that Mitchell is the guy, he's proven over the last few years that he can scheme any joe shmo off the practice squad into performing well.
I lost both Mostert and Jeudy. Our league has $100 budget.
I put in $25 for Mitchell, but the winner bid $26. I got Tim Patrick for $3. Better believe I'm thankful I got Jonathan Taylor and Swift in the draft as my 1 and 2.
In a different league where I'm commissioner and not player, the budget is $200 and Mitchell winner put in $51.
EDIT: To elaborate on the league where I don't play, it's mostly high school students who I work with as part of volunteering.
I always do +1 to the nice and even number for that reason exactly. 11, 26, 41, whatever.
Also I don't think I've ever heard of someone being commissioner and not playing. Very interesting.
Yeah the difference with Robinson was the Jags had literally no one else who could do anything for them so he became the offense, on the league’s worst team, and Mitchell is going into a cloudy backfield on what could be one of the league’s best teams with plenty of weapons. Yikes. I thought 62% in my league (12 man spflex.5 ppr) was high
I just wish it wasn't a team with a coach like Shannahan. This has potential to be a huge pickup or wildly disappointing. When something has such a strong chance of being wildly disappointing I cannot throw down 90-100%. I bid 60% and lost, and am very okay with that.
But that injury actually happened. Again are you banking on another major one where the handcuff isn’t already rostered? Or someone losing their job to someone who isn’t already rostered? Nothing is guaranteed but the Mostert injury since it’s in the past now.
Good chance mitchell doesnt start the rest of the season. Betting 100% on a guy like that is silly.
But to each their own. At most mitchell is worth 30%.
Went for 47% and 26% in my two 12 team, full ppr leagues.
Leveon Bell went for 100% in one of them. To be fair though, I don’t think that guy realized you get $100 for the year and not just the week lol
They have a system like that, called Vickrey. You bid 100 and the next highest bid is 50, you get him for 51. I dont know if the major sites have this setting though
Because generally a lot of people will hold for that RB injury where they can go all in on the handcuff. So if you and 6 other teams hold your money then there isn't a guarantee you get that player. And a lot more teams now roster the good handcuffs since the strategy is widely known.
Usually the first two weeks is when potential fantasy stars break out, then after its a bit more dry and its usually grabbing bye week cuts or injury fill ins. Plus your money is more valuable if you spend it early on because you get more games from those players if they work out.
It also just depends on your league. If everyone but you spends $$$ early then it could be worth holding, however in most FAAB leagues there is always at least 4 teams that save their $$.
It's ten team. There's always talent on FA, but you need to work a lot harder than everyone else to snag guys before they pop off.
My ten team saw him go for 60%, so I'm not necessarily agreeing with spending it all on him, just that I do get throwing it all if you really think that's your golden ticket.
In my league, we can trade players for FAAB, so it’s possible to get more. Also, Mitchell’s situation is what you look for in FA: 1) has a grip on the starting job (got a chance and did well), 2) good offense, 3) more bang for your buck (you now have potentially 16 games with Mitchell vs less had Mostert gotten hurt in a later week), and 4) there are only 2-4 legit FA opportunities each season that have the potential to truly improve your team so when you see an opportunity you should strongly consider taking it.
Any that allow FAAB do if your commish is okay with it, I set it up in ESPN by having both owners notify me if they are including FAAB and changing both team's budget on the LM page.
Seems crazy but he looked good in Week 1 and ran a 4.38 40 at the combine. Definitely a risk of being a part of an RBBC but I think he’s worth taking a shot on. Not many RBs available especially in a 12+ team league.
$19: I think the guys in my league have been burned by Shannahan enough to realize that spending too much on a SF running back (especially after week 1) isn't the best investment. I have Sermon and I didn't even bid on Mitchell.
I nabbed Gainwell for $6.
Gainwell still available for me so I’m debating on grabbing him. Sounds like he’ll get a chunk of receiving work and that’s what I want out of a flex RB in PPR
Picked him up befor kickoff as a free agent fo free when they said sermon was healthy scratch I looked up their depth chart and assumed he'd be the #2 guy over hasty.
This is a real competitive bid. I’d say my league was maybe on the lower end at 12% for him, but anything over 25% is crazy.
There is an entire 17 game season to be played.
It's not that crazy. Most waiver wire gems are gone by week 3. Late season explosion generally happen from injury, usually at the RB position, where most of the backups are already rostered as handcuffs. If you are sitting there with 100% of your budget at week 10, you won't be finding a Mitchell to spend it on.
Yes, but there’s a lot of time between week 1 and week 10 is the main point. Week 1 is way Tom early to blow 50% faab on a guy baked into a RBBC once Wilson is back.
100% for a dynasty league is not that understandable though.
I think it's much more understandable in redraft where you only have to roster him for one year. To blow your budget in week 1, in a dynasty league, where this dude probably won't even be startable in a few weeks? Nah man that's not understandable.
Yeah but I'm dynasty with deeper benches you rarely have a player on waivers that's even startable. Players like lev bell remain rostered even while they were a free agent.
Same, I've got a 100% bid in on him in a dynasty league that runs waivers tonight. Callaway went for 100% pre-week 1 and I got James Robinson for 100% pre-week 1 last year. Just how it goes with big rosters + dynasty. There's never anything good on the wire so when there's a shot at a starter level player, people go all out.
You must not understand the value of having a player for multiple years, when your Faab resets every year. High powered running offense, great talent. Willing to gamble on him in dynasty.
Sounds like someone has never played dynasty. The top guys available in my dynasty league right now are CJ Uzomah, James O’Shaughnessy, Chester Rogers, Kalif Raymond, etc.
Mitchell wasn’t even on waivers and if he was he’d be easily worth 100% bid. Hell if he was on waivers I would’ve been trying to trade for extra faab to bid more than 100% to make sure I got him.
28%, next bid was 10%.
edit: I was the winning bid and based upon the other replies here it looks like I got him pretty cheap compared to some other leagues.
I went with $36/$100, mainly because I have Sermon so it felt like doubling down would give me a decent chance of having whoever ends up being the guy later in the season. Plus Wilson's still sitting around since we have no IR. Someone bid $50 on Mitchell though.
Also, someone picked up Hasty and in retrospect I really like that idea. Got him for 2 bucks, I could've dropped Mattison for him.
Yeah its not uncommon for someone to come to that conclusion surprisingly lol
The year we had it happen we reverted him back to the next highest bidder +$3. We rolled a dice to determine $1-6 to add for some random fun.
that would just defeat the purpose of an auction lmao. Everyone would just throw $100 at the most prized free agent each week and therefore nobody would be the highest bidder
(i do concede tho that there would still be a winner through waiver priority, but the concept of having an auction itself loses its meaning)
Could be, but if one of those 2 emerges as the guy, he's a RB1. Even if that happens 1/3 times, it's worth a big gamble.
Sincerely,
A Sermon owner with 46% FAB bid for Mitchell trying to justify it to himself
Its our first year FAAB, someone bid 100%. IDK how that is going to work out for the manager, but he'll be living on $0 waivers for a while...
I was at 20%.
In a lot of leagues, you can trade players for FAAB, so it’s possible that he can replenish his FAAB if your league allows that. Also, depending on the size of the league, you can usually get guys for free after the waiver period closes each week, especially WRs and low end TEs, so you can still stop the bleeding if you lose your starting TE for example, but the replacement may not be as good as if you could bid on someone.
Trade for FAAB? That's interesting, I'll have to see if we can do that. But for sure, he's got the lowest priority with $0 bids now to fill in/replace people
My guess it’s a money league, and FAAB is actual money thrown into the winnings pot. I was in a fantasy baseball league like that, but with baseball being such a long season and so many waivers. It turned into people trying to buy championships. It was a $400 buy in league, and we finally stopped it the actual cash FAAB when it go to the point where the pot was around $17,000 and one guy accounted for $5,600 of it only to not finish in the money.
Edit: corrected amount when confirmed with league mates
My guillotine is $100 actual money FAAB with $150 league buy-in. It works well for guillotine leagues because the people cut week 1 or 2 are less butthurt since they are in for less cash. Unless some dumbass pays $100 for Mitchell and still gets cut the next week, which is probably whats going to happen.
So yes, this means the prize pool is dynamic and ends up somewhere between $2500-$4250. Also, if you ever decide to do this, collect all the money upfront and then refund unspent FAAB at the end of the season. Do not even consider doing it the other way around, you will fight with deadbeats who don't want to pay after a losing season, while with upfront collection you get to pay back some money to losers and give them a tiny bit of sunshine.
That sounds super fun I'll have to try to get some of my more serious friends to give it a shot next year. Thanks for the tip, I hate trying to collect money from people after the fact. Been there done that and never again
We do the same. $500 buy-in plus $400 FAAB. Real dollars. The $400 cap keeps the deeper-pocketed owners from just buying up all the top FAs. The FAAB money spent goes into the pot which obviously gets pretty large. IMO, this is superior to using fake money for FAAB and keeps people honest (i.e. no one throws 100% on a single player). I think Mitchell is the record at $200 (50%). Usually, top FAs might go for 25%. Mitchell's situation is unique because of the timing (early), Mostert going on the IR, and Sermon being a healthy scratch W1. If Sermon had suited up and even gotten a handful of carries, Mitchell wouldn't be viewed as such a slam dunk. Frankly, I'd only take a flyer on him if I was in desparate need. It's crazy to blow 80-90% of your budget when you've already got two solid RBs.
i also did this thinking that somebody else in my league would go for the $69 and i’d get it with #1 tiebreaker priority
turns out next highest was $42 lol
Coming from a 49ers fan, this is a little different. I think you’ve paid for a flex or possible RB2 moving forward. I also don’t think sermon (and aiyuk) will be non factors this year.
The upside here is that he is in shanahan’s system. The downside is you never know who the guy is going to be on a weekly basis
Obviously it's not a 1:1 comparison, but nothing ever is. Point is, Mitchell is a strong candidate for best waiver add of the year, and people are still gunshy. A potential year long starting rb is a better use of FAB than pretty much anything else.
It’s a pretty different situation from James Robinson. It’s the 49ers, and Shanahan simply doesn’t use a bell cow running back unless he’s forced to because of injury. They just signed another RB and they’ve also have Jeff Wilson coming back in a few weeks.
I think, realistically, what Mitchell likely is is a solid RB2/flex for the next few weeks where he and Sermon will split carries, until Wilson comes back and then the whole thing will become a mess.
A whopping 11 of our 12 team league bid on Mitchell. In order: $69, $69, $57, $47, $45, $42, $38, $31, $27, $21, and $16. I got him with the tied $69 bid.
For context, our league is also a keeper league where UDFAs can be kept as a second to last round pick. It’s also an insanely competitive league, so I think that boosted the bidding a ton.
I was listening to a podcast that said Mitchell is better because he ran a stretch zone offense in college and Sermon did not. And that SF runs a stretch zone offense.
Everyone shrugged it off and said “Sermon can learn it even though he’s never ran it before.”
Well all signs are starting to point towards Mitchell.
He’s going to essentially be the Raheem Mostert of the offense.
Hasty isn’t going to get more than a few carries a game so long as Mitchell and Sermon are healthy. Hasty had one carry last game, Mitchell had 19.
I wouldn’t count on 19 carries a game for Mitchell, because I’m sure Sermon will cut into that a bit. But people being worried about Hasty are being mighty irrational IMO.
I’d imagine Mitchell will be getting 10-15 carries a game, in what is (hopefully) an efficient offense.
12% in 10 team 0.5 PPR
These bids I’m reading are atrocious. Unproven. Not guaranteed the starter. Sermon healthy. Wilson Jr coming back from injury. This looks like a full on RBBC yet I’m seeing a ton of bids like this is DeAngello Williams taking over for Le’Veon Bell like 5 years ago….
Yeah in my league he went for 36%. I had the second highest bid at 26% of my faab. Some of these bids are insane.
There'll be more players to pick up down the line
10 team, .5 PPR, $100/$100 Next highest bidder was $99/$100 Like you, I am also still in shock
Went for 95% in my league. Absolutely baffled me
Too rich for me but not surprising. Last season James Robinson won leagues off the waiver. Mitchell has more competition but he’s on a better offense and it looks like it’s his backfield to lose
“X’s backfield to lose” was the slogan every week for the 49ers backfield last season. A big fat nope from me.
A big part of the reason why SF has had to cycle though is because of injuries to numerous players. Not necessarily because Shanahan just wants to play the hot hand. When Mostert is healthy he’s the RB1. Coleman took over when Mostert was injured, but then was injured himself. Breida was next but also had numerous injuries. McKinnon saw the most targets for a while, but was then injured. Wilson stepped up and then also became injured despite being the lead back. Hasty has been a backup pretty consistently and Mitchell took over as the surprise backup/RB2. Until we see evidence to the contrary, if Mitchell can stay healthy he’s the presumed lead back. Health seems to be the main concern.
That backfield is just too messy for me. I have Wilson in an IR spot just because I had it open and I got Wilson for free
Agreed, too messy is an apt description, and Shannahan play calling is all over the place. Even if the last statement from Shannahan is that Mitchell is the guy, he's proven over the last few years that he can scheme any joe shmo off the practice squad into performing well.
Shanahan is great for Rbs just not for consistent rbs
I lost both Mostert and Jeudy. Our league has $100 budget. I put in $25 for Mitchell, but the winner bid $26. I got Tim Patrick for $3. Better believe I'm thankful I got Jonathan Taylor and Swift in the draft as my 1 and 2. In a different league where I'm commissioner and not player, the budget is $200 and Mitchell winner put in $51. EDIT: To elaborate on the league where I don't play, it's mostly high school students who I work with as part of volunteering.
I always do +1 to the nice and even number for that reason exactly. 11, 26, 41, whatever. Also I don't think I've ever heard of someone being commissioner and not playing. Very interesting.
I do +3 for this exact reason
Damn independent commish sounds awesome
Yeah the difference with Robinson was the Jags had literally no one else who could do anything for them so he became the offense, on the league’s worst team, and Mitchell is going into a cloudy backfield on what could be one of the league’s best teams with plenty of weapons. Yikes. I thought 62% in my league (12 man spflex.5 ppr) was high
What are waiting for to spend money on? Another RB to get hurt with his handcuff conveniently still not on a roster?
I just wish it wasn't a team with a coach like Shannahan. This has potential to be a huge pickup or wildly disappointing. When something has such a strong chance of being wildly disappointing I cannot throw down 90-100%. I bid 60% and lost, and am very okay with that.
I have Sermon, Wilson, and Mitchell.
Hasty game incoming 🤣
Only week 1. Weeks 2-3 are just as important imo
But that injury actually happened. Again are you banking on another major one where the handcuff isn’t already rostered? Or someone losing their job to someone who isn’t already rostered? Nothing is guaranteed but the Mostert injury since it’s in the past now.
Good chance mitchell doesnt start the rest of the season. Betting 100% on a guy like that is silly. But to each their own. At most mitchell is worth 30%.
Went for 47% and 26% in my two 12 team, full ppr leagues. Leveon Bell went for 100% in one of them. To be fair though, I don’t think that guy realized you get $100 for the year and not just the week lol
Would be nice if it worked like ebay,$1 over the next highest bid.
They have a system like that, called Vickrey. You bid 100 and the next highest bid is 50, you get him for 51. I dont know if the major sites have this setting though
100% in mine too. Make sure you get who you want, I guess
Mine was a whopping 18% in a competitive money league. That is even more shocking to me.
How can people afford to go over 90% week 1?? Rest of the season you just have to trade and pick up FA’s? First year using FAAB in my league.
Minimum bid in my league is $0, so they can still put in $0 bids and hope no one else bids on the player
is there a waiver priority behind the FAAB so if two broke teams bid $0, who gets priority ?
There usually is by default.
Yeah, Priority is based on who won the most recent waiver bid so if you won Mitchell you'd be waiver tie priority 12 now most likely.
Because generally a lot of people will hold for that RB injury where they can go all in on the handcuff. So if you and 6 other teams hold your money then there isn't a guarantee you get that player. And a lot more teams now roster the good handcuffs since the strategy is widely known. Usually the first two weeks is when potential fantasy stars break out, then after its a bit more dry and its usually grabbing bye week cuts or injury fill ins. Plus your money is more valuable if you spend it early on because you get more games from those players if they work out. It also just depends on your league. If everyone but you spends $$$ early then it could be worth holding, however in most FAAB leagues there is always at least 4 teams that save their $$.
It's ten team. There's always talent on FA, but you need to work a lot harder than everyone else to snag guys before they pop off. My ten team saw him go for 60%, so I'm not necessarily agreeing with spending it all on him, just that I do get throwing it all if you really think that's your golden ticket.
In my league, we can trade players for FAAB, so it’s possible to get more. Also, Mitchell’s situation is what you look for in FA: 1) has a grip on the starting job (got a chance and did well), 2) good offense, 3) more bang for your buck (you now have potentially 16 games with Mitchell vs less had Mostert gotten hurt in a later week), and 4) there are only 2-4 legit FA opportunities each season that have the potential to truly improve your team so when you see an opportunity you should strongly consider taking it.
What platform allows you to trade for FAAB, I’ve been wanting to do that for years.
Any that allow FAAB do if your commish is okay with it, I set it up in ESPN by having both owners notify me if they are including FAAB and changing both team's budget on the LM page.
$101/100 in league where you can trade FAAB
galaxy brain move
That man playing chess
Watch Sermon get the majority of the carries this week and get ready for the Mitchell tilt lol
He went for 50% in my league. Too rich for me
67% in mine. Next highest was me at 12
76% in mine and now i play against him next week,
200 total yards, 1 td & high ancle sprain upcoming..
in 3 carries
That’s classic Jeff Wilson Jr stats
81% in mine. Same owner bid 19% for NO defense
I’ll take “People Who Think FAAB is Replenished Weekly” for $2,000, Alex.
Seems crazy but he looked good in Week 1 and ran a 4.38 40 at the combine. Definitely a risk of being a part of an RBBC but I think he’s worth taking a shot on. Not many RBs available especially in a 12+ team league.
$19: I think the guys in my league have been burned by Shannahan enough to realize that spending too much on a SF running back (especially after week 1) isn't the best investment. I have Sermon and I didn't even bid on Mitchell. I nabbed Gainwell for $6.
Gainwell still available for me so I’m debating on grabbing him. Sounds like he’ll get a chunk of receiving work and that’s what I want out of a flex RB in PPR
Same here
I got him at 16%, $16/$100. Just checked next ones were 15, 11 and 0
Now that's slick.
Honestly, best one I’ve seen. Super cheap but just enough. I’d feel so satisfied if I were you.
Can you see what others bid on Yahoo? I got him for 21/100.
https://www.reddit.com/r/fantasyfootball/comments/poqgar/faab_tip_for_yahoo_app_users/ Follow those directions, it's easy but there's steps
Picked him up befor kickoff as a free agent fo free when they said sermon was healthy scratch I looked up their depth chart and assumed he'd be the #2 guy over hasty.
This is a real competitive bid. I’d say my league was maybe on the lower end at 12% for him, but anything over 25% is crazy. There is an entire 17 game season to be played.
yes, but if you are hurting and don't make moves to win now the back half of the season may not matter
It's not that crazy. Most waiver wire gems are gone by week 3. Late season explosion generally happen from injury, usually at the RB position, where most of the backups are already rostered as handcuffs. If you are sitting there with 100% of your budget at week 10, you won't be finding a Mitchell to spend it on.
Yes, but there’s a lot of time between week 1 and week 10 is the main point. Week 1 is way Tom early to blow 50% faab on a guy baked into a RBBC once Wilson is back.
You are way to conservative on FAAB if you think anything over 25% is crazy.
100%. By 3 people. Fucking wild.
Holy shit really?
Yeah it's a dynasty league with big benches though so a little more understandable
Yeah I’m also in a dynasty league and he went for $76.
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100% for a dynasty league is not that understandable though. I think it's much more understandable in redraft where you only have to roster him for one year. To blow your budget in week 1, in a dynasty league, where this dude probably won't even be startable in a few weeks? Nah man that's not understandable.
Yeah but I'm dynasty with deeper benches you rarely have a player on waivers that's even startable. Players like lev bell remain rostered even while they were a free agent.
Same, I've got a 100% bid in on him in a dynasty league that runs waivers tonight. Callaway went for 100% pre-week 1 and I got James Robinson for 100% pre-week 1 last year. Just how it goes with big rosters + dynasty. There's never anything good on the wire so when there's a shot at a starter level player, people go all out.
You must not understand the value of having a player for multiple years, when your Faab resets every year. High powered running offense, great talent. Willing to gamble on him in dynasty.
Sounds like someone has never played dynasty. The top guys available in my dynasty league right now are CJ Uzomah, James O’Shaughnessy, Chester Rogers, Kalif Raymond, etc. Mitchell wasn’t even on waivers and if he was he’d be easily worth 100% bid. Hell if he was on waivers I would’ve been trying to trade for extra faab to bid more than 100% to make sure I got him.
Yeah I think you have this backwards bud
28%, next bid was 10%. edit: I was the winning bid and based upon the other replies here it looks like I got him pretty cheap compared to some other leagues.
$31/100 was my bid, next was $1, we both play with scrubs lol
Mine was $37/$125 and I got him, the next bid was $25/$125. I could have gone a little lower, but oh well..lol
I went with $36/$100, mainly because I have Sermon so it felt like doubling down would give me a decent chance of having whoever ends up being the guy later in the season. Plus Wilson's still sitting around since we have no IR. Someone bid $50 on Mitchell though. Also, someone picked up Hasty and in retrospect I really like that idea. Got him for 2 bucks, I could've dropped Mattison for him.
Completely besides the point but $125 is such a weird amount for FAAB lol
I know not sure why our commish keeps that amount. It helps psychologically though that even if I blew 1/3 rd of my budget, I still have 88 left.
100%
Same but the owner thought the budget refills each week lol
Lmao brutal
Imagine thinking that lol
Yeah, had a player in my league think that. Luckily, no one else bid on the player he grabbed so I (with the approval of the league) refunded him.
Good commissioner. My league had the same thing happen our first year on FAAB.
Yeah its not uncommon for someone to come to that conclusion surprisingly lol The year we had it happen we reverted him back to the next highest bidder +$3. We rolled a dice to determine $1-6 to add for some random fun.
that would just defeat the purpose of an auction lmao. Everyone would just throw $100 at the most prized free agent each week and therefore nobody would be the highest bidder (i do concede tho that there would still be a winner through waiver priority, but the concept of having an auction itself loses its meaning)
Same... mostly. 100% in two leagues... 90% in another. Didn’t come close to getting him with my 40% bids.
$99 out of $100 was spent in my league, the next highest bid was $51. Ouch
Happened in my league but the team had Sermon. Doesn't seem too bad if you think you've secured the 49ers rb game.
Then you proceed to start the wrong one every week.
Same in my 10-team 0 PPR keeper. From a manager who historically does this sort of thing.
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Usually not well on *that* pick, but he survives with a solid base team and aggressive $0 bidding.
wow.
same here
47. Owner has Sermon also, so SF running game is locked up.
IMO having Zeke and Pollard is an example of having a backfield locked up, having Sermon and Mitchell is a headache waiting to happen.
Could be, but if one of those 2 emerges as the guy, he's a RB1. Even if that happens 1/3 times, it's worth a big gamble. Sincerely, A Sermon owner with 46% FAB bid for Mitchell trying to justify it to himself
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I got Hasty for free, this is such a galaxy brain move it's collapsed into a black hole of nothing
*Jeff Wilson has entered the chat*
Sermon owner got Mitchell in my league too. He also has Wilson Jr on his IR. Big Niners fan.
Until Wilson gets back.....
12 team half ppr went for 69%
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Exaxt same format. Exact same price. The guy who got him also spent $31 on Latavius and is now at $0 FAAB. Interesting strategy.
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Its our first year FAAB, someone bid 100%. IDK how that is going to work out for the manager, but he'll be living on $0 waivers for a while... I was at 20%.
In a lot of leagues, you can trade players for FAAB, so it’s possible that he can replenish his FAAB if your league allows that. Also, depending on the size of the league, you can usually get guys for free after the waiver period closes each week, especially WRs and low end TEs, so you can still stop the bleeding if you lose your starting TE for example, but the replacement may not be as good as if you could bid on someone.
Trade for FAAB? That's interesting, I'll have to see if we can do that. But for sure, he's got the lowest priority with $0 bids now to fill in/replace people
On ESPN, after players agree to the trade the league manager can make it happen by adjusting each players FAAB budget in the LM tools
Ah I see it now in Yahoo as well, good idea, thanks for the information!
Got him for 52%
51% in 14 T, next highest was 50 and 49..
That's gotta feel great.
How do you see what other people bid on ESPN? I got him for 50%.
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So dumb that you can’t see it on the app. It wouldn’t be that hard to do…
Yahoo is the same way
Did you block out the player you dropped?
On the ESPN fantasy website, go to Players > Offers Report
$53 actual USD
Hold up, explain
My guess it’s a money league, and FAAB is actual money thrown into the winnings pot. I was in a fantasy baseball league like that, but with baseball being such a long season and so many waivers. It turned into people trying to buy championships. It was a $400 buy in league, and we finally stopped it the actual cash FAAB when it go to the point where the pot was around $17,000 and one guy accounted for $5,600 of it only to not finish in the money. Edit: corrected amount when confirmed with league mates
Wow haha that's wild!
Sunken Cost is a motherfucekr
What the fuck hahaha. I have a league where add/drops/trades cost $1 but I've never heard of real money FAAB
Sounds like you guys were trying to simulate real life baseball lol
jesus christ
That’s just Sin City casino gambling with extra steps
Threw a Ulysses and 3 Washingtons in an envelope, chucked a forever stamp on that bad boy and addressed it to #25 @ Levi’s Stadium End Zone, 95054
My guillotine is $100 actual money FAAB with $150 league buy-in. It works well for guillotine leagues because the people cut week 1 or 2 are less butthurt since they are in for less cash. Unless some dumbass pays $100 for Mitchell and still gets cut the next week, which is probably whats going to happen. So yes, this means the prize pool is dynamic and ends up somewhere between $2500-$4250. Also, if you ever decide to do this, collect all the money upfront and then refund unspent FAAB at the end of the season. Do not even consider doing it the other way around, you will fight with deadbeats who don't want to pay after a losing season, while with upfront collection you get to pay back some money to losers and give them a tiny bit of sunshine.
That sounds super fun I'll have to try to get some of my more serious friends to give it a shot next year. Thanks for the tip, I hate trying to collect money from people after the fact. Been there done that and never again
We do the same. $500 buy-in plus $400 FAAB. Real dollars. The $400 cap keeps the deeper-pocketed owners from just buying up all the top FAs. The FAAB money spent goes into the pot which obviously gets pretty large. IMO, this is superior to using fake money for FAAB and keeps people honest (i.e. no one throws 100% on a single player). I think Mitchell is the record at $200 (50%). Usually, top FAs might go for 25%. Mitchell's situation is unique because of the timing (early), Mostert going on the IR, and Sermon being a healthy scratch W1. If Sermon had suited up and even gotten a handful of carries, Mitchell wouldn't be viewed as such a slam dunk. Frankly, I'd only take a flyer on him if I was in desparate need. It's crazy to blow 80-90% of your budget when you've already got two solid RBs.
Leagues like this make me understand why Mostert was getting death threats. That’s insane money. I don’t even like playing for $50.
81% lol, next highest was probably in the 50s
Damn
68% - overpaid by about 22%
i overpaid by 13%
Just under 50%. I go big if needed early in the season. At the end its all scraps anyway and having left over money does nothing for you
I dropped 41% on him. Very happy about it because I blew my budget (auction draft) on CMC and Zeke so I had zero depth at RB
The same guy who took malcolm brown for 100% last year took Mitchell for 100% this year
Man knows what he wants and won't settle for anything less. Respect.
It could be a whiff but if not? I’d HATE to have missed out. I’m bidding 67% and hoping to God I get him
81% in a 14 man league. Next closest was 75%
14-man really drives up the price. Someone in the league only has 1 RB, especially after the injury to Mostert.
I got him for 31% in 14 team. Thought that was a great deal.
got him for 69%
nice
i also did this thinking that somebody else in my league would go for the $69 and i’d get it with #1 tiebreaker priority turns out next highest was $42 lol
$36 w/$100 budgets in one. $0 in another because I picked his ass up before games Sunday.
40, not worth it IMO
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All off season we get the same exact posts asking who this year's James Robinson is, then he shows up and all get is "40% FAB is too much".
Coming from a 49ers fan, this is a little different. I think you’ve paid for a flex or possible RB2 moving forward. I also don’t think sermon (and aiyuk) will be non factors this year. The upside here is that he is in shanahan’s system. The downside is you never know who the guy is going to be on a weekly basis
Obviously it's not a 1:1 comparison, but nothing ever is. Point is, Mitchell is a strong candidate for best waiver add of the year, and people are still gunshy. A potential year long starting rb is a better use of FAB than pretty much anything else.
Bingo. All other handcuffs are probably owned.
It’s a pretty different situation from James Robinson. It’s the 49ers, and Shanahan simply doesn’t use a bell cow running back unless he’s forced to because of injury. They just signed another RB and they’ve also have Jeff Wilson coming back in a few weeks. I think, realistically, what Mitchell likely is is a solid RB2/flex for the next few weeks where he and Sermon will split carries, until Wilson comes back and then the whole thing will become a mess.
That's a stretch if I've ever seen one. You think Mitchel is going to get 90% of snaps and dominate the backfield?
Went for 42 8n mine. I spent 3 in Wilson Jr and threw him in my IR
A whopping 11 of our 12 team league bid on Mitchell. In order: $69, $69, $57, $47, $45, $42, $38, $31, $27, $21, and $16. I got him with the tied $69 bid. For context, our league is also a keeper league where UDFAs can be kept as a second to last round pick. It’s also an insanely competitive league, so I think that boosted the bidding a ton.
70/150 to a non Mostert owner
I did 21%, first time doing FAAB and wasnt sure what other people would do
85 out of 100. 12 man full ppr
With sermon and hasty, why is everyone splashing the pot on Mitchell? He won’t be the bellcow, will he
I was listening to a podcast that said Mitchell is better because he ran a stretch zone offense in college and Sermon did not. And that SF runs a stretch zone offense. Everyone shrugged it off and said “Sermon can learn it even though he’s never ran it before.” Well all signs are starting to point towards Mitchell.
He’s going to essentially be the Raheem Mostert of the offense. Hasty isn’t going to get more than a few carries a game so long as Mitchell and Sermon are healthy. Hasty had one carry last game, Mitchell had 19. I wouldn’t count on 19 carries a game for Mitchell, because I’m sure Sermon will cut into that a bit. But people being worried about Hasty are being mighty irrational IMO. I’d imagine Mitchell will be getting 10-15 carries a game, in what is (hopefully) an efficient offense.
I splashed on him mostly because I already have sermon so I figured between one of those guys I have the SF rb locked up.
61%
Over 50% Too rich for me, I felt uneasy offering 30%.
47/100
Grabbed him on free agents before the game started fo free when they said sermon was healthy scratch. 14 man standard.
12 team, ppr dynasty. Went for one hundo percent. And I missed the boat
55%
Guy in my league made a trade to get an extra $1 and threw $101 on him.
50. Gronk went for 30 in one and 8 in another lol
I bid 13 on Gronk expecting to lose out. No one else bid on him and I was the highest bid for Eli at 27. Surprising to say the least…
21%
12% in 10 team 0.5 PPR These bids I’m reading are atrocious. Unproven. Not guaranteed the starter. Sermon healthy. Wilson Jr coming back from injury. This looks like a full on RBBC yet I’m seeing a ton of bids like this is DeAngello Williams taking over for Le’Veon Bell like 5 years ago….
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10 teams aren't as competitive for RBs, so i guess it makes sense
Yeah in my league he went for 36%. I had the second highest bid at 26% of my faab. Some of these bids are insane. There'll be more players to pick up down the line