Fantasy Football Auction Sites
If you’ve made your way to this site, you may already realize that FantasyAuctioneer.com is down this season. They were recently purchased by RotoExperts.com and are currently undergoing a massive redesign. My guess is they will be live again for fantasy baseball 2010. Auctioneer was the first site to enter the online auction game, but luckily for us other sites have followed in their footsteps. Look for all the major sites to add auction games over the next few years. That may not matter, though, as ESPN could corner the market with their offering.
ESPN already has its Fantasy Football Mock Auctions running. The lobby is nearly flawless. Test them out for yourself here: http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/mockauctiondraftlobby. Be sure to do at least a few of these mock auctions before participating in your real one. Their actual auction leagues should be opening up soon. ESPN will provide everything you need to host your league’s auction online. ESPN dropped the ball on fantasy sports in the early years, letting sites like Yahoo and CBS get major market share. Now ESPN focuses on fantasy in a big way, and the fantasy community is taking notice. Kudos to ESPN for putting a solid auction product on the market.
If you came to this blog post in search of a site that sells a tool to help you run a live auction, check out Big Time Fantasy Sports Live Auction Tool. BTFS’s product lets your run an entire auction without an auctioneer. Everyone in attendance is given a button to press when they want to up the bid. If a leaguemate can’t be there in person he can participate over a high speed connection. It’s all run through a piece of software, so you don’t have to worry about draft boards and stickers. In my opinion it is the best live auction tool on the market.