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Fantasy football guides
How to run an auction, how scoring works, what to put in your league rules. Written for people who play, not to sell anything: they hold even if you never use FantaVoice.
How to run a fantasy football auction
What is worth deciding before the evening, because deciding it during costs time and arguments.
Read the guide →STRATEGYHow not to run out of credits
The most common mistake is not overpaying for a player: it is not noticing you did until it is too late.
Read the guide →MISTAKESThe mistakes that ruin a live auction
These are not strategy mistakes: they are things that happen at the table and, if you have not planned for them, cost an hour.
Read the guide →THE RULESFantasy football bonuses and penalties: the full table
What each event is worth, which values change from league to league, and which additions are best avoided.
Read the guide →THE RULESThe defence modifier, properly explained
How it is calculated, when it applies, what it is really worth, and why it changes how you spend at the auction.
Read the guide →JANUARYThe winter repair auction
January's auction is a different animal from August's: shorter, more decisive and easier to get wrong.
Read the guide →Where to start
If this is the first auction you organise, the order is: first how to run an auction night, which covers what to decide before sitting down; then the league rulebook, which puts in writing the rules leagues usually argue about mid-season.
If you only play, start from scoring: bonuses and penalties explain how the final mark is built, and the defence modifier is the item that most often changes a result without anyone noticing.
The most common mistakes during a live auction are collected in a separate guide: five minutes to read, and they save the half hour of argument that follows when they actually happen.
How they are written
Each guide explains one thing and explains it fully, with worked numbers instead of formulas: what a defender goal is worth, what happens to a squad when you spend too early, how the modifier is computed when five marks are involved.
They contain no marks, valuations or player lists, which belong to whoever publishes them. They contain rules and arithmetic, which belong to everyone: that is why they hold whichever site you take your numbers from.
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