Auction Brief with Drew Davenport

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...

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 approac...

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...

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...

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...

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 y...

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...

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....

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 auct...

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 unturne...

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...

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 hos...

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 breakd...

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 informatio...

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 star...

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 Disc...

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 envis...

Guest Marcas Grant joins the Auction Brief in this week's Discussions with Drew to talk some auction strategy in tough rooms, how to approach it, and how to fight through the brutal nature of an experienced auction room. Then Drew and Marcas talk about players who had great, or poor, seasons in 2022 and whether they will repeat those performances. But before Marcas and Drew chop it up, your host g...

The Auction Brief has come back with another dynamite episode in it's fourth offering of the summer. Guest Ian Hartitz from Matthew Berry's Fantasy Life joins the show for Discussions with Drew and the two hit on dozens of players and situations that you're wondering about. What should you do with the Cowboys wide receivers behind CeeDee Lamb? How should you handle the Commanders backfield? Why is...

Season 3 of the Auction Brief rolls on with perhaps the most controversial, yet information packed, episode of the summer. Your host Drew Davenport starts the show with a little auction talk, highlighting a bedrock concept known as the Par Sheet and how it can help you crush your auction with little or no experience. Then Drew drops a bomb about rookies in redraft leagues. He discusses the value o...

The Auction Brief is back with the 2nd episode of Season 3 as Denny Carter from the Rotoworld Football show joins Drew to try and make sense of murky fantasy situations around the league. Before Denny gets started, Drew takes you through mistakes people are making in auction preparation, chasing players too hard, and how we missed so badly on Rusell Wilson and Kyle Pitts. After Drew dissects how t...

The Auction Brief is Back! We must be hurtling headlong into redraft season because your host Drew Davenport is back on the mic to help you dominate your fantasy leagues again this year. Season 3 is underway as Drew gets warmed up for the summer by discussing what the Auction Brief is all about and why it's a fantasy football show like no other. Then, it's on to a deep look into what makes us huma...

The Auction Brief is back for the final episode of 2022. This time your host Drew Davenport breaks down the keys to winning a fantasy title. How can we prepare NOW to win a title over the next 7 weeks of football? Your host gives you 3 keys to success as we head down the stretch of the NFL season. Learn about how to optimize your roster, what teams have hot passing or rushing schedules, and what t...

The Auction Brief returns, this time with Marcas Grant from the NFL Network to go over Drew's Clues heading into Week 9. Not only does your host, Drew Davenport, talk about 3 things he wants you to know to get better at fantasy football, but Drew and Marcas hit too many topics to list. Kyle Pitts, D'Onta Foreman, Justin Fields, Aaron Jones v. AJ Dillon, and so much more. Your analysts discuss whic...

The Auction Brief is back after a hiatus to discuss everything you need to know heading into Week 6 of the Fantasy Football season. Your host Drew Davenport is back on the mic solo for this episode and he hits everything you are wondering about for your fantasy teams. Drew starts with a conversation about Fantasy Football strategy that leads to 3 Tips everyone can learn right now to make their fan...