2025 PSDG: The Auction Draft Guide for 2025 (Preview)
Whitney Sorrell - 8/14/2025
Welcome to the 2025 FF Mastermind "Salary Cap" Draft Guide - not to be confused with your Uncle Larry’s 1998 draft where everyone took three running backs before you could finish your second Coors Light.
Nope. Times have changed. We’ve got PPR, half-PPR, and enough rule changes to make wide receivers as valuable as avocado toast at a millennial brunch. Quarterbacks are also cashing in now that the NFL keeps inventing new penalties for "mean looks" atpassers.
All this changes your budgeting for an auction draft - but the core commandments? The Immutable Rules of Auction Drafting? Oh, those are sacred. And unlike your cousin’s "sleepers" list, the Immutable Rules actually work.
Next week I will provide actual base-line values and suggested budgets for a PPR league gushing over WRs, non-PPR...
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