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About auction values
Fantasy basketball auction values for 2026-27
An auction draft is a different problem from a snake draft. Nobody is stuck with a slot, everybody has the same money, and the whole board is available to anyone willing to pay for it. What you need is not a ranking but a price, and a price only means something once you know how many teams are bidding, how many spots they each have to fill and how much they have to spend. Most auction cheat sheets are printed for a standard league and leave you to do that adjustment in your head. This one is built from the settings you type in.
Points leagues and category leagues get their own board, because they are genuinely different questions and one set of dollar values cannot answer both. The prices are built from the same 2026-27 projections that order the rankings, so a player sits where he does on all three for one reason. Once you have your prices, Draft Hacker will run the draft with you and Roast My Draft will tell you afterwards how everyone did. If you have not sorted out who picks where yet, The Fastbreak will draw the order.
How are fantasy basketball auction values calculated?
We rank every player on our 2026-27 projections under your scoring, then price the board the way real auction rooms spend their money. Rooms pay for about eight players a team and fill the rest of their rosters for a dollar, so in a 12 team league the 96th best player is the line: each player above it is worth what he gives you over the 96th, and everyone from the 96th to the last roster spot goes for a dollar. The money in the room, less a dollar for every roster spot, is shared out in proportion to that. A star is priced at what he adds until he costs a third of one team's budget, and past that each extra dollar of what he adds costs a third of a dollar, because a manager who spends half their budget on one player still has twelve spots to fill.
Why do the values change when I change the league size?
Because the player you would settle for changes. In a 10 team league the line sits at the 80th best player and in a 20 team league at the 160th, who is a good deal worse, so the gap between him and a star grows, and there is twice as much money in the room. Team size moves the other end of the board: every roster spot is a dollar held back, and a player past the last roster spot in your league is still listed but priced at $0, since nobody in your league has to buy him.
Do the auction values add up to my league's budget?
Yes, to the dollar. Add up every price on the board and you get your number of teams times your budget back. That is worth checking, and it is the difference between an auction value and a ranking with a dollar sign stuck in front of it. The whole dollar figures are shared out instead of being rounded one at a time, so those add up too.
Should I use the points values or the category values?
Whichever your league scores. The points board prices what a player produces in fantasy points. The category board prices how far he moves each of the nine categories against everyone else who gets rostered. They disagree about plenty of players and they are meant to, because a high scorer who shoots badly from the free throw line helps you in one format and hurts you in the other.
What are the ESPN and Yahoo columns?
They are what people actually paid. Both platforms publish the average price a player went for across auction drafts run on their site, and we print that beside our own number. Neither one is priced for your league, because each is an average over that platform's own default settings, so read the gap between them and our price as a guide to what a room will pay for someone, not as a verdict on how good he is.
Is there a minimum bid?
A dollar. You cannot buy a roster spot for nothing, so a manager filling 13 spots has 13 dollars they will never get to spend on anybody good. Holding that money back before sharing out the rest is what makes the board add up. Some auction tools print values below a dollar, but no room sells a roster spot for less than one, so here nobody who makes a roster is priced under a dollar and everyone past the last roster spot is $0.
Are the auction values free?
The top 30 seats are free to anyone, with no account and nothing to install. Pro opens the rest of the board for your league's shape, and prices it under your own scoring. It sits alongside everything else here, including the fantasy basketball rankings, the weekly schedule and the draft assistant.