[SamC]

Here is another "edge" I just thought of for later in the life of Fantasy FIRST. Silent/open auction drafting. I'm not sure if anyone else has ever seen this in other "fantasy" games, but pretty much here is how it works:

Each player is alloted a certain amount of money/coins/whatever (100 for example). Then drafting goes on for 1 week (or another set time.) then, people place bids on teams they want on their team. The only different in a silent auction draft from an open auction draft is that in the silent you do not see what others are biding, so you must decide how much a certain team is worth to you. Each player can have up to 4 teams with a minimum of 1. And if at the end of the auction you end up with no teams because you did not win any of the "auctions" then you can pick a team(s) from the open pool (the left-overs) for free.