What is a Rube?
A “Rube” is a term affectionately used by the
on-air talent at KFAN (a sports talk radio station in
Minnesota) to describe sports nuts, usually with strong
opinions.
Overview
Fantasy sports leagues are moving toward the
auction draft, where every owner gets a shot at every player. Weak fantasy minds hate this trend. With the more traditional snake
draft, your average sports rube can simply pick the best player available when
it’s their turn. Now, instead of
hoping for the top pick to fall into their lap, they have to decide whether that
top RB is worth half of their budget.
To make things more fun for the elite fantasy
sports minds, formats have also evolved.
Now price setting isn’t as easy as checking mock draft results or fantasy
magazines that are usually a month old.
These only cover a fraction of possible league formats.
If you’re in more than one league, you know that
leagues are rarely the exact same.
How it works
The RubeSheets calculation engines were designed by a fantasy sports rube
working in the financial services industry.
Option pricing theory inspired many pieces of the auction pricing logic.
RubeSheets maintains projected
statistics for each player. However,
RubeSheets does not specialize in
producing statistical expectations.
Instead, the statistics are heavily based on other expert sources.
Based on statistical projections and a league’s
scoring system, an expected point total is solved for each player. Next, the points are adjusted based
on the league starting format, position points, and other factors (RubeSheets secrets). Finally, the adjusted points are
converted to auction values based on the amount of auction dollars in the pool.
If you’re in a keeper league,
RubeSheets can even adjust the
auction values to account for the players kept as well as the league charge for
keeping the players.
And if you would like to update auction values
during your draft, you can use the keeper functionality to do this. All you’d need to do is increase the
“Total charge for kept players” input by the final cost of each player and
recalculate (you’d also need to check the “kept” checkbox of the player that’s
been drafted).