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Drafting from Nomination Slot 16 ($1-$10): Getting the Most From the Depth Bombs Tier
Auction logic centers on budget allocation: how many dollars are left after each nomination.
Nomination Slot 16: Depth Bombs ($1-$10)
| Player | Pos | Team | Tier |
|---|
Full 16-Tier Budget Ladder
| Slot | Tier | Range |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elite Tier | $60+ |
| 2 | Elite Tier | $50-$59 |
| 3 | Stud Tier | $42-$49 |
| 4 | Stud Tier | $36-$41 |
| 5 | High-End Starter | $31-$35 |
| 6 | High-End Starter | $27-$30 |
| 7 | Solid Starter | $23-$26 |
| 8 | Solid Starter | $20-$22 |
| 9 | Value Starter | $17-$19 |
| 10 | Value Starter | $15-$16 |
| 11 | Flex Value | $13-$14 |
| 12 | Flex Value | $11-$12 |
| 13 | Bench Depth | $8-$10 |
| 14 | Bench Depth | $6-$7 |
| 15 | Depth Bombs | $3-$5 |
| 16 | Depth Bombs | $1-$10 |
Trade Logic
Nominating into the Depth Bombs tier ($1-$10) at slot 16 is a budget call, not a pick trade — auction has no draft-slot trading, only dollars left after each nomination. Spend up here and you get the Depth Bombs name at the $1-$10 price point, banking the cheaper half of this exact bracket instead of paying the $3-$5 premium the same tier commands one slot earlier. The nomination-order lens matters as much as the tier itself: nominate this range early while budgets are flush, or wait it out and let cheaper owners bid each other past their comfort number.
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Sleepers & Fades
At this nomination slot, the tracked pool of 40 real players runs dry on both sides of the Depth Bombs bracket — there is no adjacent tier left to pull a std_dev-backed budget-allocation call from. Every name still on the board at this price point sits outside what this board can ground in real ADP data, so a sleeper-versus-fade read here would be a guess dressed up as analysis. Treat these last dollars as pure end-of-budget speculation: spend them on need, not on a signal this dataset can back up. Once deeper-roster ADP coverage is wired in for the auction format, this nomination slot gets a real budget-risk-allocation call instead of an honest shrug. Until then, the discipline is knowing the difference between a priced player and a guess.
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