Place your bids for the above player here.
Kraken bid $300k
Nomads bid 400K
750K
$850k
Kraken bid $950k
$1.1 mill
1.25M
Regarding valid bids, I've always wondered if bids crossing over $1M could be $100k increment or had to be $250k. Based on the Dog's bid above, I assume the correct answer is $100k and his is a valid bid.
On the other hand, the Landlubbers bid is certainly invalid (less than $250k) unless the Dogs bid is invalid.
Dan, Rod's bid is valid. It needs to be $250K if the last bid was over $1M.
Landlubbers last bid is invalid. Currently the most recent bid is from today at 6:04:49 AM.
sorry guys, should have refreshed with the rules before FA started
1.35M is the new bid
$1.6M
1.85M
Craig, my apologies - sincerely - but I just got outbid on Vazquez, and I just can't go any higher than my last bid for him.
$2.3M for Pina.
yup, I really hate this system but it is what it is.
I have mixed feelings on this. Once a guy goes almost the full 24 hours without a bid, I start to count him as mine. It hurts then when someone comes in with a late bid to burst that bubble. On the other hand, the rules say you have 24 hours to make a bid so it's hard to get mad at someone abiding by the rules. I've been on both sides. I actually like the system and the drama it creates. It gives owners a chance to be fluid with their options as the market moves.
I did the same thing with Vazquez. I actually officially put him on my unofficial roster about 30 mins before I was outbid. Agh!!! But yes, the rules are the rules. It wouldn't matter if it was 12 hours, 24 hours, or 48. People will always have things shaken up and be forced to move onto target #2 or #3, then back to #1... It's not a perfect system, but it's more fluid and interactive than anything else I can think of.
The issue is that you can't be "fluid with your options". Unless I drag along options 2 and 3 with late bids they may be gone when my guy gets out bid with 15 minutes to go. It happened twice to me last night and my 2nd and 3rd options are gone. I will learn to juts drag them along for now on and if I win some I don't want I will have to deal with trading.
I get this side of the argument too. Your alternate option might be gone by the time your guy gets bid up. I just don't know how you change the system without creating different flaws. But doesn't that happen in real life too. Jay Bruce or Carlos Santana might look like a nice backup plan if your primary FA target fails to sign with you but it's too late to fall back on that plan now since someone else beat you to him.
Craig, your scenario is exactly what prompted me to have to place a bid on Piña. Like Dan said, it’s a system that has its flaws, but over the last 10 years I think we’ve addressed most of them. I know the commissioners are always open to new ideas, so please don’t be silent if you have thoughts about improving things.
lucky you that Pina was still there. I don't have enough fantasy sports time shares in this league to go up against the CO. Plus I'm still bitter about the changes that happen without any transparency and that allow CO GMs to have inside knowledge throughout the year when building their team.
unless we move from bidding via forum posts to a program/widget (maybe a free one exists out there but I think it'd still require a lot of customization) that can handle conditional bids, I don't see any other way. I've gotten used to our system. If the Rattlers had posted 20 mins earlier, I'dve then put in another Brantley bid (which expired maybe 15 mins after mine did) or pivoted to pitching & looked for LF depth in the next round, annoying a different group of managers/bidders.
I suppose we could expedite some top players by making their auctions strictly time-capped. Maybe three per round, closing at 9pm Monday. Something like that. But I guess that might be adding flavor more than resolving the above issue of juggling menu options. ^_^
I think we’re all on the same page regarding the auction system. Does it have its flaws? Absolutely. But I don’t know of a better system besides all 20 of us getting together and doing a live auction 1 player at a time.
One last comment. The CO did not have prior knowledge of expansion (let alone the expansion rules) or arbitration prior to the trade deadline. Some of my moves, specifically trading for Andrus, was for naught as well. So we’re all relatively in the same boat in that regard. Not going to lie, some teams were impacted more by expansion than others. But none of us had “insider trading” that this was going down. If anyone needs more clarification on this topic please hit me up offline.
I've participated in live drafts before and even they have flaws. To use an example from our auction, I might pass on a $3M Cabrera thinking I'm going to get a $2M Santana. When Santana ends up auctioning later for $4M, I could regret not bidding more on Cabrera.
100% accurate
There isn’t a perfect system
I stumbled across this discussion and I think the same thing happened last week. I thought, what is all the bidding for Manny Pina about?
I think anytime something comes up like this it should move off of the player bids and to a general forum board. This system is better than you think.
2.6M
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LOL. I'm curious - the point is?
The league needs 40+ catchers . . .In real life there are only 30 that have more than 100 AB's and bat for more than .250.
I LOVE IT!!!!
*numbers are approximate because if I look at another spreadsheet today I'll lose it #worksucksmorethansimbaseball
The hope is for Manny Pina to be the last player decided on in this round.
although now I might be fighting with Asterisks on a Catcher in the next round..... see you there?
My point was people get their hopes up and then someone jumps in at the end. I still need catching PA's as well so if I don't get Pino I'll be fighting with you over later catchers.
So, just to be clear, you waited until the 24th hour on purpose?
Edit: I don't want to start a fight here. It's all good. Pina at $2.6M... what a weird offseason.
This doesn't look good for those of us that are still looking to get some PAs from catchers in the next round or two. :(
Before FA started, I had a feeling about this. The catching market is extremely thin. Next week should be interesting.
The Pina thread has been hijacked.
I think this year's catcher market is a good example of where 1 year contracts would be helpful. Specifically, I don't like the idea of 1 year contracts in free agency. Part of the fun/challenge with our 2 and 3 year contracts is that we have one "known" year and one or two "unknown" years. If we have 1 year contracts for free agents, an average player with an out of this world season might auction for Mike Trout prices because I know I only need to commit to that one great year.
I would like to see 1 year contracts for guys I would call waiver wire pickups. Once free agency is over, I could pick up something from the scrap pile of players left and sign them to a 1 year contract. It would be a way to fill a need with a crappy catcher (or what ever need you have) for this season without needing to commit long term to the guy.
I actually didn't wait on purpose. Until yesterday I didn't even realize Pina was a catcher. I thought all the catchers were off the board for this week. I picked up my computer after I got my 5 year old to sleep and and started looking at the few folks that were left and realized he was a catcher who I still have never heard outside of the MSB world.
I read it as a "can we get back to bidding?" type of post/meme/whatever you call it.
The ‘- C’ after his name in the Topic wasn’t enough of a clue that he was a catcher?
Hee hee
I also should point out that if you download the league file I created “teams” for each of the nomination weeks. So that way you can see all of the players available each week in one spot. I started doing that last year, but I forgot to remind people of it this year. Better late than never I guess.
Closed to the Rougarou.
$2.6M/2020
or
$3.12M/2019
$3.12M/2019