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Date Fri Jun 20 11:09:49 a.m. ET 2008
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| I wrote this in the Mock Drafts R Us forum, but figured I should repost here. I want to start the auction with no specific rules beyond what MFL has set up. That means you can nominate as many as you want and winning bids sit for 24 hours. Adding rules is probably important, but any time a commish has to monitor something it can create issues. So let's just start with common sense. 30 players up for bid is probably silly. Two per team seems to work for some. I enjoyed xperts auctions that allowed one nominee per team at a time. I will probably start "my team" with the one at a time approach, but I don't want to enforce anything on anyone unless it appears to get out of whack. Make sense? Improvements made with "other rules" will be forwarded with detailed explanations to MFL. I want to see how this works if we're only limited by MFL's draft software. It doesn't tell me who nominated who, and I can't police every new nomination, nor do I expect you as a group to do the same. I only know who has the current high bid. So, if we had a rule that each owner could only nominate one or two at a time, then we would need a thread for nominees to track it. It's not a big deal, but then that thread needs to be monitored. I think we all realize that 30 players on the board early in the auction would be lame. Later when funds are low 30 or more may make sense. I'm kind of curious to find out. So, we'll just trust ourselves as a group to have a good auction and feel free to nominate anyone you want to any time you want to. I highly doubt anyone here wants to sabotage the thing. So be reasonable and build the best team you can. I'm doing it this way because I want to move a league to an auction format, and I know the software would have to have control for it to work in that league. We have tried Fantasy Auctioneer and had huge problems. We tossed the auction and had a redo with a snake draft. This set up may work for us, but adding rules the software cannot enforce is a recipe for disaster with those knuckleheads and there's a $500 entry fee. I'm not going to commish with those stakes and have the headache of making sure everyone is playing by the rules 24/7. | |
| tex |
Date Fri Jun 20 11:13:20 a.m. ET 2008
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Sounds good to me.
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