NEW SUMMER LEAGUE - AUCTION BLOCK - BIDS ONLY!

[Palanion]

[quote:e9386be5ef]How long do we wait for no bids before another pitcher is nominated and we do it again? 24 hours? [/quote:e9386be5ef]
Yup. That's how I've expected this all along. But, in fairness, I did not nominate a player I thought would go without a bid. I just nominated a player I did not want. If Matlack happens to go without a bid, I'll nominate a new one tomorrow.
I recall a conversation in the Chat thread about filling up a roster spot and nominating a player. I think a major reason we had the "does not have to bid" rule was for that scenario.
And, to me, it fits this scenario too.

[bkeat23]

Problems both ways for sure, we've just had a difference of opinion as to which one was worse. This has the potential of bringing an already slow process to a standstill. I was fine with slow :wink:

McGraw bkeat23 -- 2.8

[Palanion]

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[GFDWARF07]

First of all, I trust your intentions completely, Palanion, and nobody has done more work for our benefit than you! Again thank you kindly for all you have done!

Maybe Matlack will generate a bid, but there are very few of us who still need starting pitching, me being one, and I do not want him, even for 0.7.

What if the person "next in line" could simply "pass" on making a nomination if they did not want to and it slid down the line to the next owner with a roster opening? that would at least keep us moving. In fact, after we get to where there are only 1 or 2 that need that category, it will cut right to the chase as that person nominates their remaining hitters or pitchers in succession, or bounce back and forth between the last couple.

My fear is there will literally be hundreds of players that we will not have on our rosters at the end of the auction and I do not want to have to "wait it out" 24 hours for each one to receive no bids. Obviously it won't happen with every player, but even 25 times costs us 25 days at that auction position.

There is no joy in nominating someone you are not bidding on if nobody is required to bid. Rather than guessing who might go why not let someone willing to bid nominate?

Again, this becomes more of an issue the deeper we go. Matlack was an honorable nomination, but in reality any of us could play games all day long with our nominations if we didn't have to make an opening bid. And though we are all patient, that will get very tiresome after awhile.

[bkeat23]

The above suggestion seems to eliminate the possibility of delays with no bids as well as someone getting stuck with a player they didn't want to bid on at all.

Or am I missing something?

At some point, even with the above compromise, with no bid nominations, we could have 3 owners with money to spend above a nickel per player not wanting to place a nomination and bid. There stops the draft.

[GFDWARF07]

I don't follow you bkeat - say there were three left with money to spend and six pitching roster "slots" open in total among the 3, why wouldn't one of them nominate someone (maybe above the minimum). I don't think we would end up at a stalemate where nobody would tip their hand and nominate. We are talking about the fringe roster fillers here. You just bid strategically based on what you know about everyone else's payroll and who you want.

I just see no sense at all with the alternative - nominate without a bid and wait to see what happens, then try again, and again, and again if no bid.

Is there any strategic disadvantage with letting the nomination pass to the next down? :?:

[Palanion]

Maybe passing the nomination would work. I'm not sure, though I do agree that it might save time.

[DHowser]

if you look in the rules section of our spreadsheet, it says that " Manager of winning bid announces next player to be auctioned as soon as possible; does not have to bid." This rule has been there all along so Palanion is right. I think that he should be able to pass it on to the next manager if he doesn't want it.

[DonFESQ]

The rules state that a player may be nominated and not bid on.

Actually the minimum bid on Matlack would be 800k and I'll go ahead and make it.

so Matlack .8 DonFESQ

[Mr Baseball World]

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