Is there any interest in an 80s auction league?

[Rigged Splits]

Looks like Toisan really wants Ozzie :!: 8)

[BC Manager]

I love it!

The bid on Puckett gets upped from 19 to 27 and on the Wizard from 28.5 to 40! That's the kind of boldness we need to get this auction completed.
Way to go, BJ and Toisan (even if it was my Kirby bid that was trumped).

[Paul5757]

BJ started it with his bid on Trammell. (Nicely done with the math, couldn't match it with a CF too.) As the cliche goes, stuff rolls downhill, and we'll see what Sykes does with his extra $21.5. Just hope that I'm not at the bottom of the hill when that happens.

Should've tried to hang in there with Yount a little longer. But at one point, I was at $179 bid out on less than 25 players, without a stadium, so I had to slow down.

[BC Manager]

It seems that there is a trend that's started. It'll probably result in me being priced out of any of the guys that I want. :(

[Sykes25]

That Dykstra bid did hurt and rest assured, if I get bumped away from K-Mac, you will be outbid. I hope Lenny sucks. :P

Gotta agree with the 180m thing. I was under the impression at first that we were using 160 and when I realized it was 180, I was already over my head. I bid high on players early hoping to scare folks away with a 160m cap.

I have Pettis in CF already, so I don't need 22m to get another one.

[Paul5757]

Thought about that too. Almost waited before upping Smith so I could bid again on Trammell.

My choice was, I think, basically Smith and Dysktra or Trammell and McGee. (Or neither, depending on how the draft went.) But McGee is so bad in three years, didn't think it was worth the risk. I actually might be able to play with my roster to fit both McGee and Dykstra at the same time.

I can see me ending up with Templeton and McGee and a boat load of cash leftover, too.

[CHADGUMM]

I have found that the problem some have been facing here late in the auction process is the result of bids starting out too low and progressing ever so small with .5 incremental bids for the top tier players.

That's why I try to open up or bid from the start the top players at a high price because I know there going to get there eventually. No reason to mess around with the $10, $10.5, $11 type bids for players such as Raines, Trammell, etc. Personally, I'd rather know what interest is out there on the top tier players I want so if the bidding gets to high right away (i.e., Yount in this auction), I can quickly turn my attention to some other good player at that position. Otherwise the second tier players may already be gone (because you ignored them by messing around with small bids for the top tier players) that by the time you decide to stop bidding on the top tier player and then you have all this money left with not many good players left to bid on. Hence why there is so much money left. I don't think it really has anything to do with $180M vs. $160M (the bids should just be a bit more higher for each player).

[Rigged Splits]

I knew it was 180 mil going in but I didn't think there would be so many bargains so I tried not to bid up the top players too much. Even with the bargains I was spread too thin to get all the players I needed and had to concentrate on making sure I got one big name because I could be outbid on anyone if I tried for two big names. I held back cash because I didn't want to get caught without any if it was tied up in another player.

[DOUGGRAY]

[quote:1ecbf19bec]Penn,

is there a cutoff as to when we can "Open" our last players? We're not on a deadline date with that are we?
[/quote:1ecbf19bec]

No deadline, when the league is filled I will close the draft and open it when the league is drafted.

I cant even enter a team yet because I dont have a stadium. :roll:


We are near the end though, although those with cash left should have used it yesterday. If you really want a player overbid enough so we dont continue to go up. I have cash left and I will use it on players that I can bid on. There is no reason to have any cash left so use it up now instead of dragging the draft out.

[DOUGGRAY]

also I dont think 180 mil matters its the fact that most didnt protect the draft early on. We should never let a starting type player go for less then 2x his salary but we did with so many.

Mav and I usually complain about this all the time in drafts, we go on rants :D but I wanted to see what would happen in a draft we said nothing.

The reason none of us should let players like Reggie Jackson or Phelps go for less money then 2x the TSN salary is because it gives that owner who won they HUGE buying power later in the auction. None of us want that beacuse you now see what has happened,


example, Trammel is 46 mil because we let other players go too cheap and we didnt protect the auction.


Thats my flu, stuck in bed rant :D :D

btw, Im looking after Bigmahon also right now because he is completely away from a computer as per an email he sent me this morning.