NEW SUMMER LEAGUE - AUCTION - CHAT ONLY

[DOHowser1]

Since the real Doogie Howser recently came out of the closet, I will allow my Son to be called the MD, because I want NO part of it.

[DHowser]

we've actually never been in the same division before, so this should be interesting. Might get the first ever Strato bench clearing brawl. I think DO has Zimmer as his bench coach too.

[mjruth]

[quote:2ad1999916="DHowser"]I think that if I understand it, mjruths draft idea might really be a good one. I think it might even speed things up. Say player 1 puts an opening bid of 10 mill on Ruth. Then player 2 can up the bid or pass. Once you pass you are out of the running for said player. So after going through once there might be 4 teams left bidding on Ruth. Then you could start back at team 1 again and he can either bid higher or pass, and so on.

[/quote:2ad1999916]

Yes DHowser, you have described it perfectly. For the record, I am open to your method as well Gfdwarf!

[DHowser]

with doing it this way too, you don't have to worry about someone outbidding you at the last second.

[DOHowser1]

Although I understand the concerns which gfdwarf expresses, it would appear to me that this group seems quite committed, and I feel we will keep the auction process going at a good clip.

Therefore, I vote for the SNAKE

[DHowser]

snake for me ... now I must sleep. Will check back in tomorrow afternoon.

[DHowser]

also, since I have 3rd pick for stadium, if Griffith 57 is still available, I'll take it. If not, I'll pick another tomorrow afternoon.

[GFDWARF07]

If that is the case - once you "pass" you are out for that player, that is my vote too - the snake!

I thought he meant you simply passed that time and could bid the next time the snake came back, which could have taken forever - that doesn't make any sense. The snake makes much more sense the way DHowser explained it - sorry - the old coconut head wasn't working....

Let's do the snake! ruth rules!

[DonFESQ]

well, one way we could eliminate the problem with last second sniping of bids ala ebay is to say if there's a bid in the last minute of the period, say 8:59 to 9:00 pm, then it adds 5 minutes to the bid period i.e. the auction would expire at 9:05. This would then be the same if another last bid came in between 9:04 and 9:05 it would extend the bid period another 5 minutes. until 9:10 and so on. If the last bid were at 9:08 in this example then the auction would expire at 9:10. If however the last bid were between 9:09 and 9:10 it would then extend to 9:15 etc.

The time stamp on the boards here would control.

[Palanion]

I vote for the snake method.
I like the five auctions at once idea.
I like the bid winners choosing the next player for bid.
If a team passes on a player, they can no longer jump back into the auction for that player. I like that a lot.
I'm not sure about the whole 48-hour thing. With the snake method, I think instead of having a deadline when the auction ends, there should be a time limit for making a bid. Miss out on bidding, you pass.
Example:
Team A announces Ernie Banks with opening bid $4M. Team B passes. Team C ups to $5M. Teams D, E, F pass. Team G bids $5.5M. Teams H and I pass. Team J does not respond within allotted time (3 hours?), passes. Team K bids $5.9M. Team L passes, etc. etc.

I think it is going to be hard to participate in each and every single player being auctioned, BUT with 300 players being auctioned, I expect to miss a bunch. And this is how some deals and steals may happen.

I have no cell phone, and I work as an editor, so quiet is paramount and so there are VERY few phone calls. Thus, I will not pass phone number along. However, I am willing to give my work e-mail, which I check a LOT.

Team name: Throwing Muses