AtomicCEO Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I've never done an auction before. I started a new dynasty league with college friends who are scattered around the country. We have to populate 26 man rosters before the rookie draft, and my plan was a slow mfl draft. Piece of cake. Tried and true. Battle tested. But there has been some talk of changing to an auction for populating the rosters. What would we be getting into if we tried that? - Can it be done slowly through mfl by 12 guys around the country? - How much more attention and effort than the draft would it take if people are busy and can't check in multiple times a day?\ - Would relative rookies be completely confused and intimidated by it? - How long do you think it would take? 26 guys seems like a lot, and the only relevant experience I have is RFA for Fusion, which I would hate to consider a typical auction experience. Does mfl have an auction report for a similar kind of auction that I could look at to see how it might go? Anyone have a league they could link to? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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DMD Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I've never done an auction before. I started a new dynasty league with college friends who are scattered around the country. We have to populate 26 man rosters before the rookie draft, and my plan was a slow mfl draft. Piece of cake. Tried and true. Battle tested. But there has been some talk of changing to an auction for populating the rosters. What would we be getting into if we tried that? - Can it be done slowly through mfl by 12 guys around the country? - How much more attention and effort than the draft would it take if people are busy and can't check in multiple times a day?\ - Would relative rookies be completely confused and intimidated by it? - How long do you think it would take? 26 guys seems like a lot, and the only relevant experience I have is RFA for Fusion, which I would hate to consider a typical auction experience. Does mfl have an auction report for a similar kind of auction that I could look at to see how it might go? Anyone have a league they could link to? MFL does have the option of using an ebay-style auction but that has the same problem as ebay - you have to be there are the very end usually to get someone. What I would suggest for you to check out is FantasyAuctioneer.com which is what my dynasty league uses each year to add free agents and rookies to rosters. An auction is not all that longer than a draft if at all. FantasyAuctioneer would require that all team owners be online for the auction at the same time of course which may be a problem for you. But even if you could only assemble the other team owners for a few hours, you could kick out all the most coveted players via the draft and then fill the rest of the rosters using a normal "email" draft on MFL. I personally would not recommend the auction capability on MFL unless it has changed recently. I have virtually all my leagues on MFL and love their product but for conducting an auction, I highly prefer fantasyauctioneer.com. Check it out and see what you think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 An auction is not all that longer than a draft if at all. FantasyAuctioneer would require that all team owners be online for the auction at the same time of course which may be a problem for you. Hmmm... that's an interesting concept. Have a time-limited auction for several hours, and then for the remaining players, switch over to a draft. So you give a fair shake to your Tomlinsons and your Mannings so it's not all a dice roll... but when you get down to your Forseys and Northcutts, you're not wasting everyone's time and effort. Has anyone ever done that before? Any suggestions? Do you make it mandatory that people spend a certain amount? Or end up with a specific number of players? Both? Or do you just keep launching players into the bidding until the time is up? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T_bone65 Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 I used Fantasy Auctioneer once a few years ago and I can remember you have many options that you can setup. It will not allow anyone to overbid or spend more money then what you allotted and it also makes sure each person does have a set number of players on a roster. So if you have $10 left and 8 roster spots to fill it will only allow you to bid a max of $3 for 1 player and then $1 for your remaining 7. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatman Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 It certainly can be done - if you want to spend the time. We did a slow auction to start ConFusion, a 16 team IDP league. The first auction was vets only and lasted about two months. Rookie auction came next and was about one month, with any money left over from the vet auction. We used the league forum here on the Huddle. It was actually a lot of fun. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Fatman Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Here's the summary, too: http://forums.thehuddle.com/index.php?show...auction+summary It was pretty similar to RFA in Fusion. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DMD Posted March 21, 2008 Share Posted March 21, 2008 Do you make it mandatory that people spend a certain amount? Or end up with a specific number of players? Both?Or do you just keep launching players into the bidding until the time is up? If you went with a partial auction/partial draft, then I would just conduct the auction with everyone knowing that they have "X" to spend (I like $200 personally) and that they have say two hours exactly to spend it. You can either accept that there will be different numbers of players on rosters and then allow them to have "make up picks" until everyone has the same number of openings for the draft portion or you could just stipulate that everyone must have say 8 players on their roster and as teams fill the 8 they stop bidding until finally the last team with an opening gets his 8th player. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AtomicCEO Posted March 21, 2008 Author Share Posted March 21, 2008 If you went with a partial auction/partial draft, then I would just conduct the auction with everyone knowing that they have "X" to spend (I like $200 personally) and that they have say two hours exactly to spend it. You can either accept that there will be different numbers of players on rosters and then allow them to have "make up picks" until everyone has the same number of openings for the draft portion or you could just stipulate that everyone must have say 8 players on their roster and as teams fill the 8 they stop bidding until finally the last team with an opening gets his 8th player. I think that having a set number of players is probably best. This could work. I like it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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