I expected that some of the guys I "signed" today would be bid up near the 6:00 deadline, but it seems odd that every player I signed was bid up to the max bid, without anyone going over. Before I start screaming conspiracy (or coincidence?) a question for our illustrious commish, are the signed players currently being acquired by current bid at the deadline, or the max bid?

Palooka, it is quite likely that a person bidded up a player to your max. For example, for a number of players (something like 5-7), I would bid $1 more than the current bid (and sometimes more than once). If my bid tied your max bid then you would keep the player. If you were already at your max bid, then I would get the player. If I noticed that my bid was rejected for being too low but then when I went back to the board and saw that your bid was now equal to the bid that I had just made, I would know that you were at your max bid--and then I would really have to think about whether I wanted to spend that extra dollar for the player or not. In a way, a drafting strategy is a little like Russian Roulette (and can explain not only why your players got bid up to their max, but also why I ended up with both Baltimore and New England when I only really wanted one of them).

wiegie's full of it, we're all out to get you. Best watch your back!

When a player signs, the MaxBid is reduced down to the current bid to free up that money into your bidding pool. So, in essence, all signed players will have their MaxBid equal to their current bid.
And yes, some guys go out of their way to try to get people up to their max bid. If you look at your players and the maxbid is an odd dollar amout over the current bid, someone will probably try to nickel and dime you up until they hit the exact amount as wiegie said. If you leave it at an even dollar difference, they will end up outbidding you in their attempt as they leapfrog your final max.

Honestly, I'm the only one that can get in and view each individual bid and maxbid and that's only after wading through the different tables and lining up the correct indexes. This is not something I do unless an owner claims there is a problem. Not even the commish can see what an owner has as their maxbid.

No problem with guys upping the bids, I'm familiar with the process. I just though it odd that shortly before the deadline, I had several players several dollars underneath a max bid. It would have been difficult in the short time left before the signing deadline for one guy to max out all those bids unless several guys were bidding against me at once. Hadn't seen that before in the 4 years I'd been in this league.

Chavez is right, you're all out to get me!!

carefull trying to up someones maxbid might leave you with an
LT and HOLMES and consequently 2 consecutive championships

but in all seriousness 2 yrs ago i had NO INTENTION to win Priest or LT and I got burnt trying to up their maxbids...luckily for me i was able to ride them the 1st yr and last yr i just got lucky come playoff time...wiegie by far had the best team last yr