I'd like to see the blind-bid waivers redone. When I enter an amount that I want to pay up to for a player, the system should compare that to the bids of other owners and the the highest bidder should be charged an amount that just barely beats the next highest bidder. An example-
3 bids placed on Player A-
Team Z- 30
Team Y- 72
Team X- 45
In the current system, Team Y would win player A but loses 72 bind-bid dollars. Instead, Team Y should win but lose only 46$, one over the next highest bid.
One easy way to implement this would be to list the next highest bid in the message that says a player was picked up using a blind bid:
Blind Faith picked up Tim Tebow (QB-NYJ) for $45 (next highest bid: $32), dropping Mark Sanchez (QB-NYJ)
No need to reveal who made the next highest bid, and just make it $0 if there isn't one. Commissioners with a rule like Kareighuis wants could refund the excess cash to the successful bidder.
Certainly would spice it up a bit to see what the second best bid was. Might be a good option to implement.
Hal, I can understand it not necessarily being available this year. I'm hoping to put a bug in your ear for the next round of upgrades.
"Special"K, that would mean you'd be willing to lose your entire for one player. Is the player worth that? You'd be throwing out any chance of getting future waiver wire stars. If there are 2 or 3 hot adds that week, you'd only get a chance at one of them.
You could certainly do what you said, but you'd be f*cking yourself.
We actually did have an owner spend all of his money on one player last year. Somebody dropped Frank Gore for some reason, and a misunderstanding of the blind bidding rules (which we were using for the first time) by this owner led to an explosion when he was picked up later that week. The owner who picked him up decided to bench Gore and then drop him to keep the league from coming apart. Another owner told me (I'm the Commissioner) that the guy who exploded was completely at fault for not reading the description of the blind bidding I handed out to everyone on draft day, and said that he would make sure the exploder was not getting Gore in the redraft. A few days later, there it was, a $100 bid.
Oh, I've spent 90% of my blind-bid budget on a player or three, but it's rarely turned out well. Doesn't mean I won't do it again, you've just gotta realize what the consequences of that is.
Correct on the logic. It's something that we maybe can add down the line as an extra option, but this will always be the default (we think that the highest bid put in should always be the amount the player goes for) and won't be switching it for this season. The commish can always manually give back money to the budget as well.
KareighuisTue 7/10/12 8:46 PM
I'd like to see the blind-bid waivers redone. When I enter an amount that I want to pay up to for a player, the system should compare that to the bids of other owners and the the highest bidder should be charged an amount that just barely beats the next highest bidder. An example-
3 bids placed on Player A-
Team Z- 30
Team Y- 72
Team X- 45
In the current system, Team Y would win player A but loses 72 bind-bid dollars. Instead, Team Y should win but lose only 46$, one over the next highest bid.
McBruceSat 7/14/12 12:30 AM
One easy way to implement this would be to list the next highest bid in the message that says a player was picked up using a blind bid:
Blind Faith picked up Tim Tebow (QB-NYJ) for $45 (next highest bid: $32), dropping Mark Sanchez (QB-NYJ)
No need to reveal who made the next highest bid, and just make it $0 if there isn't one. Commissioners with a rule like Kareighuis wants could refund the excess cash to the successful bidder.
Certainly would spice it up a bit to see what the second best bid was. Might be a good option to implement.
KareighuisSat 7/14/12 5:53 PM
Thanks, McBruce. A good middle way.
McBruceSat 7/14/12 7:30 PM
Could even make it an option, so leagues wary of revealing anything could stay with the way it works now.
KareighuisThu 7/12/12 3:06 PM
Hal, I can understand it not necessarily being available this year. I'm hoping to put a bug in your ear for the next round of upgrades.
"Special"K, that would mean you'd be willing to lose your entire for one player. Is the player worth that? You'd be throwing out any chance of getting future waiver wire stars. If there are 2 or 3 hot adds that week, you'd only get a chance at one of them.
You could certainly do what you said, but you'd be f*cking yourself.
McBruceSat 7/14/12 12:38 AM
We actually did have an owner spend all of his money on one player last year. Somebody dropped Frank Gore for some reason, and a misunderstanding of the blind bidding rules (which we were using for the first time) by this owner led to an explosion when he was picked up later that week. The owner who picked him up decided to bench Gore and then drop him to keep the league from coming apart. Another owner told me (I'm the Commissioner) that the guy who exploded was completely at fault for not reading the description of the blind bidding I handed out to everyone on draft day, and said that he would make sure the exploder was not getting Gore in the redraft. A few days later, there it was, a $100 bid.
KareighuisSat 7/14/12 5:51 PM
Oh, I've spent 90% of my blind-bid budget on a player or three, but it's rarely turned out well. Doesn't mean I won't do it again, you've just gotta realize what the consequences of that is.
SpecialK23Thu 7/12/12 8:42 AM
That doesn't make sense...then people would bid the max amount for players, knowing they weren't going to lose it all.
FleaMod AdminWed 7/11/12 2:31 PM
Correct on the logic. It's something that we maybe can add down the line as an extra option, but this will always be the default (we think that the highest bid put in should always be the amount the player goes for) and won't be switching it for this season. The commish can always manually give back money to the budget as well.