Auction Site LIVE

[Commish]

Badger, you’re the best!

Happy New Year to all.

[Freedom]

Badger, you’re the best!

Happy New Year to all.

Ditto!

[Niagara Locks]

Made my first bids.....awesome site, great work !!!

[Commish]

I know it’s a little late for a bug report, but I have one anyway. If I want to increase my max bid for deGrom, I can’t right now. Because I own the winning bid, I can’t make any new bid on deGrom until I’m out-bid. That shouldn’t be the case.

[Law Dogs]

I know it’s a little late for a bug report, but I have one anyway. If I want to increase my max bid for deGrom, I can’t right now. Because I own the winning bid, I can’t make any new bid on deGrom until I’m out-bid. That shouldn’t be the case.

I had no problem doing it with Scherzer. I bid $1.0. Then bid higher. It still shows my winning bid of $1.0, but if someone else bids it will up my total amount bid, up to my max that I bid.

[Commish]

When I go to deGrom’s page, the bid amount is empty and the submit button is ghosted. I can’t bid any more than I already have.

[Badger]

Hey all, fixed the bug that Mike reported. If anyone else has a problem with bidding, just PM me.

[Law Dogs]

Not sure if my math is right, but does the auctions ends at 3am est? If they do that doesn't seem right. I also thought they were supposed to have daily staggered ending times for each player?

I absolutely love the new living bidding process. Great job Tony!

[Commish]

Yeah, the first lot should end on 1/3 -- not 1/4. Looks like the end time just needs to be adjusted.

[Law Dogs]

Yeah, the first lot should end on 1/3 -- not 1/4. Looks like the end time just needs to be adjusted.

Are we doing the staggered ending times? I think that's important under the new bidding process? Can even be 5 or 10 minutes apart.

[Commish]

My understanding is that Badger isn't able to do staggered times this year. Maybe next year.

[Badger]

The auction lots do expire at 10PM. What’s on the player page is a timezone problem I’ll solve tonight. If you look at the home page, you will see the lot expires at 10PM ET.

Staggering lots was not able to be done this year but can be for next year. It won’t be a problem to do for next year but I would argue it’s less important than it seems. It’s for all to see who is the top bid for a player leading up to 10PM. If you aren’t going to dislodge that person from the top spot, and there’s another player you want in that same lot, you can bid on that other player. You have the information right in front of you to make that decision. It’s not like in the past waiting until 10PM and not knowing if you should have bid on the other player.

But I do also understand the other side of wanting them staggered. Did we ever vote on that? It does seem like something that would be a league vote to decide.

[Commish]

Like you said, I don't think it will matter much. I have no doubt whatsoever that a lot of people will be "sniping" every auction as they do on eBay, but you do so at your own risk.

One element that I will miss with live drafting is the ability to make bids on multiple players in the same lot during the final day of the auction. We can no longer do that, since your spending cap is set by the total number of currently winning bids. It simply calls for a change in strategy.

[Jamboree]

Like you said, I don't think it will matter much. I have no doubt whatsoever that a lot of people will be "sniping" every auction as they do on eBay, but you do so at your own risk.

Yes, I am very curious to see how much MORE will be spent on guys that people just have to have.

One element that I will miss with live drafting is the ability to make bids on multiple players in the same lot during the final day of the auction. We can no longer do that, since your spending cap is set by the total number of currently winning bids. It simply calls for a change in strategy.

Also interesting -- so once you get outbid for one player, potentially, that frees up money to bid on another... So if you are outbid at 9:55pm, you could conceivably bid more on someone else at 9:56pm?

[Commish]

Also interesting -- so once you get outbid for one player, potentially, that frees up money to bid on another... So if you are outbid at 9:55pm, you could conceivably bid more on someone else at 9:56pm?

Yep. For example, I placed a $5M bid on Canha. As soon as I was out-bid for him, that $5M instantly returned to my pool of available spending money.