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Endangered Monk
I've done some searching for a similar scenario and had no luck. Our league is an auction keeper league where you can 'tag' 3 players (1 franchise player and 2 transition). These keepers are bid on like normal players to start the draft however once a final price is set the owner who tagged them has the option to either keep the player at a discount of the final auction price (40% franchise and 25% transition) or let the player go and take the associated points savings and add them to their total dollar amount. While we start with 170 points in the auction, with these discounts the true amount is higher. I've figured out that it amounts to roughly a 30 point savings on average for each team. I previously used Fudge Factor to increase the base values in the past just using Joe's Formula. However I'd like to make some adjustments based on position after seeing a few years of data on positional values (QBs very cheap, RBs overpriced, etc). Ideally I don't want to push the points up to 200 in setup since I'm commish and like to be able to give quick 'status' updates for each team and where they stand. So while it was long winded, the main question remains whether there is a way to implement Fudge Factor to make the broad increase in value and still have the ability to use Maurile's positional valuation as well? Hopefully that made sense. If so does anyone have the simple answer I'm likely just spacing on?
Bruce Henderson
Yeah, the fudge factor is a hold over from the previous auction method. It doesn't do anything with the new auction method. You can adjust the values though, and actually have more control over them. You need to open the Auction.csv file in Notepad, and adjust the values for the top players at each position. After saving the file, you will have to close and then open the DD program again.

If the top players listed aren't enough, you can add more.


One quick though here, is you can assign individual auction caps to each team on the File - Setup - Team Names tab. Once you know how much each team has to spend, I'd fill these out. It should be more accurate than fudging.
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