CBS FAAB issue/question (1 Viewer)

[sidetrax]

I have been an owner in a league that uses a free agent bidding system (no cap) without software for the last 4 years, and I started another league that uses a tweaked bidding system (capped) 2 years ago also without software. The process we use in the league I run calls for bidding on free agents through Thursday 10:00pm and then open acquisitions until 5 minutes before first snap on Sunday. Between the 2 leagues we have already gone through many growing pains that I feel CBS is about to begin. Since the FAAB process is so new to them there is no full explanation of how it will work exactly so I’ve had to ask a few questions and to their credit they have responded quickly. I now understand their version of this process (for the most part) but do still have issues with it.

One issue we have is that when using the FAAB free agents can only picked up through bidding on the 'bidding run' days. Since Sunday is restricted from being part of the run this means no pick ups at all on Sunday to cover a late or previously unreleased injury issue.

Also, the last chance any owner would have to acquire a player is by bidding before 11:59pm Saturday and then wait until 6:00am Sunday to find out they didn't get the player they wanted. Although owners can place bids on multiple players I'm still not sure if these bids can be conditional ... that's the next question I have to ask them.

I'm glad CBS has added this feature because I believe that it is the fairest way to run the free agent process like mentioned in a previous post. But, unfortunately I think the CBS is not going to cut it ... at least not for the 2 leagues I'm in. Has anybody else looked into the FAAB process, and if so what are your thoughts? Maybe/hopefully I'm missing something in how CBS is handling this … I’d love to use any software to automate this process. I am looking into Xpert Sports to possibly host the league I run and would be willing to look into other sites that have a free agent bidding provision. Does anybody know of external bidding software or websites? Thanks for any replies.

 

[LionsPride]

Sidetrax - unfortunately I don't have an answer to your question, but thought you might be able to answer mine - I know, not the response you were looking for. Here goes anyway - after reading your post are you saying that if I select say M,T,W,T,F for the days the FAAB to run that it will process all bids until 11:59 PM Friday and then award the players, or does it do it each day individually (all bids on Monday - then award, all bids on Tuesday, etc.) I'm in a similar situation as you, we have always let teams put in for free-agents until 6pm on Friday, I would then manually award them Friday @ 6 in reverse order of current standins, then it was first come until 5 minutes before games begin. I would also like to automate the process. Do you think based off your findings that if I set the FAAB to run M-F this will work? Thanks in advance and if I come across an indepentdent program I'll get back to you.

 

[sidetrax]

LionsPride - The FAAB run can only be set for TUE through SAT and players will be awarded at the end of each day (by 6am the next morning) the run is selected on. You do not need to have consecutive days either ... you could use THU and SAT as the only 2 days and the players would be awarded by 6am FRI for the THU and 6am SUN for the SAT. Hope this helps. Do you have any further info on the possibility of conditional bids?

In general, I'm getting close to an idea of how to get around the limitations in the software by setting the league to allow zero point bids and informing all owners that a winning bid of zero for the THU players will be reversed. Also, any player they wish to pick up on FRI or SAT should be won with by placing a post on the message board to the entire league saying that you will be picking up player X. The one thing this does not get around is SUN morning pickups ... still working on that one ... might have to be done with commish privileges. That would put a little extra on my plate or the co-commish but at least one of us is almost always on the site before SUN kickoff. Anyway in my case I would set the run for THU, FRI, SAT and to allow zero bids.

Let me know if you (or anyone) come up with any other info/ideas/whatever on this. Thanks.