Hanson Brother4
Footballguy
Finally got the group to agree to FAAB. I have our MFL League set up for non conditional bids. What's the downside? What's the advantage of conditional? Thanks!
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Commish question: MFL FAAB... conditional or no? (1 Viewer)
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Advantage to conditional bids allows you to bid on mulitple WR's but make sure you only get one of them. You need a WR but only want one WR. You can place bids on 4 WR's and put them in the same group. You will only get one WR. If you have non conditional bids you will win every WR you bid on (if you have the highest bid).
I never really understood the difference. Because if you only wanted one, wouldn't you just drop the same player in that scenario anyways?
EX:
Pickup Jefferson drop Ford
Pickup Nabers drop Ford
You would only get one of them that way.
If you have it as:
Pickup Jefferson drop Ford
Pickup Nabers drop Kamara
You would get both since you have 2 different players you're dropping.
Dacomish
Footballguy
This is how we do it in my league, has worked perfect for last 8 years....
The only way I could see conditional bids being beneficial is if you have 2 open roster spots and want just one WR added but want to bid on 2?
I saw this option on MFL and could not and still can't wrap my head around it.
True. But there could be a situation where getting one guy would mean you wanted to drop player A but if you got a different guy you would rather drop Player B.. Maybe something like if you get Woody Marks you drop Pierce (only want one Hou RB) but if you got Bill then you drop Chris Rodriguez because you only want one Was RB.
hmmm... So how would you set that up?
Add Marks for Pierce
Add Bill for Rodriquez
And if you get Marks for Pierce, it would cancel the Bill for Rodriguez one?
Really trying to understand this lol
That is exactly how it works. They have to both be in the same Group though. Then you can do multiple groups and get more than one guy as well.
So you can do this:
Group 1:
Marks for PIerce
Bill for C-Rod
Group 2:
Boutte for Douglas
Group 3:
Loop for Moody
Then you would get a RB, WR, and K (if you had the winning bid for each of them)
ETA: it also doesn't prioritize any group over any of the others. They are all the same priority.
Thanks.
I don't understand how that cancels out not wanting 2 RBs on the same team though.
In your example, let's say you win the Marks for Pierce bid. Does this mean you would no longer want Bill for C-Rod? What would getting Marks have to do with you suddenly liking C-Rod over Bill?
That was just off the top of my head. Maybe you expect Marks to be better than Bill but since most people don't you think you can get him for less FAAB and you think Bill be way too high of cost so don't want to spend that if you don't have too. But you really want to upgrade one RB spot.
Your other scenario is probably more realistic. You have two open roster spots and only want to fill one of them with a RB but you want to make sure you get one RB. That is probably the best case situation for using this method.
Regardless not sure why the concept is too difficult to not use it since that is what it is set up for.
Pigskin Fanatic
Footballguy
So in MFL this example is 3 requests whereas in a "standard" request setup that is 4 requests? This is great, CBS doesn't have this option and I've had scenarios like this where you can get around it but it takes a lot more work. Definitely a high priority nice to have option. Gonna write to CBS to add to a future release. Thanks for sharing.
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