heckmanm
Footballguy
Interested in getting some FBG opinons on this.
First year auction league, with blind-bid waivers. Bidding $ comes out of the main salary cap, so you can only bid your available cap plus the salary of the guy you're dropping. Most teams are at or near the cap - prior to this week's waivers, nobody had more than $11 of cap space (out of $400).
Our rules state that when a player is dropped, he retains his salary as the minimum bid to be picked up. This week, one owner dropped Lesean McCoy with a salary of $100. This happens to be tied for the highest salary in the league. He also dropped a couple of cheap players and picked up Oliver, Sanu, and someone else.
As a result, only 2 other teams in the league could do a straight drop/bid for McCoy (and would have to drop their own $100 player to do so). Everyone else would have to drop multiple players and then try to get McCoy and one or more cheap guys. The MFL blind-bid page is a "drop 1, add 1" process, so you would have to drop your players first, then submit separate bids for McCoy and the other players. If two teams tried this, one of them would lose out on both McCoy AND the players they had to drop, and would have to wait until the next week to try and get them back. We also don't have any way to add players after the waiver session, so the team would be short on players for at least one week.
So my guess is that nobody is going to try bidding on McCoy anytime soon. Meanwhile, his former owner can spend McCoy's salary on a few players, and if McCoy starts looking like his old self, there very little risk that anybody else will outbid him.
Is this type of rule common in auction leagues? Or do salaries usually reset when players are dropped? I played in another auction league for a few years and it was a fairly common practice to drop high-cost players (especially if they were hurt) and try to get them back cheaper. Sometimes it worked, sometimes you got outbid - it was a risk you took when you dropped somebody.
First year auction league, with blind-bid waivers. Bidding $ comes out of the main salary cap, so you can only bid your available cap plus the salary of the guy you're dropping. Most teams are at or near the cap - prior to this week's waivers, nobody had more than $11 of cap space (out of $400).
Our rules state that when a player is dropped, he retains his salary as the minimum bid to be picked up. This week, one owner dropped Lesean McCoy with a salary of $100. This happens to be tied for the highest salary in the league. He also dropped a couple of cheap players and picked up Oliver, Sanu, and someone else.
As a result, only 2 other teams in the league could do a straight drop/bid for McCoy (and would have to drop their own $100 player to do so). Everyone else would have to drop multiple players and then try to get McCoy and one or more cheap guys. The MFL blind-bid page is a "drop 1, add 1" process, so you would have to drop your players first, then submit separate bids for McCoy and the other players. If two teams tried this, one of them would lose out on both McCoy AND the players they had to drop, and would have to wait until the next week to try and get them back. We also don't have any way to add players after the waiver session, so the team would be short on players for at least one week.
So my guess is that nobody is going to try bidding on McCoy anytime soon. Meanwhile, his former owner can spend McCoy's salary on a few players, and if McCoy starts looking like his old self, there very little risk that anybody else will outbid him.
Is this type of rule common in auction leagues? Or do salaries usually reset when players are dropped? I played in another auction league for a few years and it was a fairly common practice to drop high-cost players (especially if they were hurt) and try to get them back cheaper. Sometimes it worked, sometimes you got outbid - it was a risk you took when you dropped somebody.
