FAAB setup question (1 Viewer)

[The General]

Do you folks who use FAAB set this up with 1 dollar bids so when you are out of money you are hosed or do you have zero dollar bids?

What say you?

 

[shadyridr]

$0

 

[Cowboysfan8]

$0

not only when you’re out of money, anytime 

 

[The General]

We just switched to 1 dollar for some reason. Seems unnecessary. I like to be able to blow out the budget if I want on someone.

 

[dkp993]

Do you folks who use FAAB set this up with 1 dollar bids so when you are out of money you are hosed or do you have zero dollar bids?

What say you?

In my shark league we do 1 dollar bids. Requires you to be smart about your pick ups and brings a strategy aspect to it.  We’re also an auction league so it lines up with our draft mentality.  This league has been running for 20 yrs and is highly competitive. 

In my family league it 0$ because it’s a more casual laid back league.  

 

[dkp993]

We just switched to 1 dollar for some reason. Seems unnecessary. I like to be able to blow out the budget if I want on someone.

This is exactly why I hate it in competitive leagues.  If you’re going to do that there needs to be a price to pay for taking that risk. Otherwise everyone says F it and does it.  

 

[shadyridr]

This is exactly why I hate it in competitive leagues.  If you’re going to do that there needs to be a price to pay for taking that risk. Otherwise everyone says F it and does it.  

You still pay a price when you have $0 and everyone else has $

 

[dkp993]

You still pay a price when you have $0 and everyone else has $

Yeah but you can still pick up players and fill needs. The risk is much much higher if you can’t because you run out of money.  That makes the move to swing for the fences far more ballsy, as it should be imo.  

 

[shadyridr]

Yeah but you can still pick up players and fill needs. The risk is much much higher if you can’t because you run out of money.  That makes the move to swing for the fences far more ballsy, as it should be imo.  

I would never want to be restricted like that but to each his own. 

 

[Cowboysfan8]

Yeah but you can still pick up players and fill needs. The risk is much much higher if you can’t because you run out of money.  That makes the move to swing for the fences far more ballsy, as it should be imo.  

Meh.. you’re not getting any top adds for $0

 

[dkp993]

I would never want to be restricted like that but to each his own. 

For sure, that’s what makes this hobby so great.  All the different ways to do it.  

 

[dkp993]

Meh.. you’re not getting any top adds for $0

 Not really the point.  

Our league likes the idea that if someone blows up on the WW and looks like they are going to be a major contributor that there is some strategy and risk involved in placing a bid instead of just being able to say F it and throw all your FAAB at it with very little downside.   

 

[shadyridr]

 Not really the point.  

Our league likes the idea that if someone blows up on the WW and looks like they are going to be a major contributor that there is some strategy and risk involved in placing a bid instead of just being able to say F it and throw all your FAAB at it with very little downside.   

It must suck to be in your league when your rb1 goes down and the handcuff is on the wire. Talk about compounding the bad luck with an injury.

 

[dkp993]

It must suck to be in your league when your rb1 goes down and the handcuff is on the wire. Talk about compounding the bad luck with an injury.

Be prepared and own your handcuff, or take the risk.  As I said it’s a shark league.  My family league doesn’t operate this way as it’s a different type of crowd.  

 

[shadyridr]

Be prepared and own your handcuff, or take the risk.  As I said it’s a shark league.  My family league doesn’t operate this way as it’s a different type of crowd.  

I dunno. I think restricting pickups is more guppy than just letting people be unrestricted and running their teams as they see fit. Its like those leagues which restrict pickups to 20 a year or 1 a week, etc usually because some people complain they don't have the time every week to monitor the waiver wire. 

 

[shadyridr]

I was in a league like that one year. Poor guy lost his RB (was it Ryan Grant?) in week 1 and had to blow his entire budget just to make sure he got Brandon Jackson and then he couldn't make another pickup the rest of the year. Everyone realized how stupid it was and changed the rule the next year.

 

[dkp993]

I dunno. I think restricting pickups is more guppy than just letting people be unrestricted and running their teams as they see fit. Its like those leagues which restrict pickups to 20 a year or 1 a week, etc usually because some people complain they don't have the time every week to monitor the waiver wire. 

It not about the restricting, budgets are real and require strategy.   

 

[The General]

Yeah but you can still pick up players and fill needs. The risk is much much higher if you can’t because you run out of money.  That makes the move to swing for the fences far more ballsy, as it should be imo.  

You still use strategy when you want to go all in. 

 

[Joe Summer]

It seems like people are talking about two different concepts here:

CONCEPT #1:
OPTION A: no restriction on bid amount. When you run out of money, you can't bid anymore.
OPTION B: no restriction on bid amount. When you run out of money, you can still bid on players at $0 each.

CONCEPT #2:
OPTION A: all bids are limited to $1 or $0. When you run out of money, you can't bid anymore.
OPTION B: all bids are limited to $1 or $0. When you run out of money, you can still bid on players at $0 each.

At any rate, I prefer 1B.

Also, I used to play in a league where an owner could recover half of his purchase price if a player turned out to be a dud, but we could never figure out how to get the computer to keep track of everyone's budget, so we gave up on that idea.

 

[mphtrilogy]

$1 minimum bids