Less Than One Week Until our Auction... (1 Viewer)

[Varmint]

It happened once before...

As the clock clicked down to the start of our auction our auctioneer was nowhere to be found.

When that happened we used my daugter (23yrs old) to be the auctioneer.

I hated doing this because our rules state that the auctioneer can have no relationship to any franchise in the league.

It went well and everyone thought she did a fine job.

Well. this time I have a little notice that our auctioneer will be absent so I've come up with a plan that I think wll work.

I'm sure that more than one of you have done an auction this way so mayber you can give me some pros and cons....

This year we will simply go without an auctioneer.

We have a room at a local sports bar.

I propose to put the tables in a circle facing each other.

NFL players will be introduced the normal way and the winning bid will occur simply when nobody else bids or concedes the winning bid to the other team.

Will it work or am I in for a LOOONG night?

 

[inca911]

It will work fine. Why wouldn't it?

 

[belljr]

Auctioneer

Just go around the room, person bids or passes. Eventually it widdles down to 2 or 3 guys going back and forth until concession.

 

[Sabertooth]

We take turns nominating players. When it is your turn, you nominate and act as auctioneer. We've done it this way for 7 years and never had a problem. Of course I wouldn't object to filling the room with 23 year old daughters either.

 

[roadkill1292]

Yes, it can work. Let the guy who bought the previous player function as the autioneer on the next. Or, as bell suggested, turn it into a poker style auction, give everybody a paper cup and have them turn it over when they pass on the bidding.

 

[PatsFan72]

The way do it is, one guy handles the auctioneer duties. Nominations are done by whomever won the last bid, until we get down to the end, when most people are out of money and down to minimum bids only, then we go around the table.

It is better to do an official announcement at the beginning, like "Drew Brees QB New Orleans 1 dollar!" Then it's open to the floor, and finally at the end... "Drew Brees QB New Orleans 67 dollars, going once . . . going twice . . . sold to PatsFan72 for 67 dollars!"

When it's the auctioneer still in towards the end of that players bids, then someone else takes over for that one player.

It has worked out fine for us since we switched over from serpentine 3 years ago.

 

[PatsFan72]

...Or, as bell suggested, turn it into a poker style auction, give everybody a paper cup and have them turn it over when they pass on the bidding.

We did a version of this, with baseball caps. Everyone puts theirs on at the beginning of each bid, and takes it off when they are out. Worked well, up until the end of the draft, then it gets a bit annoying, especially when you can't outbid anyone. At that point you just say you can't and leave the hat off until it's your turn to nominate.

 

[Varmint]

We take turns nominating players. When it is your turn, you nominate and act as auctioneer. We've done it this way for 7 years and never had a problem. Of course I wouldn't object to filling the room with 23 year old daughters either.

Oh...you ain't lying there.....Our auctioneer's staff usually consists of whomever my daughter can draft from the college cheerleading sqaud that she cheered with for five years!!There were certainly no complaints from the franchise owners..Of course...everyone was made aware of exactly which one was my daughter!

 

[Toomuchnv]

the auction box from btfsports is the way to go for auctions.....does everything you are asking without the need for an auctioneer....been using it for a few years now.

 

[roadkill1292]

the auction box from btfsports is the way to go for auctions.....does everything you are asking without the need for an auctioneer....been using it for a few years now.

Our auction yesterday was awesomeness. Pricey, though. We have four leagues splitting the cost and it's absolutely worth every penny.

 

[groomsie]

We have done it several ways in our 10 years.

- Ideal is having a dedicated auctioneer who is not playing--we did that twice.

- Lacking that, when I was commissioner for about 5 seasons we didn't have a dedicated person and I as commissioner did it. Good part is same person = fairly consistent process, but it gets tough to track your own team...I would see bidding stall and then think "Hey wait, I want this guy and I haven't even bid!". My teams were better in the couple of years I did not have to handle bidding.

- About 3 years ago we went to having the person who nominated also auction them off. Most people will only jokingly do a "quick bid" and are pretty fair, and the good part of this is it allows everyone equal chance to track their team. The down side however is some are pretty quiet and forget they are in charge of moving the auction, so this method tends to slow down as occasionally some need to be reminded to bid them out (especially the guy who nominates a player and no one else bids, they tend to stall as if incredulous that no one else wants the guy).

So, best case is get a dedicated auctioneer, but next best is having everyone auction off their own nominee. I would suggest though if someone is out early (filled roster or out of cash) to have them take over all duties as auctioneer, which can help expedite the end-game. Hope that helps.