Live Auction on Draft Day - Time for Making Picks (1 Viewer)

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

We are switching to a live auction draft this year. We use RTSports. I have no idea what are good time parameters for a live, 18 round draft. Here are the settings currently. Would appreciate all advice on whether the times we have are in line with your live auction drafts or whether we should make some changes.

• Each owner has 1 minute to nominate a player.
  
• Each owner has 30 seconds to bid on a player.
  
• Bid time will reset to 1 minute 15 seconds when a bid is made with less than 1 minute on the clock.
  

 

[Toomuchnv]

Been doing an auction for a long time....we give 45 seconds to nominate....and 15 seconds for bidding each time a bid is made.

Your times seem a bit long and may make your draft last quite a long time.

 

[candian fantasy guy]

I play on RTS as well, those parameters are going to make it a very long auction. 30 seconds to nominate is plenty and i'd say 12 seconds to bid is also plenty. You should try one out on that site, a Draftmaster or something, that way you can get a feel of how it works. 

 

[oldschool18]

I'm doing a live CBS auction for the first time. My whole league will be at remote locations. Has anyone had any problems with CBS Live auction? Is their anything I need to be worried about? 

 

[Toomuchnv]

CBS's live auction room works great.  The league I run has been using it for years to draft and then we transfer the rosters over to MFL to run the league.....MFL's live auction draft room is dreadful because they wont upgrade ever....sad really

 

[oldschool18]

Really? Do you still have to pay for CBS league? Why xfer to MFL? You like it better? 

 

[Toomuchnv]

No...we draft before cbs requires their league payment....we xfer to MFL because of the customization MFL provides that our league really needs.....I just wish MFL would upgrade to a java based draft room because their live draft room is horrid

 

[oldschool18]

Oh ok cool. Thanks for responding. I have a lot of nervous league members thinking something will go wrong. I saw it said everyone needs flash which rules out ipads.

 

[Mr. Irrelevant]

I play on RTS as well, those parameters are going to make it a very long auction. 30 seconds to nominate is plenty and i'd say 12 seconds to bid is also plenty. You should try one out on that site, a Draftmaster or something, that way you can get a feel of how it works. 

We've run really short bid times before (10-12 seconds) and had problems where network lag (especially on older laptops) meant that players were getting nominated and sold before some owners even saw them go up for bid. For that reason I'd be real hesitant of using bid windows any shorter than 15 seconds.

In the one auction league I run, we start at 30 to nominate / 30 to bid for the first hour, then take a 5-minute break and go 20/20, then down to 15/15 if we go over 2 hours. Seems to work pretty well.

 

[matuski]

30 seconds, 10 seconds.

Fast and furious.  2 15 minute breaks during draft.

 

[MarcO]

CBS's live auction room works great.  The league I run has been using it for years to draft and then we transfer the rosters over to MFL to run the league.....MFL's live auction draft room is dreadful because they wont upgrade ever....sad really

had problems the last 3 or 4 years, one self inflicted (make sure your roster limits are set correctly) but the rest were because of the site.    Bids not being accepted, not being able to nominate, latency, etc...    bad enough that we switched to NFL.com this year just because of the draft issues. 

 

[Ghost Rider]

30 seconds, 10 seconds.

Fast and furious.  2 15 minute breaks during draft.

This. 

Your auction will take a long, long time if the times are otherwise. 

 

[matuski]

we have used espn to do our drafts the last couple years then moved/imported to yahoo for the season.

yahoo was letting us down year after year on draft night.

 

[oldschool18]

How long have your Online Auction drafts generally lasted (start to finish)? 

 

[⚡DEADHEAD⚡]

about 2.5 hours.

 

[ex-ghost]

Ours sometimes creeped to 4 hours, but then we got an auctioneer who sped it up. Still was north of 3 hours, but damn fun.