Set of AUCTION League Rules (1 Viewer)

[Hear-the-Footsteps]

One of my leagues that goes back several years is considering making the switch this year to an auction league (mostly due to Tomlinson last year). There was just a lot of debate stemming from last year how the guys at the top of the draft have it easier than the guys at the bottom. And the guys at the bottom have to get lucky with Gore or T.Henry later on - while the guys at the beginning get Tomlinson, L.Johnson, S.Jackson, etc.

A lot of us feel that if you are good enough - you can win from any draft slot. But on the other hand, the evidence in our league is overwhelming (all 4 playoff teams last year came from the first 5 drafted spots). Year before, all 4 playoff teams came from the first 6 drafted spots.

Enough with the blah blah blah.

We are considering remedying this issue by trying an auction.

So I was hoping that if any of you habe some solid auction rules - you could possibly forward them to me.

We are not looking for somthing totally random. We want something more in line with the norm.

If you have something good, I would really appreciate if you could PM me and I will PM you back my email address.

Thanks!!

 

[flranger]

One of my leagues that goes back several years is considering making the switch this year to an auction league (mostly due to Tomlinson last year). There was just a lot of debate stemming from last year how the guys at the top of the draft have it easier than the guys at the bottom. And the guys at the bottom have to get lucky with Gore or T.Henry later on - while the guys at the beginning get Tomlinson, L.Johnson, S.Jackson, etc.A lot of us feel that if you are good enough - you can win from any draft slot. But on the other hand, the evidence in our league is overwhelming (all 4 playoff teams last year came from the first 5 drafted spots). Year before, all 4 playoff teams came from the first 6 drafted spots.Enough with the blah blah blah.We are considering remedying this issue by trying an auction.So I was hoping that if any of you habe some solid auction rules - you could possibly forward them to me.We are not looking for somthing totally random. We want something more in line with the norm.If you have something good, I would really appreciate if you could PM me and I will PM you back my email address.Thanks!!

Easy on the rules:$200 cap, and you have to have at least $1 left for each open position on your roster during the auction. Just go around the table and let people nominate players for $1. Of course if no one bids on the guy then the nominator is stuck with the player. In order to get the good guys out early we have put in a rule that the first round has a minimum bid of $30 and second round minimum bid of $10. After that, it's wide open.Beyond that I recommend that you get a player board (or software projected on screen). We also have a $200 cap for player claims during the season, and any $$ left over from the auction adds to your player claims cap (example, spend 185 at auction, you start the year with $215 for player claims). We then use blind bids during the week for available players. Fanball does a great job with the claim system.Most important part of the auction: Have a non-partial auctioneer who has some balls and can keep things moving. If not, a 2 hour tour will turn into a 5 hour nightmare.

 

[BigRed]

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[Dickie Dunn]

In order to get the good guys out early we have put in a rule that the first round has a minimum bid of $30 and second round minimum bid of $10. After that, it's wide open.

This seems silly and unnecessary. To me, the best part of an auction is the ability to throw someone unexpected out there early and see if you can "steal" him while owners might be hesitant to spend some cash.On the flip side, it makes it that much more interesting when one of the marquee players "slips" into a later part of the auction.

 

[stugnut]

Our rules:

- Each team has a fictitious salary cap of $200

- The minimum opening bid is $1 on a player

- You have 1 minute to nominate a player

- Nominations will progress from Team 1 through to Team 10, and then back to Team 1 (not serpentine).

- The bidding increment is in whole dollar amounts

- You must nominate a player when it’s your turn, you cannot pass

- Each team must have $1 in free cap space for every empty roster space. For example, if we were doing a draft with a 10 player roster, the most you could bid on your first player would be $191 because you would need to save $1 for the remaining 9 roster spots.

- Each owner must fill his/her roster during the auction

- Team owners may not cut players during the auction

- Team owners may *NOT* trade players during the auction. You are welcome to after the auction once all owners have filled their roster spots.

- Owners cannot give money to other owners

- Owners cannot swap nomination order

- At a minimum you must draft a legal starting roster

- The auction concludes when all teams have filled their roster

- Any money that wasn’t used during the auction will be lost at the conclusion of the auction so it makes sense to use it all

- If you nominate a player you *cannot* retract the nomination. That means if you nomiate a player and everyone in the room laughs at you for nominating someone who is injured, you will not be able to retract the nomination. It is your responsibility to know who is injured.

- At the end of the auction each owner will get $200 fictitious dollars to be used over the course of the season for the claims process

 

[Hear-the-Footsteps]

Our rules:- Nominations will progress from Team 1 through to Team 10, and then back to Team 1 (not serpentine).

Interesting addition. What do you find is the benefit of doing it this way?Why can't any team bid at any time?

 

[None]

Our rules:- Each team has a fictitious salary cap of $200- The minimum opening bid is $1 on a player- You have 1 minute to nominate a player

What happens if a coach takes longer than 1 min? We've tried to put clocks on the nominations too, but what is the penalty for not getting it done? Taking $1 away is too severe, and not nominating works to my advantage sometimes. We can't exclude anyone from bidding on a player so what could work?Peer pressure helps, but that tends to slow them down further with all the negative comments that are flying in.We also aren't sure when to start the clock. Many times it is hard to determine the final auction price and winner of the previous bid and that takes time for everyone to record.

 

[inca911]

Here's ours.

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The Draft (Auction):

Players will be selected via auction. Players who have been drafted by a NFL team and those players whose rights are owned by a NFL team may be selected at auction (2005 Ricky Williams Rule). College players may not be selected at auction prior to their entry into the NFL draft.

Each Owner will be allocated a $200 Salary Cap for the auction and each Owner must fill a complete roster of 16 players. Following a randomly determined auction order, an Owner may nominate a player for auction by stating an opening auction bid for the player. Following the same order, another Owner may increase the bid. Once an Owner refuses to bid, they may not bid again on that player. The Owner with the highest final bid gets the player. This process continues until all roster spots are filled for all teams. The minimum salary* for a player is $0, and all bids must be in dollar increments only. An Owner is not required to spend all available dollars at auction.

*In the event the minimum salary for a player is increased above $0, no bid will be allowed that creates a situation where all roster spots cannot be filled with at least minimum salaried players, as each Owner must have a full roster at the end of the auction.

In the event that an Owner does not show up for the league Auction, the Commissioner may elect a non-Owner representative to act on behalf of the Owner. If a representative is not available, a magazine source may be used to impartially nominate and bid on players on behalf of the Owner.

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Note that setting the minimum bid to $0 means you don't have to keep track of dollars spent to make sure someone can get a player at every roster spot. Nominating and bidding in order with the "once you don't bid you are out" rule makes the auction go much more quickly. Good luck!

 

[BoomBoom]

Our rules:- Nominations will progress from Team 1 through to Team 10, and then back to Team 1 (not serpentine).

Interesting addition. What do you find is the benefit of doing it this way?Why can't any team bid at any time?

I think stugnut is referring to the nomination process of putting a player up for auction, and not the actual bidding itself.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

We just go around the room starting from a pre-determined spot (i.e. last year's champ or toilet bowl winner). Owner X nominates the first player, then the owner to his left nominates the next guy, etc.

Bidding always is wide open. Usually commish serves as auctioneer unless he is bidding on a player, then one of the other uninvolved owners steps in. Never have had any problems.

 

[Dickie Dunn]

Nominating and bidding in order with the "once you don't bid you are out" rule makes the auction go much more quickly. Good luck!

Forgive me, but I don't understand how this can be possible. Are you saying that going around a pre-determined circle and waiting for (i.e.) all 12 owners to decide whether to bid on a player and then actually make a bid, would be faster than throwing out a player for nomination and then having an open bidding floor? I don't buy that.Let's say a marginal player is put up for bid and only two owners are interested. How can it possibly be quicker to go around in a circle and wait for 10 other owners to bow out, rather than just have the two interested owners bid each other up to the final price?At the same time, there have been times that I have jumped in on a player that I originally didn't want, simply because the bidding topped out at a spot that I thought presented good value. I would hate to lose that aspect of the auction.Trust me, my league originally had fears about how long an auction would take vs. the old serpentine draft, and that has proved to be unfounded if run properly.

 

[stugnut]

Our rules:- Each team has a fictitious salary cap of $200- The minimum opening bid is $1 on a player- You have 1 minute to nominate a player

What happens if a coach takes longer than 1 min? We've tried to put clocks on the nominations too, but what is the penalty for not getting it done? Taking $1 away is too severe, and not nominating works to my advantage sometimes. We can't exclude anyone from bidding on a player so what could work?Peer pressure helps, but that tends to slow them down further with all the negative comments that are flying in.We also aren't sure when to start the clock. Many times it is hard to determine the final auction price and winner of the previous bid and that takes time for everyone to record.

It's never really been an issue. We always have an auctioneer who keeps things moving along, but I don't think we have ever had anyone actually use a full minute to make a selection. I suppose if we were running into difficulties I would put in a rule where if you go over a minute you loose $5 or so of your season waiver wire money (we do blind bidding waivers).

 

[tulane]

We also rotate the team that nominates. I think it adds to the strategy (if not just the fun) instead of an auctioneer nominating...

 

[bentley]

We just go around the room starting from a pre-determined spot (i.e. last year's champ or toilet bowl winner). Owner X nominates the first player, then the owner to his left nominates the next guy, etc.Bidding always is wide open. Usually commish serves as auctioneer unless he is bidding on a player, then one of the other uninvolved owners steps in. Never have had any problems.

We pretty much do it this way. Except for the fact that I always serve as the auctioneer. Things move quickly and we never have any trouble. It's also a keeper. Here are our auction rules from 2006:

AUCTION DRAFTEveryone will have $200 to spend on players in the auction draft (when reading auction cheat sheet, be sure to check out the overall value scale, as many values are based on a $100 system). Owners will be allowed to keep up to three players from their 2005 drafted roster at $5 above the amount they paid. In order to be eligible for retention, a player must meet two qualifications. They must have been selected as part of the 2005 Auction, and they must have ended the season on a team's roster.As the owner of the team with the league's worst record last year, Kirk will have the first pick in the draft. This order means that the Kirk will be able to propose the first player to be auctioned off along with the baseline bid for this player. The draft order will continue with the owner sitting on Kirk's left and so on. You can call out any player you wish, and the minimum opening bid is $1. If Kirk wants, he can make Drew Henson the first player drafted and make the opening bid $20. If that happens, I'd expect Drew to earn $20 sitting on the end of the bench for him this year.The Commissioner will serve as auctioneer for this year's draft and his decisions relating to the closing of bidding for individual players will be final. Each team must have at least $1 for every position open at all times. The first owner to attempt to violate this rule will be severely punished. This means you, Kirk.

 

[ukshane]

For us, nominations took too long and we always have one guy on speaker phone who can't keep up. Last year I created an auction schedule which included the top 24 QB's, 36 RB's and 48 WR's. I looks like a randomized list but I weighted it so most of the top players at each position were likely to be near the beginning of the draft. I would multiply their position rank by a random number. Then sort the list by the product from lowest to highest to determine the draft order. I also created a starting bid based on half of last years winning auction bid for that position slot. For example, here are the first 50 players we will acution this year along with their starting bid:

NAME / TEAM STARTING BID

Jason Campbell, WAS $1

Drew Brees, NO $11

Reggie Brown, PHI $6

Lee Evans, BUF $15

Peyton Manning, IND $30

Steven Jackson, STL $46

LaDanian Tomlinson, SD $52

Mark Clayton, BAL $5

Steve Smith, CAR $26

Plaxico Burress, NYG $10

Andre Johnson, HOU $14

Alex Smith, SF $1

Thomas Jones, NYJ $11

Frank Gore, SF $32

Carson Palmer, CIN $13

Tom Brady, NE $12

Santana Moss, WAS $9

Reggie Bush, NO $17

Donald Driver, GB $11

Kevin Curtis, PHI $2

Brett Favre, GB $3

Michael Vick, ATL $7

Chad Johnson, CIN $26

Larry Johnson, KC $36

Jon Kitna, DET $8

Brian Westbrook, PHI $28

Larry Fitzgerald, ARI $23

Roy Williams, DET $21

Torry Holt, STL $25

Jerricho Cotchery, NYJ $5

Reggie Wayne, IND $23

Matt Hasselbeck, SEA $5

Rudi Johnson, CIN $18

Shaun Alexander, SEA $30

Marques Colston, NO $13

Vince Young, TEN $8

Eddie Kennison, KC $3

Clinton Portis, WAS $17

Marvin Harrison, IND $22

Donovan McNabb, PHI $9

Darrell Jackson, SF $7

Marc Bulger, STL $10

Willie Parker, PIT $24

Terrell Owens, DAL $22

Joseph Addai, IND $18

Derrick Mason, BAL $2

Ronnie Brown, MIA $12

Matt Leinart, ARI $7

Laurence Maroney, NE $18

This cut our auction time easily in half.