Way to handle dynasty player auction.. (1 Viewer)

[Binoterp]

Hello all,

I need some help. I am the commissioner for a ten team auction/style dynasty league. Each team has 1 franchise player and two transition player designations. This means they can aply one of these tags to a player with an expiring contract on their roster. They would then have to make a qualifying offer of either the average of the top 5 salaries of players at their position (franchise) or average of the 10 (transition). Then other teams will be able to bid up these players. Finally the current owner would have the opportunity to match the last bid price or accept draft pick compensation 1st round in this year's rookie draft (transition) or 2 1st rounders, this year and next year transition. Now each teams decision on whether to offer other transition players contracts depends on whether someone attempts to take one of their players. How can I do it in an orderly fashion that allows all the players to be bid on at one time or should I do it in some random order one at a time. The draft is a live in person draft except one person is out of the country and will be on speaker phone. I think this is all the information you need to help me out. If you need more info please ask.

Thank you in advance for your assistance.

 

[Binoterp]

If this is the wrong area for this I could move it. Just thought it might fit here but maybe I was off in my thinking. Let me know.

 

[C & C]

How can I do it in an orderly fashion that allows all the players to be bid on at one time or should I do it in some random order one at a time.  The draft is a live in person draft except one person is out of the country and will be on speaker phone.

My question is how were you planning on handling the auction? Is it turn based? By this I mean, Fitz was bid on at $20, I'm next so I can bid $21 or pass. If I pass, I'm can no longer bid on this player. This keeps going until no one else can bid.I would treat this exactly the same way you are treating your auction, whether it's turn based or free for all. You have some order to how players are nominated. There isn't a whole lot of difference here. Create a nomination order for each team, either based on standings or random and have at it.

My league has almost the same setup as you. But, we handle the F/T tags and bids on a message board. Therefore it's easier for us to have all tags out there at one time. The tagging owner has to post the qualify bid. Once that is placed, it's an open auction. Any owner can bid any higher amount as long as he has the necessary compensation. After 24 hours a bid expires, every new bid starts a new 24 hour clock. If no one else bids in a 24 hour period, the original owner has an additional 24 hours to decide to match the offer or take the compensation.

I'm not sure if this is an option for you as it sounds you'd like to do this live and are looking for a fair way to deal with nominations. It might help though, so I thought I'd put it out there.

Edited to clear up my responses based on the original question.

 

[Binoterp]

Thanks for the response. We currently handle the auction as a free for all. So I can bid on someone and then two others can bid the player up and I could swing back in at the end and steal the player away. I don't think it would be possible to do 25-30 players at one time. I guess we could possibly do the transition players the week before the draft. Teams have to decide on their frnachise deisgnations by the Monday before the Saturday draft so we have time. Or we could have each team go and put one player up in a random order and then move on to the next team until each team has had one player decided then start over and do the second player and then the third.

 

[C & C]

Thanks for the response. We currently handle the auction as a free for all. So I can bid on someone and then two others can bid the player up and I could swing back in at the end and steal the player away. I don't think it would be possible to do 25-30 players at one time. I guess we could possibly do the transition players the week before the draft. Teams have to decide on their frnachise deisgnations by the Monday before the Saturday draft so we have time. Or we could have each team go and put one player up in a random order and then move on to the next team until each team has had one player decided then start over and do the second player and then the third.

Yeah, you can only have 1 player being bid on at a time at a live auction. So you would have to do some kind of nomination order. There are lots of quirks to the way we do it. Quirks isn't correct, it's just that there isn't alot of information out there. Say you are thinking about bidding on a Franchise player and this year LT and Alexander are both available, which do you bid on? You can't bid on both because it's impossible to have the right compensation available for both. If you are the only one bidding and you pick LT, then the Alexander owner might get him at a discount because no one else bid.

For a 10 team league this might be even more prevelant depending upon your setup. People don't like to give up early rookie draft picks and they present such a value compared to Franchise players it becomes a very fine line of where it's worth bidding and where it's not.

If you have a set order for nomination, then one owner can drive up the prices on every tagged player until someone doesn't match the offer. And if you have the last rookie pick, this might be a very good strategy depending upon your leagues salary and contract structure.

So, I think there are some plusses and minus to both setups. I should mention we used to do blind bidding on our F/T players until a couple of years ago when we switched to message board open auction style. The blind bidding might also be something you want to consider.