Estebistec's Board-To-Board with DNL

That I can probably do. Let me see what I can come up with in the next few days.

I think we should set up an email list and try it. We have about 2 weeks, still.

I'm starting to think this isn't going to go so well if we have to drag the participants back to get the draft going. I think Prophet messaged most of them the other day...

Yeah. Friday it is.

I like it. We still get players through at a high rate and multiple bids means it's back closer to a real auction-market. Do you want to set a deadline for Friday and settle one league to move on with?

Basically, we do it like this:

• Day 1: Everyone puts up 4 players for auction, putting 32 players in the first pool. Everyone puts in a silent bid on each player (if they want).

• Day 2:
  • We reveal the bids on the first pool and open it up to a second silent bid.
  • Everyone puts in another 4 player, creating the second pool. Bidding is open on the second pool, too.

• Day 3:
  • Repeat day 2, adding another pool and allowing for third-round bids (the final round) on pool one and second-round bids on pool two.

• Day 4 through 7: Repeat until we've done our 200 players. I think six rounds does it and the 7th is an optional round to add in fillers.

What do you mean by 3 shots? Reveal three sets of silent bids, each time with the auction to move up some and claim the lead?

I completely agree that it isn't ideal. The only way I see a regular auction working to start out the league is if it is in fact not an *auction* draft, i.e., I don't believe we have the time for each owner to take turns putting up a player of his/her choice. We would have to allow multiple players to be put up and once. In fact I don't know if there can be a limit, especially with the holding time we'll have to require on a high bid to allow folks like Alex in GMT+1 (I think it is) a fair shake at deciding on each player.

I think it hurts the economics -- maybe repetitive (three shots) silent auction?

Did you see the idea I had in the comments on one of the league pages within the last week? It was basically about a way to hopefully speed up the auction draft. It goes (each day):

1. Every owner submits a player that they want to put up for auction. This can be done in a set order (which would be determined by record after year 1).
2. Every owner puts in a silent bit on every player put up for auction that day.
3. Determine who got the winning bid for each of the players put up the previous day (starts day 2; this and the next step should probably be at the top of the day).
4. Contracts declared now or allow them to be specified at any time up until the beginning of the season? (Or a set time limit, like 3 days after the draft ends).

This would get us bidding/award 12 players a day and we could reasonably have a full auction draft.

The one big drawback is that it's not a full, open auction and we won't know 100% what a player's market value is. Somebody could get lucky.

And we're still waiting to see who's really into these rules and wants to be a part of this kind of league. My brother has put himself on the list yet, but he'd be pretty serious/no-nonsense about it. I kind of want to give it a couple days more and see where we are.

oh, post the article as an opinion... if it gets moved, move it back and put a comment in saying you discussed it w/me :)

boards are about two days old :)

Nice. I guess I haven't had time to fully explore the feature set since AGM got it's upgrade. I'll post the article and we can see what happens.

saw it.. looks good :) btw, the "board" takes wiki text